Cults and new religious movements
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Lorne L. Dawson
Series: Blackwell readings in religion; Blackwell readings in religion
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781405143493
Subjects: Comparative Religion; RELIGION; Cults
Description: This broad-ranging, balanced and clearly organized collection of readings on cults includes section introductions which situate the nature, value and relevance of the selected readings in context of current discussions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The scientific study of religion? You must be joking! / Eileen Barker; title: The continuum between "cults" and "normal" religion / James A. Beckford; title: Three types of new religious movement / Roy Wallis; title: Cult formation: three compatible models / William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark; title: False prophets and deluded subjects: the nineteenth century / Philip Jenkins; title: The new spiritual freedom / Robert Wuthnow; title: Who joins new religious movements and why: twenty years of research and what have we learned? / Lorne L. Dawson; title: The joiners / Saul Levine; title: The process of brainwashing, psychological coercion, and thought reform / Margaret Thaler Singer; title: A critique of "brainwashing" claims about new religious movements / James T. Richardson; title: Constructing cultist "mind control" / Rhomas Robbins; title: The apocalypse at Jonestown / John R. Hall; title: "Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end": the last voyage of the Solar Temple / Jean-Franc ʹois Mayer; title: Women in new religious movements / Elizabeth Puttick; title: Women's "cocoon work" in new religious movements: sexual experimentation and feminine rites of passage / Susan J. Palmer; title: Why religious movements succeed or fail: a revised general model / Rodney Stark; title: New religious and the internet: recruiting in a new public space / Lorne L. Dawson and Jenna Hennebry.