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Blackwell
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English
Pages
297

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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-François 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell readings in religion, Blackwell readings in religion -- 2.

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Dewey Decimal Class
291
Library of Congress
BP603 .C86 2003, BL550

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viii, 297 p. :
Number of pages
297

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Open Library
OL17614827M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1405101806, 1405101814
LCCN
2002038285
OCLC/WorldCat
50961029
Library Thing
1400945
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1224212
1224211

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