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Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion, Second Edition

By Marc Galanter

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0195123697, 9780195123692, 0195056310, 9780195056310, 0195123700, 9780195123708
LCC
BP603 .G35 1989
Open Library ID
OL2048016M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21244791 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
304\304
Topic
Economy
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven's Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as extensive research, Marc Galanter offers the most extensive psychological analysis of these organizations available. Cults explores not only how members feel and think at all stages of their involvement, but also how larger social and psychological forces reinforce individual commitment within the cults.For this revised and newly-illustrated second edition, Galanter has added three new chapters on cult development in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine.

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