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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818138503321

Titolo

Misunderstanding cults : searching for objectivity in a controversial field / / editors, Benjamin Zablocki, Thomas Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-4875-9844-0

9786612028731

1-282-02873-1

1-4426-7730-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 524 pages)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Cults

Electronic books.

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 at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

'O truant muse': collaborationism and research integrity / Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi -- Balance and fairness in the study of alternative religions / Thomas Robbins -- Caught up in the cult wars: confessions of a Canadian researcher / Susan J. Palmer -- Pitfalls in the sociological study of cults / Janja Lalich -- Towards a demystified and disinterested scientific theory of brainwashing / Benjamin Zablocki -- Tactical ambiguity and brainwashing formulations: science or pseudo science / Dick Anthony -- A tale of two theories: brainwashing and conversion in competing political narratives / David Bromley -- Brainwashing programs in the family/children of God and scientology / Stephen A. Kent -- Raising Lazarus: a methodological critique of Stephen Kent's Revival of the brainwashing model / Lorne L. Dawson -- Compelling evidence: a rejoinder to Lorne Dawson's chapter / Stephen A. Kent -- Child-rearing issues in totalist groups / Amy Siskind -- Contested narratives: a case study of the conflict between a new religious movement and its critics / Julius H. Rubin -- The roots of religious violence in America / Jeffrey Kaplan.

Sommario/riassunto

Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements



to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.