Benjamin Zablocki (b. January 19, 1941 in Brooklyn) is professor of sociology at Rutgers University and teaches sociology of religion and social psychology. He has published widely on the subject of charismatic religious movements and cults. January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York State Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. ... The sociology of religion is – among other elements – the study of the practices, social structures, historical backgrounds, development, universal themes, and roles of religion in society. ... Social psychology is the study of the nature and causes of human social behavior, with an emphasis on how people think towards each other and how they relate to each other. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a relatively small and cohesive group of people (often a new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ...
Zablocki got 1962 a B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University and 1967 a Ph.D. in social relations from the Johns Hopkins University and did postgraduate studies in psychiatry and psychology. Main article: History of mathematics The evolution of mathematics can be seen to be an ever increasing series of abstractions. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... The Johns Hopkins University is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioral conditions. ... Psychology (Classical Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of behaviour, mind and thought and, frequently, the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals daily lives and the treatment of mental illness. ...
Bibliography
The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1980)
Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes. New York: The Free Press. (1980)
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field, Toronto, University of of Toronto Press, 2001. w/ Thomas Robbins (Eds.)
Articles
'The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion. Nova Religion, Oct. 1997
'"Methodological Fallacies in Anthony's Critique of Exit Cost Analysis", ca. 2002, [1]
"The Birth and Death of New Religious Movements" ca. 2005 [2]
Elsewhere, Zablocki elaborates upon the disoriented state, which he considers to be the core of the brainwashing process.
The central theme of Zablocki’s brainwashing articles is to show that the accomplishment of such a modification of preferences by brainwashing is involuntary, and that once the modified preference structure is accomplished, the person becomes stuck in it against their will.
It seems to me that both Zablocki’s paradigm, and the CIA brainwashing paradigm from which it is derived, are primarily aimed at demonstrating the loss of free will of the alleged victims of brainwashing.
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