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Misunderstanding Cults : Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field /

Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.

Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Robbins, Thomas, 1943- (Éditeur intellectuel), Zablocki, Benjamin David, 1941- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • '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.