Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion by Marc Galanter
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Textbook (Paperback - REV)
- 225pp
- Sales Rank: 140,168
TEXTBOOK INFORMATION
- ISBN-13: 9780195123708
- Edition Description: REV
- Edition Number: 2
- Pub. Date: January 1999
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 1999
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 225pp
- Sales Rank: 140,168
- ISBN-13: 9780195123708
- ISBN: 0195123700
- Edition Number: 2
- Edition Description: REV
Synopsis
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.
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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.
New York University School of Medicine
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