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Understanding Cultic Systems: Leadership and Ideology

Dive into the world of cultic systems with a focus on charismatic leaders, closed hierarchies, coercive persuasion, and follower exploitation based on definitions by Lifton, Arendt, and Schein.

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Understanding Cultic Systems: Leadership and Ideology

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  1. Attachment and TotalistOrganizations Alexandra Stein

  2. Many Kinds of Groups and Leaders

  3. Definition of a cultic system • Charismatic, authoritarian leader • Steep, closed hierarchy • Absolute, or total ideology • Use of techniques of coercive persuasion (thought reform, brainwashing) • Exploitation of followers • Definition taken from Lifton (1999), Arendt (1948), Schein (1961) Alexandra Stein

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