Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion

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Marc Galanter (Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, New York University)

Cults

Faith, Healing and Coercion

Marc Galanter (Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, New York University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 May 1999

Spirituality & religious experience; Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects; Complementary medicine; Complementary therapies, healing & health

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.

By: Marc Galanter (Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Psychiatry New York University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 579g
ISBN: 9780195123692
ISBN 10: 0195123697
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 May 1999
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marc Galanter is Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.

Reviews for Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion

Praise for the first edition: Anyone wishing to understand the psychodynamics of [charismatic groups] should pick up Cults....[Galanter] has been a student of cult-like activity for the better part of two decades; this book represents a thoughtful and provocative summation of what he has learned. --Mark Silk, The New York TimesBook Review. [Galanter] encourages us to think carefully about the extent to which our society can tolerate pluralism, innovation, and 'deviance.'...Galanter's approach gives us an urgently needed framework that can improve the quality of discussions about cults. --The Christian Century