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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Galanter, Marc, author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cults.
Sects.
Psychology, Religious.
Spiritual healing.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
2nd ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This revision of the author's 1989 book includes three new chapters on cult developments in the 1990's, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine. There are also 32 new photographs.
Contents:
Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments to the First Edition; 1. The Charismatic Group; I: FORCES IN THE CHARISMATIC GROUP; II: A MODEL OF THE CHARISMATIC GROUP; III: CASE HISTORIES OF CHARISMATIC GROUPS; IV: SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; APPENDIX A: The Charismatic Group: A Summary; APPENDIX B: The Charismatic Group: Examples; APPENDIX C: Chronology of the Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
ISBN:
0-19-770619-3
1-280-76117-2
0-19-802876-8
OCLC:
252641439

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