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Nelson, G. K. (Apr. 1984). Cults and new religions: Toward a sociology of religious
creativity. Sociology &Social Research, 301-325. Reviews recent theoretical and
empirical studies of cults and new religions in the West, and argues that these
movements can only he explained or understood by treating religion as an
independent variable, defined as a product of attempts to satisfy certain given
spiritual needs, and viewed as a creative effort to satisfy these needs. The recent
increase in religious activity may be a reaction to the inadequate satisfaction of
spiritual needs within a sensate culture.
Noble, K. 0. (Nov. 1984). Psychological health and the experience of transcendence.
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Rights of bigotry, the. (June 18, 1983). America, 470. Article on Posse Comitatus, which
claims to interpret the U.S. Constitution according to God‘s law. Last year Nellie
Babbs, who is involved in tax revolt, gave Posse Comitatus media coverage on her
radio station in Dodge City, Kansas. The organization publically broadcast threats of
violence.
Robbins, T., Shepherd, W., a McBride, J. (1985). Cults, Culture and the Law. Chico, CA:
Scholars Press. Edited book containing articles by Thomas Robbins, Roland
Robertson, Robert Wuthnow, Robert Jay Lifton, Lee Coleman, Herbert Fingarette,
William Shepherd, Jere.niah Gutman, Richard Delgado, Robert Shapiro, James
Richardson, James McBride, and Meade Emory and Lawrence Zelenak. Themes
covered include: new religious movements, culture and society new religious
movements and coercive persuasion legal intervention in new religious movements
state regulation of new religious movements and church, state and the Christian
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Scharff, B. (1985). Messianism, mysticism and magic -a sociological analysis of Jewish
religious movments -Sharot, S. (book review). British Journal of Sociology, 36, 134-
138.
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Barker, E. (book review). British Journal of Sociology, 36, 134-138.
Schwartz, L. L. (1983). Family therapists and families of cult members. International
Journal of Family Therapy, 5, 168-178. Describes cults, cult members, and their
families. Cults, here defined as ―deviant religions,‖ have involved 1-3 million young
persons in the past 20 years. Cult members and their families often seek therapy
during or after involvement with cults, but too few psychologists and other therapists
in private practice are adequately prepared to help them. Suggestions are made for
specific intervention techniques with cult members and their families soon after
involvement with a cult, and after the member has returned to his or he family. (18
ref),
Snow, D. A. (1985). The anti-cult movement in America -a bibliography and historical
survey -Shupe, A. D., Bromley, D. G., &Oliver, D. L. Contemporary Sociology -A
Journal of Reviews, 14, 332.
Snow, D. A. (1985). Mind-bending -brainwashing, cults, and deprogramming in the eighties
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404.
Spanos, N. P.7985). Entertaining Satan -witchcraft and the culture of early New England -
Demos, J. P. (book review). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 21,
60-66.
Spero, M. H. (Jun. 1984). Some pre- and post-treatment characteristics of cult devotees.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 749-750. Summarizes test characteristics of 51 cult
devotees (aged 17-27 years) who elected to undergo intensive psychoanalytic
psychotherapy. SS were tested prior to and after six months of therapy, using Wais,
Rorschach, and Bender Gestalt. 23 SS also took embedded figures test before and
after therapy. A dramatic improvement in Wais performance IQ appeared after
therapy, and a significant increase in the quality of psychological differentiation was
noted. The author suggests that relative achievements in field-dependence/field
independence and the overall ego quality of psychological differentiation are
disposing factors to the initial interest in the type of community offered by cults or
are modified by involvement in them.
Spigelmyer, J. W. (1985). Computerland and est. Fortune, 111, 24.
Spiro, P. (Feb. 6, 1984). Paranoid politics. New Republic, 10. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., is a
dangerous political cult leader who works mainly through seemingly innocuous front
organizations. La Rouche‘s political career began during the student unrest of 1968,
when he formed the National Caucus of Labor Committees, a doctrinaire Marxist
group. This organization, with an estimated membership of 1,000 -3,000, has since
swung to the extreme right, and some of its members have received paramilitary
training. LaRouche received almost 200,000 votes in the 1980 elections. He is
conspiracy-minded and anti-Semitic, and believes that British Intelligence plans to
ignite a world holocaust through organizations such as the International Monetary
Fund and the FBI. He has had some electoral success at the local and state level, and
his followers ,nan airport literature stands. Front organizations, some of which
receive public funds, include the Fusion Energy Foundation, the National Democratic
Policy Committee, and the Anti-Drug Coalition. He is highly dangerous, and must be
exposed.