Dick Anthony
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dick Anthony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dick |
| FAMILY NAME | Anthony |
| SIGNATURE | ANTHONY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Theological Union |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
In Gods We Trust: New patterns of religious pluralism in America
Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual inn…
Cult and Anticult Totalism: Reciprocal Escalation and Violence
Pseudoscience and Minority Religions: An Evaluation of the Brainwashing Theories of Jean-Marie Abgrall
Religious totalism, violence and exemplary dualism: Beyond the extrinsic model
This study presents an alternative psychological model to the ‘extrinsic model’. The latter emphasizes the external imposition through brainwashing of a pattern of depersonalization facilitating the enslavement of participants in totalist sects. An alternative approach can be extrapolated from the writings of Robert Lifton and more particularly, Erik Erikson's original conception of totalism. We suggest that contemporary cultural fragmentation ex…
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Law, social science and the “brainwashing” exception to the first amendment
Litigation in the “cult wars” has shifted from “deprograming” cases to civil suits by ex‐converts based on “brainwashing” claims, and to criminal defenses claiming incapacity due to cultic brainwashing. Early cases were decided on the basis of first amendment derivations barring judicial inquiries into conversion processes and religious authenticity. In 1988 the California Supreme Court carved out a narrow exception to this doctrine to be applied…
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Journal Article In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America (2nd ed.), edited by Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990, xiv + 501 pp. $22.95 Get access William H. Norman William H. Norman Graceland College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 136–137, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710730 Published: 01 M…
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Spiritual Choices: The Problem of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation
Cults, Culture, and Community
No abstract available for this article
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Deprogramming, Brainwashing and the Medicalization of Deviant Religious Groups
Critics claim the brainwashing techniques cults use to win converts have pathological consequences. Deprogramming has restored numerous converts to a state accepted by parents and therapists as normal. The medicalization of the cult phenomena, and its conceptualization as a mental health problem, has expanded the jurisdiction of the medical profession into the areas of religion and social movements
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Journal Article In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, ed. by Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, Inc., 1981, 338 pp. $8.95 Get access Theodore E. Long Theodore E. Long Washington and Jefferson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 4, Winter 1981, Pages 373–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711548 Published: 01 De…
Brainwashing and the persecution of ?cults
The Limits of "Coercive Persuasion" as an Explanation for Conversion to Authoritarian Sects
This paper offers a critique of the application of models of to processes of conversion and commitment within religious movements. Although models of coercive persuasion have a definite, if limited, heuristic value in the analysis of identity transformation within relatively authoritarian groups, current applications to cults have involved a number of distortions which appear to be related to the pejorative use of these models as conceptual weapo…
Legitimating repression
Cults, Brainwashing, and Counter-Subversion
Periodically in American history, periods of spiritual ferment have erupted in which unconventional and sometimes rather authoritarian sects have developed. Such groups have often elicited extreme hostility and distrust and have, moreover, been perceived as fundamentally subversive of civil order and the ideals of Americanism. Counter- subversive movements have developed which have sought to mobilize opinion against heterodox sects and to legitim…
Religion, rationality, and the idea of progress
The Sociology of Contemporary Religious Movements
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
"Theory and Research on Today's "New Religions
A number of analytical perspectives have been developed to explain the present upsurge of deviant religious movements and heightened spiritual ferment. These include secularization, crisis of community, value crisis, and the increasing need for holistic self-definition in a differentiated society. Viewing the present religious ferment as rooted in a normative breakdown or value crisis affords the basis of a typology of non-traditional movements i…
New religions, families and brainwashing
Patients and Pilgrims: Changing Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy of Converts to Eastern Mysticism
The eastern mystical tradition's movement into American life is depicted in this paper, which reports on the intriguing pattern of changing attitudes toward the use of psychotherapy among many members of the two major groups studied and also suggests a new rationale to justify psychotherapy
