Deprogramming
@article{Shupe1977Deprogramming,
title={Deprogramming},
author={Anson D. Shupe and Roger Willson Spielmann and Sam Stigall},
journal={American Behavioral Scientist},
year={1977},
volume={20},
pages={941 - 956}
}This paper compares deprogramming with exorcism, thought reform, and resocialization, and offers insight into how members of the anticult movement justify their own involvement in "coercive conversion." It serves as a fitting, if ironic, close to this issue on conversion and commitment in contemporary religion.
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