by Tara Backes | Jun 18, 2025 | Reviews
Awesome Families by Kathleen E. Jenkins is an insightful and well-researched ethnography of the International Churches of Christ (ICOC), a controversial new religious movement. Inspired by a family member’s involvement, Jenkins conducted six years of fieldwork,...
by Tara Backes | Jun 18, 2025 | Reviews
Sins of My Father by Lily Dunn is a deeply compelling and unsettling memoir about her childhood under the control of her manipulative father, a devotee of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Dunn vividly recounts life in Rajneesh’s communes across India, the U.S. Italy, and...
by Tara Backes | May 4, 2023 | Reviews
Review of Unveiled by Tammie WillisDirector of CommunicationsLalich Center on Cults and Coercionwww.lalichcenter.org In speaking with Newsweek in early December about the Netflix documentary, Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo, director Jennifer...
by Dr. Janja Lalich | Jun 20, 2022 | Blog, Reviews
Last night I finished watching the 4-part documentary series, Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey about the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) cult, led by pedophile Warren Jeffs. This was an excellently crafted documentary, but so difficult to watch at times,...
by Dr. Janja Lalich | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog, Reviews
American Journal of Sociology Volume 112 Number 5 (March 2007): 1593–95 Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author. Book Review Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches...
by Dr. Janja Lalich | Sep 14, 2016 | Reviews
International Journal of Cultic Studies, Vol. 1, No., 1, 2010, pp. 100-102. Lost Boy By Brent W. Jeffs, with Maia Szalavitz Reviewed by Janja Lalich, Ph.D. New York: Broadway Books. 2009. ISBN-10: 0767931777; ISBN-13: 978-0-7679-3177-9 (hardcover). $24.95 ($16.47,...
