Bounded Choice : True Believers and Charismatic Cults.
Title:
Bounded Choice : True Believers and Charismatic Cults.
Author:
Lalich, Janja A.
ISBN:
9780520937512
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (355 pages)
Contents:
Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Cults and True Believers -- part one: Heaven's Gate -- 2 Gurus, Seers, and New Agers -- 3 The Beginning: "The Two" Arrive -- 4 Evolution of the Charismatic Community -- 5 Denouement -- part two: The Democratic Workers Party -- 6 Revolutionaries, Rebels, and Activists -- 7 The Founding of the Democratic Workers Party -- 8 The Cadre Formation -- 9 Decline and Fall -- part three: Theoretical Perspective -- 11 Bounded Choice: Cult Formation and the Development of the True Believer -- 10 The True Believer: The Fusion of Personal Freedom and Self-Renunciation -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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