Deprogramming, Brainwashing and the Medicalization of Deviant Religious Groups
Critics claim the brainwashing techniques cults use to win converts have pathological consequences. Deprogramming has restored numerous converts to a state accepted by parents and therapists as normal. The medicalization of the cult phenomena, and its conceptualization as a mental health problem, has expanded the jurisdiction of the medical profession into the areas of religion and social movements
Getting Straight with Meher Baba: A Study of Mysticism, Drug Rehabilitation and Postadolescent Role Conflict
Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, Getting Straight with Meher Baba: A Study of Mysticism, Drug Rehabilitation and Postadolescent Role Conflict, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1972), pp. 122-140
Law, social science and the “brainwashing” exception to the first amendment
Litigation in the “cult wars” has shifted from “deprograming” cases to civil suits by ex‐converts based on “brainwashing” claims, and to criminal defenses claiming incapacity due to cultic brainwashing. Early cases were decided on the basis of first amendment derivations barring judicial inquiries into conversion processes and religious authenticity. In 1988 the California Supreme Court carved out a narrow exception to this doctrine to be applied…
"Theory and Research on Today's "New Religions
A number of analytical perspectives have been developed to explain the present upsurge of deviant religious movements and heightened spiritual ferment. These include secularization, crisis of community, value crisis, and the increasing need for holistic self-definition in a differentiated society. Viewing the present religious ferment as rooted in a normative breakdown or value crisis affords the basis of a typology of non-traditional movements i…
The Limits of Symbolic Realism: Problems of Empathic Field Observation in a Sectarian Context
Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, Thomas E. Curtis, The Limits of Symbolic Realism: Problems of Empathic Field Observation in a Sectarian Context, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 259-271
Youth Culture Religious Movements: Evaluating the Integrative Hypothesis
This paper assesses the "integrative hypothesis" as an aid to understanding the current emergence of new religious movements appealing mainly to young persons. Four ways in which these movements reintegrate young persons into the social system are identified: adjustive socialization, combination, compensation, and redirection. The limitations of each of these as an explanation for the integrative consequences of youth culture religious movements …
The Limits of "Coercive Persuasion" as an Explanation for Conversion to Authoritarian Sects
This paper offers a critique of the application of models of to processes of conversion and commitment within religious movements. Although models of coercive persuasion have a definite, if limited, heuristic value in the analysis of identity transformation within relatively authoritarian groups, current applications to cults have involved a number of distortions which appear to be related to the pejorative use of these models as conceptual weapo…
Pseudoscience and Minority Religions: An Evaluation of the Brainwashing Theories of Jean-Marie Abgrall
The Sociology of Contemporary Religious Movements
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
Cults, Brainwashing, and Counter-Subversion
Periodically in American history, periods of spiritual ferment have erupted in which unconventional and sometimes rather authoritarian sects have developed. Such groups have often elicited extreme hostility and distrust and have, moreover, been perceived as fundamentally subversive of civil order and the ideals of Americanism. Counter- subversive movements have developed which have sought to mobilize opinion against heterodox sects and to legitim…
Cult and Anticult Totalism: Reciprocal Escalation and Violence
Religious totalism, violence and exemplary dualism: Beyond the extrinsic model
This study presents an alternative psychological model to the ‘extrinsic model’. The latter emphasizes the external imposition through brainwashing of a pattern of depersonalization facilitating the enslavement of participants in totalist sects. An alternative approach can be extrapolated from the writings of Robert Lifton and more particularly, Erik Erikson's original conception of totalism. We suggest that contemporary cultural fragmentation ex…
New religions, families and brainwashing
The Last Civil Religion: Reverend Moon and the Unification Church
Legitimating repression
Religion, rationality, and the idea of progress
Patients and Pilgrims: Changing Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy of Converts to Eastern Mysticism
The eastern mystical tradition's movement into American life is depicted in this paper, which reports on the intriguing pattern of changing attitudes toward the use of psychotherapy among many members of the two major groups studied and also suggests a new rationale to justify psychotherapy
Getting Straight with Meher Baba: A Study of Mysticism, Drug Rehabilitation and Postadolescent Role Conflict
Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, Getting Straight with Meher Baba: A Study of Mysticism, Drug Rehabilitation and Postadolescent Role Conflict, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1972), pp. 122-140
The Limits of Symbolic Realism: Problems of Empathic Field Observation in a Sectarian Context
Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, Thomas E. Curtis, The Limits of Symbolic Realism: Problems of Empathic Field Observation in a Sectarian Context, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 259-271
Reply to Bellah
D r. Bellah's comment has caused us to rethink the implications of our research for his statement of the relationship between social science and religion. We now think that rather than setting the limits of his position our results (see our article in the September 1973 issue) call for a general clarification and reformulation of his theory. Let us briefly rehearse our findings. In conducting sustained empathic field research upon a strongly sect…
From Symbolic Realism to Structuralism
Youth Culture Religious Movements: Evaluating the Integrative Hypothesis
This paper assesses the "integrative hypothesis" as an aid to understanding the current emergence of new religious movements appealing mainly to young persons. Four ways in which these movements reintegrate young persons into the social system are identified: adjustive socialization, combination, compensation, and redirection. The limitations of each of these as an explanation for the integrative consequences of youth culture religious movements …
The Last Civil Religion: Reverend Moon and the Unification Church
Patients and Pilgrims: Changing Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy of Converts to Eastern Mysticism
The eastern mystical tradition's movement into American life is depicted in this paper, which reports on the intriguing pattern of changing attitudes toward the use of psychotherapy among many members of the two major groups studied and also suggests a new rationale to justify psychotherapy
Some Reflections on the Reflections
"Theory and Research on Today's "New Religions
A number of analytical perspectives have been developed to explain the present upsurge of deviant religious movements and heightened spiritual ferment. These include secularization, crisis of community, value crisis, and the increasing need for holistic self-definition in a differentiated society. Viewing the present religious ferment as rooted in a normative breakdown or value crisis affords the basis of a typology of non-traditional movements i…
New religions, families and brainwashing
Cults, Brainwashing, and Counter-Subversion
Periodically in American history, periods of spiritual ferment have erupted in which unconventional and sometimes rather authoritarian sects have developed. Such groups have often elicited extreme hostility and distrust and have, moreover, been perceived as fundamentally subversive of civil order and the ideals of Americanism. Counter- subversive movements have developed which have sought to mobilize opinion against heterodox sects and to legitim…
Religion, rationality, and the idea of progress
The Sociology of Contemporary Religious Movements
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
Brainwashing and the persecution of ?cults
The Limits of "Coercive Persuasion" as an Explanation for Conversion to Authoritarian Sects
This paper offers a critique of the application of models of to processes of conversion and commitment within religious movements. Although models of coercive persuasion have a definite, if limited, heuristic value in the analysis of identity transformation within relatively authoritarian groups, current applications to cults have involved a number of distortions which appear to be related to the pejorative use of these models as conceptual weapo…
Legitimating repression
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Journal Article In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, ed. by Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, Inc., 1981, 338 pp. $8.95 Get access Theodore E. Long Theodore E. Long Washington and Jefferson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 4, Winter 1981, Pages 373–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711548 Published: 01 De…
Cults, Culture, and Community
No abstract available for this article
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Deprogramming, Brainwashing and the Medicalization of Deviant Religious Groups
Critics claim the brainwashing techniques cults use to win converts have pathological consequences. Deprogramming has restored numerous converts to a state accepted by parents and therapists as normal. The medicalization of the cult phenomena, and its conceptualization as a mental health problem, has expanded the jurisdiction of the medical profession into the areas of religion and social movements
Spiritual Choices: The Problem of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation
In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America
Journal Article In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America (2nd ed.), edited by Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990, xiv + 501 pp. $22.95 Get access William H. Norman William H. Norman Graceland College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 136–137, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710730 Published: 01 M…
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