New Religious Movement Membership and the Importance of Stable ‘Others' for the Making of Selves

Challenging the view that people join New Religious Movements because they have fallen victim to powerful brainwashing techniques, the analysis of in-depth life history interviews of 23 former members from 11 different Australian ‘cults' suggests that membership was personally negotiated and mo...

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Main Author: Coates, Dominiek (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2014]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2014, Volume: 53, Issue: 5, Pages: 1300-1316
Further subjects:B New Religious Movements
B Self-change
B Social connectedness
B Cults
B Symbolic interactionism
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)