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Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field

Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field

Zablocki, Benjamin
Robbins, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Religion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 0802081886
ISBN13: 9780802081889
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 1 2001
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polarized area of study. Working towards a moderate third path in the heated debate over new religious movements or cults, this collection includes contributions from both scholars who have been characterized as anticult and those characterized as cult-apologists. The study incorporates multiple viewpoints as well as a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, with the stated goal of depolarizing the discussion over alternative religious movements. A prominent section within the book focuses explicitly on the issue of scholarly objectivity and the danger of partisanship in the study of cults.

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