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...In this book you can explore many fascinating subjects, including: Devil Worship ... Zombies ... Doomsday Cults ... Head Shrinkers ... Hungry Ghosts ... Fire Walking ... the Grim Reaper ... Witch Smellers ... Human Sacrifice ... Holy Mud ... Dervishes ... Sacred Mushrooms ... the Dance of Death ... Snake Handlers ... Sin Eaters ....

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...Introduction The Temple of Rats Jivaro Head Shrinkers Cargo Cults Self-Flagellation The Black Stone of Mecca Hungry Ghosts Witch Smellers Egyptian Crocodile Worship Christian Snake Handlers The Rope to Heaven The Scapegoat Gods in Human Form Devil Worship The Sex Slaves of ...

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...Air Force from 1953 to 1965—Major Carter offers three case studies to determine if the cult of the offensive applies to air forces. He concludes that cults of the offensive have indeed influenced airpower doctrine in the past, and that detailed offensive planning and a critical evaluation of capabilities provide two methods for avoiding this potential trap. ...

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...he very beginning of Christianity. Many people believe that the Holy Grail has magical powers to change the life of people. Some secret societies and cults believe that it has a supernatural power to give eternal life to humans. The Holy Grail had forbidden in the Monastery of the Holy Face of Jesus for many centuries. But, a few days before it had disappeared. If they can...

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... link does not exist! It is hard to imagine how many superstitions, religions, cults, etc., there are in the world. It is amazing how many directions... ..............................................................................294 Cults and Ceremonies .....................................................

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...ussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological perspective. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that centered around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. This king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the earth, who died...

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...iefs and to create a uniform doctrine, with no place for phii and ancestor cults. In place of phii, supernatural beings, spirit forces or angels (thew... ...es. Univ. of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. Cohen, Paul T. 1984. Are the Spirit Cults of Northern Thailand Descent Groups? Mankind 14, 293–299. Cohen, Pau... ...93–299. Cohen, Paul T. – Gehan Wijeyewardene 1984. Introduction to Spirit Cults and the Position of Women in Northern Thailand. Mankind 14, 249–262.... ...nia Univ. Press, Stanford. Irvine, Walter 1984. Decline of Village Spirit Cults and Growth of Urban Spirit Mediumship: the Persistence of Spirit Bel... ...ia. Harper & Row, New York. McMorran, M. V. 1984. Northern Thai Ancestral Cults: Authority and Aggression. Mankind 14: 4, 308–14. McNamee, Stephen J... ...hern Thai Community. Ph.D. thesis, University of London. — 1984. Spirit Cults and Matrifocality in Northern Thailand: Demographic Perspective. Mank... ... Good to Prohibit. Ethnology 8, 423–459. — 1970. Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand. Cambridge studies in social anthropology 2. C... ...Press, Ithaca. Turton, Andrew 1972. Matrilineal Descent Groups and Spirit Cults of the Thai-Yuan in Northern Thailand. Journal of the Siam Society 6... ... Northern Thai Religion. Mankind 7, 246–255. — 1977. Matriclans or Female Cults: a Problem in Northern Thai Ethnography. Mankind 11, 19–25. — 1986. ...

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...l, verbal, and emotional abuse. Rick A. Ross Institute A database of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements...

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..."My Father" being God - SV). (Luke 2:48-49) Gurus at the center of emergent cults are inevitably narcissistic, if not outright narcissists. The self...

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...threat corrupted Rome. Tax extortion, bribery, political machinations, personality cults, and moral laxity abounded. Income equality led to ostenta...

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...ysticism (the Sufi orders) appealed to many sophisticated urban Christians. Heretic cults (like the Bogomils) converted en masse. Intermarriage flo...

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...valued and what is not valued, etc, etc, etc ad nausea. By creating pyramidal cults of authority: the structure itself defines the value system. Th... ...true with any modern historian trying to decipher the meaning of the Dionysus cults, who had their own special words. So too is the prose of Darwin ... ... most powerful as heroes… the addiction to belief systems, religions, dogmas, cults, cultures. The addiction to machines, gizmos, technology… the a... ...chical enlightenment are corrupt. All forms of teaching-wisdom, all sects or cults, which promise secret knowledge, which practice exclusivity, whi... ...nt. There are almost no other social avenues left… except dogmatic exclusive cults, religions, and cliques that define who they are even more narro... ...sonal religious conscience were countless new interpretations, new sects, new cults: each new positive concept, each new sprout of positive energy; ... ...an hardship cultures, that Lutheranism and Calvinism had spawned; became hated cults in Europe. Because they worked too hard. The smarter European ... ...han rich and corrupt was given short shrift. Religious fanaticism, religious cults, religious cultures became a tiny minority in a sea of equals all... ...uctions of products into movies, CD’s, TV, etc. By understanding how and why cults are formed and spread. By supplying ready-made identities to pe...

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... Such issues as intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews, the impact of religious cults on young Jews and the size and complexity of the Jewish pop...

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...ator in Afghanistan - among other businesses. In this respect, NGO's are more like cults than like civic organizations. Many NGO's promote economi...

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...t or psychological change, when that need arises. There are relatively new cults in Arnhem Land—new in having originated in the last centuries—such as...

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...ason, I know that religious prostitution was often practiced in fertility cults when men attempted to procreate with the temple harlots as a way of ... ... sex with a foreigner as a way of welcoming him to the city. ―The cults of ancient Canaan had both male and female prostitutes. And it has be...

