Readings:
"Supply-Side Explanations
for Religious Change"
"Religion and the Quest
for Meaning and Order."
2. Concepts of our Inquiry
Reading:
"Of Churches, Sects, and
Cults"
" Religious
Movements"
3. How Do New Religions Get Started?
Reading:
"Cult
Formation...."
4. Why People Join NRMs: The Brainwashing Thesis
Reading:
"Brainwashing and
Totalitarian Influence"
5. Why People Join NRMs: Social Science Models
Readings:
"On Conversion"
"Conversion to New
Religious Movements"
6. Leaving Movements: The Deprogramming Thesis
Readings:
"Forcible
Deprogramming"
"Deprogramming
and Religious Liberty"
"Deprogramming as a
Mode of Exit from NRMs" "
7. Leaving Movements: Rational Social Science
Perspectives
Reading:
"Leaving New
Religious Movements"
8. Group Survival: Succession and Institutionalization
Reading:
"Emergence and Viability
of Religious Movements"
9. Anti-Cult and Counter-Cult Movements
Reading:
"Organized
Opposition to NRMs"
10. Late 19th & Early 20th Century Movements
Readings:
"Nineteenth Century Cult
Scares: Catholics"
"Nineteenth Century Cult
Scares: Mormons"
"Religious
Fundamentalism"
11. Contemporary NRMs
Branch Davidians
Readings:
"The Social Construction of
Evil in Waco"
"Law Enforcement
Interaction with Branch Davidians"
The Family
Readings:
"World Transforming
Movements: The Family"
"Our Family's
Origins"
Heaven's Gate
Readings:
"The Bo and Peep UFO Cult"
"Heaven's Gate: An Application of Sociological
Theory"
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna
Consciousness)
Reading:
"World Transforming
Movements: ISKCON"
Scientology
Reading:
"Quasi-Religious
Therapies: Introduction to Scientology"
Unification Church
Reading:
"World Transforming
Movements: Introduction and Unification Chruch"
12. New Age Groups
Readings: to be posted
13. Satanism
Reading:
"Satanism as the Social
Construction of Subversion"
How to download these files to a floppy disk:
- Select one of the readings listed above by clicking on it
with your mouse.
- Click on the "File" option on the menu bar.
- Select the "Save as" option from the list.
- In the dialog box that appears, press the small arrow on
the "Save File as Type" control in the lower left part of the box.
- Select the "Plain text (*.txt)" option.
- Enter a file name in the "File Name" control in
the upper left part of the box. Make sure the name you give the file is eight or less
characters long, followed by ".TXT".
- In the "Drives" control in the lower center of
the box, click on the arrow and select the "a:" drive. You may have to use the
scroll bar to move the list upward.
- Click on the "OK" button.
- The file is now saved on your floppy disk in Plain Text
format.
