Rescuing Randy

Rescuing Randy

Author: Geneva Paulson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942423058

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Rescuing Randy is the disturbing and yet inspirational story a family's struggle to reclaim this young man out of the clutches of a powerful, seductive, cult leader who had convinced Randy that to leave the group would mean certain destruction and even eternal hell. As his family began to plan an intervention through abduction and deprogramming, they realized just how much was at stake. If they failed, they could lose everything including their son. But to do nothing was out of the question. Through the planning, their faith grew stronger and their family bond deeper . . . untili that snowy wintery night was upon them when they would attempt to rescue Randy.


My Journey to Freedom

My Journey to Freedom

Author: Goulding G. R.

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-30

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781913247188

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How I escaped from a religious sect who with their rules and commands separates families, wives and children who do not keep these commands.


Proximity to Power and Jewish Sectarian Groups of the Ancient Period

Proximity to Power and Jewish Sectarian Groups of the Ancient Period

Author: Hillel Newman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9047408357

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This book presents a fascinating new historical description of Jewish sectarian groups in the ancient period, from the viewpoint of their proximity to power. Lifestyle, values and code of law are examined in the light of political involvement, establishing new perceptions in the dynamics of social groups and sectarianism.


Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions

Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions

Author: Helen Rose Ebaugh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-26

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780387257037

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Handbook for Religion and Social Institutions is written for sociologists who study a variety of sub-disciplines and are interested in recent studies and theoretical approaches that relate religious variables to their particular area of interest. The handbook focuses on several major themes: - Social Institutions such as Politics, Economics, Education, Health and Social Welfare - Family and the Life Cycle - Inequality - Social Control - Culture - Religion as a Social Institution and in a Global Perspective This handbook will be of interest to social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and other researchers whose study brings them in contact with the study of religion and its impact on social institutions.


The Family, a Religious Institution, Or Heaven Its Model (Classic Reprint)

The Family, a Religious Institution, Or Heaven Its Model (Classic Reprint)

Author: Erastus Hopkins

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780243408061

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Excerpt from The Family, a Religious Institution, or Heaven Its Model It cannot justly excite our astonishment, then, to find the value of home depreciated, its influences weakened, and its restraints less regarded. Sons often seem to look Upon the parental abode as the place of mere boarding and lodging, and the Opportunities of parental inspection, and the culture of those social feelings which chasten and sweeten life, become circumscribed to the few fleet ing moments of a hurried repast. And thus becomes formed a taste for every thing abroad, and for but little at home. It is for this taste that Satan is ready and diligent to provide. And hence are set on foot shows, conviviali ties, plays, and entertainments, in countless multitude, to crowd on the distracted attention, and to steal even the hours of needful quiet and repose - to do their part in turning men loose from home, and breaking those hal lowed social bonds which are the strong guards of virtue, and among the firmest barriers to vice. All these things come of those new and rapid developments of society, which have occurred in recent years, and the progress of which is to be more and more astonishing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The Endtime Family

The Endtime Family

Author: William Sims Bainbridge

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2002-01-24

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780791452639

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A fascinating examination of a religious counterculture group showing how it differs from mainstream society, yet is similar in other ways.


Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers

Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers

Author: Andrew Donskov

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0776627813

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The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoy’s long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of “how to live a good life” and “what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy?” These questions plagued him his entire life. The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov, Verigin, and Novikov) reveal that Tolstoy was matched as a profound thinker by his correspondents, as they converse on religious-moral questions, the meaning of life and how one should strive to find it, and on a wide array of burning social and personal problems. Reading through the analysis and the extensively annotated letters as a unified whole, elucidates the progressive development of the ideas they shared (and where these diverged) and which guided Tolstoy’s and his correspondents’ lives. Juxtaposing Tolstoy’s letters with those of his four sectarian correspondents makes them even more significant as it shows them in their original context – a dialogue, or conversation. Also, with the aim to present the conversation in an even broader context, Andrew Donskov briefly discusses Tolstoy’s relationship with peasants in general as well as with each of the four individual writers in particular. In addition, he provides a background sketch of two major religious groups, namely the Doukhobors and the Molokans, both of which still claim sizeable populations of followers in North America today. Originally published in 2008 by the Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa under the title Leo Tolstoy and Russian peasant sectarian writers: Selected correspondence, the expanded University of Ottawa Press edition includes 44 letters never published in English, out of the total 155 letters. Correspondence translated by John Woodsworth. This book is published in English. - La paysannerie traverse la longue carrière de Tolstoï. Son obsession avec cette classe sociale doit être comprise non seulement comme une préoccupation sociale ou humanitaire, mais aussi comme une réponse aux questions « Comment mener une belle vie? » et « Quel est le sens de la vie que la mort inévitable ne saurait détruire? » qui l’ont hanté sa vie durant. La correspondance qu’ont échangée Tolstoï et quatre écrivains sectaires et liés à la paysannerie (Bondarev, Zheltov, Verigin et Novikov) révèle de grands penseurs. Au fil des échanges, les questions de religion et de moralité, du sens de la vie et comment faire pour le découvrir, et d’une gamme de questions sociales et personnelles du jour sont abordées. La lecture et l’analyse de cet ensemble d’échanges épistolaires enrichis de notes détaillées témoigne du développement progressif des idées qu’ils partageaient (ainsi que leurs divergences), et qui ont guidé la vie de chacun d’entre eux. La juxtaposition des lettres de Tolstoï et de ses quatre correspondants sectaires, qui sont présentées dans leur contexte original de dialogue – ou de conversation – permet d’en pleinement apprécier l’importance. Dans le but de situer cette conversation dans un contexte plus grand, Andrew Donskov aborde la question de la relation qu’entretient Tolstoï avec les paysans en général, d’une part, de même qu’avec chacun de ces quatre écrivains, d’autre part. Il offre par ailleurs un texte de présentation sur les Doukhobors et les Molokans, deux groupes confessionnaux qui comptent encore aujourd’hui un nombre appréciable d’adeptes en Amérique du Nord. Ce livre est publié en anglais.