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...(in- cluding Anglican and Baptist), some Ro- man Catholic, some spiritualist cults Language: English, Creole Infant mortality rate: 16.8/1,000 (1984) ...

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...which was, at the time, thought to be dominated by foreign hackers, suicidal cults, pirates, and sleazy pornographers. (Terrorists and Nigerian spamme...

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...dess, Kali." Cannibalism may also have been common among followers of the Shaktism cults in India. Other sources attribute cannibalism to the 16th... ...mutates to nationalism, racism or Volkism. Religion is metamorphesizes to ideology, cults, or sects. Sex is mistaken for love, love becomes addictiv...

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...dess, Kali." Cannibalism may also have been common among followers of the Shaktism cults in India. Other sources attribute cannibalism to the 16th... ...mutates to nationalism, racism or Volkism. Religion is metamorphesizes to ideology, cults, or sects. Sex is mistaken for love, love becomes addictiv...

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...le 106、 Arresting prostitutes indicates that the social system is in favour of the rich and against the poor 107、 Fighting-to-death lawyers are cults 108、 Marriage for the purpose of beauty is a kind of whoring, while marriage aimed at benefit is like prostitution and financial fraud 109、 If telecommunication frauds make victims commit suicide, swindlers should...

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...human affairs. Men band them- selves together in leagues and loyalties, in cults and organi- zations and nationalities, and it is often hard to say wh... ...IONS RELIGIONS RELIGIONS When one is discussing this possible formation of cults and brotherhoods, it may be well to consider a few of the condi- tion... ...of energy and attention, too much sacrifice of existing co-operations. New cults, new religions, new organizations of all sorts, insisting upon their ...

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... wreckage and decay of previous attempts; churches, aristocracies, orders, cults….” “Only at present we seem to have lost heart altogether, and now th... ...eart altogether, and now there are no new religions, no new orders, no new cults—no beginnings any more.” “But that’s only a resting phase, perhaps. Y... ... the history of the Chris- tian Church, with its development of orders and cults, sects and dissents, the history of fashionable society with its cliq... ...f a Utopian World State. But the secular side was the weaker side of these cults; they produced no sufficiently great states- men to realise their spi...

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...ssume ssume” ” ” ” ” IN THE A SSUMING TRADE three separate and independent cults are transacting business. T wo of these cults are known as the Shakes... ...e mouse is in the kitten. It is proper to remark that when we of the three cults plant a “ we think we may assume ,” we expect it, under careful water...

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...es of the various Christian, pseudo-Christian, philosophical, and agnostic cults amidst which it has appeared. The writer’s sympathies and convictions...

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...ut no star part. Even the Germans, with a national predisposition for hero-cults and living still in an atmosphere of Victorian humbug, can produce no...

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...ess nor charity. All their estrangement followed from that. These cramping cults do indeed take an enormous toll of human love and happiness, and not ... ...emn- ing and thwarting one another in the close darknesses of these narrow cults—Oh, God! one wants a gale out of Heaven, one wants a great wind from ...

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...rld; Christianity and Mohammedanism swept away a thousand more specialised cults, but essentially these were progressive adaptations of mankind to mat...

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...ociety which he had bombarded for years with monographs on strange Asiatic cults and unknown customs. Nine men out of ten would flee from a Royal Soci...

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...element of hatred and aggression may be clean washed out of most religious cults, but I do not begin to imagine a time, because I cannot imagine a met...

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... a sallow woman with a thin prettiness devoted to experiments in religious cults, illnesses, and scandal-bearing, shook her finger at Carol and trille...

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...ifices, vestments, and other goods of the same class. Even in those modern cults to whose divinities is imputed a predilection for temples not built w... ...g houses of the congregation. This is true of nearly all denominations and cults, whether Chris- tian or Pagan, but it is true in a peculiar degree of... ...ian or Pagan, but it is true in a peculiar degree of the older and maturer cults. At the same time the sanctuary commonly contributes little if anythi... ...e sanctuary and its fittings have something of this aus- terity in all the cults in which the saint or divinity to whom the sanctuary pertains is not ... ...of the sacred paraphernalia is somewhat different in this respect in those cults where the habits of life imputed to the divinity more nearly approach... ...estments are noto- riously expensive, ornate, and inconvenient; and in the cults where the priestly servitor of the divinity is not conceived to serve... ...easure. This holds true, in different degrees of course, for the different cults and denominations; but in the priestly life of all anthropomorphic cu... ...of formulas. This development of formula is most noticeable in the maturer cults, which have at the same time a more austere, ornate, and severe pries... ...n which the human subject stands to him. It is of course in the more naive cults that this suffusion of pecuniary beauty is most patent, but it is vis...

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...NTR SOCIAL CONTR SOCIAL CONTR SOCIAL CONTROL OL OL OL OL ORGANIZATIONS AND CULTS are forever coining new expres- sions that sound “pat” and for this r...

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...nt forms, the same principle often re- ceived the witness of contradictory cults, and Salammbo worshipped the goddess in her sidereal presentation. An...

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...irst of all, the stranger compared the three galleries which civilization, cults, divinities, masterpieces, dominions, carous- als, sanity, and madnes...

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...y sentimentalities of various sorts and undermined and qualified by secret cults; it is a clogged and an ill-made and dishonest machine, but we have a...

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...crifice. Sacrifices to gods are omnipresent in primeval wor- ship; but, as cults have grown refined, burnt offerings and the blood of he-goats have be...