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Losing reality : on cults, cultism, and the mindset of political and religious zealotry / Robert Jay Lifton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The New Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (210 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781620975121
  • 1620975122
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Losing reality.DDC classification:
  • 303.3/72 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.F16 L54 2019
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Chinese communist thought reform -- Revolutionary immortality -- Ideological totalism -- the "eight deadly sins" -- On cultism and the larger society -- Aum Shinrikyō -- Nazi doctors -- Trump -- The apocalyptic twins: nuclear and climate threats -- The protean alternative -- Regaining reality.
Summary: "A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control"-- Provided by publisher

Chinese communist thought reform -- Revolutionary immortality -- Ideological totalism -- the "eight deadly sins" -- On cultism and the larger society -- Aum Shinrikyō -- Nazi doctors -- Trump -- The apocalyptic twins: nuclear and climate threats -- The protean alternative -- Regaining reality.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2020).