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Setting Limits and Boundaries & leaving a religion

Below are the best resources we could find on Setting Limits and Boundaries and leaving a religion.

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Shocking Secrets from the NXIVM Trial - Beyond 'The Vow' ~ with Dr Janja Lalich.

Some viewers may find some of this content upsetting. The NXIVM group was a front for a cult that branded women like cattle and treated them like objects, and yet its members were enthralled by its leader. Hollywood stars such as Smallville's Allison Mack counted themselves as disciples.

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What Do Cult Leaders Have in Common?

Despite wide differences in goals, ideologies and lifestyles, cult leaders have some key traits in common. From studying the writings and biographies and witness accounts of cult leaders, researchers have pieced together certain characteristics that unite this rare group.

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Conversation with Sociologist and Cult Specialist Dr. Janja Lalich

Meet Dr. Janja Lalich, a sociologist, cult specialist, author, researcher, and retired professor who has spent years studying high-control groups including the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Dr. Lalich is also herself a former cult member.

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The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since Jonestown?

I do not deny that positive experiences occur in a cult context, but what is of interest for me is the interactional dynamic found in cults that brings moral human beings to occasionally engage in insidious or demeaning behaviors, or sometimes just the plain incomprehensible.

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Cult Culture with Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich

Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality.

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Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults

Heaven’s Gate, a secretive group of celibate “monks” awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide.

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The Power of Cults

How Chico State Prof. Janja Lalich went from cult member to author-expert.

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