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Marc Galanter

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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 psy chological 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-illustrate d second edition, Galanter has added three new chapters on cult development in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion. To get started finding Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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 psy chological 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-illustrate d second edition, Galanter has added three new chapters on cult development in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion. To get started finding Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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