Dimensions
165 x 240 x 53mm
A Survey of Sects, Cults, and Alternative Religions
This is a much expanded, revised and totally updated edition of David Barrett's earlier excellent guide and source book of the world's alternative religions, organisations, sects, cults and movements. Then, published in hardback and then in paperback, the book's objective and informative nature was applauded on both sides of the Atlantic.
The membership of a wide range of religious and other bodies is ever-growing, yet this very fact continues to cause very mixed reactions form both non-members and from the families of members. Partially in response, as a valuable aid to the concerned and perplexed, and as a unique source of information to the merely curious, this book explains the background to main world religious - Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Sufism, Buddhism, etc . . . It then tackles the every-growing variations and alternatives, under broad headings such as the Christian-originated (eg Moonies, Jesus Army, Children of God), Eastern-originated (eg Divine Light Mission, hare Krishna, Falun Gong), Satanism (Black Magic, Ritual Abuse), esoteric (Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Golden Dawn, etc) Neo-pagan (eg Wicca, Nordic groups), psychological and self-development (eg Scientology, Emin, Transcendental Meditation, etc).
