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David G. Bromley

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#145

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#195

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#76

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David G. Bromley'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, David G. Bromley is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, specialized in sociology of religion and the academic study of new religious movements. He has written extensively about cults, new religious movements, apostasy, and the anti-cult movement.

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The Satanism Scare (1991) (115)
Falling from the Faith: Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy (1988) (84)
Secrecy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. (1982) (65)
The Future of new religious movements (1988) (61)
Understanding the Structure of Contractual and Covenantal Social Relations: Implications for the Sociology of Religion (1988) (55)
Atrocity tales, the Unification Church, and the social construction of evil. (1979) (55)
Scholastic Dishonesty among College Undergraduates (1981) (44)
Cults, religion, and violence (2002) (42)
Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare (1981) (39)
The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements (1998) (39)
"Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade (1979) (38)
Linking Social Structure and the Exit Process in Religious Organizations: Defectors, Whistle-blowers, and Apostates (1998) (38)
Financing the New Religions: A Resource Mobilization Approach (1980) (33)
The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions (1980) (30)
New Christian Politics (1985) (29)
The brainwashing/deprogramming controversy : sociological, psychological, legal and historical perspectives (1985) (28)
Some Differences in the Political Socialization Patterns of Canadian and American Party Officials: A Preliminary Report (1969) (27)
Anti-Cult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1995) (25)
The New Vigilantes. (1982) (25)
Unraveling Religious Disaffiliation: The Meaning and Significance of Falling From the Faith in Contemporary Society (1991) (25)
Covenantal and contractual values in marriage: Marital Values Orientation toward Wedlock or Self‐actualization (Marital VOWS) Scale (2005) (24)
A Meaning-Based Approach to Humility: Relationship Affirmation Reduces Worldview Defense (2014) (22)
Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (2007) (21)
The Historical Significance of Annexation as a Social Process (1973) (20)
General population and institutional elite support for social control of new religious movements: Evidence from national survey data (1992) (20)
RELIGION, HEALTH AND HEALING: FINDINGS FROM A SOUTHERN CITY (1986) (19)
On Spiritual Edgework: The Logic of Extreme Ritual Performances (2007) (18)
Time Crime (2008) (17)
Remembering the Future: A Sociological Narrative of Crisis Episodes, Collective Action, Culture Workers, and Countermovements (1997) (17)
Defining Religion Investigating the Boundaries Between the Sacred and Secular (2003) (16)
Affiliation and Disaffiliation: A Role-Theory Interpretation of Joining and Leaving New Religious Movements (1986) (13)
The Moonies and the Anti-Cultists: Movement and Countermovement in Conflict* (1979) (12)
Perspective: Whither New Religions Studies? (2004) (12)
7. A Tale of Two Theories: Brainwashing and Conversion as Competing Political Narratives (2001) (12)
Defection from the Unification Church: Some Statistics and Distinctions (1988) (12)
Constructing Coercion (2005) (12)
Teaching New Religious Movements (2007) (11)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Challenging Misconceptions about the New Religions–Violence Connection (2002) (11)
Public Agency Involvement in Government–Religious Movement Confrontations (2002) (11)
The satanic cult scare (1991) (11)
Sources of non-medicinal drug use: a test of the drug-oriented society explanation. (1975) (11)
QUASI-RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS (1995) (10)
New developments in theory and research (1991) (10)
Anti-cultism in the United States: Origins, Ideology and Organizational Development (1995) (10)
The issue of authenticity in the study of religions (1996) (10)
White racism and Black Americans (1972) (10)
Krishna consciousness in the West (1990) (10)
Reconceptualizing Types of Religious Organization: Dominant, Sectarian, Alternative, and Emergent Tradition Groups (2012) (9)
The Anti-Cult Movement in America: A Bibliography and Historical Survey (1983) (9)
The sociology of new religious movements (2012) (9)
The Dynamics of Movement Membership: Joining and Leaving New Religious Movements (2007) (9)
