Benjamin Zablocki

Benjamin Zablocki (born January 19, 1941) is and American professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he teaches sociology of religion and social psychology. He has published widely on the subject of charismatic religious movements and cults.

Academic career
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Zablocki received his B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in social relations from the Johns Hopkins University in 1967, where he studied with James S. Coleman. He did postgraduate studies in psychiatry and psychology.

Zablocki heads the Sociology department at Rutgers. He has published widely on the sociology of religion.

Books

 * The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof: A Communal Movement Now in Its Third Generation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1971, reissued 1980) ISBN 0-226-97749-8
 * Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes. New York: The Free Press. (1980) ISBN 0-02-935780-2
 * Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001. w/ Thomas Robbins (Eds.) ISBN 0-8020-8188-6

Articles

 * The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion. Nova Religion, Oct. 1997
 * Methodological Fallacies in Anthony's Critique of Exit Cost Analysis, ca. 2002,
 * The Birth and Death of New Religious Movements ca. 2005