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 led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby...

 deaths of 1978, Dr. Conway testified on February 5, 1979 regarding "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States" along with Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he terms cults in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult practices" and also received the Leo J...

 at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on cult

Cult

The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...

 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 Congressman Leo J. Ryan; the only United States Congressman to be killed in the line of duty. He was assassinated in Guyana, while investigating Jonestown and The Peoples Temple. Ryan was posthumously awarded...

 for their work.

Books

With Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he terms cults in America.Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult practices" and also received the Leo J...

, 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

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

External links

• Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman, Stillpoint Press

See also

• 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 oppose cults and new religious movements. Sociologists David G...