LIST OF CULT AND NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT RESEARCHERS

This list includes researchers that have conducted empirical studies on cults and/or new religious movements. Researchers are listed below according to their academic background, area of research, or profession.
''Inclusion in this list assumes notable research performed by list members, published in a peer-reviewed journal or academic book. Those list members that do not have an article in Wikipedia that establish notability in this area of research, require a specific source establishing that notability.''
For additional individuals that have written about these subjects, see List of authors opposing cults.

Contents

Anthropologists

Attorneys

Criminologists

Educators

Physicians

Psychiatrists

Psychologists

Psychotherapists/Counsellors

Religious studies scholars

Sociologists

Other academicians

External links

References

See also

Anthropologists

★ Geri-Ann Galanti

Attorneys

★ Ford Greene

★ Herbert L. Rosedale

Criminologists

★ Heinz Schoech^[1][2][3]

Educators

★ Sandy Andron

Physicians

★ Edward Lottick

Psychiatrists

★ Jean-Marie Abgrall

★ John Gordon Clark

★ Arthur J. Deikman

★ Marc Galanter

★ David A. Halperin

★ John Hochman

★ Saul V. Levine

★ Robert Jay Lifton

★ Norbert Nedopil¹²

★ Peter A. Olsson

★ Bruce D. Perry

★ Louis Jolyon West

Psychologists

★ Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

★ William V. Chambers

★ Robert Cialdini

★ Raffaella Di Marzio

★ Arthur A. Dole

★ Steve Eichel

★ Harold Goldstein

★ Susan J. Kelley

★ Heinrich Kuefner¹²

★ Michael Langone

★ Jan van der Lans

★ Robert V. Levine^[4]

★ Paul R. Martin

★ Jesse S. Miller

★ Edgar Schein

★ Margaret Singer

★ Mark Sirkin

★ Maurice K. Temerlin

★ Philip Zimbardo

Psychotherapists/Counsellors

★ Carol Giambalvo

★ Bill Goldberg

★ Lorna Goldberg

★ Steven Hassan

★ Arnold Markowitz

Religious studies scholars

★ Isaac Bonewits

★ John Bowker

★ George D. Chryssides

★ Maurice Davis (Rabbi)

★ Richard L. Dowhower

★ Alexander L. Dvorkin^[5]

★ Ron Geaves

★ Edmond C. Gruss

★ Wouter J. Hanegraaff

★ Irving Hexham

★ Reinhart Hummel

★ Kim Knott

★ Reender Kranenborg

★ James J. LeBar

★ J. Gordon Melton

★ J.P. Moreland

Sociologists

★ Nancy Ammerman

★ Robert Balch

★ Eileen Barker

★ David G. Bromley

★ Douglas E. Cowan

★ Ronald Enroth

★ Jeffrey K. Hadden

★ Stephen J. Hunt

★ Massimo Introvigne

★ Danny Jorgensen

★ Stephen A. Kent

★ Janja Lalich

★ David C. Lane

★ Richard Ofshe

★ James Richardson^[6]

★ Paul Schnabel

★ Anson Shupe

★ Bryan R. Wilson

★ Stuart A. Wright

★ Benjamin Zablocki

Other academicians

★ Flo Conway

External links

★ Cults & New Religious Movements: A Bibliography, by Rob Nanninga

★ Online texts 118 Online papers, articles and books about Cults, New Religious Movements, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion.

References

1. "Psycho-Cult vs. German Law", Thomas Röll and Walter Schütte, ''Focus'', October 14, 2002
2.
Heinrich Kuefner, Norbert Nedopil, Heinz Schoech, Robert Doerr, Stefanie Eiden, Raik Werner, "Expert opinion: Effects and risks of unconventional psycho- and social- techniques", Munich, Germany, February 17, 2003
3. Prof. Dr. Heinz Schöch, Institute of Criminal Law Section of Criminology, Juvenile Penal Law and Penology.
4. ''The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold'', (Updated paperback edition: John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
5.
October 25, 2006, Are There Objective and Scientific Studies of NRM?, Prof. Alexander L. Dvorkin, Moscow, Russia, Center of Religious Studies, Ozernaya, Russia.
6. James Richardson, Jan van der Lans, and F. Derks. 1986. "Leaving and Labeling: Voluntary and Coerced Disaffiliation from Religious Social Movements." ''Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change''. 9:97-126.

See also

★ List of anthropologists

★ List of authors opposing cults

★ List of groups referred to as cults

★ List of lawyers

★ List of psychiatrists

★ List of psychologists

★ List of sociologists