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Episode 58 - Let's talk about cults: exploring the psychology of cults (Episode 1)
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Welcome to the new season of the TLU student podcast. In the first episode we discuss the topic of cults. We are joined by two experts - Tõnu Lehtsaar, a professor from TU who focuses on psychology of religion, and Polina Tšerkassova, who focuses on cultural anthropology. Come on a journey with us to understand what a cult is.
References:
Galanter, M. (1990). Cults and zealous self-help movements. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145(4), 543-551.
Barker, E. (1986). Religious movements: Cult and anticult since Jonestown. Annual review of Sociology, 12(1), 329-346.
http://www.brahmakumaris.info/download/Cult%20related/Cults%20since%20Jonestown.pdf
Wilson, L. S., & Kwileck, S. (2003). Are these people crazy, or what? A rational choice interpretation of cults and charisma. Humanomics, 19(1), 29-44.
Tretyakov, I. (2021). Destructive nature of manipulative content, created by leaders of totalitarian pseudo-religious cults. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 244, p. 11036). EDP Sciences.
https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2021/20/e3sconf_emmft2020_11036.pdf
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