Affiliation:
1. 15 Muir Avenue, Mill Valley, California 94941.
Abstract
In the past two decades we have seen a proliferation of spiritual and utopian groups, many of which have been quite destructive to their members. There is a pressing need for a way to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious. In this article I show that we can make the necessary discrimination by paying attention to how well a group's activities are suited to its stated aims. The use of such functional criteria permits us to evaluate spiritual and utopian groups without resorting to biased standards.
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Philosophy,Social Psychology
Cited by
2 articles.
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1. Death Knell of the Guru System?;Journal of Humanistic Psychology;1994-04
2. Exploring Basic Processes Underlying Acceptance and Mindfulness;Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Approaches to Anxiety