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Cult X
Author | : Fuminori Nakamura |
Publsiher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781616957872 |
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The magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki’s girlfriend, Ryoko Tachibana, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of the private detective he’s hired to find her. Ryoko’s past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address in the heart of Tokyo. She lived in a compound with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru with a revisionist Buddhist scheme of life, death, and society. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru’s brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn’t what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence he is stepping into. Inspired by the 1995 sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway, Cult X is an exploration of what draws individuals into extremism. It is a tour de force that captures the connections between astrophysics, neuroscience, and religion; an invective against predatory corporate consumerism and exploitative geopolitics; and a love story about compassion in the face of nihilism.
The Cult of Efficiency
Author | : Janice Gross Stein |
Publsiher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780887846786 |
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"This thought-provoking discourse on the unquestioned pursuit of efficiency reveals how the discussion of efficiency in the delivery of public goods, such as education and health care, has risen to prominence in postindustrial society. Stein's provocative argument, reminiscent of the thinking of Lewis Mumford, demonstrates that efficiency can too often be a cloak for political agendas, and that pressure for efficiency can actually be a detrimental rather than a positive force. Citizens in public schools, community clinics, and hospitals are shown engaging directly with such agendas, redrawing the face of the state as they impose new ways of delivering public goods. Stein demonstrates how they are calling not only for efficiency but for accountability and choice as they confront the dilemmas of democratic processes in a global age."
An Everyday Cult
Author | : Gerette Buglion |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-08-25 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1578690749 |
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A personal memoir and a wake-up call for society to recognize and reject the erosion of critical thinking, An Everyday Cult is an essential read for understanding how people fall prey to mind control and cultic manipulation. Buglion's true-life story follows her through eighteen years under a trusted teacher's unethical tutelage and shows how her innocent quest for meaning was answered by a man who ultimately eroded her capacity for critical thinking. Through a treacherous narrative, she lays bare the hallmarks of cultic manipulation-mind control that flies under the radar of human awareness-and implores society to wake up to its ever-present abuses of power. It is a redemptive book of self-awareness and self-discovery. An Everyday Cult imparts a universal story, demonstrating how recognition of cultic membership-largely riddled with preconceived notions-may be an essential key to human evolution.
Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC
Author | : Manolis I. Stefanakis,Georgios Mavroudis,Fani K. Seroglou |
Publsiher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2023-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781803274522 |
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This volume publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name, held in Rhodes in October 2018. Contributions draw on archaeological and literary sources to explore both the development and continuity of cults in the Dodecanese, from the Early Iron Age through to the 1st century BC.
The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity
Author | : David Walsh |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004383067 |
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In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh examines how and why the cult of Mithras vanished from the Roman Empire by the early 5th century C.E.
The Copulative Conjunctions Que Et Atque in the Inscriptions of the Republic in Terence and in Cato
Author | : Herbert Charles Elmer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Inscriptions, Latin |
ISBN | : UOM:39015074846224 |
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Report on Water Supply and Sewerage
Author | : Massachusetts. State Board of Health |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Sewerage |
ISBN | : UOM:39015067921513 |
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Report of the Pennsylvania State College for the Year
Author | : Pennsylvania State College |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3071758 |
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