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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783317403321

Autore

Lalich Janja

Titolo

Bounded choice : true believers and charismatic cults / / Janja Lalich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-520-93751-1

1-59734-509-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 329 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

291.9

306/.1

Soggetti

Cults - Psychology

Brainwashing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Cults and True Believers; part one: Heaven's Gate; part two: The Democratic Workers Party; part three: Theoretical Perspective; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate ""monks"" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves.