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Brainwashed! // Scholars of cults accuse each other of bad faith

Title: Brainwashed! // Scholars of cults accuse each other of bad faith
Date: Tuesday, 1 December 1998
Publisher: Lingua Franca
Author: Charlotte Allen
Main source: web.archive.org

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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGY professor Benjamin Zablocki has been studying cults–now called, thanks to academic political correctness, new religious movements, or NRMs–since his graduate school days at Johns Hopkins during the mid-1960s, when he bought a ninety-nine dollar Greyhound bus pass and traveled around the country visiting all the religious communes he could find. "My style of research is participant observation," he explains. "I live with the groups, wash dishes with them, pray with them, and immerse myself in their way of ... [Read the rest at web.archive.org]