God Bless America Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States
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God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the modern-day United States. Do Satanists really sacrifice babies? Do exorcisms involve swearing and spinning heads? Are the Amish allowed to drive cars and use computers? Taking a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book offers more than mere armchair research, taking you to an exorcism and a polygamist compound-and allowing you to sit among the beards and bonnets in a Mennonite church and to hear L. Ron Hubbard's stories told as sermons during a Scientology service. From the Amish to Voodoo, the beliefs and practices explored in this book may be unorthodox-and often dangerous-but they are always fascinating. While some of them are dying out, and others are gaining popularity with a modern audience, all offer insight into the future of religion in the United States-and remind that fact is often stranger than fiction.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781939578006 |
Publisher: | Pitchstone Publishing |
Imprint: | Pitchstone Publishing |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 2013 |
DEWEY: | 277.3 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 352g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 230mm |
Spine width: | 12mm |