MISUNDERSTANDING CULTS ZABLOCKI B., ROBBINS T. Księgarnia

MISUNDERSTANDING CULTS:

SEARCHING FOR OBJECTIVITY IN A CONTROVERSIAL FIELD

Edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbing

Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polarized area of study. Working towards a moderate 'third path' in the heated debate over new religious movements (NRMs) or cults, this collection includes contributions both from scholars who have been characterized as 'anticult' and from those characterized as'cult apologists.' The study incorporates diverse viewpoints as well as a variety of theoretical and methodological orientations, with the stated goal of depolarizing the discussion over alternative religious movements. A large portion of the book focuses explicitly on the issue of scholarly objectivity and the danger of partisanship in the study of cults.

The collection also includes contributions on the controversial and much misunderstood topic of brainwashing, as well as discussions of cult violence, child rearing within unconventional religious movements, and the conflicts between NRMs and their critics. Thorough and wide-ranging, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.

Benjamin Zablocki is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University.

Thomas Robbins is an independent scholar and lives in Rochester, Minnesota.

524 pages

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