"Cults," Coercion, and Control: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Return of "Brainwashing"?

In the face of what has been called an epidemic of domestic and family violence (DFV) in several countries, scholarly analysts, journalists, and policymakers have increasingly turned to the matrix of ideas around what Evan Stark has called coercive control, for insights into the dynamics of abusive...

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Subtitles:"Special Issue: The Return of the Cult: Bad Religion in the Age of Trump and COVID"
Authors: Sessions, Erin Martine (Author) ; Doherty, Bernard ca. 21. Jh. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2023
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-194
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Australia / Domestic violence / Compulsion / Control / Brainwashing / New religion / Research / Geschichte 1970-
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AZ New religious movements
KBS Australia; Oceania
NCF Sexual ethics
TK Recent history
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Coercive Control
B New Religious Movements
B "Brainwashing"
B Cultic Studies
B "cults"
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