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God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States

God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States

Stollznow, Karen

Paperback

Comparative ReligionReligion General General Sociology

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1939578000
ISBN13: 9781939578006
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
Published: Oct 1 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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