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Zealot: A Book About Cults is a 2019 non-fiction book by Australian writer and podcaster Jo Thornely. The book addresses and describes high-profile religious cults such as Aum Shinrikyo , the Peoples Temple , and Heaven's Gate in an irreverent comedic style.
Zealot is a cultural production of its particular historical moment—a remix of existing scholarship, sampled and re-framed to make a culturally relevant intervention in the early twenty-first-century world where religion, violence and politics overlap in complex ways. In this sense, the book is simply one more example in a long line of ...
Reza Aslan (Persian: رضا اصلان, IPA: [ˈɾezɒː æsˈlɒːn]; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology, [1] writer, and television host. A convert to evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to write about Christianity.
Damon Fox is an American musician, based in Los Angeles. He is primarily recognized as the lead singer and keyboardist of the psychedelic prog metal outfit Bigelf , as well as for his time with the British rock band The Cult from 2016 to 2022.
While most English translations of the Bible render the Greek word zelotes in Acts 22:3 and Galatians 1:14 of the New Testament as the adjective "zealous", an article by Mark R. Fairchild [14] takes it to mean a Zealot and suggests that Paul the Apostle may have been a Zealot, which might have been the driving force behind his persecution of ...
Brooke Walker grew up in an Arizona church community. Families, side by side, in communion with God and each other. But the church, she says, was actually a cult. Walker spent her formative years ...
Today's Wordle Answer for #1272 on Thursday, December 12, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Thursday, December 12, 2024, is VYING. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
Húxiān (胡仙; 狐仙 "Fox Immortal"), also called Húshén (胡神; 狐神 "Fox God") or Húwáng (胡王; 狐王 "Fox Ruler") [1] is a deity in Chinese religion whose cult is present in provinces of north China (from Henan and Shandong northwards), but especially in northeast China where it can be said to be the most popular deity.