2010-10-25 RELS 225 2010-10-25 RELS 225 AgendaAgenda

2010-10-25 RELS 225 2010-10-25 RELS 225 AgendaAgenda

• Attendance• Brainwashing• Movie: Ticket to Heaven• Homework for Next Time

Brainwashing??Brainwashing??

Comprehending Cults Comprehending Cults Chapter 5Chapter 5Comprehending Cults Comprehending Cults Chapter 5Chapter 5

Ticket to HeavenTicket to Heaven

How does this movie’s How does this movie’s presentation match the presentation match the process presented by process presented by believers in believers in brainwashing?brainwashing?1. Use social-1. Use social-psychological psychological techniques of influencetechniques of influence2. recruiters taught to 2. recruiters taught to target and approach target and approach recruitsrecruits3. recruiters taught to 3. recruiters taught to be deceptivebe deceptive4. potential recruits are 4. potential recruits are pressured to signing uppressured to signing up5. new recruits are not 5. new recruits are not left aloneleft alone6. recruits are kept 6. recruits are kept busy, and underfed with busy, and underfed with little sleeplittle sleep7. activities take place 7. activities take place in isolated in isolated environmentsenvironments8. recruits are "love-8. recruits are "love-bombed"bombed"9. recruits do 9. recruits do "confessional" activities"confessional" activities10. recruits are subject 10. recruits are subject to sensory deprivationto sensory deprivation11. recruits are subject 11. recruits are subject to hypnosisto hypnosis12. recruits’ identity is 12. recruits’ identity is transformed. transformed.

How does this movie’s How does this movie’s presentation match the presentation match the process presented by process presented by believers in believers in brainwashing?brainwashing?1. Use social-1. Use social-psychological psychological techniques of influencetechniques of influence2. recruiters taught to 2. recruiters taught to target and approach target and approach recruitsrecruits3. recruiters taught to 3. recruiters taught to be deceptivebe deceptive4. potential recruits are 4. potential recruits are pressured to signing uppressured to signing up5. new recruits are not 5. new recruits are not left aloneleft alone6. recruits are kept 6. recruits are kept busy, and underfed with busy, and underfed with little sleeplittle sleep7. activities take place 7. activities take place in isolated in isolated environmentsenvironments8. recruits are "love-8. recruits are "love-bombed"bombed"9. recruits do 9. recruits do "confessional" activities"confessional" activities10. recruits are subject 10. recruits are subject to sensory deprivationto sensory deprivation11. recruits are subject 11. recruits are subject to hypnosisto hypnosis12. recruits’ identity is 12. recruits’ identity is transformed. transformed.

For HomeworkFor HomeworkFor HomeworkFor Homework

• For Thursday’s 12:45 class on Peoples Temple • Read “The Apocalypse in

Jonestown” (on Moodle)• Read “Peoples Temple”

in your reader.• For Monday’s 11:15

class, on chapter 6• Chapter 6 summary on

Moodle