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IntroductionSociological Perspectives on Apostasy: An Overview by David G. Bromley
A Comparative Approach to Organizational ExitThe Social Construction of Contested Exit Roles: Defectors, Whistleblowers, and Apostates by David G. Bromley
The Apostate Role and CareerIn Defense of Self: Apostasy as Spoiled Identity by Armand L. Mauss
The Politics of Marginal Heresy by Eileen Barker
Exploring the Varieties of Apostate Roles by Stuart A. Wright
Apostates Who Never Were: The Social Construction of Absque Facto Apostate Narratives by Daniel Carson Johnson
The Organizational Context of ApostasyApostasy, Apocalypse, and Religious Violence: An Exploratory Comparison of Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, and the Solar Temple by John R. Hall and Philip Schuyler
Apostates, Defectors, Law and Social Control by James T. Richardson
Apostates and Their Role in the Construction of Grievance Claims Against the Northeast Kingdom/Messianic Communities by Susan J. Palmer
The Changing Apostate Role in the Evolution of the North American Anti-cult Movement by Anson Shupe
Methodological Issues in the Study of ApostasyCarriers of Tales: On Assessing Credibility of Apostate and Other Outsider Accounts of Religious Practices by Lewis F. Carter
A propos de l'auteur
DAVID G. BROMLEY is Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the past editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Among his recent books are The Satanism Scare (1991), edited with James Richardson and Joel Best, Handbook on Cults and Sects in America (1993), edited with Jeffrey K. Hadden, and Anticult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective (1994), edited with Anson Shupe.
