Cults & Sects

Amazon music editors reveal the best music of the year; customers and editors agree Adele's "21" ranks among top albums of the year with Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" as the 2011 customer...

America is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multhingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world. So writes Patrick Buchanan in Suicide of a...

RED STATE IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 "OMG. hv totes shot someone (P. cv 18tr. xoxo" Bigots beware RELEASED September 30 CERTIFICATE 15 DIRECTOR Kevin Smith CAST Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman RUNNING TIME...

It isn't often that brainwashing techniques influence the visual design of a movie, but they proved to be a fitting inspiration for Martha Marcy May Marlene. Written and directed by Sean Durkin, the...

HEADNOTE Abstract The main purpose of this study is to investigate the role of mass media in students' familiarity with Satanism in Iranian universities' students. The sample of this study included 324 female...

A show in London by Grayson Perry, potter-extraordinary ART is not just about painting and sculpture. Grayson Perry, an artist best known for his pots though he now spends less than half his...

Islamic extremists are a daily threat NIGERIA'S north is a giant dust bowl stricken by mass poverty and unemployment. But the worst blight of all may be the region's Islamists, especially a group...

Byline: MYRANDA GONZALES, GN 17-year-old shares life experiences in book of poetry By Myranda Gonzales Generation Next Juan Manuel Osorio arrived in the United States five years ago. In his short time in...

Six diminutive men position themselves at the intersection of Bourbon and Iberville streets. Their tiny hands grasp stacks of multicolored baseball hats, eyes darting back and forth, on the lookout for potential marks....

By IsraelNationbalNews.com The daughter of one of the men arrested Tuesday on suspicion of abuse in a polygamous cult spoke in his defense in an interview with Channel 10 news. She argued that...

IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Main: Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko) in the '80s opening sequence. (ET out of shot.) Below: Donnie looks for illumination. Donnie Darko eventually proved a cult phenomenon and its impact is still...

A self-described "country lawyer" in Texarkana, Texas, has won a $66 million jury award for two men beaten as teenagers as part of the discipline and control meted out by the leader of...

It's an easy question to ask, but tough to answer. There is much truth in this quote from Aristotle: It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in...

By IsraelNationalNews.com While claiming that it wants peace with Israel, the Palestinian Authority continues to teach its population to hate the Jewish people and strive for their state's destruction. The latest piece of...

A Cultish Side Of Calvinism Micah Coate Privately Published 1101 East Mitchell Street, Tucson, AZ 85719 micah@dakotacom.net $TBA www.micahcoate.com John Calvin was a major figure in the Protestant Reformation and his teachings would...

Jan. 28--WATCH: 'PORTLANDIA' Part love letter, part knowing self-satire, Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live") and former Sleater-Kinney rocker Carrie Brownstein's new free-form half-hour sketch comedy show embraces Portland's progressive, crunchy-granola liberalism in all...

PARK CITY, UTAH - A new movie directed by Susanna Lo will focus on the female followers of cult leader Charles Manson. Production on "Manson Girls" will begin this spring, Lo announced Monday...

An Iranian love triangle. A duplicate Earth. A harrowing religious cult. A loser who sells drugs to a uniformed police officer. Only the Sundance Film Festival could bring them all together. These are...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. - It was a Sunday during Advent, and inside a small pub a few blocks up from the north shore of Lake Superior, 17 people gathered around four bar-top tables...