Benjamin Zablocki

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Benjamin Zablocki

Sociology

#269

World Rank

#345

Historical Rank

#128

USA Rank

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Benjamin Zablocki's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Zablocki was an American professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he taught sociology of religion and social psychology. He published widely on the subject of charismatic religious movements, cults, and brainwashing.

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Benjamin Zablocki's Published Works

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Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes (1980) (138)
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field (2001) (93)
The Joyful Community (1971) (92)
Double-embeddedness: Spatial and relational contexts of tie persistence and re-formation (2015) (44)
The joyful community : an account of the Bruderhof, a communal movement now in its third generation (1980) (36)
Subversion and Social Change in Colombia (1969) (33)
A Longitudinal Investigation of Drug Use and Work Patterns among Middle-Class, White Adults* (1988) (29)
Marijuana use, introspectiveness, and mental health. (1991) (28)
THE BLACKLISTING OF A CONCEPT: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE BRAINWASHING CONJECTURE IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION (1997) (25)
Exit Cost Analysis: A New Approach to the Scientific Study of Brainwashing1 (1998) (13)
7. A Tale of Two Theories: Brainwashing and Conversion as Competing Political Narratives (2001) (12)
Charisma, status, and gender in groups with and without gurus. (2012) (11)
3. Caught Up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a Canadian Researcher (2001) (9)
4. Pitfalls in the Sociological Study of Cults (2001) (7)
The Urban Communes Data Set: a Gold Mine for Secondary Analysis (2001) (7)
1. 'O Truant Muse': Collaborationist!! and Research Integrity (2001) (7)
The Communes of the 1970s (1991) (7)
The Endtime Family: Children of God (2004) (6)
Introduction: Finding a Middle Ground in a Polarized Scholarly Arena (2001) (6)
5. Towards a Demystified and Disinterested Scientific Theory of Brainwashing (2001) (5)
11. Child-Rearing Issues in Totalist Groups (2001) (4)
9. Raising Lazarus: A Methodological Critique of Stephen Kent's Revival of the Brainwashing Model (2001) (4)
Reply to Bromley (1998) (2)
2. Balance and Fairness in the Study of Alternative Religions (2001) (2)
Herman Schmalenbach: On Society and Experience. (1980) (2)
New Religions As Global Cultures (1999) (1)
On Communes@@@The New Communes.@@@Communes USA, a Personal Tour.@@@Getting Back Together.@@@Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective.@@@The Joyful Community. (1973) (1)
Communes, Encounter Groups and the Search for Community (2019) (1)
Book Review:Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram: The Role of Shared Values in the Creation of a Community. Lewis F. Carter (1992) (1)
12. Contested Narratives: A Case Study of the Conflict between a New Religious Movement and Its Critics (2001) (1)
Appendix: Further Reading and Web Browsing (2001) (0)
10. Compelling Evidence: A Rejoinder to Lome Dawson's Chapter (2001) (0)
Reply to 'Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology' by Bartholomew and O'dea (1998) (0)
The Predictive Effect Of Emotions On Friendship Dyads' Endurance Over The Adult Life Course (2006) (0)
THE DIFFERENTIATION .10527 OF LIFE-STYLES (2016) (0)
13. The Roots of Religious Violence in America (2001) (0)
Herman Schmalenbach: On Society and Experience.Edited and translated by Günther Lüschen and Gregory P. Stone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 280 pp. $22.00 (1980) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Product Review: The Endtime Family: Children of God (2004) (0)

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