Authoritarianism is the exercise of authority and power demanding obedience without questioning.
The authors seek to unmask the countless manifestations of authoritarianism in our contemporary culture. They expose authoritarian control in both personal and global issues, such as parenting, love, intimacy, sexuality, reproduction, abortion, addiction, ecology, censorship, freedom, capital punishment, and not least in the area of religion and spirituality. The twenty chapters of this book are divided into two parts. Two writer friends of mine independently urged me to read this book, and so I readily accepted the opportunity to review it. After reading only a couple of chapters, I had to agree with my friends that the authors had thought long and hard about gurus, cults, and authoritarian control.