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American cult / edited by Robyn Chapman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco, CA : Paper Rocket Minicomics, Silver Sprocket, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 197 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781945509636
  • 1945509635
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction / Robyn Chapman -- The monk in the cave / Steve Teare -- Fruit lands: the little cult that couldn't / Ellen Linder -- Children of God! / Rosa Colón Guerra -- Death Valley '69 / Janet Harvey and Jim Rugg -- Source family values / Andrew Greenstone -- Mindbending : a story about the Process Church of the Final Judgement / Lara Antal -- Cults reoriented / Josh Kramer and Mike Dawson -- Walk a mile in my shoes: a Jonestown history / Ryan Carey and Mike Freiheit -- Playing the game / Lisa Rosalie Eisenbert -- MOVE / Ben Passmore -- That's not what we're called / Jesse Lambert -- The last days of Mount Caramel / Vreni Stollberger -- God hates me: a true tale of the Westboro Baptist Church / J.T. Yost -- Making sense of Heaven's Gate / Robyn Chapman -- Keep sweet: on Warren Jeff and his Mormon fundamentalist splinter group / Robert Sergel -- Orthodox Judaism is a cult / Lonnie Mann -- Call me vanguard / Brian "Box" Brown -- Author bios.
Summary: "Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy--digging deep to find the human stories within."--Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Graphic Novel 209.0973 A512 Available 33111009848793
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy - digging deep to find the human stories within.From its earliest days, America was a home for spiritual seekers. In 1694, the religious tolerance of the Pennsylvania Colony enticed a Transylvanian monk and his forty followers to cross the Atlantic. Almost two hundred years later, a charismatic preacher founded a utopian community in Oneida, New York, that practiced socialism and free love. In the 1960s and '70s, a new generation of seekers gathered in vegetarian restaurants in Los Angeles, Satanic coffee shops in New Orleans, and fortified communes in Philadelphia. And in the twenty-first century, gurus find their flocks through self-help seminars and get-rich-quick schemes. Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy - digging deep to find the human stories within.

"Co-published by Robyn Chapman of Paper Rocket Minicomics and Avi Ehrlich of Silver Sprocket."

Introduction / Robyn Chapman -- The monk in the cave / Steve Teare -- Fruit lands: the little cult that couldn't / Ellen Linder -- Children of God! / Rosa Colón Guerra -- Death Valley '69 / Janet Harvey and Jim Rugg -- Source family values / Andrew Greenstone -- Mindbending : a story about the Process Church of the Final Judgement / Lara Antal -- Cults reoriented / Josh Kramer and Mike Dawson -- Walk a mile in my shoes: a Jonestown history / Ryan Carey and Mike Freiheit -- Playing the game / Lisa Rosalie Eisenbert -- MOVE / Ben Passmore -- That's not what we're called / Jesse Lambert -- The last days of Mount Caramel / Vreni Stollberger -- God hates me: a true tale of the Westboro Baptist Church / J.T. Yost -- Making sense of Heaven's Gate / Robyn Chapman -- Keep sweet: on Warren Jeff and his Mormon fundamentalist splinter group / Robert Sergel -- Orthodox Judaism is a cult / Lonnie Mann -- Call me vanguard / Brian "Box" Brown -- Author bios.

"Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy--digging deep to find the human stories within."--Provided by publisher.

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