Cults : faith, healing, and coercion / Marc Galanter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galanter, Marc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cults.

Sects.

Psychology, Religious.

Spiritual healing.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.

ISBN:

0195123697

0195123700

OCLC:

39368527