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Cults in our Midst, Margaret Thaler Singer

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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.

In this book I will use the term cult and cultic group to refer to any one of a large number of groups that have sprung up in our society and that are similar in the way that they originate, their power structure, and their governance. 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 criticize them, the term cult is not in itself pejorative but simply descriptive. It denotes a group that forms around a person who claims to have a special mission or knowledge, which they will share with those who turn over most of their decision making to that self-appointed leader.[1]

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.[2]

Publication history
The book was reprinted by Jossey-Bass in 1996 in hardcover format. A 1997 Spanish was issued as Las Sectas Entre Nosotros,[3] and in German, as Sekten: Wie Menschen ihre Freiheit verlieren und wiedergewinnen können ("Sects: How people can lose and regain their freedom").[4]

References
Singer, Margaret Thaler; Lalich, Janja (1996). Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives (reprint ed.). Jossey-Bass. p. xix-xx. ISBN 9780787902667. Retrieved 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 [...]
Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace, April 11, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7879-6741-3
Las Sectas Entre Nosotros/Cults in our Midst, 1997, Language: Spanish, ISBN 84-7432-605-2
Sekten/Cults in our Midst, 1997, Language: German, ISBN 3-89670-015-4
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Opposition to new religious movements
Secular groups
APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and ControlCult Awareness NetworkInternational Cultic Studies AssociationThe Family Survival TrustFight Against Coercive Tactics NetworkCult Information Centre
Secular individuals
Steven HassanGalen KellyJanja LalichMichael LangoneTed PatrickRick RossTom SackvilleJim SiegelmanMargaret SingerLouis Jolyon WestCyril VosperLawrence Wollersheim
Religious groups
Reachout TrustChristian Apologetics and Research MinistryChristian Research InstituteDialog Center InternationalPersonal Freedom OutreachWatchman FellowshipNew England Institute of Religious ResearchInstitute for Religious ResearchSpiritual Counterfeits ProjectWellspring Retreat and Resource Center
Religious individuals
Johannes AagaardAlexander DvorkinRonald EnrothHank HanegraaffPaul R. MartinWalter Ralston MartinRobert Passantino
Governmental organizations
European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on SectarianismCentre contre les manipulations mentalesUnion nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individuMIVILUDESParliamentary Commission on Cults in France
Individuals in government
Catherine Picard
Concepts
CultDeprogrammingFreedom of religionHeresyMind controlNew religious movement
Historical events
About-Picard lawGovernmental lists of cults and sectsPersecution of BaháʼísPersecution of Falun GongPersecution of Jehovah's WitnessesAnti-MormonismScientology in Germany
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