Hardcover, 353 pages
English language
Published Sept. 15, 2004 by University of California Press.
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Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults is a 2004 psychology book on cults by Janja Lalich. It was published by University of California Press. Lalich had previously studied Heaven's Gate and the Democratic Workers Party for her doctoral dissertation entitled "Bounded Choice: The Fusion of Personal Freedom and Self-Renunciation in Two Transcendent Groups", and that research was incorporated into the book.Lalich's methodologies were influenced by the work of Anthony Giddens, Herbert Simon and Robert Lifton. Heaven's Gate, a UFO religion, was used as a model for analyzing the cult structure.Marion Harmon wrote that: "Lalich’s research culminated in a new theory to explain how the combination of ideology, social structure, and commitment constrains the choice of true believers."
Subjects
- Contemporary non-Christian cults & sects
- Heaven's Gate (Organization)
- Cults
- Social Science
- Archaeology / Anthropology
- Sociology - General
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Customs & Traditions
- Social Science / Sociology / General
- Brainwashing
- Democratic Workers Party (San