Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel

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Index Adorno, T. W., 98 Agudat Israel, 62, 63 Allon, Yigal, 85 Ananda Marga, 35, 43, 44, 191 Anthroposophy, 11, 12, 15, 41, 45, 182 "Anti-Cult" lobby, 35-40 Astrology, 8, 73, 74, 75, 77-89, 91, 98 Authoritarianism, 98, 166, 182 Baha'ism, 15, 16 Belief in God, 50 Ben-Aharon, Y, 41 Ben-Gurion, D., 68 Berger, Peter L., 112 Bhagwan Rajneesh, 43 "brainwashing." See "Thought Control " British Mandate, 15 Cargo Cults, 185, 186, 194 Chemical dependencies, 148-151 Clinical psychology, 104-105, 107 Co-Counseling, 129 Concerned Parents Against Cults, 37-38, 42, 43 Conversion, 1, 5, 15, 35, 164-167 Criminals, as returnees to Judaism, 57-58 Cult, definition, 12 Dale Carnegie, 120, 128-129 Death, 1, 143-146, 161-162 219 Divination, definition of, 74 Divine Intervention, 43 Divine Light Mission, 15, 43, 44, 191 Drugs, 47 Druze,15 Ego involvement, 6 Emin, 11, 17-33, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54 est Training, 3, 8, 43, 120-124 Eternal Flame Foundation. See Immortality Fairbairn, W. R. D., 110 Freud, S., 164 Germany, 97, 155 Gestalt Therapy, 106, 118 Ghost Dance, 182, 186, 194 Glazer-Ta'asa, M., 41-43, 123 Graham, Billy, 34, 46 Graphology, 74, 75, 89-92, 97 Gulf War of 1991, 88, 189 Gurdjieff, 8, 11, 182 Gush Emunim, 69, 154 Habad,60 Halley's comet, 84 Hazara Bithsuva, 52 Hitler, Adolph, 81, 97 Holocaust, 63 I AM, 124-125 I.D.F., 53, 60, 73, 119, 145 220 Index Immortality, 161-162 ISKCON, 12, 15, 16, 35, 44, 47, 48, 60, 162, 169, 171, 175, 186, 191 Israel Award, 55 Israel Secular Humanist Association , 69 Israelis, definition, 8 James, William,S, 6, 164, 167, 171, 173, 179 Jehovah's Witnesses, 11, 33, 34-35, 45, 60, 192 Jerusalem Institute for Psychoanalysis , 81, 116, 130 Jewish identity, 36, 46, 52, 58, 167, 191 Judaization, definition, 51-52 Kibbutzim, 39-40 Knesset members, 82, 86, 123 Krishnamurti, 15 League Against Religious Coercion, 68 Lubavitcher. See Habad Marx, Karl, 10, 187 Mass media, 8, 40-41, 119 "Me Decade," 106, 157 Meditation, 13 Messianic Jews, 33-34, 192 Messianic Zionism, 69-70 millet, 15 Ministry of Religious Affairs, 15 Muslims, 3-4 "National ego," 136 National Inquirer, 96 Nazis, 97 Neturei Karta, 36-37, 62, 63 New religions, definition, 13-14 1948-49 War, 138 1967 War, 2, 65, 66, 69, 80, 135, 136, 139, 152-153, 188 1973 War, 35, 65, 69, 118, 119, 134140 , 145-146, 152, 187-188, 193 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, 86, 139, 140, 189, 193 1984,94-96 Numerology, 75,94 Orthodox Judaism, 16, 45, 48, 4972 , 178, 189-190 Orwell, George, 96 Palestinian uprising, 1987-, 79, 81, 136, 139 Palm reading, 74, 91, 92-94 Parents Against the Return to Judaism , 61 Parsons, T., 111 Peres, Shimon, 85, 86, 129 Protestant Ethic, 47 Psychiatrists, in U.S., 107 Psychopathology, 173-175 Psychotherapy, 9, 13, 76, 101-131; definitions of, 101 "Psychotherapy cults," 107 Psychotherapy subculture, 101-108, 115-120 Rand, Ayn, 180 Reagan, Ronald, 85 Reform Jews, 15, 16 Romanticism, 181-183 Rosicrucians, 15 Russell, Bertrand, 176-177 Sabbath in Israel, 51 Scientology, 8, 15, 43, 45, 47, 120, 140, 180 Sect, definition, 12 Sharon, Ariel, 86 Skinner, B. F., 3 South Africa, 124, 155, 157-159, 187 State of Israel, astrological chart, 84, 87 Stress, 140-142, 143, 147 Subud, 15, 120 Theosoph~ 11, 15, 155 "Thought Control," 162-164 Index Transcendental Meditation (TM), 11, 15, 43, 44, 45, 47, 126, 140 Unification Church, 8, 12, 43 United States in 1960s, 155-157 Violent crime in Israel, 147-148 Weber, Max, 183 Yad La'Ahim, 38-39, 43 Yadin, Igael, 81 Yeshivot, 57, 58, 59, 60 Zohar, Uri, 54-56 221 T1' ...