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Lädt ... Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Themvon Max Cutler
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Insightful and disturbing look into some of the world's most infamous cults. ( ) More a Wikipedia-style overview of cults from the Manson Family to the Rajneeshees, from NXIVM to Heaven’s Gate. There’s nothing new to learn here if you’ve read about or watched documentaries on these cults and their infamous leaders. In fact, you would likely know more than the overview that’s given here in these pages.
While Cutler and Conley appear to have based this book on their popular podcast (to which this reader admittedly never listened), I would imagine that the podcast is more interesting in this instance than the book. I’m immensely interested in the psychology of cults, so this book’s subtitle—which includes “Understanding the People Who Joined Them”—piqued my interest quite a bit. However, there’s more on the biography of each cult leader, positing why or how they became the way they did, rather than much (if anything) about the members, why they joined, why they stayed, and why some might have left and, if so, what repercussions or trauma they suffered after leaving life in the cult. For this, I imagine Janja Lalich’s Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults would be the better choice; I look forward to delving into that one soon. 1.75 stars. it's actually quite fascinating to read about these cult leaders but this was much more of a voyeuristic look at them than i would have liked. i expected (because of the book's subtitle) to learn much more about the psychologies of both the leaders and followers, and to find out more about the why of what happened. instead, the author seems to rely on generalizations. each of the 8 or so cult leaders (serial killers, all) and their followers are described, in what seems to me to be a compilation of information already out there; it didn't seem to be original research. and since there wasn't any real psychology to speak of, this just felt like rehashing of other books and articles. i hadn't known about all of these awful people (not all men!) so i did learn stuff, but i was hoping to learn more about the psychology, and less about the horror. although i admit there is a weird draw to this sort of story. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan. Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our desire to belong, to find a deeper meaning in life, to live everyday with divine purpose. Their existence creates a sense that any one of us, at any time, could step off the cliff's edge and fall into that daunting abyss of manipulation and unhinged dedication to a misplaced cause. Perhaps it's this mindset that keeps us so utterly obsessed and desperate to learn more, or it's that the stories are so bizarre and unsettling that we are simply in awe of the mechanics that make these infamous groups tick. The premier storytelling podcast studio Parcast has been focusing on unearthing these mechanicsthe cult leaders and followers, and the world and culture that gave birth to both. Parcast's work in analyzing dozens of case studies has revealed patterns: distinct ways that cult leaders from different generations resemble one another. What links the ten notorious figures profiled in Cults are as disturbing as they are stunningfrom Manson to Applewhite, Koresh to Ral, the stories woven here are both spellbinding and disturbing. Cults is more than just a compilation of grisly biographies, however. In these pages, Parcast's founder Max Cutler and national bestselling author Kevin Conley look closely at the lives of some of the most disreputable cult figures and tell the stories of their rise to power and fall from grace, sanity, and decency. Beyond that, it is a study of humanity, an unflinching look at what happens when the most vulnerable recesses of the mind are manipulated and how the things we hold most sacred can be twisted into the lowest form of malevolence. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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