# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janja-lalich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:34.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janja-lalich"
name: "Janja Lalich"
slug: "janja-lalich"
description: "Janja Lalich is an American sociologist and writer. Lalich is an expert on cults and coercion, charismatic authority, power relations, ideology, and social control. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the California State University, Chico."
tagline: "American sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Janja_Lalich_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.38
  momentum:             0.4336734693877551
  historical:           5.525562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janja_Lalich"
    title: "Janja Lalich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janja_Lalich"
    title: "Janja Lalich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%86"
    title: "جانجا لالیچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%86"
    title: "جنجا لالچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janja_Lalich"
    title: "Janja Lalich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8F"
    title: "Лалич, Джанья"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4253414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump