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Cults - 2004

2005 | 2004 | 2003

Was There Religion in the Greco-Roman World?

20/06/2004
The classical world knew gods and goddesses, cults, and sacrificial rites, but it did not know 'religion'.

Waco - Ten Years After

14/01/2004
In April 1993, a 51-day stand-off between the FBI and the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas came to a fiery end. The cult leader and self-proclaimed Messiah, David Koresh, perished in the blaze along with 74 Branch Davidians. Twenty-one of the dead were children. Ten years on, we hear from Waco journalist, Robert Darden, who knew Koresh and the Branch Davidians well.