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Author Moore, Rebecca, author

Title Beyond Brainwashing : Perspectives on Cultic Violence / Rebecca Moore
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Elements in Religion and Violence
Elements in religion and violence.
Contents Introduction -- Some caveats and definitions -- Historical cases -- Cults before Jonestown: the 1960s and 1970s -- After Jonestown: the 1980s -- After Waco: the 1990s -- 9/11 changed everything: Islam and new religious movements -- The twenty-first century: NRMs under attack -- Conclusions
Summary This analysis reviews the state of the question regarding theories of cultic violence. It introduces definitions and vocabulary and presents relevant historical examples of religious violence. It then discusses the 1960s and 1970s, the period immediately before the Jonestown tragedy. Considerations of the post-Jonestown (1978), and then post-Waco (1993) literature follow. After 9/11 (2001), some of the themes identified in previous decades reappear. The book concludes by examining the current problem of repression and harassment directed at religious believers. Legal discrimination by governments, as well as persecution of religious minorities by non-state actors, has challenged earlier fears about cultic violence
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2018)
Subject Cult members.
Cults -- Social aspects
Violence -- Religious aspects -- History
Brainwashing -- History
Brainwashing.
Cult members.
Violence -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108646598
110864659X