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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138239747
ISBN-13
9781138239746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237637251
Product Key Features
Book Title
Escaping Utopia : Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting over
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Sociology / General, General, Cults
Genre
Religion, Social Science, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-008704
Reviews
"ESCAPING UTOPIAis a must readbook for everyone concerned about the real nature of human nature.Authors Lalich and McLaren do a brilliant job in revealing the various psycho-social mechanisms by which cults attract, deceive and bind recruits into their "families," at great personal costs-- and how to help them exit." - Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University "This is a unique and valuable book.The authors have taken a much-neglected subject: the fate of children growing up in cults who leave knowing little or nothing of the world outside their cult's boundaries.The book is largely based on interviews with 65 of these former cult members from a wide variety of different types of cults. But the material is thematically unified by the authors' profound theoretical understanding of cult dynamics gained through many decades of studying cults from both inside and out. This accessible and nuanced account of a controversial subject will be the standard reference on its subject for many years to come." - Benjamin Zablocki, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University "By using contemporary scholarship to elucidate the abuse, then the resiliency, of young adults who left abusive cults, this study accomplishes the unusual task of creating an immensely accessible book for the general public, current and former members, and academics. Nothing else like it exists." - Stephen A. Kent, Sociology Professor in the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies, University of Alberta. "Lalich and McLaren, both of whom are former cult members, have written the definitive work on the hidden world of those children and teenagers who grew up in cults, managed to get out, and start their lives over. With sympathy and understanding, Lalich and McLaren recount the struggles of 65 different individuals and their grief, pain, and suffering. It is a beautifully written story about the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.A well-developed theory of how cults operate and affect their members is presented to help us understand and guard against friends and family members being drawn into their orbit and how to help them, if they are." - Scott G. McNall, author of The Problem of Social Inequalityand the forthcoming Cultures of Defiance and ResistanceUniversity of Montana
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
209.0922
Table Of Content
1. We Weren't There by Choice: Meeting Our Narrators 2. The Transcendent Belief System: Purity, Perfection, and the Eradication of Individuality 3. Charismatic Authority: Exhilarating Vision, Electrifying Charisma, and Total Domination 4. Systems of Control: Official Rules, Formal Structures, and Webs of Authority 5. Systems of Influence: Social Pressures, Rigid Expectations, and Constant Manipulation 6. Landing on Mars: Finding Their Way in an Alien World 7. Surviving and Thriving: Trauma, Resilience, And Integration
Synopsis
We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What's especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over , the authors craft Lalich's original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.
LC Classification Number
BL80.3.L35 2017
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