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This broad-ranging, balanced and clearly organized collection of readings on cults includes section introductions which situate the nature, value and relevance of the selected readings in context of current discussions.
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Comparative Religion, RELIGION, CultsShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Cults and new religious movements: a reader
2003, Blackwell Pub.
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1405143495 9781405143493
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Table of Contents
The scientific study of religion? You must be joking! / Eileen Barker
The continuum between "cults" and "normal" religion / James A. Beckford
Three types of new religious movement / Roy Wallis
Cult formation: three compatible models / William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark
False prophets and deluded subjects: the nineteenth century / Philip Jenkins
The new spiritual freedom / Robert Wuthnow
Who joins new religious movements and why: twenty years of research and what have we learned? / Lorne L. Dawson
The joiners / Saul Levine
The process of brainwashing, psychological coercion, and thought reform / Margaret Thaler Singer
A critique of "brainwashing" claims about new religious movements / James T. Richardson
Constructing cultist "mind control" / Rhomas Robbins
The apocalypse at Jonestown / John R. Hall
"Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end": the last voyage of the Solar Temple / Jean-Franc ʹois Mayer
Women in new religious movements / Elizabeth Puttick
Women's "cocoon work" in new religious movements: sexual experimentation and feminine rites of passage / Susan J. Palmer
Why religious movements succeed or fail: a revised general model / Rodney Stark
New religious and the internet: recruiting in a new public space / Lorne L. Dawson and Jenna Hennebry.
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