The myth of the sects. Science and religion in the social imaginary. Puebla: BUAP
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In the book “The myth of the sects” (2019), Dr. Sánchez López reflects on the concept of the sect, reviewing it from social psychology. The book describes the relationship of psychology with the religious phenomenon; it focuses especially on sects as the element from which it is analyzed to build knowledge. The text, without mentioning it, is assumed with a critical and reflective stance. Initially, he places the sects as a complex object (in terms of the complexity proposed by Morin) that is looked at and placed as a science, but the author expresses the opposite, that is, he affirms that perhaps it will be a pseudoscience, basically, because not it theorizes religious reality, rather it legitimizes it. Based on this argument, he describes as his purpose to reveal the implicit subjectivity in this qualifier and, therefore, its behavioral, cognitive, ideological and relational implications underlying the process of objectification in the psychological study of the sectarian phenomenon.
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