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Misunderstanding cults [electronic resource] : searching for objectivity in a controversial field / edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 524 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781442677302 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442677309 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Misunderstanding cults.DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BP603 .M575 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 11.05
Online resources:
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.
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'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.

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