Download or read book The Cult of the Constitution written by Mary Anne Franks and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful challenge to the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy of the right and the left . . . A deeply troubling and absolutely vital book” (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate). In this provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Franks demonstrates how constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly, thus undermining the integrity of the document as a whole. She goes on to argue that economic and civil libertarianism have merged to produce a deregulatory, “free-market” approach to constitutional rights that achieves fullest expression in the idealization of the Internet. The fetishization of the first and second amendments has blurred the boundaries between conduct and speech and between veneration and violence. But the Constitution itself contains the antidote to fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution lays bare the dark, antidemocratic consequences of constitutional fundamentalism and urges readers to take the Constitution seriously, not selectively.
Download or read book Cult of Submission written by Eric Erato and published by Eternal Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy's fascination with the powerful cult drives her to quit working as a newspaper reporter and to infiltrate its inner sanctum. As she draws closer to the handsome and charismatic leader, becoming the object of his bizarre sexual rites, Lucy is both attracted and repelled. But most of all, she is afraid. Can she escape with her life, or will Lucy fall deep into the grip of this mesmerizing satyr and his fanatical followers?
Download or read book Sex Cult Nun written by Faith Jones and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People, TIME, USA Today, Real Simple, Glamour, Nylon, Bustle, Purewow, Shondaland, and more! Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment—an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult. Faith Jones was raised to be part a religious army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day and read letters of prophecy written by her grandfather, the founder of the Children of God. Tens of thousands of members strong, the cult followers looked to Faith’s grandfather as their guiding light. As such, Faith was celebrated as special and then punished doubly to remind her that she was not. Over decades, the Children of God grew into an international organization that became notorious for its alarming sex practices and allegations of abuse and exploitation. But with indomitable grit, Faith survived, creating a world of her own—pilfering books and teaching herself high school curriculum. Finally, at age twenty-three, thirsting for knowledge and freedom, she broke away, leaving behind everything she knew to forge her own path in America. A complicated family story mixed with a hauntingly intimate coming-of-age narrative, Faith Jones’ extraordinary memoir reflects our societal norms of oppression and abuse while providing a unique lens to explore spiritual manipulation and our rights in our bodies. Honest, eye-opening, uplifting, and intensely affecting, Sex Cult Nun brings to life a hidden world that’s hypnotically alien yet unexpectedly relatable.
Download or read book Captive written by Catherine Oxenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated with a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that lays bare the secretive cult that shocked the world—for fans of Leah Remini’s Troublemaker and Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear. I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone. In 2011, former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her then twenty-year-old daughter was on the threshold of starting her own professional life and they both thought this program might help her achieve her dream. But quickly, Catherine saw a sinister side to the program that claimed to simply want to help its clients become the best versions of themselves. Catherine watched in horror as her daughter fell further and further down the rabbit hole, falling under the spell of NXIVM's hypnotic leader, Keith Raniere. Despite Catherine’s best efforts, India was drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining an elite “sorority” of women members who were ordered to maintain a restricted diet, recruit other women as “slaves,” and were branded with their leader’s initials. In Captive, Catherine shares every parent’s worst nightmare, and the lengths that a mother will go to save her child. Catherine’s efforts finally led the FBI to take notice—and the journey is not yet over. A powerful depiction of a mother’s love and determination, and with horrifying insider details never revealed in any news story, Captive will keep you reading until the very last page.
Download or read book Mr Splitfoot written by Samantha Hunt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange odysseys of two young women animate this “hypnotic and glowing” American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Paris Review Staff Pick Ruth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able to talk to the dead. Enter Mr. Bell, a con man with mystical interests who knows an opportunity when he sees one. Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth’s face. Decades later, Ruth visits her niece, Cora. But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now doesn’t speak at all. Even so, she leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot. Where is she taking them? And who—or what—is hidden in the woods at the end of the road? “[A] gripping novel…The narratives, which twist together into a shocking dénouement, are marked by ghost stories.”—The New Yorker
Download or read book Practice And All Is Coming written by Matthew Remski and published by Embodied Wisdom Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we co-create safer yoga and spiritual communities? Through dogged investigative work, careful listening to survivor stories of assault and abuse, and close analysis of the cultic mechanisms at play in the sphere of Pattabhi Jois’s Ashtanga community, Matthew Remski’s Practice and All Is Coming offers a sober view into a collective and intergenerational trauma. It also offers a clear pathway forward into enhanced critical thinking, student empowerment, self-and-other care, and community resilience. Concluding with practical tools for a world rocked by abuse revelations, Practice and All Is Coming opens a window on the possibility of healing— and even re-enchantment. While Mathew Remski is the courageous, insightful, and compassionate author of this informative, challenging, and thought-provoking book, this book is clearly a group effort. Equal parts theory, training manual, expose, and memoir, Practice and All is Coming ... is a foray into the difficult topics of personal agency, spirituality authority, and cult dynamics. In addition to his clearly articulated understanding of the problems inherent in many spiritual schools, Mathew provides hope for healing the confusion and anguish that arise in the heart of sincere practitioners when they are betrayed by the revered powers in which they have placed their trust. If you practice or teach yoga, please consider this book an essential companion on your path. Christina Sell, author of Yoga From the Inside Out, My Body is a Temple, and A Deeper Yoga.
