t as an alternative explanation to the personal changes of the young people is “joining a cult, may simply be the young person becoming more open about their emotions and changing loyalties, thus the movement into an alternative religious group may be a move towards independence from the primary family (Melton & Moore, 1982 in Walsh & Bor, 1996, p.2). From this point of view which can be relied on it can be easily said that the aim towards the cults are mainly occur from these sort of rebels against the families’ dominance over the children which is another social and psychological reason for people joining cults.Another reason for why people join cults is their being exposed to “brainwashing” by either a social group or by a manipulative person. As it is mentioned in the introduction that the real aim of a cult is to manipulate a group of people for the leader’s or that organisation’s advance rather than the group members. In order to persuade and deceive people these leaders or the organisations whose intentions are wicked apply brainwashing to the people at any time they have the opportunity. For these people Walsh and Bor also indicates that “Their activities are often described as ‘brainwashing’ and their methods charged with altering members personalities.” (Walsh & Bor, 1997, p.2) These methods of brainwashing are not very strange to us since in our society it is quite familiar to us that the cults affect and manipulate especially the young people in their way of thinking. Moreover these cults especially in our country mostly dwelled upon the Islam itself. Due to the conditions of our country the publishing method of course differs then the western countries. The meetings, videotapes, and audiotapes are the main instruments of the cults in order to apply the method of ‘brainwashing’ in almost every moment of the individuals whole day. Only by this way they ac...
