The transmitter may be more than one individual: it can be a group, even the cult itself in its totality. But in every case, the two-fold requirement of credibility and attraction leads cults to use figureheads who are constantly spreading the word. This is the basis of Scientology's “celebrity centers.”
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Soul snatchers
the mechanics of cults
by Jean-Marie Abgrall
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"This book is the fruit of 15 years of research, and delivers the first methodical analysis of the cult phenomenon, decoding of the mental manipulation. In order to describe this psychopathology and the means to resist it, the author applies the framework of criminology and forensic psychiatry dealing with a "crime against individual rights." Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults
December 1999, Algora Publishing
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