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Author Lalich, Janja.

Title Bounded choice : true believers and charismatic cults / Janja Lalich.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 329 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.
Summary 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'.
Contents Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Cults and True Believers; part one: Heaven's Gate; part two: The Democratic Workers Party; part three: Theoretical Perspective; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Heaven's Gate (Organization)
Heaven's Gate (Organization)
Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
Heaven's Gate (Organization)
Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
Cults -- Psychology.
Cults -- Psychology.
Brainwashing.
Brainwashing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lalich, Janja. Bounded choice. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520231945 0520240189 (DLC) 2004000767 (OCoLC)54046983
ISBN 9780520937512 (electronic book)
0520937511 (electronic book)
0520231945
9780520231948
0520240189
9780520240186