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Title Cults [videorecording] : dangerous devotion / produced, written, and directed by Sandya Viswanathan ; produced by Partisan Pictures for the History Channel.

Imprint [United States] : A&E Television Networks ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, [2009]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  209 C899c 2009    ---  Available
Description 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, widescreen.
Note Dates vary: container and label, c2006; container and label art and design, c2009.
Language Closed-captioned.
Performer Narrator, Don Harvey.
Event Originally broadcast on the History Channel as an episode of the television program Decoding the past in 2007.
Summary Uses interviews with world-renowned scholars and the survivors of cultic tragedy to unmask the mystery of cults. Defines three characteristics that make a cult: reliance on a guru or leader rather than general principles of religion, systematic indoctrination with a focus on confession and self-criticism, and heavy exploitation from above. Shows how cult leaders have twisted the quest for purity into an obsession with madness and murder from Jim Jones' pursuit of a socialist paradise at Jonestown to Warren Jeffs' Yearning for Zion ranch. Looks at a number of examples of contemporary cults, including the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo, the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), Charles Manson and his bizarre prophecies, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, and Paul Schafer's colony of German immigrants in Chile that became a center for torture.
Subject Cults.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Viswanathan, Sandya.
Harvey, Don.
Partisan Pictures (Firm)
History Channel (Television network)
Arts and Entertainment Network.
Added Title Dangerous devotion
Decoding the past (Television program)
ISBN 142294364X
9781422943649
Standard No. 733961163490
Music No. AAAE163490 A&E Television Networks

 
    
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