Why we're so obsessed with cults
By A Mystery Man Writer
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quot;In this crisis moment, we have a return to desire for overarching meaning, radical acceptance, transformative experience, transcendence," says the UC Berkeley professor of English and co-director of the Program in Critical Theory.
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