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The Ripper Crew or the Chicago Rippers was an organized crime group of serial killers, cannibals, rapists, and necrophiles. The group was composed of Robin Gecht [ 1 ] and three associates: Edward Spreitzer and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis. [ 2 ]
In Japan, the academic study of new religions appeared in the years following the Second World War. [11] [12]In the 1960s, American sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.
The Christian countercult movement or the Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement among certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist [1] and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries" [2]) and individual activists who oppose religious sects that they consider cults.
But the church, she says, was actually a cult. Walker spent her formative years, since age 8, in the group. She says it was a place where members were unable to question leaders "without facing ...
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti.
Jesus People USA (JPUSA) pronounced: ǰ-pu-sa is a Christian intentional community [1] in Uptown, on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.. JPUSA emerged from Jesus People Milwaukee in 1972, and maintains one of the largest continuing communities (100–450 members) produced by the Jesus movement. [2]
The filing was part of an ongoing lawsuit that began when Shinn sued two former members of his church and moderators of social media accounts that were posting about him and Shekinah Church in ...
The new Netflix docuseries, “Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult,” highlights former members of 7M Films and Shekinah Church, as well as the family members of current members, like ...