Cults Faith, Healing, and Coercion

Name: Cults Faith, Healing, and Coercion
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ISBN: 9780195056310

ISBN-10: 0195056310

ISBN-13: 9780195056310

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Marc Galanter

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From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church to the mass suicides at Jonestown, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Once exotic offshoots of the Sixties counterculture exciting suspicion, scorn, terror, and counter-terror (as in the brief vogue of "deprogrammers"), cults have grown so common and entered so many areas of public life--managing everything from roadside flower-sellers to major metropolitan newspapers and nation-wide political campaigns--that only spectacular disasters like the immolation of the Philadelphia cult MOVE seem to remind us how extraordinary their burgeoning really is. Using material gleaned from fifteen years of…

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List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/4/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




The Charismatic Group



Forces in the Charismatic Group



Group Cohesiveness



Shared Beliefs



Altered Consciousness



A Model of the Charismatic Group



Biology and Behavior



The Cult as Social System



Case Histories of Charismatic Groups



Trouble at the System's Boundary



A Religious Sect: The Unification Church



A Charismatic Healing Group: The AA Example



Epilogue