Looking behind the Scenes in a Religious Cult: Implications for the Study of Conversion

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Religious conversion is commonly understood to involve dramatic transformations in personality. “Brainwashing” is a concept widely used in the mass media to account for these changes. This participant observation study of a millennial UFO cult concludes that these apparently dramatic changes result from rapid learning of roles rather than changes in personality, or even values, beliefs or attitudes.

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