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This abridged version of Dr. Lalich’s Keynote Address at the 2008 annual conference of the International Cultic Studies Association was published in The Jonestown Report, November 2008.[1]
People who know of me – rather than knowing me personally – know twothings about me: I have a name that on first glance looks difficult to pronounce, and, [...]

Book Review from Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003
Both Books Reviewed by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. ISBN: 0-7656-0639-9 cloth. $34.95)
Tabernacle of Hate: Why They Bombed Oklahoma City by Kerry Noble (Ontario, Canada: Voyageur Publishing, 1998. ISBN: [...]

American Journal of Sociology Volume 112 Number 5 (March 2007): 1593–95
Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.

Book Review Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ. By Kathleen E. Jenkins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. 283. [...]

This article is an electronic version of an article originally published as the Introduction to a special issue of the Cultic Studies Journal, 1997, Volume 14, Number 1, guest-edited by Janja Lalich. The journal was entitled, “Women Under the Influence: A Study of Women’s Lives in Totalist Groups.” Please keep in mind that the pagination of [...]

I was recruited into a cult in 1975 when I was thirty years old. The previous year I returned to the United States after having spent almost four years in exile abroad, where I lived the most serene life on an island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. If someone had told me [...]

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