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:
“The remnant of Indians thereabout—all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by the Red Men for their native soil and natural rights—had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)