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Misunderstanding cults : searching for objectivity in a controversial field / edited by Banjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cults.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 524 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- 'O truant muse': collaborationism and research integrity / Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
- Balance and fairness in the study of alternative religions / Thomas Robbins
- Caught up in the cult wars: confessions of a Canadian researcher / Susan J. Palmer
- Pitfalls in the sociological study of cults / Janja Lalich
- Towards a demystified and disinterested scientific theory of brainwashing / Benjamin Zablocki
- Tactical ambiguity and brainwashing formulations: science or pseudo science / Dick Anthony
- A tale of two theories: brainwashing and conversion in competing political narratives / David Bromley
- Brainwashing programs in the family/children of God and scientology / Stephen A. Kent
- Raising Lazarus: a methodological critique of Stephen Kent's Revival of the brainwashing model / Lorne L. Dawson
- Compelling evidence: a rejoinder to Lorne Dawson's chapter / Stephen A. Kent
- Child-rearing issues in totalist groups / Amy Siskind
- Contested narratives: a case study of the conflict between a new religious movement and its critics / Julius H. Rubin
- The roots of religious violence in America / Jeffrey Kaplan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0802043739
- 0802081886
- OCLC:
- 50387243
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