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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, by James S. Gordon.
Ray, N.R. (1988). A new age perspective. New Republic, 198(9), 6. Reuben, W., &Norman, C.
(1987). Brainwashing in America — The women of Lexington prison. Nation, 44(25), 881-884.
Rolbin, S.B. (1986). The mystical quest: Experiences, goals, changes, and problems. Dissertation
Abstracts International, 47(3-A), 940-941.
Rozaire, B., &Beverly, C. (1987). Confidentiality as a group norm and its concomitant effect on
self-disclosures by participants in personal gowth groups. Dissertation Abstracts
International, 47(7-A), 2462.
Saxberg, B.O. (1987). Book review of Industrial Relations in a New Age by C. Kerr and P.D.
Staudohar. Personnel Psychology, 40(3), 657-661.
Schwartz, L.L. (1986). Parental responses to their children's cult membership. Cultic Studies
Journal, 3(2), 190-203. Surveyed parents of ex-cult members and reviewed published
accounts and perceptions of professionals in the field concerning parents' initial emotional
reactions to their children's cult involvement and actions they subsequently took, such as
deprogramming, court-ordered guardianship, exit counseling, lawsuits, family therapy. Offers
suggestions regarding how parents can more effectively deal with the experience.
Siegel, P., Stroh!, N., Ingram, L, Roche, D., &Taylor, J. (1987). Leninism as cult — The
Democratic Workers Party. Socialist Review, 96, 58-85.
The Skeptical Inquirer, Summer, 1987.
Bartz, W. Clear Thinking About Human Behavior. Book review of How to think straight about
psychology, by K.E. Stanovich. 405-406.
Hyman, R. Assessing Arguments and Evidence. Book review of A field guide to inductive
arguments by K.D. Moore. 400-404.
Stark, R., &Bainbridge, W.S. (1988). The future of religion — Secularization, revival, and cult
formation. American Journal of Sociology, 93(5), 12931296.
Straus, R.A. (1986). Scientology ―ethics‖: Deviance, identity and social control in a cult-like
world. Symbolic Interaction, 9(1), 67-82. Discussion of structure, culture, and comparability
of Scientology to American capitalist society. Posits that ―ethics‖ — Scientology's means of
social control — involves paradigm in which conduct originates in social identity and deviance
is defined in terms of progressive stages of identity loss through reference group confusion.
Hypothetical case demonstrates how stages are treated through intervention formulae.
―Ethics‖ is shown to closely parallel interactionist theories of deviance, and it is suggested
that differences from symbolic interactionism are ascribed to contradiction between
individualistic and system-centered orientations in American capitalist society.
Tabash, E. A new age perspective. New Republic, 198(9), 6.
Temerlin, J.W., &Temerlin, M.K. (1986). Some hazards of the therapeutic relationship. Cultic Studies
Journal, 3(2), 234-242. Describes intrapsychic and interpersonal processes that lead to
destructive erosion of therapeutic boundaries as observed in psychotherapy cults. Occurs
when relationship is not strictly limited to psychotherapy. Cult therapists encourge distorted
perceptions of themselves by clients, resulting in clients forming unrealistic expectations of
magical solutions. This in turn creates potential for despair, hopelessness, and depression.
Wallis, R. (1987). Book review of New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change by J.A.
Bedford. Sociological Review, 35(4), 878-881.
Wallis, R. (1988). Paradoxes of freedom and regulation — The case of new religious movements in
Britain and America. Sociological Analysis, 48(4), 355-371.
Warner, T.Q. (1987). Transcendental Meditaton and development advancement: Mediating abilities and
conservation performance. Dissertation Abstracts International, 47(8-B), 3558-3559.
Weimann, G. (1987). New religions — From fear to faith. Canadian Journal of Sociology Chaiers
Canadiens de Sociologie, 12(3), 216-228.
Weiss, A.S. (1987). Psychological distress and well-being in Hare Krishnas. Psychological Reports,
61(1), 23-35.
Weiss, A.S., &Comrey, A.L. (1987). Personality characteristics of Hare Krishnas. Journal of
Personality Assessment, 51(3), 399-413. Assessed personalities of 132 members of Hare
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, by James S. Gordon.
