What it does do is satirise politics, terrorism, blind faith and messianic cults.

Up until now Ive buried myself in libraries, digging through books for the observations of others on messianic cults.

Indian Shakers: A messianic cult of the Pacific Northwest.

That source said members of a messianic cult attacked an outpost for Nasiriya's Quick Reaction Force.

The Religions of the Oppressed; a Study of Modern Messianic Cults.

Violence left nearly 50 people dead in two major southern Iraqi cities when members of a shadowy, messianic cult attacked police and fellow Shiite worshippers, authorities said.

He inspired a messianic cult, Matsouanism, that emerged in the French Equatorial African capital, Brazzaville.

In the far north-east, rebels of a murderous Ugandan messianic cult, the Lord’s Resistance Army, still occasionally commit massacres.

Two Jewish followers of a Messianic cult have admitted desecrating 250 Jewish graves in Haifa, Israeli radio said today.

He briefly found work in The Brian Jonestown Massacre, a band fronted by the messianic cult figure Anton Newcombe.

One major reaction to this evangelisation in the Vaupés, initiated by Venancio Aniseto Kamiko, was to create a wave of messianic cults among the tribes.

Some Obama supporters fret already that his campaign has the trappings of a messianic cult, as thousands upon thousands pack auditoriums to bask in his uplifting oratory.

Mr. Wu's career is not without its disruptions, caused by his chronic tuberculosis and his involvement with a religious sect that turns, after the war, into a messianic cult.

In 1900, Scottish MP John Mackinnon Robertson argued that Jesus never existed but was an invention by a first-century messianic cult.

The premise of "The Warrior Ant," as Mr. Breuer tells it, is this: "Ant societies have a messianic cult.

"I'll make Waco look like a tea party," Kitchen quoted Begolly as referring to the armed showdown between federal agents and messianic cult leader David Koresh in 1993.

But such paeans to the incoming governor of the Bank of England are a product of the messianic cult that surrounds any new leader with a turnround to execute.

The man had been working of late on a history of messianic cults; the research involved was very time-consuming and Virga hadnt seen much of Naughton in the past few weeks.

Indian Shakers: A Messianic Cult of the Pacific Northwest, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.

CNN has confirmed that Abu Mustapha Ansari, the Basra leader of the followers of Ahmed al-Hasani al-Yamani, a messianic cult, was among those killed.

The story describes the Jewish messianic cult that arose in the village of Goraj and the effects of the 17th century faraway false messiah Shabbatai Zvi on the local population.

In the Robert A. Heinlein story The Year of the Jackpot, published in 1952, Clint is the home of a messianic cult that arises after the collapse of America.

The street battles between members of a messianic cult and Iraqi troops raged for a second day as the death toll from the fighting in two predominantly Shiite southern cities rose from 50 to at least 68.

The attacks came a day after at least 66 people died and at least 60 were wounded in fighting between Iraqi security forces and members of a violent Shiite messianic cult in two cities in southern Iraq, authorities said.

Given the profusion of anti-government militias and messianic cults in recent years, not to mention the prominent role that race continues to play in the United States, it's not surprising that there is renewed interest in Brown.