Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195123708)

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.

Author: Marc Galanter
ISBN-10: 0195123700
ISBN-13: 9780195123708
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/20/1999
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.16w x 0.84d