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245 00 Cults :|bdangerous devotion|h[(DVD) videorecording] /
       |cproduced, written, and directed by Sandya Viswanathan ; 
       produced by Partisan Pictures for the History Channel. 
246 30 Dangerous devotion 
264  1 [United States] :|bA&E Television Networks,|c[2009] 
264  2 New York :|bDistributed in the U.S. by New Video. 
264  4 |c℗2006 
300    1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) :|bsound, color ;|c4 3
       /4 in. 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    video|bv|2rdamedia 
338    videodisc|bvd|2rdacarrier 
500    Originally broadcast on the History Channel as an episode 
       of the television program Decoding the past in 2007; 
       produced in 2006. 
511 0  Narrator, Don Harvey. 
520    Uses interviews with world-renowned scholars and the 
       survivors of cultic tragedy to unmask the mystery of 
       cults. Defines three characteristics that make a cult: 
       reliance on a guru or leader rather than general 
       principles of religion, systematic indoctrination with a 
       focus on confession and self-criticism, and heavy 
       exploitation from above. Shows how cult leaders have 
       twisted the quest for purity into an obsession with 
       madness and murder from Jim Jones' pursuit of a socialist 
       paradise at Jonestown to Warren Jeffs' Yearning for Zion 
       ranch. Looks at a number of examples of contemporary cults,
       including the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo, the polygamous 
       Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), Charles Manson 
       and his bizarre prophecies, David Koresh and the Branch 
       Davidians, and Paul Schäfer's colony of German immigrants 
       in Chile that became a center for torture. 
538    DVD, widescreen, Dolby digital stereo. 
546    Closed-captioned. 
650  0 Cults|vVideodiscs. 
650  0 DVDs. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
655  7 Television programs.|2lcgft 
700 1  Viswanathan, Sandya. 
700 1  Harvey, Don. 
710 2  Partisan Pictures (Firm) 
710 2  History Channel (Television network) 
710 2  Arts and Entertainment Network. 
730 0  Decoding the past (Television program)