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Note
This article is an expanded version of a presentation to the International Cultic Studies
Association Annual International Conference, Fondation Universitaire, (Brussels, Belgium),
June 29 to July 1, 2007.
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta, teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses on the sociology of religion and the sociology of
sectarian groups. He has published articles in numerous sociology and religious study
journals. His 2001 book, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion
in the Late Vietnam War Era, was selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic
Libraries as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2002."
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review 2008, Volume 7,
Number 2, pages 99-128. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
Silkstone, Dan. 2004. ―‘Evil Predator‘ Kept Woman Slave in Garage, Jury Told.‖ The Age [Australia]
(February 19). Downloaded from: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/print.php?p=6110 on
February 18, 2004:1p.
Smyth, Julie. 2003. ―Teens‘ ‗Prison‘ Closed: Schools for Rebellious Teenagers Are Accused of Taking
Drastic, Abusive Measures.‖ National Post [Canada], (June 6).
Streatfield, Dominic. 2006. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control. London: Hodder &
Stoughton.
Struble, et al v. Fountain, et al. 2005. ―Lawsuit Against Bethel Boys Academy—Mississippi.‖ 1:04-cv-
00814-LTS-JMR. L. T. Senter Jr., presiding. Date filed 11/02/2004. Date of Last Filing
05/23/2005. Downloaded from: http://caica.org/NEWS%20B BA%20Lawsuit.hrm on June 11,
2007:22pp.
Taylor, Kathleen. 2004. Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Wade-Dixon, Maggie. 2002. ―Lucedale Children‘s Home Under Investigation.‖ WLBT (November 8).
Downloaded from: http://nospank.net/bethel12.htm on January 5, 2004:1p.
Walsh, Stuart. 2004. ―Slattery Dangerous on Release: Father.‖ The Age [Australia]. (May 7).
Downloaded from:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/07/1083911397977.html?from=storylhs on May 13,
2007:1p.
Walsh, Yvonne. 2001. ―Deconstructing ‗brainwashing‘ Within Cults as an Aid to Counseling
Psychologists.‖ Counselling Psychology Quarterly 14, No. 2:119-128.
Wijers-Hasegawa, Yumi. 2004. ―Mind Control May Have Been a Factor but Not a Mitigating One.‖
Japan Times (February 24) downloaded from: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-
bin/getarticle.pl15?nn20040224.htm on February 25, 2005:3pp.
Witt, April. 2004. ―No Joke.‖ Washington Post Magazine (October 24):12ff.
Wyoming Office of the Attorney General—Division of Victim Services. 2007. ―Domestic Violence Myths
and Facts.‖ Downloaded from: http://wyomingsilentwitness.state.wy.us/domestic.asp on June 10,
2007:2pp.
Zablocki, Benjamin. 1997. ―The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing
Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion.‖ Nava Religio 1, No. 1 (October):96–120.
------.1998. ―Exit Cost Analysis: A New Approach to the Scientific Study of Brainwashing.‖ Nova
Religio 1, No. 2 (April):216–249.
------.2001. ―Towards a Demystified and Disinterested Scientific Theory of Brainwashing.‖ In
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field. Edited by Benjamin
Zablocki and Thomas Robbins. Toronto: University of Toronto Press:159-214.
Note
This article is an expanded version of a presentation to the International Cultic Studies
Association Annual International Conference, Fondation Universitaire, (Brussels, Belgium),
June 29 to July 1, 2007.
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta, teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses on the sociology of religion and the sociology of
sectarian groups. He has published articles in numerous sociology and religious study
journals. His 2001 book, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion
in the Late Vietnam War Era, was selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic
Libraries as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2002."
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review 2008, Volume 7,
Number 2, pages 99-128. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
