Les Sectes

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Title Les Sectes
Hardcover Edition
Les Sectes, 2004
Author Thomas Lardeur,
Jean-Pierre Jougla, preface
Country France Flag of France
Language French
Genre(s) sociology
cults
Publisher Presses De La Renaissance
Released April 15, 2004
Pages 347
ISBN ISBN 2-7509-0008-5

Les Sectes: Savoir les reconnaître, Comprendre leurs mécanismes, Les combattre efficacement, Aider les victimes is a French book on cults, published in 2004. The book was authored by Thomas Lardeur, in collaboration with the anti-cult French organization UNADFI "Union Nationale des Associations de Défense des Familles et de l'Individu Victimes de Sectes" (English: National Union for the Defense of Families and Indiviuals Victims of Cults), with a preface by Jean-Pierre Jougla. Translated, the title reads: Cults: Know How to Recognize Them, Understand their Mechanisms, Efficiently Combat Them, Aid the Victims.

Contents

[edit] Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Words, words, words
  3. Documents of cult propaganda
  4. Some cult theories
  5. Miraculous solutions
  6. Art to give a beautiful image
  7. To Include/Understand
  8. Analyze cult phenomenon
  9. Some embarrassing questions
  10. Sects with the daily newspaper, deciphering cult strategies according to concerned targets
  11. How to tell if your close relatives are in a cult?
  12. The attitude to adopt if your relative is a member of a cult
  13. To constitute a file on the accused group
  14. What concrete actions to take to reduce the influence of cults?
  15. In the interest of justice
  16. To help the person who leaves a cult
  17. Appendix
  18. Useful addresses in France and abroad
  19. Lists of the cults, parliamentary report/ratio of 1995
  20. Bibliography

[edit] Pieces a Conviction

The book is cited by host Elise Lucet as a reference for the documentary Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus, on the France 3 investigative journalism television program, Pieces a Conviction.

[edit] Parliamentary report

For more details on this topic, see Status of religious freedom in France.

In May 2005 the former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin issued a circular indicating that the list of cults published on the parliamentary report (presented in this book on chapter 19) should no longer be used to identify cults. [1]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Circulaire du 27 mai 2005 relative à la lutte contre les dérives sectaires