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9780195123708

Cults Faith, Healing and Coercion

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    9780195123708

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    0195123700

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-05-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven's Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as extensive research, Marc Galanter offers the most extensive psychological analysis of these organizations available. Cults explores not only how members feel and think at all stages of their involvement, but also how larger social and psychological forces reinforce individual commitment within the cults. For this revised and newly-illustrated second edition, Galanter has added three new chapters on cult development in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine.

Author Biography


Marc Galanter is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at the New York University School of Medicine. The author of many books and articles on cults and addiction, he is the editor of the American Psychiatric Association's official report on cults and new religious movements.

Table of Contents

The Charismatic Group
Forces in the Charismatic Group
Group Cohesiveness
Shared Beliefs
Altered Consciousness
A Model of the Charismatic Group
Biology and Behavior
The Cult as Social System
Case Histories of Charismatic Groups
Trouble at the System's Boundary
A Religious Sect: The Unification Church
A Charismatic Healing Group: The AA Example
Epilogue
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