Janja Lalich is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico, known for her study of the inner workings of cults. She was a member of the radical "Democratic Workers Party" for 11 years, a group she now considers a cult. Motivated by her personal history (“I wanted to figure out what the heck happened to me”), her research has focused on cults, specializing in charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control. Lalich published her Ph.D.

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  • Janja Lalich is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico, known for her study of the inner workings of cults. She was a member of the radical "Democratic Workers Party" for 11 years, a group she now considers a cult. Motivated by her personal history (“I wanted to figure out what the heck happened to me”), her research has focused on cults, specializing in charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control. Lalich published her Ph.D.
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