Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Humanities New South Wales Institute of Technology
Abstract
Deprivation theories about why people become cult members fail to take sufficient account of the specific enjoyments that cult movements offer to their participants. In the case of Spiritualism, these pleasures range from opportunities for sociability to brain- teasing attempts to decipher the worldly signs of Spirit. Beyond these, Spiritualism also offers the gnostic prospect of potentially infinite understanding and power.
Subject
Sociology and Political Science
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4 articles.
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