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Critics (n=58) Experts (n=85)
X SD %X SD %
concentration.
A teenager spends her allowance to
buy subliminal message tapes:
“How to use your mind to do
anything you choose.”
1.95 0.69 83** 2.81 0.88 31
Baptists stage an aggressive
recruitment drive in area schools.
1.95 0.79 76 2.05 1.05 69
Fifteen-year-old prefers fantasy
world of elves and dwarfs.
1.96 0.68 79* 2.27 0.88 61
Clara, 15, spends her baby-sitting
earnings on crystals, which she
says are calming, reduce stress,
and ward off illness and other
negative forces.
1.98 0.64 84** 3.32 1.01 17
*p .05 **p .01
Note: Table includes only the means of practices from 4.00 to 5.00 (beneficial and very
beneficial) and from 1.00 to 2.00 (harmful and very harmful), plus percentages of harmful
and very harmful. Ns vary slightly from practice to practice.
References
Dole, A. A. (1993) Some conceptions of the New Age. Journal of Religion and Health, 32, 261-
276.
Dole, A. A., &Dubrow-Eichel, S. (1985). Some new religions are dangerous. Cultic Studies
Journal, 2, 19-30.
Dole, A. A., Langone, M. D., &Dubrow-Eichel, S. (1990). New Age movement: Fad or
menace? Cultic Studies Journal, 7, 69-91.
Dole, A. A., Langone, M. D., &Dubrow-Eichel, S. (1993). Is the New Age movement
harmless? Critics versus experts. Cultic Studies Journal, 10, 53-77.
Dubrow-Eichel, S., &Dubrow-Eichel, L. (1988). Trouble in paradise: Some observations on
psychotherapy with New Agers. Cultic Studies Journal, 5, 177B192.
Feher, S. (1992). Who holds the cards? Women and New Age astrology. In J. R. Lewis &J. G.
Melton (Eds.), Perspectives on the New Age (pp. 179-188). Albany: State University of
New York Press.
Ferguson, M. (1980). The Aquarian conspiracy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Gordon, H. (1988). Channeling into the New Age. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.
Kurtz, P. (1989). The new age in perspective. Skeptical Inquirer, 13, (4), 365B368.
Langone, M. D. (1989). Beware of New Age” solutions to age-old problems. Business and
Society Review, 69, 39B42.
LeBar, J. (1989). Cults, sects, and the New Age. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Press.
Lewis, J. R. (1992). Approaches to the study of the New Age. In J. R. Lewis &J. G. Melton
(Eds), Perspectives on the New Age (pp. 1-14). Albany: State University of New York
Press.
Lewis, J. R., &Melton, J.G. (Eds.). (1992). Perspectives on the New Age. Albany: State
University of New York Press.
MacLaine, S. (1983). Out on a limb. New York: Bantam Books.
Melton, J. G. (1992). New thoughts and the New Age. In J. R. Lewis &J. G. Melton (Eds.),
Perspectives on the New Age (pp. 15-29). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Nievod, A. (1993). Undue influence in contract and probate and contract law. Cultic Studies
Journal, 10, 1-19.
Critics (n=58) Experts (n=85)
X SD %X SD %
concentration.
A teenager spends her allowance to
buy subliminal message tapes:
“How to use your mind to do
anything you choose.”
1.95 0.69 83** 2.81 0.88 31
Baptists stage an aggressive
recruitment drive in area schools.
1.95 0.79 76 2.05 1.05 69
Fifteen-year-old prefers fantasy
world of elves and dwarfs.
1.96 0.68 79* 2.27 0.88 61
Clara, 15, spends her baby-sitting
earnings on crystals, which she
says are calming, reduce stress,
and ward off illness and other
negative forces.
1.98 0.64 84** 3.32 1.01 17
*p .05 **p .01
Note: Table includes only the means of practices from 4.00 to 5.00 (beneficial and very
beneficial) and from 1.00 to 2.00 (harmful and very harmful), plus percentages of harmful
and very harmful. Ns vary slightly from practice to practice.
References
Dole, A. A. (1993) Some conceptions of the New Age. Journal of Religion and Health, 32, 261-
276.
Dole, A. A., &Dubrow-Eichel, S. (1985). Some new religions are dangerous. Cultic Studies
Journal, 2, 19-30.
Dole, A. A., Langone, M. D., &Dubrow-Eichel, S. (1990). New Age movement: Fad or
menace? Cultic Studies Journal, 7, 69-91.
Dole, A. A., Langone, M. D., &Dubrow-Eichel, S. (1993). Is the New Age movement
harmless? Critics versus experts. Cultic Studies Journal, 10, 53-77.
Dubrow-Eichel, S., &Dubrow-Eichel, L. (1988). Trouble in paradise: Some observations on
psychotherapy with New Agers. Cultic Studies Journal, 5, 177B192.
Feher, S. (1992). Who holds the cards? Women and New Age astrology. In J. R. Lewis &J. G.
Melton (Eds.), Perspectives on the New Age (pp. 179-188). Albany: State University of
New York Press.
Ferguson, M. (1980). The Aquarian conspiracy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Gordon, H. (1988). Channeling into the New Age. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.
Kurtz, P. (1989). The new age in perspective. Skeptical Inquirer, 13, (4), 365B368.
Langone, M. D. (1989). Beware of New Age” solutions to age-old problems. Business and
Society Review, 69, 39B42.
LeBar, J. (1989). Cults, sects, and the New Age. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Press.
Lewis, J. R. (1992). Approaches to the study of the New Age. In J. R. Lewis &J. G. Melton
(Eds), Perspectives on the New Age (pp. 1-14). Albany: State University of New York
Press.
Lewis, J. R., &Melton, J.G. (Eds.). (1992). Perspectives on the New Age. Albany: State
University of New York Press.
MacLaine, S. (1983). Out on a limb. New York: Bantam Books.
Melton, J. G. (1992). New thoughts and the New Age. In J. R. Lewis &J. G. Melton (Eds.),
Perspectives on the New Age (pp. 15-29). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Nievod, A. (1993). Undue influence in contract and probate and contract law. Cultic Studies
Journal, 10, 1-19.
