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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James R Lewis |
| ISBN: | 0813533236 9780813533230 0813533244 9780813533247 |
| OCLC Number: | 51892655 |
| Description: | viii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion. |
| Responsibility: | James R. Lewis. |
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