Beyond Brainwashing by Rebecca Moore
This Element reviews the state of the question regarding theories of cultic violence. It introduces definitions and vocabulary and presents relevant historical examples of religious violence. It then discusses the 1960s and 1970s, the period immediately before the Jonestown tragedy. Considerations of the post-Jonestown (1978), and then post-Waco (1993) literature follow. After 9/11 (2001), some of the themes identified in previous decades reappear. The Element concludes by examining the current problem of repression and harassment directed at religious believers. Legal discrimination by governments, as well as persecution of religious minorities by non-state actors, has challenged earlier fears about cultic violence.
'In Beyond Brainwashing, Rebecca Moore has done a great service to students and scholars of New Religious Movements (NRMs) by providing a detailed and succinct analysis of the field since the 1960s … work done by Moore in such a scant space, only 71 pages including the appendix, is impressive and will no doubt be a continually edifying resource for scholars and students doing research in this subfield' Taylor Wilson Dean, Reading Religion
Moore, Rebecca: - Rebecca Moore is chair of the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She is co-editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Emergent Religions, and served on the Steering Committee of the New Religious Movements Group of the American Academy of Religion for six years. She has published extensively on Peoples Temple, her interest stemming, in part, from the loss of three family members in the mass deaths in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978. Her most recent book on Peoples Temple is as co-editor of a volume titled Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America (2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108448314 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108448313 |
| Title | Beyond Brainwashing |
| Author | Rebecca Moore |
| Series | Elements In Religion And Violence |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2018-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 86 |
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