Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion / Edition 2

by Marc Galanter

Overview

Using material gleaned from 25 years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, Galanter offers the most extensive psychological analysis of these organizations available. 32 halftones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195123708
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

About the Author:
Marc Galanter is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at the New York University School of Medicine. The author of many books and articles on cults and addiction, he is the editor of the American Psychiatric Association's official report on cults and new religious movements.

Table of Contents

1. The Charismatic Group

Editorial Reviews

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 Times Book 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

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