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American cult / edited by Robyn Chapman.

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San Francisco, CA : Silver Sprocket ; [Brooklyn, NY] : Paper Rocket Minicomics, 2021.

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9781945509773 (hardcover) :

1945509775 (hardcover)

197 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Second edition.

Introduction / Robyn Chapman -- The monk in the cave / Steve Teare -- Inside Oneida / Emi Gennis -- Fruitlands: the little cult that couldn't / Ellen Lindner -- 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 Judgment / 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 Eisenberg -- MOVE / Ben Passmore -- That's not what we're called / Jesse Lambert -- The last days of Mount Carmel / 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.

From its earliest days, America has been home to 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 use self help seminars and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks. 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--looking behind beyond the scandalous headlines to find the human stories within.

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