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

• Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 524 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Cults
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): ZablockiBenjamin David <1941->; RobbinsThomas <1943->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Misunderstanding cults
• ISBN: 1-4875-9844-0; 9786612028731; 1-282-02873-1; 1-4426-7730-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780536203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II