Person

Janja Lalich

Acting

Biography

Janja Lalich (b. 1945) is an American sociologist and writer. Lalich is best known as a foremost expert on cults and coercion, charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the California State University, Chico.

Known for

The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping
Self
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
Self - Sociologist
Escaping Twin Flames
Self
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
Self

Filmography

2024The Program: Cons, Cults, and KidnappingSelf
2023Escaping Twin FlamesSelf
2020Heaven's Gate: The Cult of CultsSelf - Sociologist
2020Seduced: Inside the NXIVM CultSelf

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