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	Zablocki, Benjamin, Ph.D.: "Methodological Fallacies in Atnhony's Critiqueof Exit Cost Analysis"
		Elsewhere, Zablocki elaborates upon the disoriented state, which he considers to be the core of the brainwashing process.
		The central theme of Zablocki’s brainwashing articles is to show that the accomplishment of such a modification of preferences by brainwashing is involuntary, and that once the modified preference structure is accomplished, the person becomes stuck in it against their will.
		It seems to me that both Zablocki’s paradigm, and the CIA brainwashing paradigm from which it is derived, are primarily aimed at demonstrating the loss of free will of the alleged victims of brainwashing.
	www.icsahome.com /infoserv_articles/zablocki_benjamin_anthonyrebutal_csr0402c.htm (12935 words)

	< Zablocki, Benjamin, Ph.D. - profile
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		Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. Professor of sociology at Rutgers University
		Rutgers University, NJ Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D., a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, has written widely on cults and communes.
	www.csj.org /infoserv_profile/zablocki_benjamin.htm (246 words)

	Review of "Misunderstanding Cults" (Introvigne)
		The first is that the "crude" brainwashing theory usually connected with the name and court activities of Margaret Singer (but by no means restricted to her work), is rejected not only by "cult apologists" but by participating "anticultists" as well.
		Readers will also realize that neither camp is monolithic: Kent and Zablocki, for instance, differs on how they evaluate the current European anticult crusades (Zablocki being much more critical of them), and Anthony’s and Bromley’s rejections of the brainwashing theories are, in turn, not identical.
		Ben Zablocki regards as "shameful" the fact that I (and Gordon Melton) "by playing fast and loose with terminology attempt to parlay a rejection of a committee report [the DIMPAC report, rejected by the American Psychological Association’s BSERP in 1987] into a rejection of the brainwashing concept by the American Psychological Association" (p.
	www.cesnur.org /2001/mi_dic03.htm (1762 words)

	METHODOLOGICAL FALLACIES IN ANTHONY’S
		(Zablocki refers to this primitive state of consciousness as disorientation; other brainwashing theorists have referred to it as hypnosis, dissociation, trance, etc. but there is no meaningful distinction between these various terms for primitive consciousness as they are used by brainwashing theorists, i.e.
		Zablocki refers to this alleged state of primitive consciousness as “disorientation”.
		Elsewhere, Zablocki elaborates upon the disoriented state which he considers to be the core of the brainwashing process.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~zablocki/Anthony.htm (8600 words)

	Raffaella Di Marzio vs Massimo Introvigne
		Zablocki complains that the upholders of the brainwashing theory have been "slandered, ridiculed or ignored" by the "unyielding majority" of "sociologist of religion" (p.
		Zablocki affirms that who keeps on upholding the theories of brainwashing or mental manipulation is right when feeling to belong to "an ignored or ridiculed minority" (p.
		Thus, the article by Zablocki, confirms what is stated in the writings of the CESNUR representatives criticized by Amitrani and Di Marzio, that's in the English-speaking scientific circles the brainwashing theories are, indeed, "slandered, ridiculed or ignored" by the great majority of scholars.
	www.kelebekler.com /cesnur/txt/carta2.htm (2076 words)

	Misunderstanding cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field - Book Review Sociology of Religion - Find ...
		Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins' stated goal was to encourage dialogue about significant differences that can be found in the study of New Religious Movements ("cults" to some).
		Zablocki tries to resurrect "brainwashing," a concept considered debunked by most scholars in the field.
		(Zablocki has, of course, returned the favor in his own chapter, countering Anthony's arguments vigorously.) Anthony is, as many readers will know, primarily responsible for having "brainwashing" based testimony tossed out of many courts in the U.S. and Europe, and thus he is a prime target for those who wish to revive it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_64/ai_112357744 (865 words)

	Brainwashed! Scholars of cults accuse each other of bad faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rutgers University Sociology professor Benjamin Zablocki has been studying cults—now called, thanks to academic political correctness, new religious movements, or NRMs—since his graduate school days at Johns Hopkins during the mid-1960s, when he bought a ninety-nine dollar Greyhound bus pass and traveled around the country visiting all the religious communes he could find.
		Zablocki’s conversion to brainwashing theory may sound like common sense to a public brought up on TV images of zombielike cultists committing fiendish crimes or on the Chinese mind control experiments dramatized in the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate.
		Thus, when Zablocki published an indignant two-part, sixty-page defense of brainwashing theory in the October 1997 and April 1998 issues of Nova Religio, a scholarly journal devoted to alternative belief systems, he ignited a furor in the field.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /13544/brainwashed-scholars-of-cults-accuse-each-other-of-bad-faith (5146 words)

