Description
| Product ID: | 9781138239746 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Escaping Utopia |
| Subtitle: | Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over |
| Authors: | Author: Janja Lalich, Karla McLaren |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Social, group or collective psychology, Politics and government, Organizational theory and behaviour, Social, group or collective psychology, Politics & government, Organizational theory & behaviour |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book. The authors explore fundamental questions about human nature, human development, group dynamics, abuse and control, and triumphs of the human spirit. We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-09-06 |
