Культы (cults)

Источник: http://www.skepdic.com/cults.html

Иллюзия, разделяемая одним человеком - это психическое заболевание; разделяемая несколькими - культ; разделяемая многими - религия (источник мне неизвестен) (A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. -- (source unknown to me))

Статья в процессе перевода. См. также материалы о культах сайта "Социальное воздействие и критическое мышление" Евгения Волкова.

Дополнительное чтение

Книги и статьи

• Conway, Flo and Jim Siegelman. Snapping (Sonoma, CA: Stillpoint Press, Inc., 1997).
• Langone, Michael D. (Editor) Recovery from Cults : Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (W.W. Norton & Company, 1995).
• Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China (University of North Carolina Press, 1989). [concludes brainwashing or mind-control is not a defensible explanation for defection] [Перевод на русский язык: Лифтон, Р. Дж. Технология «промывки мозгов»: Психология тоталитаризма. - СПб.: Прайм-Еврознак, 2005 ("Исправление мышления" и психология тоталитаризма: Исследование «промывания мозгов» в Китае)]
• Martin,Walter. The Kingdom of Cults, revised and expanded (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1985).
• Martin,Walter. The New Age Cult (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1989).
• Singer, Margaret Thaler and Janja Lalich. Cults in Our Midst (San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995).

Вебсайты

• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance Page on Doomsday, Destructive Cults
• The AFF Cult Page
• The Watchman Expositor Index of Cults, Occult Organizations, New Age Groups, New Religious Movements, and World Religions with Related Terms and Doctrines
• Persuasion Techniques Used by Cults (Singer & Lalich)
• The "Not Me" Myth: Orwell and the Mind by Margaret Thaler Singer Ph.D.
• Rick Ross, deprogrammer
• Trancenet
• The Watchtower Indoctrination Process
• Operation Clambake - the fight against Scientology on the Net
• Cult Awareness Network (Bought by a Scientologist to get the files of CAN)
• Testimonies of scientologists and critics
• Steven A. Hassan's Homepage - author of Releasing the Bonds and Combating Cult Mind Control
• The Cult Next Door
• Ex-Premie.org: ex-followers of Prem Rawat, a.k.a. Maharaji, The ex-"Lord of the Universe"
• David Hawkins (in New Zealand cults, etc.)