Download or read book Traumatic Narcissism written by Daniel Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of narcissism in interpersonal relations, Shaw describes the relational system of what he terms the 'traumatizing narcissist' as a system of subjugation – the objectification of one person in a relationship as the means of enforcing the dominance of the subjectivity of the other. Daniel Shaw illustrates the workings of this relational system of subjugation in a variety of contexts: theorizing traumatic narcissism as an intergenerationally transmitted relational/developmental trauma; and exploring the clinician's experience working with the adult children of traumatizing narcissists. He explores the relationship of cult leaders and their followers, and examines how traumatic narcissism has lingered vestigially in some aspects of the psychoanalytic profession. Bringing together theories of trauma and attachment, intersubjectivity and complementarity, and the rich clinical sensibility of the Relational Psychoanalysis tradition, Shaw demonstrates how narcissism can best be understood not merely as character, but as the result of the specific trauma of subjugation, in which one person is required to become the object for a significant other who demands hegemonic subjectivity. Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities not only for psychoanalysts of different schools, but for all mental health professionals working with a wide variety of modalities. Although primarily intended for the professional psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, this is also a book that therapy patients and lay readers will find highly readable and illuminating.
Download or read book A Christian Student s Survival Guide written by Ph D Dr Robert a Morey and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History written by Zsuzsa Gille and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gille's analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site.
Download or read book Manipulators written by Annie Anston and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth can be stranger than fiction. Segments of this fictional tale were inspired by actual events. Manipulation, persuasion, brainwashing, all the religions do it in one form or another. If it's one of the other faiths, you can see it. When it's your own, not so much. In fact, odds are you will emphatically deny it and become offended. Indoctrination from an early age, our way is the only way, door-to-door campaigns, isolation in a separate state or remote country, difficult to leave, control, tithing, penalties from shunning to getting your head cut off, these are all are cults. A cult masquerades as a church. The allure of self-improvement, followed by a sense of belonging and security being with others who think like you do, like the moth drawn to the flame, you will be drawn to the inner circle. An eccentric billionaire rules a sex cult. Domination and submission are the themes of the group. Obedience, enthusiasm and gratitude are the rules. Inside the body of a demure-looking, blonde, green-eyed female millennial subordinate lurks a budding, manipulative psychopath. Our strongest chains are forged in our mind. Brainwashing and manipulation solidify those bindings. Excerpts: Domination and submission, doms and subs, that's what it's all about. Every relationship has its dominant, although sometimes it is very subtle. - - - "I can't speak for Joanie, but I could try harder." "Try harder for what?" Angel asked, probing. "To please you." "You should go. If you stay, we might hurt you," said Brad, leading her toward the door. "You wouldn't want that would you?" Reluctant to leave, she said "I don't know." He paused and both looked at her a bit bewildered. "Don't know what?" "It depends on how bad you hurt me, I suppose." - - - Subs will be on-call to their doms 24/7. Text messages must be responded to within sixty seconds. You may tell your sub how to dress, when to go to bed, what to eat, and where there is a marriage, when to have sex with their spouse. Humiliate and embarrass your sub as desired, ditto for having sex with them. Appearance is very important in a group like this. The dom is responsible for their sub. An overweight sub means a punished dom. - - - "Opting for a brand instead of a tattoo is freedom of expression. I think a brand would suit you. In fact, I think I'd like you better with an HH brand." "You would?" "A brand is more intimate. I used a cauterizing iron on Joanie. If you're serious about this, Joanie and I can cauterize you tonight. It takes about thirty minutes and, like you said, it's painful. What do you think?" "If it's you doing it to me as an act of intimacy, then yes, Miss Hecht, I'm all for it!" - - - "Place the bowl on the floor at your spot by the dinner table. You will be eating from it tonight. If you feel the need to speak, bark. Understand?" "Arf." - - - They were birds of a feather, both taking compromising photos with hidden cameras, both from families with a history of psychotic behavior, and each with psychopathic traits of her own. One was a blonde, the other a brunette, each with a deceptively charming personality when it served her purpose. - - - I told everyone that if anything happens to me, it was you, Heather. They'll know you were behind it." "Good, good. They will fear and respect me all the more, Di." "You'd be stupid to kill a cop." "I'd be stupid not to." - - - There is an unrelated bonus story at the conclusion. It's too short to publish on its own, so I've added it as an encore.
