Download e-book for kindle: Cults, Religion, and Violence by David G. Bromley,J. Gordon Melton

By David G. Bromley,J. Gordon Melton

This explores the query of while and why violence via and opposed to new non secular cults erupts and no matter if and the way such dramatic conflicts might be foreseen, controlled and prevented. The authors, best overseas specialists on non secular activities and violent habit, specialise in the 4 significant episodes of cult violence over the past decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the department Davidians in Waco, Texas; the lethal sarin fuel assault by way of the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo; the murder-suicides by means of the sun Temple in Switzerland and Canada; and the collective suicide by means of the individuals of Heaven's Gate. They discover the dynamics resulting in those dramatic episodes in North the USA, Europe, and Asia, and supply insights into the final courting among violence and spiritual cults in modern society. The authors finish that those occasions often contain a few mixture of inner and exterior dynamics wherein a brand new spiritual move and society develop into polarized.

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