Cults Faith, Healing and Coercion

Name: Cults Faith, Healing and Coercion
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ISBN: 9780195123708

ISBN-10: 0195123700

ISBN-13: 9780195123708

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Marc Galanter

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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…

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List price: $26.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 9.02" wide x 5.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
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