A group or movement exhibiting great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethical manipulative or coercive techniques of persuasion and control (eg isolation from former friends and family, debilitation,... On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left - Page 4by Dennis Tourish, Tim Wohlforth - 2000Limited preview - About this book
| Michael D. Langone - Family & Relationships - 1995 - 438 pages
...following definition emerges: A cult is a group or movement that, to a significant degree, (a) exhibits great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, (b) uses a thought-reform program to persuade, control, and socialize members (ie, to integrate them... | |
| Jan G. Platvoet, Arie Leendert Molendijk - Religion - 1999 - 582 pages
...detriment of members, their families, or the community. Unethically manipulative techniques include isolation from former friends and family, debilitation,...total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc.'.43 On May 1 1, 1987, BSERP rejected the report citing 'lack of scientific rigor'. The rejection... | |
| Sean Dolan - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 68 pages
...a small group or movement that has five crucial defining characteristics. It must: * Demonstrate a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing * Use some form of thought control to gain and keep members * Create a state of psychological dependency... | |
| Eric W. Hickey - Law - 2003 - 646 pages
...director of the American Family Foundation, defines a cult as follows: A group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control designed to advance the goals of the... | |
| Christian Schafferer - Democratization - 2005 - 208 pages
...descend into demagogy and cultism. West and Langone define a cult as "a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control . . . designed to advance the goals of... | |
| Frederick Cookinham - Philosophy - 2005 - 488 pages
...literal definitions of "cult" as a religion, Webster's gives five more using the word figuratively: "a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea or thing... especially such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad..." "a usually small or narrow... | |
| Iran Policy Committee - Iran - 2006 - 198 pages
...the University of California in Los Angeles stated that, 7\ cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion... ni In addition, West stresses that cults isolate... | |
| Regina Pinto-Moura, Regina Johnson - Religion - 2008 - 126 pages
.....devotion or homage to a particular person or thing." The International Churches of Christ denned cults as, "A group or movement exhibiting great or...management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it), designed to advance the... | |
| Josh Emmons - Fiction - 2008 - 256 pages
...is — I'm quoting from a 1985 paper by West and Langone here — A group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (eg, isolation from former friends and... | |
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