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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782496203321

Autore

Galanter Marc

Titolo

Cults : faith, healing, and coercion / / Marc Galanter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1999

ISBN

0-19-770619-3

1-280-76117-2

0-19-802876-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

200.19 GAL

Disciplina

200/.1/9

291.9

Soggetti

Cults

Sects

Psychology, Religious

Spiritual healing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments to the First Edition; 1. The Charismatic Group; I: FORCES IN THE CHARISMATIC GROUP; II: A MODEL OF THE CHARISMATIC GROUP; III: CASE HISTORIES OF CHARISMATIC GROUPS; IV: SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; APPENDIX A: The Charismatic Group: A Summary; APPENDIX B: The Charismatic Group: Examples; APPENDIX C: Chronology of the Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This revision of the author's 1989 book includes three new chapters on cult developments in the 1990's, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine. There are also 32 new photographs.