Coerced and Voluntary Disaffiliation
In most cases, disaffilation is voluntary, but in some cases it is coerced. One form of coerced disaffiliation is expulsion (including excommunication) by the religious group. Deprogramming may involve kidnapping, though deprogramming sometimes fails (i.e., the deprogrammed member may go back to the religious group).
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Famous quotes containing the words coerced and/or voluntary:
“A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.... Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men’s preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men’s wills such as men would have them.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)