The Penguin Book of Cults

Name: The Penguin Book of Cults
Brand: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
SKU: 06968664

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7331120The Penguin Book of Cultshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-penguin-book-of-cults-9798217169597/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6910004/image.jpg?v=638784747737770000426426MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heavens GateA Penguin ClassicThe word cult conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocalyptic prophecies, ritual sacrifices, sexual perversion, and mass suicide. The Penguin Book of Cults charts the history of our fear of the religious other: the arrest and public execution of thousands of members of an ancient Roman cult devoted to Bacchus, the god of wine; the burning alive of victims in giant wicker effigies as an offering to Celtic gods; the nocturnal orgies, murder of children, and demon worship of medieval heretics; a church of human vampires in nineteenth-century Kansas City; moral panics over the hypnotic powers of yoga; and mass casualty events like the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.Bringing to light little-known sources such as a death tape of Jonestowns final hour, when Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to drink poison, and a minute-by-minute log of the FBIs final assault on the Branch Davidian headquarters, and including accounts of drinking the blood of sacrificed cats, theories that we are living inside a hollow earth, and reports that space brothers from Venus are coming to redeem us from the threat of nuclear war, this volume opens a fascinating window into cults and why some of them have ended in spectacular violence....6968664The Penguin Book of Cults426426https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-penguin-book-of-cults-9798217169597/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6910004/image.jpg?v=638784747737770000InStockMXN99999PR_DIAudiolibro20259798217169597_W3siaWQiOiJlMzRiODgzNy1hNjExLTRlODAtODU5YS02MmM1YWM0ZWQ2MjciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQyNiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDI2LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wNy0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOnRydWUsImlzRWxpZ2libGVGb3JDcmVkaXRUcmlhbCI6dHJ1ZSwiY3JlZGl0UHVyY2hhc2VQcmljZSI6MX1d9798217169597_A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the ancient Roman ritual sacrifices that inspired The Wicker Man all the way up to Heavens GateA Penguin ClassicHypnotism. Human sacrifice. Sexual perversion. Mass suicide. For millennia, people have been enthralled by graphic descriptions of terrible rites performed by the religious other. The Penguin Book of Cults compiles the most notorious and uncanny of these true accounts: salacious stories of frenzied worship by the cult of Dionysus; human sacrifices burned alive in giant wooden effigies, the inspiration for the (cult) classic movie The Wicker Man; moral panics over the hypnotic powers of yoga; the massacre at Jonestown, which left hundreds of bodies strewn across a foreign jungle; the bloody FBI siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly chemical attack in a Tokyo subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult; and the mass suicide of Heavens Gate. Both terrible and tragic, this illuminating history of cults exposes the seductive power with which new religious movements have ensnared their followers and beguiled outsiders for generations....(*_*)9798217169597_A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heavens GateA Penguin ClassicThe word cult conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocalyptic prophecies, ritual sacrifices, sexual perversion, and mass suicide. The Penguin Book of Cults charts the history of our fear of the religious other: the arrest and public execution of thousands of members of an ancient Roman cult devoted to Bacchus, the god of wine; the burning alive of victims in giant wicker effigies as an offering to Celtic gods; the nocturnal orgies, murder of children, and demon worship of medieval heretics; a church of human vampires in nineteenth-century Kansas City; moral panics over the hypnotic powers of yoga; and mass casualty events like the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.Bringing to light little-known sources such as a death tape of Jonestowns final hour, when Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to drink poison, and a minute-by-minute log of the FBIs final assault on the Branch Davidian headquarters, and including accounts of drinking the blood of sacrificed cats, theories that we are living inside a hollow earth, and reports that space brothers from Venus are coming to redeem us from the threat of nuclear war, this volume opens a fascinating window into cults and why some of them have ended in spectacular violence....9798217169597_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_9798217169597_9798217169597InglésMéxico2025-10-07T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2025-10-07T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group