Ray, N.R. (1988). A new age perspective. New Republic, 198(9), 6. Reuben, W., &Norman, C.
(1987). Brainwashing in America — The women of Lexington prison. Nation, 44(25), 881-884.
Rolbin, S.B. (1986). The mystical quest: Experiences, goals, changes, and problems. Dissertation
Abstracts International, 47(3-A), 940-941.
Rozaire, B., &Beverly, C. (1987). Confidentiality as a group norm and its concomitant effect on
self-disclosures by participants in personal gowth groups. Dissertation Abstracts
International, 47(7-A), 2462.
Saxberg, B.O. (1987). Book review of Industrial Relations in a New Age by C. Kerr and P.D.
Staudohar. Personnel Psychology, 40(3), 657-661.
Schwartz, L.L. (1986). Parental responses to their children's cult membership. Cultic Studies
Journal, 3(2), 190-203. Surveyed parents of ex-cult members and reviewed published
accounts and perceptions of professionals in the field concerning parents' initial emotional
reactions to their children's cult involvement and actions they subsequently took, such as
deprogramming, court-ordered guardianship, exit counseling, lawsuits, family therapy. Offers
suggestions regarding how parents can more effectively deal with the experience.
Siegel, P., Stroh!, N., Ingram, L, Roche, D., &Taylor, J. (1987). Leninism as cult — The
Democratic Workers Party. Socialist Review, 96, 58-85.
The Skeptical Inquirer, Summer, 1987.
Bartz, W. Clear Thinking About Human Behavior. Book review of How to think straight about
psychology, by K.E. Stanovich. 405-406.
Hyman, R. Assessing Arguments and Evidence. Book review of A field guide to inductive
arguments by K.D. Moore. 400-404.
Stark, R., &Bainbridge, W.S. (1988). The future of religion — Secularization, revival, and cult
formation. American Journal of Sociology, 93(5), 12931296.
Straus, R.A. (1986). Scientology ―ethics‖: Deviance, identity and social control in a cult-like
world. Symbolic Interaction, 9(1), 67-82. Discussion of structure, culture, and comparability
of Scientology to American capitalist society. Posits that ―ethics‖ — Scientology's means of
social control — involves paradigm in which conduct originates in social identity and deviance
is defined in terms of progressive stages of identity loss through reference group confusion.
Hypothetical case demonstrates how stages are treated through intervention formulae.
―Ethics‖ is shown to closely parallel interactionist theories of deviance, and it is suggested
that differences from symbolic interactionism are ascribed to contradiction between
individualistic and system-centered orientations in American capitalist society.
Tabash, E. A new age perspective. New Republic, 198(9), 6.
Temerlin, J.W., &Temerlin, M.K. (1986). Some hazards of the therapeutic relationship. Cultic Studies
Journal, 3(2), 234-242. Describes intrapsychic and interpersonal processes that lead to
destructive erosion of therapeutic boundaries as observed in psychotherapy cults. Occurs
when relationship is not strictly limited to psychotherapy. Cult therapists encourge distorted
perceptions of themselves by clients, resulting in clients forming unrealistic expectations of
magical solutions. This in turn creates potential for despair, hopelessness, and depression.
Wallis, R. (1987). Book review of New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change by J.A.
Bedford. Sociological Review, 35(4), 878-881.
Wallis, R. (1988). Paradoxes of freedom and regulation — The case of new religious movements in
Britain and America. Sociological Analysis, 48(4), 355-371.
Warner, T.Q. (1987). Transcendental Meditaton and development advancement: Mediating abilities and
conservation performance. Dissertation Abstracts International, 47(8-B), 3558-3559.
Weimann, G. (1987). New religions — From fear to faith. Canadian Journal of Sociology Chaiers
Canadiens de Sociologie, 12(3), 216-228.
Weiss, A.S. (1987). Psychological distress and well-being in Hare Krishnas. Psychological Reports,
61(1), 23-35.
Weiss, A.S., &Comrey, A.L. (1987). Personality characteristics of Hare Krishnas. Journal of
Personality Assessment, 51(3), 399-413. Assessed personalities of 132 members of Hare