	ISKCON Communications Journal - Cults, Psychological Manipulation and Society - Michael D. Langone
		Rutgers University professor, Benjamin Zablocki (1997), says that sociologists often distinguish 'cult' from 'church', 'sect', and 'denomination'.
		Zablocki defines a cult as 'an ideological organisation held together by charismatic relationships and demanding total commitment'.
		According to Zablocki, cults are at high risk of becoming abusive to members, in part because members' adulation of charismatic leaders contributes to their becoming corrupted by the power they seek and are accorded.
	www.iskcon.com /icj/7_2/72langone.html (3939 words)

	LIST OF PUBLICATIONS USING THE URBAN COMMUNES DATA SET
		Zablocki, Benjamin D. 2001. “Vulnerability and Objectivity in the Participant Observation of the Sacred.” In Reflexive Ethnography: Remembering For Whom We Speak. Greenwich CT: JAI Press.
		Zablocki, Benjamin D. 1978. “Other Choices: A Sociologist Explores Alternatives to the Contemporary American Family.” In The American Family, edited by Israel Zwerling. Philadelphia: Smith, Kline and French.
		Zablocki, Benjamin D. 1978. “Communes, Encounter Groups, and the Search for Community.” In In Search of Community, edited by Kenneth Boch. Denver: American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposia.
	sociology.rutgers.edu /ucds/publications/publications.htm (481 words)

	Lingua franca -- December 1998
		From group to group, Zablocki’s subjects had reported undergoing rituals more reminiscent of a prison camp than of your average Sunday school: They were deprived of sleep; they were asked to write confessions; they were told their confessions were not adequate.
		Brainwashing, Zablocki contended, had gone out of style in sociology not because it had been disproved scientifically but because the majority of scholars of alternative religions had crossed the line from objectivity to apology for the groups they researched.
		Zablocki and robbins are collaborating on a collection of papers from scholars on both side of the cult conflict (including Bromely and Richardson), to be published by the University of Toronto Press in 1999.
	linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org /9812/allen.html (4798 words)

	Ξ Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field
		Psychologist Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi’s excellent chapter on recent failures by distinguished scholars to maintain integrity is followed by Robbins’ defense of those who say they advocate balance and fairness toward controversial new religions.
		Zablocki, after 35 years observing communes, makes an eloquent case for a scientific theory of brainwashing.
		Sociologist Julius H. Rubin is persuasive in his presentation of a case study: the conflict between the Bruderhof (a pacifist Christian group) and its critics.
	www.culticstudiesreview.org /csr_bkreviews/bkrev_misunderstandingcults.htm (574 words)

	The Religious Movements Page: Maryland Cult Taskforce
		Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D., is professor of sociology and director of the Social Science Research Center at Rutgers University.
		He is the author of The Joyful Community (University of Chicago Press, 1971), an ethnographic study of the Bruderhof communities, and Alienation and Charisma (The Free Press, 1980), a comparative study of American communes in the 1970's.
		To respond to his proposal, write Benjamin Zablocki, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /cultsect/mdtaskforce/zablocki_loomis.htm (2571 words)

	ATaleofTwoTheories
		Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (eds.), Misunderstanding Cults.
		Rather, the point is that because researchers on both sides rely on a patchwork of individual cases, behavioral change, and individual accounts, each possesses the capacity to marshall data of a technically comparable nature.
		Similarly, Zablocki (1998:220) states that "The brainwashing conjecture argues that there are conditions under which members of a religious organization may be systematically resocialized to become deployable agents of that organization with strong internalized disincentives for leaving" (emphasis added).
	www.people.vcu.edu /~dbromley/ATaleofTwoTheories.htm (9462 words)

	Cornerstone Magazine - The Voice of Jesus People USA
		And, when it is used, it is used more often by those who have been accused of being "cult apologists." Nonetheless, it is very strongly implied, however, in terms such as "collaborationism," and refers to the same methodological and ethical phenomena as one finds criticized in the other two domains.
		As just a few examples of this same phenomenon, consider the exchange between Ben Zablocki and David Bromley in the first two issues of Nova Religio five years ago over Zablocki's analysis of the career enjoyed by the brainwashing hypothesis (Bromley 1998; Zablocki 1997, 1998a, 1998b).
		If she thinks that they are not only rationally defensible, but of some importance and value, she will be blameworthy if she does not try to show their reasonableness and value to others" (Meynell 1994: 1).
	www.cornerstonemag.com /cart/txt/cowanSSR02.htm (3043 words)

	< Zablocki, Benjamin - profile
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		Benjamin D. Zablocki, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University has been studying cults, communes, and charisma for 36 years.
		He is the author of The Joyful Community (1971) and Alienation and Charisma (1980) as well as numerous articles on these topics.
	www.culticstudiesreview.org /csr_profiles/indiv/zablocki_benjamin.htm (246 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Benjamin Zablocki
		He has published widely on the subject of charismatic religious movements and cults.
		Zablocki got 1962 a B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University and 1967 a Ph.D. in social relations from the Johns Hopkins University where he studied with James S. Coleman.
		He did postgraduate studies in psychiatry and psychology.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Benjamin_Zablocki (211 words)

