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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2014]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2014, Volume: 53, Issue: 5, Pages: 1300-1316 |
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New Religious Movements
B Self-change B Social connectedness B Cults B Symbolic interactionism |
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