Losing reality : on cults, cultism, and the mindset of political and religious zealotry / Robert Jay Lifton.

Author/Creator:

Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- author.

Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2019]

Format/Description:

Book
210 pages ; 20 cm

Subjects:

Fanaticism.
Brainwashing.
Cults.
Religion and politics.

Summary:

"A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chinese communist thought reform
Revolutionary immortality
Ideological totalism
the "eight deadly sins"
On cultism and the larger society
Aum Shinrikyō
Nazi doctors
Trump
The apocalyptic twins: nuclear and climate threats
The protean alternative
Regaining reality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781620974995
1620974991
9781620975121

OCLC:

1100627466

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