IP: two on Re: Good Question re Experts explain terrorist training

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:51:20 -0400
> From: Matthew Snyder <matthew () pobox com>
> To: aaronb () cis upenn edu, farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Good Question  re  Experts explain terrorist training
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> David Farber writes:
> > CC me with any answer
> >
> > >Prof Farber,
> > >
> > >     Can you (or anybody on the IP list) recommend good books on 
> understanding
> > >the cult mentality (their psychological mind control, etc.)?
>
> Not surprisingly, Penn has an expert on what you call the ``cult
> mentality.''  Stephen Dunning teaches in the department of
> Religious Studies -- more specifically, he teaches a course
> specifically on cults called ``Understanding the cult
> controversy.''
>
> I'm sure he'd be happy to provide a reading list.  You can contact
> him at sdunning () ccat sas upenn edu or visit his website at
> http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/snd/sdunning.html
>
> I read _Combatting Cult Mind Control_ and didn't find it especially
> helpful, personally.  But I unfortunately can't provide a better
> recommendation.
>
> Matthew


From: LSHIRSCH () aol com
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:48:56 EDT
Subject: Re: IP: Good Question re Experts explain terrorist training
To: farber () cis upenn edu
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Dave, in another list I am on, Prof. Judith Klinghoffer of Rutgers U., author
of *Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East : Unintended Consequences*, recommends
Erich Fromm's classic *Escape from Freedom* and its analysis of the
authoritarian personality as helpful in understanding the terrorists'
mentality. You can access her posting at
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=0110&week=
d&msg=d3ilWDqtJ1rybWC39NuemQ&user=&pw=
Lorraine Hirsch


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