REVIVAL: Resurrecting the Process Church of the Final Judgment

Bainbridge, William Sims

ISBN 10: 1627310487 / ISBN 13: 9781627310482

Published by Feral House, Port Townsend, Washington, 2017

Review copy, with the publisher's promotional material laid in. "Throughout the 1970s author William Sims Bainbridge investigated The Process Church, which he described as being a 'deviant psychotherapy cult' in his book Satan's Power. In recent decades Bainbridge has become co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation, and unlike other true crime writers, Bainbridge now holds a positive view of the long-disbanded Process Church, and believes that it assisted people in many ways. Revival gives readers a fictional restoration of the controversial group in which every Process member is pictured as representing a fragment of a god, either Lucifer, Satan, Jehovah, or Christ, or a mix of them." Octavo: [vi], 186, [6] p. with illustrations. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine copy. Seller Inventory # 77651

Synopsis:

Who is seeking to destroy all esoteric religious movements, starting with The Process Church of the Final Judgement? The Process was the most fascinating innovative cult of the 1960s, then vanished for four decades before being virtually reborn by the use of information technology. Revival seems to be fiction, yet it’s based on fact and explores the implications of the internet, and the disintegration of conventional faiths. As reported in the author’s anthropological study, Satan’s Power, the Process was polytheistic, asserting the union of Jehovah with Lucifer, and the unity of Christ with Satan. Each Process member was a fragment of a god, with a corresponding personality trait: Jehovah = Discipline, Lucifer = Liberation, Christ = Unification, Satan = Separation.

Before the first page of this book, the computer magician who resurrected the Process Church was murdered. Was this man Christ?

Christianity may be the opposite of what it seems, a Satanic plot that subconsciously preaches, “Release the fiend that lies dormant within you, for he is strong and ruthless, and his power is far beyond the bounds of human frailty. Come forth in your savage might, rampant with the lust of battle, tense and quivering with the urge to strike, to smash, to split asunder all that seek to detain you.” Can the surviving Processeans achieve the hopes expressed in their blessing: “May the life-giving water of the Lord Christ and the purifying fire of the Lord Satan bring the presence of love and unity into this assembly”?

About the Author: William Sims Bainbridge: William Sims Bainbridge earned his doctorate in sociology from Harvard University in 1975. Altogether he has published about 300 articles and written or edited 40 books in a variety of scientific fields. Currently, he is Co-Director, Cyber-Human Systems (Human-Centered Computing) at the National Science Foundation.

Bibliographic Details

Title: REVIVAL: Resurrecting the Process Church of ...
Publisher: Feral House, Port Townsend, Washington
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Trade paperback
Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.