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2000

Format:	Book
Author:	Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013.
Title:	Rogue messiahs : tales of self-proclaimed saviors / Colin Wilson.
Publisher, Date:	Charlottesville, VA : Hampton Roads Pub., ©2000.
Description:	xxvii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	Discusses the Branch Davidians, Sabbatai Zevi, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, Auguste Comte, Jeffrey Lundgren, the LeBaron family, Milton Rokeach and the Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Sigmund Freud, Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, free love, John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community, the Millerites, Henry James Prince and the Abode of Love, Rock Theriault, Aleister Crowley, Charles Manson, Yukio Mishima, Charlotte Bach, David Berg and the Children of God, and more.
Subjects:	Religious biography. Cults. Psychology, Religious.
Notes:	Includes index.
Contents:	Sex as Salvation -- The Millennium Cometh -- The Psychology of Discipleship -- The Messiah as Killer -- A Taste for Power -- How to Transform Reality -- The Psychiatrist as Messiah -- Strange Powers -- The Gospel of Free Love -- The Sexual Watershed -- The Mask of Power -- The Second Stream.
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	99091473
ISBN:	9781571741752 1571741755
Other Number:	44891032
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Control Number:	85362
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Call Number:	291.6 Wilson

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