- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (3 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415192765
- ISBN-13: 978-0415192767
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.6 x 1.7 cm
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'Required reading for anyone perplexed by the persistence of millenarian thought' - Michael F. Brown, Williams College
'This book takes an original and challenging view of a number of extremely controversial new religious movements.' - Journal of Contemporary Religion
'This book takes an original and challenging view of a number of extremely controversial new religious movements.' - Journal of Contemporary Religion
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Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascinating and revealing account of religious sects and conflict. Cults covered include:
* the apocalypse at Jonestown
* the Branch Davidians at Waco
* the violent path of Aum Shinrikyo
* the mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple
* the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate.
Through comparative case studies and in-depth analysis, the authors show how religious violence can erupt not simply from the beliefs of the cult followers or the personalities of their leaders, but also from the way in which society responds to the cults in its midst.
* the apocalypse at Jonestown
* the Branch Davidians at Waco
* the violent path of Aum Shinrikyo
* the mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple
* the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate.
Through comparative case studies and in-depth analysis, the authors show how religious violence can erupt not simply from the beliefs of the cult followers or the personalities of their leaders, but also from the way in which society responds to the cults in its midst.
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Two years to the day after the 19 April 1993 conflagration at the Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel compound near Waco, Texas, a bomb destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing at least 167 people and injuring hundreds more. Read the first page
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Two years to the day after the 19 April 1993 conflagration at the Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel compound near Waco, Texas, a bomb destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing at least 167 people and injuring hundreds more. Read the first page
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The details the media missed
18 Sep 2010
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If you are fascinated by the extreme measures that have characterized the "cults" that the media has highlighted for us, this book is a great corrective. It provides details about the events surrounding the violence you saw/heard on screen--for Jonestown, Waco, Aum Shinrikyo, Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate.
What could we have missed? For example, and this is a major premise of the book, the fact that the anti-cult coalitions, government agencies, and media played a huge role in the intensification of events leading to the climaxes of violence. In other words, all factors involved in "cult" violence are not only internal factors (eg. psychotic leaders brainwashing victims into compliance). Conflict is exacerbated, accelerated and even initiated often from the outside.
Whether this book "overcorrects" is debatable. But it certainly adds to understanding the complexities involved in new religious movements that go up in smoke.
What could we have missed? For example, and this is a major premise of the book, the fact that the anti-cult coalitions, government agencies, and media played a huge role in the intensification of events leading to the climaxes of violence. In other words, all factors involved in "cult" violence are not only internal factors (eg. psychotic leaders brainwashing victims into compliance). Conflict is exacerbated, accelerated and even initiated often from the outside.
Whether this book "overcorrects" is debatable. But it certainly adds to understanding the complexities involved in new religious movements that go up in smoke.
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