The Order of the Solar Temple
by Will Newman and Miles Eubanks
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Joseph DI Mambro
Luc Louret
How where the groups resocialized?
Believers were resocialized to believe in establishing a correct understanding of power in the world, a second coming of Jesus Christ, and in unifying all Christian churches and Islam.
The cult practiced a form of socialization by having large amount of members participating in group events, like mass suicides.
Members of the cult display a generalized other by believing the leaders that there would be an apocalypse in the mid 90’s.
The members form new peer groups when they participate in the cult and meet new people.
The cult shows examples of rights of passage by having differing ranks that members can rise up.
The cult desocializes people by making them give up their sense of what is right and wrong and forces them to accept new beliefs.
The cult used total institutions to separate members from the rest of the world and force them to either commit suicide or be murdered.
- Members of the cult adopt new reference groups, through either other group members or leaders of the cult.