Strange Sects and Curious Cults - Hardcover

Strange Sects and Curious Cults

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1993 reprint of a title first published in 1991. viii, [2], 277, [1 (blank)] pages. Pale brick red papered boards with beige cloth spine. Metallic copper lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 208 x 138mm. "Explored within these pages are the sexual rites and practices of the ancient cults of Baalism, Osirism and Shivism, who, from thier beginnings of totem worthip to the adoration of nature, saw in the ways of Nature a larger, more powerful force than man himself. Also described here are the cults whose drive for a good conscience led them to form groups such as the Penitentes of New Mexico, the Oxford Groupers, Psychiana, the Millerites and Jehovah's Witnesses. There is also a section dedicated to the North American Utopian cults of the Doukhobors, Shakers, Amanas, Hutterites and Mormons, who established their collective societies in the belief that they could adhere to their group's strict spiritual laws forever." - from dust-jacket blurb. Artikel-Nr. 27569

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