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Florence D. Conway is a social activist and former journalist for the Saturday Evening Post.

Following the Jonestown
Jonestown

Jonestown was the informal name for the "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project", an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, United States, led by Jim Jones....
 deaths of 1978, Dr. Conway testified on February 5, 1979 regarding "The Cult Phenomenon in the United State" along with Jim Siegelman
Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he termes "cults" in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S....
 at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult
Cult

This article does not discuss "cult" in the original sense of "veneration" or "religious practice"; for that usage see Cult . See Cult for more meanings of the term "cult"....
" practices. In 2001, she and Siegelman also received the Leo J. Ryan Award
Leo J. Ryan Award

The Leo J. Ryan Award was established by the Leo J. Ryan Education Foundation in honor of Leo Ryan; the only United States Congressman to be killed in the line of duty....
 for their work.








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Florence D. Conway is a social activist and former journalist for the Saturday Evening Post.

Following the Jonestown
Jonestown

Jonestown was the informal name for the "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project", an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California, United States, led by Jim Jones....
 deaths of 1978, Dr. Conway testified on February 5, 1979 regarding "The Cult Phenomenon in the United State" along with Jim Siegelman
Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he termes "cults" in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S....
 at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult
Cult

This article does not discuss "cult" in the original sense of "veneration" or "religious practice"; for that usage see Cult . See Cult for more meanings of the term "cult"....
" practices. In 2001, she and Siegelman also received the Leo J. Ryan Award
Leo J. Ryan Award

The Leo J. Ryan Award was established by the Leo J. Ryan Education Foundation in honor of Leo Ryan; the only United States Congressman to be killed in the line of duty....
 for their work.

Education

  • M.A.
    Master of Arts (postgraduate)

    A Master of Arts is a Postgraduate education academic degree master degree awarded by University in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in English language, Fine Arts, History, Humanities, Philosophy, Social Sciences or Theology and can be either fully-taught, research-based, or a combination of the two....
    , Ph.D.
    Ph.D.

    Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
    , University of Oregon
    University of Oregon

    The University of Oregon is a State university, coeducational research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The second oldest public university in the state, and the flagship school of the Oregon public university system, UO was founded in 1876, and graduated its first class two years later....


Publications


Books

With Jim Siegelman
Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he termes "cults" in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S....
, Conway wrote :
  • Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
  • Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America's Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives.
  • Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics

Articles

  • , by Flo Conway, James H. Siegelman, Carl W. Carmichael, and John Coggins, Update: A Journal of New Religious Movements, 1986


Awards

  • Leo J. Ryan Award
    Leo J. Ryan Award

    The Leo J. Ryan Award was established by the Leo J. Ryan Education Foundation in honor of Leo Ryan; the only United States Congressman to be killed in the line of duty....
    , with Jim Siegelman
    Jim Siegelman

    Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he termes "cults" in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S....


External links

  • , Stillpoint Press


See also

  • Norbert Wiener
    Norbert Wiener

    Norbert Wiener was an United States theoretical and applied math mathematician.Wiener was a pioneer in the study of stochastic processes and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems....
  • Jim Siegelman
    Jim Siegelman

    Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he termes "cults" in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S....
  • Rick Ross (consultant)
    Rick Ross (consultant)

    Rick Alan Ross works as a consultant, lecturer and "intervention specialist," with an interest in exit counseling or deprogramming people from cults....
  • Snapping (book)
  • Anti-cult movement
    Anti-Cult Movement

    The "anti-cult movement" is a term used by academics and others to refer to groups and individuals who opposition to cults and new religious movements....