The New Vigilantes
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The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions is a 1980
SAGE Publications in its Library of Social Research series as volume 113. Some have described the volume as a companion to their previous work, "Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade (1979).[1][2] Shupe and Bromley approach the anti-cult movement in the United States through a resource-mobilization lens.[3]
Reception
Some scholars believe that The New Vigilantes has great scholarly value.
Sociological Analysis called the book a "straight-forward descriptive account of the recent anti-cult movement", and adds that the book is "readable, though somewhat repetitive and short on theoretical interpretation".[4] Joe E. Barnhart for the Journal of Church and State calls the work a "major contribution to the study of a slice of American religious and organizational life in the 1970s".[5]
Other scholars found Shupe and Bromley's conclusions daunting and flawed.
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science says that the works do not "make a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of deviance".[8] In reviewing this work, "Moonies" in America, and Shupe and Bromley's Strange Gods (1981), Jack C. Ross for the Canadian Journal of Sociology argues that their methodology relies too heavily on trusting that the authors conducted the interviews and observed the events as they say.[9]
References
- ^ a b Robbins, Thomas (March 1982). "The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 21 (1): 80–81.
- ^ a b c Wright, Stuart A. (December 1982). "The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions". Review of Religious Research. 24 (2): 175–76.
- ^ a b Robertson, Roland (January 1982). "The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions". Contemporary Sociology. 11 (1): 97–98.
- Sociological Analysis. 42 (2): 177–79.
- ^ Barnhart, Joe E. (Winter 1982). "The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions". Journal of Church and State. 24 (1): 142–43.
- ^ Journal of Religion and Health. 21 (1): 89–90.
- ^ a b Bainbridge, William Sims (March 1982). "The New Vigilantes". Social Forces. 60 (3): 955–57.
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 461 (Young Children and Social Policy): 187–88.
- ^ Ross, Jack C. (Autumn 1983). ""Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade; The New Vigilantes: Deprogramming, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions; Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare". Canadian Journal of Sociology. 8 (4): 469–72.