From what I understood, I read a peer review article about techniques used in china where the word brainwash was coined and described during other wars like the Korean captors, I was under the impression that mind control is willingly to except while brainwashing is coercive. I was a JW for 26 and I just do not understand how coercive persuasion was implied, yes there was coercion but only whe
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Could someone point me to or explain the correct distinction between cults and religion from a sociology perspective. Also, would be wrong if I said that brainwashing is coercive and mind control is non-coercive? Being that brainwashing denotes physical violence and mind control doesn't.
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