Death by Budo by Palmer, Susan Jean

Death by Budo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517278465)

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Death by Budo by Palmer, Susan Jean

Death by Budo

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Death by Budo by Palmer, Susan Jean

Death by Budo

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Format: Paperback
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When a Budo mock battle, performed in blindfold, is interrupted by a real killing, sociologist Dr. Stevka Koutev's covert research is at stake. Sent in a year ago by the Center for the Study of Sects to investigate a martial arts school that, suddenly, mysteriously, transformed into an apocalyptic "cult", Stevka has already confronted formidable obstacles to her project. Stevka's interviews with Budo's beautiful prophetess, Simu Oliwia, were constantly interrupted by her informant's lapses into trance, as she channeled Lady Nii, a vengeful ghost from the Tang dynasty who blocked access. Stevka struggles to maintain her scholarly objectivity when she is summoned to court as an expert witness in a deprogramming case. Oliwia had beaten up her ex-husband and his exit counselor, who claim she is a brainwashed victim of Budo instructor, Sifu Adil. Stevka then becomes embroiled in a copyright lawsuit, when a rival channeler appropriates Oliwia's 12-century "Entity" and published new Lady Nii materials. Meanwhile, millennial expectation is building in the Budo Academy as Oliwia's beloved spiritual consort, Simu Adil, threatens to undermine the group's spiritual agenda with his coke habit and dealings with biker gangs. Two copycat murders follow the blindfold battle killing, and Stevka must delve into Lady Nii's channeled 'Levelations' and consult with a famous parapsychologist in order to unravel the Budo murders.

Author: Susan Jean Palmer
ISBN-10: 1517278465
ISBN-13: 9781517278465
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.64d
By Susan Jean Palmer
By Susan Jean Palmer
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Susan J. Palmer is a Canadian sociologist of religion who studies and writes about new religious movements. She is an Affiliate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and a Research Fellow at McGill University. She has published eleven academic books, notably Moon Sisters. Krishna Mothers (Syracuse 1994); Aliens Adored: Raels' UFO Religion (Rutger 2004); The New Heretics of France (Oxford 2011). Death by Budo is her first novel, and draws on her observations during martial arts training and on her experiences as a researcher in the controversial field of NRMs, or "cults and sects". For further adventures in new religious research, read Palmer's "Caught Up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a Canadian Researcher," available on the blog, Longreads.

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