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All Gods Children (book)
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All Gods Children: The Cult Experience - Salvation Or Slavery? is a non-fiction
book on cult
s, by Carroll Stoner and Jo Anne Parke. The book was published in May 1977 in hardcover, and again in 1979 in paperback by Penguin Books
.
's Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality
states that the work describes some of the newer cults, explains their teachings, and why they may be dangerous for younger new members. McConnell's Stepping Over described the work as an insightful seminal study, which could have been written specifically with regard to Jim Jones
and the Peoples Temple
.
's controversial financial and recruitment tactics, and Rhodes' The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions
also cites the work in analyzing the Unification Church. Psychiatrist
Marc Galanter (MD)
cites the work in Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association, in discussing the persuasive techniques utilized by cults, and Pratkanis and Aronson's Age of Propaganda also cites the work while discussing persuasion methodology as related to cults. All Gods Children is also cited by Gorni's Communal Life, Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs, Chidester's Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, and Dawson's Cults and New Religious Movements.
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
book on cult
Cult
The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...
s, by Carroll Stoner and Jo Anne Parke. The book was published in May 1977 in hardcover, and again in 1979 in paperback by Penguin Books
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
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Reception
White's Collection Management in School Library Media Centers described the book as a critical and sensitive analysis on the effects cults can have on their converts and family members. Bob LarsonBob Larson
Bob Larson is an American radio and television evangelist, currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Larson has authored numerous books on the subjects of rock music and Satanism, written from a Christian perspective.-Life and career:...
's Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality
Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality
Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality: All the Facts About Hundreds of Cults is a non-fiction book that discusses cults, New Age movements, and alternative religions from a biblical and Christian perspective....
states that the work describes some of the newer cults, explains their teachings, and why they may be dangerous for younger new members. McConnell's Stepping Over described the work as an insightful seminal study, which could have been written specifically with regard to Jim Jones
Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...
and the Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco...
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Cited in secondary sources
The work is cited by Yamamoto's Unification Church, in his description of Sun Myung MoonSun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects...
's controversial financial and recruitment tactics, and Rhodes' The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions
The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions
The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions: The Essential Guide to Their History, Their Doctrine, and Our Response is a non-fiction book on cults and new religious movements, written by Ron Rhodes, Ph.D. The book was published by Zondervan on September 1, 2001. The book defines cults and new...
also cites the work in analyzing the Unification Church. Psychiatrist
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
Marc Galanter (MD)
Marc Galanter (MD)
Marc Galanter, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at NYU, Founding Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at NYU, and Director of the NYU Fellowship Training Program in Addiction Psychiatry. He is also a Division Director at NYU’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center, and...
cites the work in Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association, in discussing the persuasive techniques utilized by cults, and Pratkanis and Aronson's Age of Propaganda also cites the work while discussing persuasion methodology as related to cults. All Gods Children is also cited by Gorni's Communal Life, Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs, Chidester's Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, and Dawson's Cults and New Religious Movements.