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Maurice Duval L'Homme et la Société

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Anti-cult movements

The Anti-Cult Discourse as a Support of Neoliberal Ideology

Maurice Duval's 2005 article for L'Homme et la Société: a Montpellier by-law banning all proselytism on the public highway used against a Trotskyist paper seller, alternative groups listed as cults in the 1996 report, the Weberian typology tested on the Mandarom, and fear tracked as it moves from the nuclear industry to the foreigner to the cults - the bedrock, he argues, of a security ideology that makes neoliberal policy acceptable.

1 January 2005