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8 unusual facts about Thomas Robbins


Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion

and in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, by Thomas Robbins.

Dick Anthony

James T. Richardson, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1: 127–149 (with Thomas Robbins)

David G. Bromley and Anson Shupe, writing in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (1998), have credited Anthony and his co-author, sociologist Thomas Robbins, with having written "the most articulate critique" of the anti-cult movement's perspective on brainwashing.

Howard S. Friedman, Academic Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-12-226676-8: 331–346 (with Thomas Robbins)

S. A. Wright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995): 236–259 (with Thomas Robbins)

B. D. Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, University of Toronto Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8020-8188-9: 215–317

Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, ISBN 0-88738-800-0 (with Thomas Robbins)

Anthony contributed a 100-page chapter on the brainwashing hypothesis to the book Misunderstanding Cults, edited by sociologists Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, in which he criticized the "tactical ambiguity" of brainwashing theorists like Zablocki.



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