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Misunderstanding Cults

Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field

Autor: Benjamin Zablocki, Thomas Robbins

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Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: University Of Toronto Press

Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată

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Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polariz...

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Autor

Benjamin Zablocki, Thomas Robbins

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

538

EAN

9780802043733

ISBN

0802043739

Enbook ID

04710698

Editura

University Of Toronto Press

Greutate

820

Dimensiuni

158 x 235 x 38

Descriere completă

Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polarized area of study. Working towards a moderate "third path" in the heated debate over new religious movements or cults, this collection includes contributions from both scholars who have been characterized as "anticult" and those characterized as "cult-apologists." The study incorporates multiple viewpoints as well as a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, with the stated goal of depolarizing the discussion over alternative religious movements. A prominent section within the book focuses explicitly on the issue of scholarly objectivity and the danger of partisanship in the study of cults.The collection also includes contributions on the controversial and much misunderstood topic of brainwashing, as well as discussions of cult violence, children brought up in unconventional religious movements, and the conflicts between alternative religious movements and their critics. Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.