Download or read book Blue Oyster Cult written by Jacob Holm-Lupo and published by Sonicbond Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Öyster Cult On Track is a song-by-song analysis of the discography of Long Island’s greatest sons, the Blue Öyster Cult. Dubbed 'the thinking man’s heavy metal band' and celebrated by critics, fans and musicians since their debut album in 1972, the band carved a unique path in hard rock history by combining chops, humour, occultism, poetry, jazz chords and pop sensibilities. Best known for their FM radio hits '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper' and 'Burnin’ For You', Blue Öyster Cult’s discography is in fact a treasure trove of fascinating, ever-evolving music by a band that was never afraid to explore, and never had the slightest respect for genre boundaries. The band's influence stretches from seminal metal bands like Metallica to cult act like Current 93 and their music has been heard in movies like Scream and Halloween and has been quoted by Stephen King. This book combines the author’s analyses of Blue Öyster Cult’s songs with insights from band members and people who worked with the band through the years. It is the ultimate companion for a deep dive into the catalogue of a band whose music is both inscrutable, fascinating and rewarding. From the canonized first four albums through their controversial 80s output and all the way to their revitalization and comeback in the late 90s, this book treats every era of the band with equal respect. Jacob Holm-Lupo is a Norwegian musician and journalist. He has covered culture, music and movies for magazines since 2001, and he has been a recording artist with, among others, his own progressive rock band White Willow since 1995. He runs his own recording studio from his home on a small island in the Oslo fjord where he lives with his wife, two children, several Italian cars and a dog. He has been Norway’s no. 1 Blue Öyster Cult fan since 1984.
Download or read book Cult of the Dead written by Kyle Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of their lord. In this innovative cultural history, Kyle Smith shows how a devotion to death has shaped Christianity for two thousand years. For centuries, Christians have cared for their saints, curating their deaths as examples of holiness. Martyrs’ stories, lurid legends of torture, have been told and retold, translated and rewritten. Martyrs’ bones are alive in the world, relics pulsing with wonder. Martyrs’ shrines are still visited by pilgrims, many in search of a miracle. Martyrs have even shaped the Christian conception of time, with each day of the year celebrating the death of a saint. From Roman antiquity to the present, by way of medieval England and the Protestant Reformation, Cult of the Dead tells the fascinating story of how the world’s most widespread religion is steeped in the memory of its martyrs.
Download or read book Changing World Religions Cults Occult written by and published by Jerry Stokes. This book was released on with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cult Proofing Your Kids written by Paul R. Martin and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive psychological, social, and evangelical treatment of the growing and insidious cult problem. Martin provides evidence that our schools, families, and even our churches have facilitated the rise of cults and offers suggestions on how these institutions can develop cult education programs and assist in the healing of former members.
Download or read book Zerubbabel written by Annie Barksdale and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cult of the Virgin Mary written by Michael P. Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing devotion to Mary to psychological and historical processes that began in the fifth century, Michael Carroll answers intriguing questions: What explains the many reports of Marian apparitions over the centuries? Why is Mary both "Virgin" and "Mother" simultaneously? Why has the Marian cult always been stronger in certain geographical areas than in others? The first half of the book presents a psychoanalytic explanation for the most salient facts about the Marian cult and the second addresses the question of Marian apparitions.
Download or read book Persuasion and Healing written by Jerome D. Frank and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they explore the power of healing rhetoricin these activities, the authors strengthen the ties among the various healing profession.
