Cults : faith, healing, and coercion /

Galanter, Marc,

Cults : faith, healing, and coercion / [print] Marc Galanter. - New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)1989. - viii, 230 pages ; 25 cm.



The charismatic group Forces in the charismatic group. Group cohesiveness ; Shared beliefs ; Altered consciousness A model of the charismatic group. Biology and behavior ; The cult as a social system Case histories of charismatic groups. Trouble at the system's boundary ; A religious sect : the Unification Church ; Charismatic healing groups : the AA example.



0195056310 9780195056310

88025277


Cults.
Sects.
Psychology, Religious.
Spiritual healing.

BP603.C858 1989 BP603.G146.C858 1989

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