'Before I'd Be a Slave, I'd Be Buried in My Grave, and Go Home to My Lord and Be Free'
The question addressed is, Does participation in new religions lead to mental illness (argument of the so-called cult-busters) or to mental health (argument of James Richardson), or is some other option possible? The answer is that the debate founders on a mistaken emphasis on the mind (e.g., brainw...
| Published in: | The international journal for the psychology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[1995]
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Summary: | The question addressed is, Does participation in new religions lead to mental illness (argument of the so-called cult-busters) or to mental health (argument of James Richardson), or is some other option possible? The answer is that the debate founders on a mistaken emphasis on the mind (e.g., brainwashing, mind control, deprogramming). The way out of the impasse is to stress the body and to ask how participation in new religions implies a reckoning with human mortality, dying, and death. This includes reckoning with tragic death, as is evident in the Manson Family in 1969, the People's Temple in Jones- town in 1978, and the Branch Davidians in Waco in 1993. Two models of how the mind is understood as either mentally ill or healthy and one model of how the self can be construed when the body is paramount in research are presented. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Clinical and Personality Assessment of Participants in New Religions (1995)"
Kritik in "Two Steps Forward, One Back (1995)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0503_2 |