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		The author responds to Zablocki's proposal (in this issue) of a bill of inalienable rights for intentional communities.
		Although Zablocki's proposal has merit, the author suggests that the most important first step is to collect information and ideas from as many sources as possible, particularly intentional communities.
		Instead of a bill of rights to which communities subscribe or not subscribe, the author proposes that communities respond in writing to a group of questions derived from the open-ended research.
	www.cultinfobooks.com /detail.asp?product_id=CSJ16-02D (131 words)

	Zablocki, Benjamin: "RISK OF HARM: IDENTIFYING CRITERIA AMONG NEW RELIGIONS"
		Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. The great majority of charismatic religious movements do not survive the founding generation.
		A religion may die either with a bang or with a whimper; and those that go out with a bang often expose their members, by so doing, to significantly increased risk of physical and/or psychological harm.
		Zablocki, Benjamin: "EVIDENCE OVER THE LIFE COURSE OF THE PERSISTENT EFFECTS OF CHARISMATIC INFLUENCE UPON RELIGIOUS DISCIPLES"
	cultinfobooks.com /infoserv_events/2005/Madrid/abstracts/zablocki_ben_harmrisk_abs.htm (946 words)

	Commune - CounterCulture
		Zablocki, Benjamin, The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation.
		University of Chicago Press (1971, reissued 1980) ISBN 0226977498 (The 1980 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog called this book "the best and most useful book on communes that's been written")
		Zablocki, Benjamin, Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes.
	counterculture.wikia.com /wiki/Commune (168 words)

	Cult - Enpsychlopedia
		Scholars who tend to side more with critical former members include David C. Lane, Benjamin Zablocki, and Stephen Kent.
		This is especially important when one is studying a group whose founder has died or which has splintered, or a group with foreign origins that is gradually integrating itself into another culture.
		Zablocki, Benjamin [18] (http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~zablocki/) Paper presented to a conference, Cults: Theory and Treatment Issues, May 31, 1997 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Cult (5438 words)

	Ω Conference 2003 CA: Agenda
		Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Coordinator (Bounded Choice: Brainwashing vs. "Free Choice"); Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D. (The Conservative Perspective on Brainwashing Theory);.Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. (A Behavioral Approach to Brainwashing Theory)
		Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Coordinator; Andrea Moore Emmett (The Father-Child Relationship in Polygamist Cults); Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff (Cultic Oppression of Women in the Religious Homeschooling Movement); Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. (Gender Divergences A Quarter Century After the Initial Cult Stimulus)
		Stephen Kent, Ph.D.; Janja Lalich, Ph.D.; Anna Looney; Rod Marshall, Ph.D.; Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. Small Lecture Hall 207
	www.icsahome.com /infoserv_conferences/archive/2003_aff_conference_ca_agenda.htm (776 words)

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		(Benjamin Zablocki, Sarah Rosenfield, Deborah Carr, John Martin)
		(Richard Williams, Benjamin Zablocki, Vilna Bashi, Philip Kasinitz)
		(Benjamin Zablocki, Chaim Waxman, John Martin, Daniel V.A. Olsen)
	sociology.rutgers.edu /graduateprogram/PhDdissertations.htm (1346 words)

	Misunderstanding Cults -- Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field -- Benjamin David Zablocki Thomas Robbins
		Misunderstanding Cults -- Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field -- Benjamin David Zablocki Thomas Robbins
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		Edited by Benjamin David Zablocki and Thomas Robbins
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0802081886 (33 words)

	Benjamin Beith-Hallahmi - religious cults and sects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi received a PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan State University in 1970, and since then has held clinical, research, and teaching positions in academic institutions in the United States, Europe, and Israel.
		, by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 8, No. 1 (September 2003)
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	www.countercult.com /b35.html (821 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Misunderstanding cults: Searching for objectivity in a controversial field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.
		Benjamin Zablocki is a professor in the Sociology Department at Rutgers University.
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802043739 (266 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Coleman's contributions have profoundly influenced and, in several cases, defined the agenda for important sub-fields of sociology: sociological theory and methods, sociology of education, sociology of the family, political sociology, mathematical sociology, communications research, and social stratification.
		Following an introductory section, Part Two, Policy-Relevant Social Theory, includes essays by some of our most eminent social scientists, including James Buchanan, Arthur Stinchcombe, Raymond Boudon, Gordon Tullock, Benjamin Zablocki, and Gudmund Hernes.
		-- Rational Models of Charismatic Influence by Benjamin D. Zablocki
	info.greenwood.com /books/0275942/027594235x.html (430 words)

	Benjamin Zablocki - religious cults and sects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		, by Benjamin Zablocki (Editor), Thomas Robbins (Editor).
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