- Benjamin Zablocki
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name = Benjamin Zablocki
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birth_date = birth date and age|1941|1|19|mf=y
birth_place =Brooklyn, New York
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occupation = Professor ofSociology
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children =Benjamin Zablocki (b.
January 19 ,1941 inBrooklyn ) is professor ofsociology atRutgers University and teachessociology of religion andsocial psychology . He has published widely on the subject of charismatic religious movements and so-called "cult s".Education
Zablocki got 1962 a B.A. in
mathematics fromColumbia University and 1967 a Ph.D. in social relations from theJohns Hopkins University where he studied withJames S. Coleman . He did postgraduate studies inpsychiatry andpsychology .Bibliography
* "The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation". Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1971, reissued 1980) ISBN 0-226-97749-8
* "Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes." New York: The Free Press. (1980) ISBN 0-02-935780-2
* "", Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001. w/ Thomas Robbins (Eds.) ISBN 0-8020-8188-6Articles
*"The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion". Nova Religion, Oct. 1997
*"Methodological Fallacies in Anthony's Critique of Exit Cost Analysis", ca. 2002, [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~zablocki/Anthony.htm]
*"The Birth and Death of New Religious Movements" ca. 2005 [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~zablocki/birth%20and%20death%20of%20new%20religious%20movements.htm]External links
* [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~zablocki/ Homepage at Rutgers]
* [http://sociology.rutgers.edu/ucds/ucds.htm Urban Communes Data Set]
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