Stephen Hassan

Książka po ponad 20 latach ma na LC 7,84 (19 ocen i 4 opinie),a o autorze czytam w Wikipedii "....Steven Alan Hassan (born 1954) is an American mental health counselor who has written on the subject of mind control and how to help people who have been harmed by the experience. He has been helping people exit destructive cults since 1976..... ...Hassan became a member of the Unification Church in the 1970s, at the age of 19, while studying at Queens College. In his first book, " Combatting Cult Mind Control" (1988),he described his recruitment as the result of the unethical use of powerful psychological influence techniques by members of the Church. He spent over two years recruiting and indoctrinating new members, as well as fundraising and campaigning....." To właśnie ta książka z 1988, została w Polsce wydana pod tytułem "Psychomanipulacja w sektach" Przekartkowałem to-to i doszedłem do wniosku, że skoro do tej pory Państwo, nie czytaliście tego, to nie ma sensu tych staroci polecać. Polecam w zamian "Listzy św. Pawła", bo prześledzenie prozelityzmu chrześcijaństwa jest o wiele ciekawsze. Żeby nie byc gołosłownym proponuję Państwu stronę: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combatting_Cult_Mind_Control .....z której cytuję opinie krytyczne: "Critical Viewpoints John B. Brown II of the "Pagan Unity Campaign" criticized a policy stated in the book (page 114) which says that although Hassan had '"decided not to participate in forcible interventions, believing it was imperative to find another approach"', "Forcible intervention can be kept as a last resort if all other attempts fail." Brown states that this indicates that Hassan advocates resorting to a forcible intervention if all other attempts fail. According to Douglas Cowan, in this book Hassan utilizes a language opposing "freedom" and "captivity", based on the conceptual framework of brainwashing and thought control, and the alleged abuses of civil liberties and human rights. He writes that these are the precipitating motivation for secular anticultists such as Hassan. Irving Hexham, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, writes that Hassan's description of destructive cults (page 37),as "a group which violates the rights of its members and damages them through the abusive techniques of unethical mind control" is not helpful as he fails to describe how to decide if a group is a cult or not, what are "abusive techniques" and what is "mind control". As the title explicitly indicates, Combatting Cult Mind Control falls squarely within the category of books whose authors adopt anti-cult movement theories and rhetoric concerning new religious movements, including the theory that participants in such movements are "victims" of "mind control." This theory is not universally accepted by scholars of religion. Other theories concerning new religious movements attribute free will and informed choice to the participants, and challenge the mind control model put forward by the author here..." Wg mnie tania sensacja, szkoda czasu, 3/10