Looking Behind the Scenes in a Religious Cult: Implications for the Study of Conversion
Religious conversion is commonly understood to involve dramatic transformations in personality. “Brainwashing” is a concept widely used in the mass media to account for these changes. This participant observation study of a millennial UFO cult concludes that these apparently dramatic changes result...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1980
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1980, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-143 |
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| Summary: | Religious conversion is commonly understood to involve dramatic transformations in personality. “Brainwashing” is a concept widely used in the mass media to account for these changes. This participant observation study of a millennial UFO cult concludes that these apparently dramatic changes result from rapid learning of roles rather than changes in personality, or even values, beliefs or attitudes. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709905 |