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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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.