1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455475203321

Autore

Abgrall Jean-Marie

Titolo

Soul snatchers [[electronic resource] ] : the mechanics of cults / / Jean-Marie Abgrall ; translated by Alice Seberry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2000

ISBN

1-280-34645-0

1-280-34653-1

9786610346455

9786610346530

1-892941-23-6

1-892941-38-4

1-892941-10-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

291.9

Soggetti

Cults - Psychology

Sects - Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Interviews with Paul Bowles, William Styron, Wietske Venema; essays by Cécile Guilbert, Gilles Hertzog, Marc Lambron, Yann Moix, Michel Onfray; and a survey of 36 writers from around the world.

Originally published in Paris as the 1998 edition of an annual series entitled The Rules of the game ([La Règle du jeu (Paris, France); no 21 (c)]).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Foreword; 1 CULTS AND MENTAL MANIPULATION; 2 CULTS - PAST AND PRESENT; 3. THE GURU; 4. HOW CULTS ARE ORGANIZED; 5. RECRUITMENT; 6. COERCIVE PERSUASION; 7. CONDITIONING; 8. PSYCHIC CONDITIONING; 9. PHYSICAL CONDITIONING; 10. PROVEN METHODS: SCIENTOLOGY; 11. MENTAL PATHOLOGIES PRE-DATING THE CULT; 12. PATHOLOGIES INDUCED BY CULT MANIPULATION; 13. TREATING THE PATHOLOGIES

Sommario/riassunto

Abgrall, a practicing psychiatrist and professional criminologist who won a case against the Scientologists in Europe, has spent 15 years researching cult phenomena. Well organized and readable. This book is



recommended for public and academic libraries.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384065003316

Autore

Ferne H (Henry), <1602-1662.>

Titolo

Episcopacy and Presbytery considered [[electronic resource] ] : according to the severall respects, which may commend a church-government, and oblige good Christians to it

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Printed by Leonard Lichfield ..., 1644

Descrizione fisica

[2], 30 p

Soggetti

Episcopacy

Presbyterianism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Errata: p. 30.

Attributed to Henry Ferne. cf. NUC pre-1956.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113