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Bounded choice : true believers and charismatic cults / Janja Lalich

Lalich, Janja, 1945-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004

Online Ressource (xxiv, 329 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Bounded choice

Rezensiert in: Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, by Janja Lalich. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2004, 353 pp.; 55.00 USD (cloth), 21.95 USD (paper) / Rubina Ramji, 2006

978-0-520-93751-2 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-93751-1 (electronic bk.)

0-520-23194-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-24018-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

9780520937512

OCoLC: 56733455     

OCoLC: 56733455 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

BP605.H36

306.1 ; 306/.1     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: POL038000 ; bisacsh: SOC022000 ; bisacsh: SOC 022000 ; bisacsh: POL 038000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010

LOC-SH: Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Cults -- Psychology ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Brainwashing ; Cults -- Psychology ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Brainwashing ; Cults -- Psychology ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Brainwashing ; Cults ; Psychology ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)

It is easy to portray the members of cults as vunerable, needy people who cannot think for themselves. In this comparative study of the Heaven's Gate cult and the Democratic Workers Party, Janja Lalich offers a more complex and disturbing assessment of 'cult mentality'