ISBN:
9780520937512
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0520937511
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxiv, 329 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Ramji, Rubina 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) 2006
Parallel Title:
Print version Bounded choice
DDC:
306.1
Keywords:
Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Heaven's Gate (Organization)
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Heaven's Gate (Organization)
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Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
;
Heaven's Gate (Organization)
;
Heaven's Gate (Organization)
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Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Cults Psychology
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Brainwashing
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Cults Psychology
;
Brainwashing
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Cults Psychology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Brainwashing
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Cults ; Psychology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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'
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index. - Description based on print version record
