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Title: The Cult Around the Corner
Subtitle: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions
Author: Nancy Omeara, Stan Koehler
Narrator: Jack Nolan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-15
Publisher: Nancy Omeara
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought
Publisher's Summary:
The Cult Around the Corner is dedicated to bringing reason, understanding, and open communication to an often explosive subject: the involvement of oneself, a friend, or loved one in a group that might be called a "cult".
Members Reviews:
Great book with many important lessons
This is a great book with a very important message regarding the importance of religious tolerance. It is important for us to realize that people from other religions are not to be feared but to be understood. The world would be a better place if people took the lessons in this book to heart and instead of engaging in hate speech and / or violence towards people of different faiths resolved disagreements through communication.
Sane advice on dealing with religious choice
If someone you love has joined a religious "cult" or such a group has moved into your neighborhood or they are becoming active in your community or any similar situation occurs then this book is where you should start when wondering what to do. It is not an exposition about the beliefs of various religious groups nor what defines a cult from a religion or any such thing. Instead it deals with an all too common problem, people basing their understanding of a group on prejudiced things they have heard, gossip or similar information. It deals with the alienation that often follows when parents and friends don't understand why a person joins a different religious group. It also deals with how to recover that communication and recover the relationship.
This book guides you through various techniques to deal with this situation. The first and foremost is to be calm and find out about the group for yourself. There are various ways of doing this and the book covers all of them. It also covers the things not to do in a situation like this.
This book is a definite recommendation to anyone seeking guidance on how to deal with someone else's religious choices or anyone who may be thinking of making a change themselves.
An excellent guidebook
This is a sensible guidebook for anyone who is concerned about the religious choices of others.
Written out of the experience of helping thousands of concerned parents, friends, neighbors, etc., this book explains how to address the "problem" of a loved one joining a religion one doesn't fully understand.
Logically, the first recommendation is to "calm down" so one can be effective in addressing the situation. Then a range of choices are given... advice on actual steps one can take to restore or improve communication, and why that is important, pitfalls to avoid in these situations (like deprogrammers), how to communicate your concerns to your loved one without alienating him or trampling on his rights, etc.
Surprisingly enough, the book gives good advice for parents about how to prepare one's child for the myriad of religious choices out there! Very useful for just about any parent, I think.
Many varied real-life examples are given, along with their successful resolution.
No one religion holds the focus of this book, and it is not an overview of the religions of the world, but rather a basic guide anyone can use in restoring communication with a loved one who has joined a new or little-known religion. Advice on researching the religion is very clearly written and easy to understand and follow.