A secret history of cults
By: Peter Haining
Publisher: Magpie Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781849010344
Subjects: Cults; History
Other titles: Cults : bizarre rituals and murderous practices revealed
Description: How do cult leaders establish intellectual, physical, spiritual and sexual control over their followers - and what are the ends to which this is put? Read how the charismatic megolamiacs who lead cults often pit themselves against the rest of the world, amassing weapons ahead of an apocalyptic showdown - sometimes ging on the offensive to bring forward Armageddon. For others, the goal seems to be soem form or another of mass suicide.