Cults
Conformity and Obedience
Conformity involves any behavior that you engage in because of direct or indirect group pressure. Obedience is a change in attitude or behavior brought about by social pressure to comply with people perceived to be authorities. Obedience can be either useful or destructive.
Cults rely on both conformity and obedience.
DATABASES - FROM Media Home Page/Databases
Gale Virtual Library - Cults
CQ Researcher, FACTS.com, OCLC FirstSearch (be sure to check full text when searching), ABC-CLIO Issues, WilsonWeb and EBSCO.
Get started with these ONLINE SOURCES:
Religious Tolerance use the search box to search your cult
Conformity, Compliance and Cults
Watchman Expositor (Index of cults and religions - look at profile when available)
Crime Library "The Family" and "People's Temple" articles
Profile: Shoko Asahara article from the BBC News
International Cultic Studies Association various articles in Cults, 101, a study guide
Article from Washington Post - "The Cult Controversy"
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