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Bounded choice : true believers and charismatic cults / Janja Lalich.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lalich, Janja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cults--Psychology.
- Cults.
- Brainwashing.
- Heaven's Gate (Organization).
- Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 329 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate ""monks"" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves.
- Contents:
- Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Cults and True Believers; part one: Heaven's Gate; part two: The Democratic Workers Party; part three: Theoretical Perspective; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93751-1
- 1-59734-509-1
- OCLC:
- 475929413
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