In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple...

Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.

"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...

¿Son religiosos los venezolanos?, ¿rezan, van a misa y esperan favores de los santos?, ¿creen en la brujería?, ¿consultan adivinos y astrólogos?, ¿se hacen baños para la suerte y usan amuletos? "De que vuelan, vuelan" es un ensayo sobre los imaginarios religiosos de los venezolanos que intenta llenar un vacío en el estudio sobre las mentalidades de la cultura en nuestro país. Partiendo de una revisión exhaustiva de los estudios realizados...

At first, the Watchtower Society seemed harmless to William J. Schnell, even valuable as a way to develop his faith in God and pass it on to others. This book is Schnell's fascinating account of his involvement with the cult, which effectively enticed him in the 1920s and continues to lure countless individuals today. Readers will learn, as Schnell did, that the Jehovah's Witness religion he had joined was anything but innocent. For thirty years he...

LE LIVRE QUI FAIT FUIR LES GURUS!"La Dernière Directive par Krishnakant Desai a été peut-être la publication la plus influente dans le monde Vaisnava depuis 1977".- HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami, un des gurus d'ISKCONQui devrait initier des disciples dans le Mouvement Hare Krishna?La pureté spirituelle et le prestige général de l'Association Internationale pour la Conscience de Krishna (ISKCON, ou le Mouvement Hare Krishna) ont subi une grave détérioration...

With decisions come consequences: some dark and some worthwhile. Pastor Nolan lights up like a kid on Christmas morning when someone compliments his preaching. Nothing quite touches his soul more than a kindly old woman shaking his hand after church to say, "God really spoke through you today." Nolan and his high-school-sweetheart wife Faye dedicate their lives to the church-Nolan as a preacher and pastor and Faye fulfilling any duty asked...

Presenting the Conclusions of the GBC Foundational DocumentISKCON's GBC (Governing Body Commission) has issued a Foundational Document on the position of Srila Prabhupada, a document which it has declared to be "historic" and required reading by everyone in ISKCON. In the spirit of cooperation, this book published by the ISKCON Revival Movement (IRM) offers the conclusions of that GBC Foundational Document. These conclusions establish that Srila Prabhupada's...

In an era of rapid growth of false religions worldwide, Christians need information they can trust. This comprehensive new edition of the leading book on cults will equip you--no matter your background--to understand and use biblical truth to counter false religions, including many that masquerade as mainstream Christianity. Reflecting the developments in cults and world religions in recent years, this edition, updated by expert Jill Martin Rische...