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Captive Hearts, Captive Minds
''Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships'' is a study of cults and Psychological abuse, abusive relationships by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, and Michael Langone. It was published by Hunter House Publishers in 1994. In 2006, the book was reissued as ''Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships''. In her book ''Twisted Scriptures (book), Twisted Scriptures: Breaking Free from Churches that Abuse'', Christian countercult movement, Christian countercult author Mary Alice Chrnalogar cites ''Captive Hearts, Captive Minds'' and adds a note that the book is "excellent for former New Age, New Agers". The work is extensively cited in Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth's ''On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, On the Edge: Political Cults Left and Right'' in their chapter on Marlene Dixon. Robert L. Snow cites the work in his book, ''Deadly Cults, Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers'', ...
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Madeleine Landau Tobias
Madeleine or La Madeleine may refer to: Common meanings * Madeleine (given name), also Madeline, a feminine given name, includes a list of people and fictional characters * Madeleine (cake), a traditional sweet cake from France Christianity * Mary Magdalene, also called the Madeleine, a follower of Jesus * La Madeleine, Paris (Église de la Madeleine), a church in Paris * Église de la Madeleine (Besançon), Doube ''département'', France, a church * Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, a Roman Catholic cathedral Arts and entertainment * ''Madelein'' (1919 film), a German silent film * ''Madeleine'' (1950 film), directed by David Lean * ''Madeleine'' (2003 film), a South Korean romance * ''Madeleine'' (2023 film), a Canadian animated short film * ''Madeleine'' (opera), a 1914 one-act opera by Victor Herbert * "Madeleine" (Backstreet Boys song), a track of ''In a World Like This'' * "Madeleine", a song by Jonathan Kelly, released in 1972 * " ...
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Marlene Dixon
The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. One member, Janja Lalich, later became a widely cited researcher on cults. Lalich characterized the DWP as a political cult with Dixon serving as its charismatic leader. She estimated that the Democratic Workers Party at one point had 125-150 full-time members and 300-1,000 members with various degrees of affiliation. Marlene Dixon Marlene Dixon had earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the mid-1960s. She taught sociology at the University of Chicago and then McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an admirer of the works of Robert Jay Lifton, Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank, but as the party began to unravel in 1984 she criticized the latter two as anti-communists. In November 1968, while a professor at the University of Chicago, Dixon participated in a political d ...
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Cultic Studies Journal
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a non-profit educational and anti-cult organization. It publishes the ''International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation'', "ICSA Today", and other materials. History ICSA was founded in 1979 in Massachusetts as the American Family Foundation (AFF) – one of several dozen disparate parents' groups founded in the late 1970s by concerned parents. For a time it was affiliated with the Citizens’ Freedom Foundation (CFF) which later became the Cult Awareness Network (CAN). It also developed links with Christian counter-cult movements such as the Christian Research Institute. In December 2004, it changed its named from American Family Foundation to International Cultic Studies Association. Publications Print magazines In 1984, the American Family Foundation's early print magazine, ''The Advisor'', was replaced by the ''Cult Observer'' and the ''Cultic Studies Journal''. ''Cultic Studies Review'' In 2001, pu ...
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Christian Library
A Christian library or theological library is a kind of library that has its origins in the Judaism, Jewish religion whose practice and transmission depended on the keeping and duplication of sacred texts. Like Judaism, Christianity depends fundamentally on the preservation and study of a sacred text. From this it follows that the texts and the secondary literature will be collected for the use of the literate members of the religious communities and passed on to succeeding generations. Early Christian libraries The integral relationship between Christianity and its texts has always ensured a central place for books, for learning, and for libraries among Christians. The passing of two millennia has witnessed changes in the manner and intensity of Christian scholarship, yet it has always been the case that theology, theological learning is inconceivable without libraries and librarians doing the work both of collecting the theological insights of the past and anticipating future th ...
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