Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults Lalich Janja A.
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults Lalich Janja A. Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its…
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Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults Lalich Janja A.
Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. This book, a compelling look at the cult phenomenon written for a wide audience, dispels such simple formulations by explaining how normal, intelligent people can give up years of their lives-and sometimes their very lives-to groups and beliefs that appear bizarre and irrational. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves.
Looking closely at Heaven's Gate and at the Democratic Workers Party, a radical political group of the 1970s and 1980s, Janja Lalich gives us a rare insider's look at these two cults and advances a new theoretical framework that will reshape our understanding of those who join such groups.