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Cultic Studies Review Department: Profiles - individual		Janja Lalich, Ph.D.


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*Janja Lalich, Ph.D.*		Bio on csj.org

	Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology California State University, Chico. Her research and writing has focused on cults and controversial groups, with a specialization in charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control, and issues related to gender and sexuality. Her written works include being Guest Editor of Women Under the Influence: A Study of Women’s Lives in Totalist Groups (a special issue of the Cultic Studies Journal 14,1, 1997); as well as the coauthor of “Crazy” Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? (Jossey-Bass, 1996); Cults in Our Midst (Jossey-Bass, 1995); and Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Abusive Relationships (Hunter House, 1994). She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation research, which was a comparative study of the Heaven’s Gate group, which committed collective suicide in 1997, and the Democratic Workers Party, a political cult, which Lalich had been a member of for more than 10 years.
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CSR Contributions
	Ξ Crazy Thearpies - book review Ξ Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers - book review Ω Conference 2002: Understanding Cults and New Religious Movements - Events Ω Conference 2002: Understanding Cults and New Religious Movements - Presenters Ω Conference 2003 CA: Events Ω Conference 2003 CT: Events
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	name: Janja Lalich, Ph.D.		Internet: url: e-mail:[email protected]
	Address: Department of Sociology California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95929-0445		tel.: (530) 898-5542 fax: (530) 898-4571

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Cultic Studies Review Department: Profiles - individual

Janja Lalich, Ph.D.

Cultic Studies Review
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