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Robinson, Francis: Separatism Among Indian Muslims. The Politics of the United Provinces
Muslims 1860-1923. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Rodríguez, Pepe: Adicción a Sectas. Pautas para el análisis, prevención y tratamiento.
Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2000.
Smelser, Neil J.: Theory of collective behaviour. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.
Talbot, Ian: Pakistan. A Modern History. New Delhi: OUP, 1998.
Ana Ballesteros Peiró is a Ph.D. candidate in the Arab and Islamic Studies Department at
Autonomous University of Madrid and member of a research team on electoral processes in
Arab and Islamic countries (covering elections in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh).
She has also been a research scholar at the South Asian Division of International Studies at
Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), where she studied terrorism, communalism,
and sectarianism among Muslims in Pakistan. Her work focuses on sects in Islam and South
Asia. (ballesterosp@yahoo.com)
Maria Jesus Martin Lopez has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is Associate Researcher at the
Social Psychology and Methodology Department of Autonomous University of Madrid. She
has obtained the following awards: 2nd Award of the 8th Edition of Research Awards of the
Economic and Social Council of Madrid Community (2006) 1st Award ―Virgilio Palacio‖
(2004) 2nd National Award of Educative Research (Modality: Ph.D. thesis), from the
Education and Science Ministry (2003). She is author of national and international
publications about risk behavior, juvenile violence, and organ donations. She is author of
Juvenile extra-group violence (2005) and co-author of Risk Behaviors: Violence, Sexual Risk
Behavior and Illegal Drug Consumption Among the Youth (1998), along with others.
Jose Manuel Martinez Garcia has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a Lecturer in the Social
Psychology and Methodology Department at Autonomous University of Madrid. He has
obtained the following: 2nd Award of the 8th Edition of Research Awards of the Economic
and Social Council of Madrid Community from the Autonomic Community of Madrid (2006)
1st Award ―Virgilio Palacio‖ (2004). He is the author of national and international
publications about risk behaviors, juvenile violence, and organ donations, including co-
author of Risk Behaviors: Violence, Sexual Risk Behavior and Illegal Drug Consumption
Among Youth (1998) and Organ Donation and Family Decision-Taking Within the Spanish
Donation System (2001), among others.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review 2009, Volume 8,
Number 3, pages 266-280. 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.
Robinson, Francis: Separatism Among Indian Muslims. The Politics of the United Provinces
Muslims 1860-1923. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Rodríguez, Pepe: Adicción a Sectas. Pautas para el análisis, prevención y tratamiento.
Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2000.
Smelser, Neil J.: Theory of collective behaviour. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.
Talbot, Ian: Pakistan. A Modern History. New Delhi: OUP, 1998.
Ana Ballesteros Peiró is a Ph.D. candidate in the Arab and Islamic Studies Department at
Autonomous University of Madrid and member of a research team on electoral processes in
Arab and Islamic countries (covering elections in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh).
She has also been a research scholar at the South Asian Division of International Studies at
Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), where she studied terrorism, communalism,
and sectarianism among Muslims in Pakistan. Her work focuses on sects in Islam and South
Asia. (ballesterosp@yahoo.com)
Maria Jesus Martin Lopez has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is Associate Researcher at the
Social Psychology and Methodology Department of Autonomous University of Madrid. She
has obtained the following awards: 2nd Award of the 8th Edition of Research Awards of the
Economic and Social Council of Madrid Community (2006) 1st Award ―Virgilio Palacio‖
(2004) 2nd National Award of Educative Research (Modality: Ph.D. thesis), from the
Education and Science Ministry (2003). She is author of national and international
publications about risk behavior, juvenile violence, and organ donations. She is author of
Juvenile extra-group violence (2005) and co-author of Risk Behaviors: Violence, Sexual Risk
Behavior and Illegal Drug Consumption Among the Youth (1998), along with others.
Jose Manuel Martinez Garcia has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a Lecturer in the Social
Psychology and Methodology Department at Autonomous University of Madrid. He has
obtained the following: 2nd Award of the 8th Edition of Research Awards of the Economic
and Social Council of Madrid Community from the Autonomic Community of Madrid (2006)
1st Award ―Virgilio Palacio‖ (2004). He is the author of national and international
publications about risk behaviors, juvenile violence, and organ donations, including co-
author of Risk Behaviors: Violence, Sexual Risk Behavior and Illegal Drug Consumption
Among Youth (1998) and Organ Donation and Family Decision-Taking Within the Spanish
Donation System (2001), among others.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review 2009, Volume 8,
Number 3, pages 266-280. 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.
