Mystics and Messiahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mystics and Messiahs write by Philip Jenkins. This book was released on 2000. Mystics and Messiahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.
Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs
Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs write by Kathryn Babayan. This book was released on 2002. Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.
Mystics and Messiahs
Mystics and Messiahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mystics and Messiahs write by Philip Jenkins. This book was released on 2000-04-06. Mystics and Messiahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are traceable to the mid-nineteenth century when Mormons, Freemasons, and even Catholics were denounced for supposed ritualistic violence, fraud, and sexual depravity. But America has also been the home of an often hysterical anti-cult backlash. Jenkins offers an insightful new analysis of why cults arouse such fear and hatred both in the secular world and in mainstream churches, many of which were themselves originally regarded as cults. He argues that an accurate historical perspective is urgently needed if we are to avoid the kind of catastrophic confrontation that occurred in Waco or the ruinous prosecution of imagined Satanic cults that swept the country in the 1980s. Without ignoring genuine instances of aberrant behavior, Mystics and Messiahs goes beyond the vast edifice of myth, distortion, and hype to reveal the true characteristics of religious fringe movements and why they inspire such fierce antagonism.
Messianic Mystics
Messianic Mystics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Messianic Mystics write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2000-05-01. Messianic Mystics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience.
Dream Catchers
Dream Catchers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dream Catchers write by Philip Jenkins. This book was released on 2005-12-01. Dream Catchers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation. Jenkins charts this remarkable change by highlighting the complex history of white American attitudes towards Native religions, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews and Frank Waters, and explores New Age paraphernalia including dream-catchers, crystals, medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. He also examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places and notes that many "white indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty. An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion.
