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Brainwashing and Thomas Robbins (sociologist)

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Difference between Brainwashing and Thomas Robbins (sociologist)

Brainwashing vs. Thomas Robbins (sociologist)

Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques. Thomas Robbins (1943 – 2015) is an author and an independent scholar of sociology of religion.

Similarities between Brainwashing and Thomas Robbins (sociologist)

Brainwashing and Thomas Robbins (sociologist) have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Anti-cult movement, Benjamin Zablocki, Cult, David G. Bromley, Dick Anthony, New religious movement, Sociology of religion.

Anti-cult movement

The anti-cult movement (abbreviated ACM; sometimes called the countercult movement) is a social group which opposes any new religious movement (NRM) that they characterize as a cult.

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Benjamin Zablocki

Benjamin Zablocki (born January 19, 1941) is an American professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he teaches sociology of religion and social psychology.

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Cult

The term cult usually refers to a social group defined by its religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal.

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David G. Bromley

David G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

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Dick Anthony

Dick Anthony is a forensic psychologist noted for his writings on the validity of brainwashing as a determiner of behavior, a prolific researcher of the social and psychological aspects of involvement in new religious movements.

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New religious movement

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or an alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and which occupies a peripheral place within its society's dominant religious culture.

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Sociology of religion

Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.

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Brainwashing and Thomas Robbins (sociologist) Comparison

Brainwashing has 179 relations, while Thomas Robbins (sociologist) has 22. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 3.48% = 7 / (179 + 22).

References

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