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

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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 329 pages) : illustrations
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)
	Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
	Heaven's Gate (Organization)
	Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
	Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.)
	Heaven's Gate (Organization)
	Cults -- Psychology.
	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 bk.)
	0520937511 (electronic bk.)
	0520231945
	9780520231948
	0520240189
	9780520240186