{"product_id":"penguin-book-of-cults","title":"Penguin Book Of Cults","description":"\u003cb\u003eA chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the ancient Roman ritual sacrifices that inspired \u003ci\u003eThe Wicker Man\u003c\/i\u003e all the way up to Heaven’s Gate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHypnotism. Human sacrifice. Sexual perversion. Mass suicide. For millennia, people have been enthralled by graphic descriptions of terrible rites performed by the religious other. \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Cults \u003c\/i\u003ecompiles the most notorious and uncanny of these true accounts: salacious stories of frenzied worship by the cult of Dionysus; human sacrifices burned alive in giant wooden effigies, the inspiration for the (cult) classic movie \u003ci\u003eThe Wicker Man\u003c\/i\u003e; moral panics over the hypnotic powers of yoga; early horror stories of abuse in the Mormon Church; the massacre at Jonestown, which left hundreds of bodies strewn across a foreign jungle; a church that worshipped a 1950s salesman named Bob; the bloody FBI siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; and the mass suicide of Heaven’s Gate. Both terrible and tragic, this illuminating history of cults exposes the seductive power with which new religious movements have ensnared their followers and beguiled outsiders for generations.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57627517190526,"sku":"NW9780143138693","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780143138693.jpg?v=1782833518","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/penguin-book-of-cults","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}