I found it in the research!!! "...the kinds of deconditioning & resocialization operative in most new religions (cults) is essentially the same as that used by traditional religions, the military, therapists, & many other legitimate social organizations."
Basically, my book 👆
Basically, my book 👆
"individuals are subject to certain well-recognized social psychological processes of influence, of varying degrees of intensity & potential coerciveness. But the members of new religions do not lose their capacity to think for themselves or determine their own actions."
People are active participants in their
own conversion and resocialization, not the passive victims of exploitive leaders.
own conversion and resocialization, not the passive victims of exploitive leaders.
This does not mean exploitation never occurs, but joining a new religious movement is the result of a process of negotiation, as is being induced to adopt a more radical stance within such a group.
The rhetoric of mind control obscures more than it
clarifies, hindering our ability to discern the variables and patterns of interaction that do produce the ‘‘deployable agents’’ new religions use for proselytizing or other more extreme and threatening activities.
clarifies, hindering our ability to discern the variables and patterns of interaction that do produce the ‘‘deployable agents’’ new religions use for proselytizing or other more extreme and threatening activities.
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