AFF resources about, cults, cult groups, abuse, manipulation. Practical assistance services for families; cult members recover support; cultic studies research for educators and professionals. Periodicals: Cult Observer, Cultic Studies Journal, Psychological Manipulation and Society. The leading professional organization concerned about, cults, sects, new religious movements -- brainwashing, ...

Cultic Studies Review: Information on Psychological Manipulation and Abuse, Cults, New Religious Movements, Sects, the New Age Movement, and other Charismatic Groups ...

CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, is an international network of associations of scholars working in the field of new religious movements. Its director is the Italian scholar Massimo Introvigne. CESNUR is independent from any religious group, Church, denomination or association. This site is managed by CESNUR International of Torino, Italy (Via Confienza 19, 10121 Torino, Italy, ...

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The Religious Movements Homepage. This Religious Movements page is your gateway to comprehensive web-based as well as print resources about cults, sects, new religions, and religious movements, both new and established. This site includes profiles of more than 200 religious movements, plus link access to hundreds more groups.

Cults and Religion is an academic Web Site dealing with the complexity of cults and religions in modern society.

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An annotated directory of the best Internet resources for the study of New Religious Movements and alternative spirituality. ...

Scientology: A Religion in South Africa David Chidester Professor of Comparative Religion University of Cape Town South Africa Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Recognizing religion III. Religious beliefs IV. Religious ritual V. Religious ethics VI. Religious experience VII. Religious organization VIII. Scientology in South Africa IX. Reference notes Back Reference Notes Index Next ...

Volume 6, No. 1 (January 2001) 11 Pages (27825 words) PAGE 1 THE FRENCH AND GERMAN VERSUS AMERICAN DEBATE OVER 'NEW RELIGIONS', SCIENTOLOGY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Stephen A. Kent Department of Sociology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H4 Email: steve.kent@ualberta.ca Abstract This article critically examines the allegations of religious intolerance that United States officials ...

Scientology: A Way of Spiritual Self-Identification MICHAEL A. SIVERTSEV EXPERT ADVISER ON INTERNATIONAL MATTERS TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Table of Contents PREFACE I. SCIENTOLOGY AS A THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM I.I. THE CHARISMATIC LEADER I.II. SCIENTOLOGY: THE RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE AND THE HOLY KNOWLEDGE II. THE PROBLEM OF PRESERVATION OF HOLY KNOWLEDGE II.I. ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE AND ...

INFORM is a charity which responds to questions and concerns about new religious movements, alternative religions or 'cults'. Staff provide objective, up-to-date information, offer practical suggestions and can put enquirers in touch with a network of experts, which includes counsellors, clergy and legal advisors.

Copyright 2000, 2001, ACJ Volume 4, Issue 1, Fall 2000 Altar Rhetoric and Online Performance: Scientology, Ethos, and the World Wide Web Todd S. Frobish Abstract The intensity and speed with which the online environment has altered society pushes the limits of the modernist belief that religions should adjust to cultural changes. This raises a number of problems for religions moving online, such ...

Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion, the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a multi-faceted transnational that has religion as only one of its many components.

Scientology A comparison with Religions of the East and West ...

IS SCIENTOLOGY A RELIGION by GARY D. BOUMA, PH.D. Introduction You can find many critics views of the Scientology religion on the Internet if you search the word Scientology, Church of Scientology or Scientologists. Some show opposing views, some show opinions, some are positive and some are negative. This is a short one I found while doing research for my religious studies class that is simple ...

A Short Study of the Scientology Religion J. Gordon Melton County of Cook, Illinois I am the Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion located in Evanston, Illinois; a research facility for the study of the small religious groups in the United States. I have been the Director of this facility for the past ten years. I am an ordained Minister in the United Methodist Church, ...

The Church of Scientology Juha Pentikainen, Ph.D. Marja Pentikainen, MSC Helsinki, Finland ...

RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND CHURCH G.C. Oosthuizen, Th.D. Oosthuizen is a South African professor of religion with a Calvinist background. He holds that an understanding of why Scientology is a religion will be hard to arrive at without a knowledge of eastern religions, especially Buddhism. Oosthuizen belongs to the Dutch Reform Church, but in this study he asks whether Scientology would ...

Scientology, Social Science and the Definition of Religion James A. Beckford, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology University of Warwick England To begin reading click here ...

The Religious Nature of Scientology GEOFFREY PARRINDER Professor of the Comparitive Study of Religions University of London I must make it clear that I am not a Scientologist, on the contrary I am an ordained Methodist Minister of over forty years standing. I have no brief for the beliefs and practices of Scientology and might be critical of some of them. I know that complaints have been made ...

Is Scientology a Religion A Report of Research by Dean M. Kelley Counselor on Religious Liberty National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Contents ...

Scientology - A New Religion Samuel S. Hill County of Watauga North Carolina Back Index Next ...

Is Scientology A Religion

On all the above points which typically distinguish churches and sects, the Church of Scientology can be seen more to resemble...