Janja Lalich | Academic Influence

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Janja Lalich

Sociology

#268

World Rank

#344

Historical Rank

#127

USA Rank

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Sociology

Janja Lalich's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Janja Lalich is an American sociologist and writer. Lalich is best known as a foremost expert on cults and coercion, charismatic authority, power relations, ideology and social control. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the California State University, Chico.

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Janja Lalich's Published Works

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Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives (1995) (69)
Cults in Our Midst (1996) (56)
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults (2004) (39)
Inside and Outcast: Multifaceted Stigma and Redemption in the Lives of Gay and Lesbian Jehovah's Witnesses (2010) (34)
Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Abusive Relationships (1994) (31)
Dominance and Submission (1996) (19)
Crazy Therapies : What Are They? Do They Work? (1996) (15)
4. Pitfalls in the Sociological Study of Cults (2001) (7)
Systems of Control (2017) (4)
Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven's Gate (1) (2004) (4)
Odd gods : new religions & the cult controversy (2003) (3)
The Cadre Ideal: Origins and Development of a Political Cult (1992) (3)
Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over (2017) (3)
We Weren’t There by Choice (2017) (0)
Landing on Mars (2017) (0)
The True BelieverThe Fusion of Personal Freedom and Self-renunciation (2004) (0)
The Cadre Formation (2004) (0)
Comprar Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? | Janja Lalich | 9780787902780 | Wiley (2007) (0)
The Transcendent Belief System (2017) (0)
IntroductionCults and True Believers (2004) (0)
Gurus, Seers, and New Agers (2004) (0)
Review: I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army by Evelyn Amony (2017) (0)
Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ by Kathleen E. Jenkins:Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ (2007) (0)
Systems of Influence (2017) (0)
The Beginning“The Two” Arrive (2004) (0)
Evolution of the Charismatic Community (2004) (0)
Bounded ChoiceCult Formation and the Development of the True Believer (2004) (0)
Surviving and Thriving (2017) (0)
The Founding of the Democratic Workers Party (2004) (0)
Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ. By Kathleen E. Jenkins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. 283. $22.95. (2007) (0)
Decline and Fall (2004) (0)
Watch Your Culture (2004) (0)
Revolutionaries, Rebels, and Activists (2004) (0)

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