Cults Faith, Healing, and Coercion

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon¹s Unification Church to the mass suicides at Jonestown, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. In this volume, based on 15 years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors in the 1970s and 1980s, Marc Galanter offers a compelling look into the unique world of these ³charismatic groups.² Featuring a comprehensive psychological analysis of the ³Moonies² as well as a provocative and controversial account of the similarities between cults and ³zealous² self-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous, the book presents an engrossing psychological tour of this fascinating modern phenomenon.Galanter, Marc is the author of 'Cults Faith, Healing, and Coercion', published 1989 under ISBN 9780756779177 and ISBN 0756779170.