Author: H. Wayne House
Publisher: Zonderva
Keywords: movements, religious, sects, cults, charts
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0310385512
ISBN-13: 9780310385516
This resource is a summary of the history, leadership, and theological views of the major sects, cults, and religious movements in the U.S.
Author: David N Lorenzen
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: sects, saivite, lost, kalamukhas, kapalikas
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1972
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520018427
ISBN-13: 9780520018426
Author: Selbie W. B. (William Boothby)
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: noncomformity, history, sects, english
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2009-05-20
List price: $25.75
ISBN-10: 1110389167
ISBN-13: 9781110389162
Author: Frank William
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: hammadi, manichaean, studies, nag, sects, epiphanius, salamis, panarion
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 9004170170
ISBN-13: 9789004170179
Epiphanius, monastic founder and bishop of Salamis on Cyprus for almost 40 years of the fourth century, threw heart and soul into the controversies of the time and produced the ’Panarion’ or ’Medicine Chest’, an historical encyclopedia of sects and heresies and their refutations. Book I, concerned chiefly with Gnostic and Jewish Christian groups, deals with material which is also found in Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings and in such patristic authors as Irenaeus, Hippolytus et al, and reproduces documents not available elsewhere. Its translation has been found use
Author: Matti Moosa
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: issues, middle, east, contemporary, sects, shiites, ghulat, extremist
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 1988-03
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0815624115
ISBN-13: 9780815624110
Authors:Alexandra David-Neel, Michael Lally,
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: buddhist, sects, tibetan, teachings, oral, secret
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0872860124
ISBN-13: 9780872860124
tr H.N.M. Hardy, foreword by Alan Watts
Author: Albert I. Baumgarten
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: supplements, journal, study, judaism, interpretation, era, jewish, sects, maccabean, flourishing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-09
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 9004107517
ISBN-13: 9789004107519
This volume asks why Jewish groups - Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes and the Dead Sea Scroll sect - flourished during the Maccabean era. It argues that such a result is uncommon, requiring special explanation. In the introduction, sectarianism is defined and its varieties in Second Temple Judaism assessed. Among the causes of the known results suggested are the encounter with an outside culture that seemed to be weakening the external national perimeter, the impact of expanded literacy, the move to the city from the farm, as well as eschatological hope aroused by Maccabean victory. In proposing
