The World Religions and Spirituality Project's (WRSP, Virginia Commonwealth University) profile of Synanon, published 2016-10-08 and read 2026-08-16, tracing Synanon's own reported membership from about 1,000 residents in 1968 to a peak of almost 1,700 in 1972, a loss of about a third of its members by March 1978, and 860 members across two communities in Badger, California, by 1988.
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Citation
AuthorWorld Religions and Spirituality Project editorial staff
PublisherWorld Religions and Spirituality Project, Virginia Commonwealth University
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/hsyanon/
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier two: an academic new religious movements reference project curated at Virginia Commonwealth University, not a peer-reviewed journal article but scholar-edited and citation-backed, giving Synanon's own reported membership counts across its history from a 1972 peak of almost 1,700 to 860 in 1988. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names California directly: "across two communities in Badger, California, by 1988."
This source names Virginia directly: "and Spirituality Project's (WRSP, Virginia Commonwealth University) profile of Synanon, published 2016-10-08 and read 2026-08-16, tracing Synanon's own reported membership from about 1,000 residents..."
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- New Religious Movements, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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