Misunderstanding Cults (book)
- Misunderstanding Cults (book)
Infobox Book
name = Misunderstanding Cults
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image_caption = Book cover
author = Benjamin Zablocki, ed.
Thomas Robbins, ed.
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country = United States
language = English
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subject = cults
genre = nonfiction
publisher = University of Toronto Press
release_date = December 1, 2001
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pages = 496 pages
isbn = ISBN 0802081886
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"Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field" was edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins. The book was published by University of Toronto Press, on December 1, 2001 and includes contributions from ten religious, sociological and psychological scholars.
The book is unique in that it includes contributions from scholars who have been labeled as "anti-cult", as well as those who have been labeled as "cult apologists." The book features a section which discusses the need for scholarly objectivity when researching cults, as well as emphasizing the danger of partisanship while researching these controversial groups. Other topics discussed include brainwashing, cult violence, the conflict that exists between new religious movements and their critics, as well as the ramifications of raising children in controversial religious movements.
Contributors
The book includes contributions from researchers with varied viewpoints on the subject of cults.
*Dick Anthony
*Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
*David Bromley
*Lorne L. Dawson
*Stephen Kent
*Janja Lalich
*Susan J. Palmer
*Thomas Robbins
*Julius H. Rubin
*Benjamin Zablocki
ee also
*List of cult and new religious movement researchers
*Recovery from Cults (book)
External links
;Reviews
* [http://www.cultinfobooks.com/detail.asp?product_id=BOzab1 Review] , Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
* [http://www.cesnur.org/2001/mi_dic03.htm Review] , Massimo Introvigne, CESNUR
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_64/ai_112357744 Review] , "Sociology of Religion", Winter, 2003, James T. Richardson
* [http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/miscults.html Review] , "Canadian Journal of Sociology Online", July - August 2002, William Sims Bainbridge
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