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• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 08 March 2021

The Handbook of UFO Religions, edited by scholar of new religions Benjamin E. Zeller, offers the most expansive and detailed study of the persistent, popular, and global phenomenon of religious

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 35,7 Mb
• Release Date : 12 November 2012

The spectre of the UFO, as popularized by shows such as The X-Files, has brought an astonishing slant to the face of modern religious practice. But what motivates the fantastical

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 August 2007

Lines laid across the plain near the Peruvian site of Nazca have been explained as ancient roads or features of a long-forgotten religious calendar. So why did Erich von Daniken

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 11 June 2024

The macabre mass suicide by adherents of the Heaven's Gate Cult in 1997 was shocking and difficult to comprehend for most outsiders. Their bizarre mindset, which mixed New Age religion with

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 12 April 2016

The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 March 2020

A voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin—but myths are real. The power and fascination of the

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 October 2014

2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association The captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 11 June 2024

Aliens Adored is the first full length, in-depth look at the Raëlian movement, a fascinating new religion founded in the 1970s by the charismatic prophet, Raël. Born in

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 31 October 2014

In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores the

• Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
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• Release Date : 01 August 2005

Were most cults and new religions simply passing fads of the late-twentieth century, or are some of them still growing today? What new sects have emerged, and what dangers do