Changes in the Coincidence of the Boundaries and Populations of Central Cities (1979) (8)
The handbook on cults and sects in America (1993) (8)
Grade Inflation: Trends, Causes, and Implications. (1978) (8)
Sex, lies, and sanctity : religion and deviance in contemporary North America (1996) (8)
Financing the Millennium: The Economic Structure of the Unificationist Movement (1985) (8)
Documentary History of the Anti-Cult Movement (1986) (7)
The Organizational Development of Marian Apparitional Movements (2011) (7)
Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion (2009) (7)
The Future of New Religious Movements. (1989) (7)
Perfect Families: Vision of the Future in a New Religious Movement (1982) (7)
Ex-Nuns: A Study of Emergent Role Passage (1979) (7)
Responding to Resistance in Teaching about New Religious Movements (2007) (7)
New Christian Politics. (1985) (6)
Satanism: The New Cult Scare (2017) (6)
Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions, 8th ed. By J. Gordon Melton . Gale, 2009. xxvi + 1386 pp. $380 cloth. (2011) (5)
Toward Reflexive Ethnography: Participating, Observing, Narrating (2003) (5)
New Religions as a Specialist Field of Study (2011) (5)
Walking a tightrope: Dilemmas of participant observation of groups in conflict (1980) (5)
Listing (in Black and White) Some Observations on (Sociological) Thought Reform (1998) (5)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Lessons from the Past, Perspective for the Future (2002) (5)
Moonies In America Cult Church And Crusade (1981) (4)
The Vanishing Sociology-Social Work Alliance: A Study in the Politics of Professionalism (1978) (4)
Perspective: Whither New Religious Studies? Defining and Shaping a New Area of Study (2004) (4)
Santa Muerte as Emerging Dangerous Religion (2016) (4)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Dramatic Denouements (2002) (4)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Prologue (2002) (3)
North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure (2004) (3)
Handbook of Megachurches (2020) (3)
Vatican II and U.S. catholicism (1993) (3)
Beyond Corporal: Punishment Debate Rhetoric: The Logic of Child Discipline in Two Social Worlds. (1998) (3)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Violence and Religion in Perspective (2002) (3)
From the Unification Church to the Unification Movement and Back (2012) (3)
Teaching New Religious Movements/Learning from New Religious Movements (2007) (2)
Deciphering the NRM-Violence Connection (2011) (2)
Sacred Schisms: Challenges to charismatic authority in the Unificationist Movement (2009) (2)
The satanism scare in the United States (1994) (2)
The Invention of Sacred Tradition: The invention of a counter-tradition: the case of the North American anti-cult movement (2007) (2)
The North American Anti-Cult Movement (2008) (2)
Cults, Religion, and Violence: Frontmatter (2002) (2)
Deliberate Heresies: New Religious Myths and Rituals as Critiques (2007) (2)
Charting the Information Field: Cult‐Watching Groups and the Construction of Images of New Religious Movements (2007) (2)
Violence and New Religious Movements (2008) (2)
The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions. (1982) (2)
Affiliation and Disaffiliation (1986) (1)
Methodological Issues in the Study of New Religious Movements (2007) (1)
Deprivation in America (1972) (1)
Millennial Visions and Conflict with Society (2011) (1)
Evaluation Practices: A Study of College Grading Using Normative and Utilitarian Orientations. (1981) (1)
Disciplinary Perspectives on New Religious Movements: Views from the Humanities and Social Sciences (2007) (1)
Falling From the Faith: Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy. (1989) (1)
Categorizing Religious Organizations (2016) (1)
"Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade.@@@Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. (1981) (1)
Religion and the Social Order: New Developments in Theory and Research (1992) (1)
Sources of Challenge to Charismatic Authority in Newly Emerging Religious Movements (2021) (0)
The World Religions & Spirituality Project (2016) (0)
The Economic Structure of the Unificationist Movement (2016) (0)
The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism.J. Gordon Melton , Robert L. Moore (1986) (0)
Between Sacred and Secular: Research and Theory on Quasi-Religion. Vol. 4 of Religion and the Social Order. (1996) (0)
New Religions and Fraud (2016) (0)
Religion and religiosity in America : studies in honor of Joseph H. Fichter (1984) (0)
IV. Social Responses to Cults (1985) (0)
The Satanist Scare (1993) (0)
Leaving the Fold (2008) (0)
NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES (1989) (0)

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The Politics of Religious Apostasy