| Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion Contributor(s): Galanter, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195123700 ISBN-13: 9780195123708 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $26.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: Using material gleaned from 25 years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, Galanter offers the most extensive psychological analysis of these organizations available. 32 halftones. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology - Religion | Cults - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 200.19 |
| LCCN: 98-33532 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.16" W x 9.38" (0.96 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |