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From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami : religious cults in Philadelphia / Thom Nickels.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection BL2527.P45 N53 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nickels, Thom.
- Series:
- America through time
- America Through Time
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cults.
- History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Cults--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages, 4 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Arcadia Publishing by arrangement with Fonthill Media, LLC, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Religious cults have marked every society since the beginning of time. Some have an audacious presence... Other cults seem to be the very soul of respectability... In the post-modern era, the death of religion has transformed political and social causes into doctrinaire factions that might as well be religious cults that advocate the most severe forms of orthodoxy."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Father and Mother Divine
- The cultic lore of Philadelphia psychics
- When the secular meets the religious : Earth Day and the rise of the secular guru
- Cults that have become mainstream
- Philadelphia's pop-up messiahs
- The empire cult of Scientology
- Hare Krishna to all and to all a good night
- Tea for two : the cult of theosophy
- Processing Satan
- Philadelphia's radical faeries
- The cultic, scenic Amish.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the author.
- ISBN:
- 1634992636
- 9781634992633
- OCLC:
- 1159168560
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