Required Readings on Affiliation:

Dawson, Lorne. “Who Joins New Religious Movements and Why: Twenty Years of Research and What Have We Learned?” CULTS AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Edited by Lorne Dawson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 116-130.

Levine, Saul. “The Joiners.” CULTS AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Edited by Lorne Dawson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 131-142.

Lofland, John and Norman Skonovd. "Conversion Motifs." JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION 20 (1981): 373-385.

Stark, Rodney. "Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects." THE FUTURE  OF RELIGION. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 307-324.

Wright, Stuart. “The Dynamics of Movement Membership: Joining and Leaving New Religious Movements,” TEACHING NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Edited by David G. Bromley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 187-210.

Required Readings on Brainwashing:

Singer, Margaret Thaler. “The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform,” CULTS AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Edited by Lorne Dawson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 147-159.

Richardson, James. “A Critique of ‘Brainwashing’ Claims About New Religious Movements,” CULTS AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Edited by Lorne Dawson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 160-166.

Robbins, Thomas. “Constructing Cultist ‘Mind Control’,” CULTS AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS. Edited by Lorne Dawson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 167-180.