“Cult Commitment” from the Perspective of Former Members

Anonymous · Jan 13, 2012

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639625.2010.548302

The experiences of involvement in a deviant “religious” group such as a cult or new religious movement is not well understood, with few qualitative studies having explored the experiences and perspectives of former members of such groups. To gain a better understanding of what compels individuals to be become committed to a cult or new religious movement, the current study is a qualitative investigation into “cult commitment” from the perspective of former members. Seven participants from four different groups were recruited, and in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the participants' accounts of their experience. This study found that participants' “decision” to remain in the group was influenced by both “direct rewards” of membership and levels of control exercised by the group and its leaders.

Anonymous · Jan 13, 2012

Bump.

Anonymous · Jan 13, 2012

Without purchasing the article, I did a search of the Journal it's in for "Scientology" and this article showed up as one of the articles with that term in it.
WIN!

AnonLover · Jan 13, 2012

Interesting publication, it's interdisciplinary and spans more than one field of study.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/UDBH

Deviant Behavior is the only journal that specifically and exclusively addresses social deviance. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it publishes refereed theoretical, descriptive, methodological, and applied papers. All aspects of deviant behavior are discussed, including crime, juvenile delinquency, alcohol abuse and narcotic addiction, sexual deviance, societal reaction to handicap and disfigurement, mental illness, and socially inappropriate behavior.

In addition, Deviant Behavior frequently includes articles that address contemporary theoretical and conceptual controversies, allowing the specialist in deviance to stay informed of ongoing debates.

Anonymous · Jan 13, 2012

First journal of 2012! Let's try to break the record of these kind of publications this year

AnonLover · Jan 13, 2012

Anonymous said: ↑

First journal of 2012! Let's try to break the record of these kind of publications this year

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