Cults
Faith, Healing, and Coercion
2nd Edition
Published in December 1999
304 pages
978-0-19-802876-5 (ISBN)
Description
From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven's Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as extensive research, Marc Galanter offers the most extensive psychological analysis of these organizations available. Cults explores not only how members feel and think at all stages of their involvement, but also how larger social and psychological forces reinforce individual commitment within the cults.
For this revised and newly-illustrated second edition, Galanter has added three new chapters on cult development in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
32 halftones, 1 line illus
File size
20,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-802876-5 (9780198028765)
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Person
Marc Galanter is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at the New York University School of Medicine. The author of many books and articles on cults and addiction, he is the editor of the American Psychiatric Association's official report on cults and new religious movements.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments to the First Edition
- 1. The Charismatic Group
- What Is a Charismatic Group?
- A Research Perspective
- I: FORCES IN THE CHARISMATIC GROUP
- 2. Group Cohesiveness
- A Clinical Model
- A Charismatic Religious Sect: The Divine Light Mission
- 3. Shared Beliefs
- Communities of Shared Belief
- Shared Beliefs in the Unification Church
- 4. Altered Consciousness
- Meditation
- Drug-Induced Altered Consciousness
- Social Induction
- II: A MODEL OF THE CHARISMATIC GROUP
- 5. Biology and Behavior
- The Relief Effect
- Evidence in Contemporary Sects
- Ethologic Observations
- 6. The Cult as a Social System
- Transformation
- Monitoring
- Feedback
- Boundary Control
- III: CASE HISTORIES OF CHARISMATIC GROUPS
- 7. Trouble at the System's Boundary
- Jonestown
- MOVE
- 8. A Religious Sect: The Unification Church
- A History of the Sect
- Induction
- Family and Marital Structure
- Leaving the Sect
- 9. The Millenium Approaches
- Waco and Antigovernmental Paranoia
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Heaven's Gate
- Suicide, Murder, and Immolation
- IV: SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
- 10. The Nature of Healing Movements
- Finding a Perspective
- The Psychology of Membership
- 11. Alternative Healing in the Medical Mainstream
- The Christian Medical and Dental Society
- The Self-Help Clinic: Impact on Institutional Care
- 12. The AA Example
- The Charismatic Gift of Alcoholics Anonymous
- The Fully Evolved Healing Group
- APPENDIX A: The Charismatic Group: A Summary
- APPENDIX B: The Charismatic Group: Examples
- APPENDIX C: Chronology of the Studies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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