Joseph P. Laycock (1980-)


The Penguin Book of Cults

Laycock, Joseph P. | THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CULTS


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780143138693

En dokumentär historia om kända sekter genom tiderna, som utforskar deras ritualer och våldsamheter.

  • The Penguin Book of Cults utforskar historien om kultfenomen.

  • Innehåller dokumenterade händelser av spektakulär våld.

  • Utgiven som häftat band, 2025.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Penguin Random House USA
ISBN: 9780143138693

Omfång: 304 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-07

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A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven´s Gate A Penguin Classic The word “cult” conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocaly

A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven’s Gate

A Penguin Classic


The word “cult” conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocalyptic prophecies, ritual sacrifices, sexual perversion, and mass suicide. The Penguin Book of Cults charts the history of our fear of the religious other: the arrest and public execution of thousands of members of an ancient Roman cult devoted to Bacchus, the god of wine; the burning alive of victims in giant wicker effigies as an offering to Celtic gods; the nocturnal orgies, murder of children, and demon worship of medieval heretics; a church of “human vampires” in nineteenth-century Kansas City; moral panics over the hypnotic powers of yoga; and mass casualty events like the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.

Bringing to light little-known sources such as a “death tape” of Jonestown’s final hour, when Jim Jones led more than 900 of his followers to drink poison, and a minute-by-minute log of the FBI’s final assault on the Branch Davidian headquarters, and including accounts of drinking the blood of sacrificed cats, theories that we are living inside a hollow earth, and reports that space brothers from Venus are coming to redeem us from the threat of nuclear war, this volume opens a fascinating window into cults and why some of them have ended in spectacular violence.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.


The Penguin Book of Cults av Joseph P. Laycock hittar du under Samtida icke-kristna och parakristna kulter och sekter inom Religion i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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Vanliga frågor om The Penguin Book of Cults av Joseph P. Laycock

Boken utforskar de mest notoriska sekterna under de senaste två tusen åren och belyser vår rädsla för det religiösa annorlunda, med exempel som de keltiska druiderna och moderna sekter som Peoples Temple och Heaven's Gate.

Teman som behandlas inkluderar religiösa sekter, karismatiska ledare, kontroll genom hot och lögner, samt historiska våldsamma incidenter kopplade till sekter.

Exemplaret är ett häftat band och omfattar 304 sidor, publicerat av Penguin Random House USA den 7 oktober 2025.

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