PSY 31187: Cults, Auth & New Reli Move at City College
3 credits · Fall 2026
Cults, Auth & New Reli Move (PSY 31187) at City College has 1 way to take it in Fall 2026. 0 of 1 section have an open seat right now.
The professor is: Monika Yadav.
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About this course
Why do people join cults? Why are authoritarian leaders so compelling to so many people? How do "charismatic" leaders and collectives convince members to give up control over their lives, including their finances and intimate relationships? This course explores popular, self-help, religious, and political movements through the lenses of sociological and psychological theories. Working from specific case studies, we examine research on cults and authoritarian movements, and develop theoretical frameworks that will help us to understand the personal, structural, and emotional factors that draw people to such movements. Case studies include the Church of Scientology, the People's Temple, QAnon, and the Sullivanians, a psychoanalytic cult hiding in plain sight in Manhattan?s Upper West Side during the 1970s and 1980s.
Professors for PSY 31187 at City, Fall 2026
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