Cults in Our Midst explained

Cults in Our Midst
Authors:	Margaret Singer Janja Lalich
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Subject:	Cults
Release Date:	September 1996
Media Type:	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages:	374
Isbn:	978-0-7879-0051-9
Oclc:	35979557
Preceded By:	Captive Hearts, Captive Minds (Lalich co-author)
Followed By:	Crazy Therapies (Singer) Bounded Choice (Lalich)

Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives is a study of cults by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by Robert Jay Lifton.

Overview

Singer writes:^[1]

Publication history

The book was reprinted by Jossey-Bass in 1996 in hardcover format. A 1997 Spanish was issued as Las Sectas Entre Nosotros ('The Sects Among Us'),^[2] and in German, as Sekten: Wie Menschen ihre Freiheit verlieren und wiedergewinnen können ('Sects: How people can lose and regain their freedom').^[3]

In 2003, a revised edition of the book titled Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace was published in paperback form by John Wiley & Sons, without Janja Lalich listed as co-author.^[4]

Notes and References

Book: Singer . Margaret Thaler . Margaret Singer . Lalich . Janja . Janja Lalich . Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives . Google Books . Reprint . . 1996 . xix–xx . 9780787902667 . 15 December 2019 . Cults range from the relatively benign to those that exercise extraordinary control over members' lives and use thought-reform processes to influence and control members. While the conduct of certain cults causes nonmembers to ctiticize them, the term cult is not in itself pejorative but simply descriptive. It denotes a group that forms around a person who claims he or she has a special mission or knowledge, which will be shared with those who turn over most of their decision making to that self-appointed leader.
Cults come in all sizes, form around any theme, and recruit persons .....
Las Sectas Entre Nosotros, 1997, Language: Spanish,
Sekten/Cults in our Midst, 1997, Language: German,
Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace, 2003, .