Rogue Messiahs
Subtitle: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company; Hampton Roads
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781571741752
Subjects: Religious; Philosophy; Psychology; Religious biography; Case Studies; Group Psychology; Cults; Psychology, Religious
First sentence: Early in the afternoon of April 19, 1993, CNN began to broadcast pictures of the final assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, where David Koresh and his followers had been holding police and federal authorities at bay for fifty-one days.
Description: Discusses the Branch Davidians, Sabbatai Zevi, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, Auguste Comte, Jeffrey Lundgren, the LeBaron family, Milton Rokeach and the Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Sigmund Freud, Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, free love, John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community, the Millerites, Henry James Prince and the Abode of Love, Rock Theriault, Aleister Crowley, Charles Manson, Yukio Mishima, Charlotte Bach, David Berg and the Children of God, and more.