Show Notes

Further reading

·      Successful Prophets

·      The Value of Ritual

·      Human Perspective is Not the Only One

·      Everything is Ideology

·      The Scientific Ritual

·      Panpsychism

·      Questions That Don’t Matter

·      All Food is Toxic

·      Easy Measurement Bias

·      The Placebo Effect

·      The Charismatic Leader (Weber)

·      True Family Ties

·      Abstractions as Gods

·      Belief-Consistent Information Processing

References

·      Sociological classification of cults

·      Roy Wallis on Wikipedia

·      The Protestant Reformation

·      Robert Jay Lifton on Wikipedia

·      Robert Jay Lifton: Theories of Totalism

·      Margaret Singer on Wikipedia

·      Janja Lalich on Wikipedia

·      Steven Hassan: Combating Cult Mind Control

·      Korean War

·      Brainwashing: China and the Korean War

·      Jonestown

·      Heaven’s Gate

·      Manson Family

·      Religious Behaviour on Wikipedia

·      LA Times: Cults as Places of Value

·      JSTOR: Affiliation and Spiritual Fulfillment

·      Church vs Sect (Troeltsch and Niebuhr)

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