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Bounded Choice : True Believers and Charismatic Cults

Lalich, Janja A. [Verfasser]

1st ed.

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (355 pages)

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978-0-520-93751-2 ; 978-0-520-23194-8

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.