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       The below list is an alphabetical index of online lectures (i.e. the order below does not reflect the order in which these topics are covered in class), available to students in Mr. Hadden's Sociology 257 class as well as to other interested individuals. There are in fact two separate lists below, one composed of lectures which have been digitized as plain text, the other composed of lectures which have been digitized in Powerpoint slide format, preserving more of the "flavor" of the originals shown in class. Eventually, all lectures will be available in both formats, but for now, it's either one or the other for a particular lecture.

Text-format Lectures

• The Anti-Cult Movement
• Joining Religious Movements: The Brainwashing Model
• Some Central Concepts of Our Inquiry
• Cult Formation: A Sociological Model
• Fundamentalism: Origins, Development, Current Status
• The Social Influence Model, and,
  The Invalidity of the Brainwashing Model
• Cults and Sects in America: An Orientation
• Why Do People Join NRMs?
  A Social Science Model
• Leaving New Religious Movements:
  Social Science Perspectives
• Leaving New Religious Movements:
  The Deprogramming Model
• The Unification Church (The Moonies):
  An Orientation
• Mormons:
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• New Age Lecture II:
  Health as Integrating Core
• Pentecostalism
• Paradigms in Conflict:
  Secularization Theory VS The Theory of Religious Economy
• NRM Group Survival:
  Succession and Institutionalization,
  The Role of Charismatic Leaders
• Waco! Resources for understanding
  the Branch Davidians and the Waco tragedy
• Who Are The Cults? Orienting Information
  Cults, Sects, Denominations, Churches, Ecclesia

Slide (image) Format Lectures