Flo Conway

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

Following the Jonestown deaths of 1978, Dr. Conway testified on February 5, 1979 regarding "The Cult Phenomenon in the United State" along with Jim Siegelman at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult" practices. In 2001, she and Siegelman also received the Leo J. Ryan Award for their work.

Education

• M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon

Publications

Books

With Jim Siegelman, 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

Awards

• Leo J. Ryan Award, with Jim Siegelman

References

External links

• Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman, Stillpoint Press

See also

• Norbert Wiener
• Jim Siegelman
• Rick Ross (consultant)
• Snapping (book)
• Anti-cult movement

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