Zealot
a book about cults
$32.54
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2019
Summary
Zealot: Inside the Minds of Cult Followers
Based on the popular Australian podcast ZEALOT, this is a comprehensive look at cults around the world and why people are drawn to them.
Why would anyone join a cult?
Maybe they’re unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they’re disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733640506 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0733640508 |
| Author: | Jo Thornely |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 30mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
prose where every sentence is alive with individuality and intelligence. … She has opened the creaking lid of the vampire’s coffin and let in a good old blast of fresh daylight. - Weekend Australian
Written with a wonderfully irreverent sense of humour, the book has a serious aim, to instill irreverence in the reader, because, after all, an excess of reverence was what got many of these cult members into danger in the first place and then kept them there. - Daily Telegraph‘freakily entertaining’ - The ClotheslineAbout The Author
Jo Thornely
Jo Thornely has been writing opinion pieces, articles and recaps for over ten years, featuring in Marie Claire, news.com.au, Yahoo7, The Women’s Weekly, King’s Tribune, The Punch and Madison, plus voice-over scripts for television and digital projects, pieces for Women Of Letters, Confession Booth and Erotic Fan Fiction, and co-writing Charlotte Dawson’s Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a Blow-Up Doll. She is obsessed with cults.
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