Cults | Religion - Spirituality
Aug.31.2011
“I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me.” —Jim Jones, September 6, 1975
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic...
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Jul.21.2009
Bloomsbury Pie examines the persistent allure of Bloomsbury (the circle around Virginia Woolf)--a fascination driven by nostalgia, adoration, and antipathy--and tracks the resurgence of interest in the Group, from a handful of biographies in the 1960s through the feminist discovery of Virginia...
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Jun.10.2008
The most comprehensive reference work on occult philosophy and practice in print, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult covers the entire range of Western magic, divination, alchemy, astrology, occult personalities and magical secret societies, drawing on current scholarly research as well as...
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Apr.12.2008
Sleuth, scholar, shaman: A W. Hill’s hero Stephan Raszer is no ordinary private eye, which explains why crime fiction master Ian Rankin has dubbed him “a James Bond for the spiritually uncertain 21st century.” And why the Los Angeles Times pronounced Raszer’s darkness-in-daylight world one filled...
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