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Sects & stats : overturning the conventional wisdom about cult members / James R. Lewis.

Title
Sects & stats : overturning the conventional wisdom about cult members / James R. Lewis.
Author
Lewis, James R.
Publication
Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2014.

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ix, 209 pages; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Sects and stats
Subject
  • Cults > Research
  • Cults > Statistics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Quasi-longitudinal Approaches -- 1. Whatever Happened to Youthful Converts? -- 2. Social Networks and Conversion -- pt. II Three Styles of Longitudinal Research -- 3. Increasing Complexity versus Prior Generalizations -- Census Data and Longitudinal Approaches -- 4. Toward a Paradigm for Longitudinal Studies -- The Order of Christ Sophia -- 5. The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness -- Demographic Patterns, 1998 -- 2011 -- pt. III Mixed Method Approaches -- 6. Demise of the Teen Witch Fad -- 7. Who Serves Satan? -- 8. New Religious Movements and Gender -- The Case of Scientology -- pt. IV Ex-Members -- 9. Post-Involvement Attitudes -- 10. Member versus Ex-member Profiles.
ISBN
  • 9781781791073
  • 1781791074
  • 9781781791080
  • 1781791082
LCCN
^^2014010902
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library