Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over Contributor(s): Lalich, Janja (Author), McLaren, Karla (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138239739 ISBN-13: 9781138239739 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Cults |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017008704 |
Physical Information: 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What's especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich's original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population. |