Benjamin Zablocki
Biographic Data
| ID | 83166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Zablocki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zablocki |
| SIGNATURE | ZABLOCKI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Double-embeddedness
Charisma, Status, and Gender in Groups With and Without Gurus
A number of studies have noted that small religious groups with charismatic leaders seem to have different gender dynamics than do groups without. We argue that the presence of such a leader changes what charisma 'means' in such a group. Without such a leader, strong personalities may appear charismatic and lead to positions of high status-and such dynamics historically have tended to be associated with a positional advantage to males. With such …
Product Review
Misunderstanding Cults
Misunderstanding Cults
Journal Article Misunderstanding cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field, by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (eds.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001, 524 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper) Get access James T. Richardson James T. Richardson University of Nevada, Reno Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 535–537, https:…
Misunderstanding Cults
Misunderstanding Cults
Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship
New Religions As Global Cultures
Book Review| April 01 1999 New Religions As Global Cultures New Religions As Global Cultures. By Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe. Rutgers University Press, 1997. $59.00 cloth, $21.00 paper. Benjamin Zablocki Benjamin Zablocki Rutgers University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 2 (2): 313–314. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.313 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Exit Cost Analysis
This is the second part of a two-part article about brainwashing. In the first part, published in the premier issue of this jounal, I discussed the history of this much maligned concept and attempted to rescue it from the fruitless culture wars in which it has become entangled. I offered a limited and precise definition of brainwashing with the goal of making it a useful concept in the social-psychological study of disaffiliation from religious m…
Reply to Bromley
Reply to 'Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology' by Bartholomew and O'dea
There has arisen an unfortunate polarization between proreligious and antireligious scholars of religion. In identifying with the former, the Bartholomew and O'Dea article fails to note the truth does not lie in one or the other option. There is a need to comprehend how medicine and psychiatry can constructively contribute to understanding religious phenomena rather than discount them arbitrarily. William James, Marc Galanter, and Julius Rubin ar…
The Blacklisting of a Concept
This is the first part of a two-part article on the concept of brainwashing in the study of new religious movements (NRMs). The use of this term has become so emotionally charged that scholars find it difficult to discuss its merits and scientific utility with calmness and objectivity. I devote Part One of this article to an examination of the cultural and structural sources of an extreme polarization that has occurred among scholars of new relig…
Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram
The Communes of the 1970s
This article examines who joined the communes of the 1970s and challenges many common assumptions about partici- pants and their motivations. Not all commune members were from middle class backgrounds. Very few came from broken homes. On several measures, those who joined communes were less alienated than other Americans at the time. Commune members were innova- tors and experimenters; however, rates of involvement in noncon- ventional political,…
Charisma
Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health
Benjamin Zablocki, Angela Aidala, Stephen Hansell, Helene Raskin White, Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 65-79
Cults
Alienation and Charisma
Self Absorbing Communities
Alienation and Charisma
Alienation and Charisma. A Study of Contemporary American Communes
Herman Schmalenbach
Network Analysis
The Differentiation of Life-Styles
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
The joyful community
The Differentiation of Life-Styles
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
The Joyful Community
Subversion and Social Change in Colombia
Charisma, Status, and Gender in Groups With and Without Gurus
A number of studies have noted that small religious groups with charismatic leaders seem to have different gender dynamics than do groups without. We argue that the presence of such a leader changes what charisma 'means' in such a group. Without such a leader, strong personalities may appear charismatic and lead to positions of high status-and such dynamics historically have tended to be associated with a positional advantage to males. With such …
The Communes of the 1970s
This article examines who joined the communes of the 1970s and challenges many common assumptions about partici- pants and their motivations. Not all commune members were from middle class backgrounds. Very few came from broken homes. On several measures, those who joined communes were less alienated than other Americans at the time. Commune members were innova- tors and experimenters; however, rates of involvement in noncon- ventional political,…
Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health
Benjamin Zablocki, Angela Aidala, Stephen Hansell, Helene Raskin White, Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 65-79
Subversion and Social Change in Colombia
The Joyful Community
On Communes
The Joyful Community
The Differentiation of Life-Styles
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Network Analysis
Herman Schmalenbach
Alienation and Charisma. A Study of Contemporary American Communes
Alienation and Charisma
Self Absorbing Communities
Alienation and Charisma
Cults
The Communes of the 1970s
This article examines who joined the communes of the 1970s and challenges many common assumptions about partici- pants and their motivations. Not all commune members were from middle class backgrounds. Very few came from broken homes. On several measures, those who joined communes were less alienated than other Americans at the time. Commune members were innova- tors and experimenters; however, rates of involvement in noncon- ventional political,…
Charisma
Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health
Benjamin Zablocki, Angela Aidala, Stephen Hansell, Helene Raskin White, Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 65-79
Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram
The Blacklisting of a Concept
This is the first part of a two-part article on the concept of brainwashing in the study of new religious movements (NRMs). The use of this term has become so emotionally charged that scholars find it difficult to discuss its merits and scientific utility with calmness and objectivity. I devote Part One of this article to an examination of the cultural and structural sources of an extreme polarization that has occurred among scholars of new relig…
Exit Cost Analysis
This is the second part of a two-part article about brainwashing. In the first part, published in the premier issue of this jounal, I discussed the history of this much maligned concept and attempted to rescue it from the fruitless culture wars in which it has become entangled. I offered a limited and precise definition of brainwashing with the goal of making it a useful concept in the social-psychological study of disaffiliation from religious m…
Reply to Bromley
Reply to 'Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology' by Bartholomew and O'dea
There has arisen an unfortunate polarization between proreligious and antireligious scholars of religion. In identifying with the former, the Bartholomew and O'Dea article fails to note the truth does not lie in one or the other option. There is a need to comprehend how medicine and psychiatry can constructively contribute to understanding religious phenomena rather than discount them arbitrarily. William James, Marc Galanter, and Julius Rubin ar…
New Religions As Global Cultures
Book Review| April 01 1999 New Religions As Global Cultures New Religions As Global Cultures. By Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe. Rutgers University Press, 1997. $59.00 cloth, $21.00 paper. Benjamin Zablocki Benjamin Zablocki Rutgers University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 2 (2): 313–314. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.313 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video…
Misunderstanding Cults
Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship
Misunderstanding Cults
Misunderstanding Cults
Misunderstanding Cults
Journal Article Misunderstanding cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field, by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (eds.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001, 524 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper) Get access James T. Richardson James T. Richardson University of Nevada, Reno Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 535–537, https:…
Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Charisma (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works)