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Losing reality : on cults, cultism, and the mindset of political and religious zealotry / Robert Jay Lifton.
Van Pelt Library BF575.F16 L54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fanaticism.
- Brainwashing.
- Cults.
- Religion and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 210 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chinese communist thought reform
- Revolutionary immortality
- Ideological totalism
- the "eight deadly sins"
- On cultism and the larger society
- Aum Shinrikyō
- Nazi doctors
- Trump
- The apocalyptic twins: nuclear and climate threats
- The protean alternative
- Regaining reality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781620974995
- 1620974991
- OCLC:
- 1100627466
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