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| | Anti-Cult Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As a result, it has been abandoned by the anti-cult movement in the USA, in favor of the voluntary, legal practice of exit counseling, which is, though, also a subject of controversy between sympathizers and critics of new religious movements regarding its basic assumptions and its relation to freedom of religion. | | | Not all opposition to (certain) cults or new religious movements is part of the ACM. | | | Within established religion, two basic reasons for opposition to cults and new religious movement can be discerned: one is mainly based on theological differences, the other is based on defending human self-determinism and targets mainly groups (religious and non-religious) with alleged cultic behavior according to the definition of the secular opposition to cults. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunking_of_the_anti-cult_movement_myths
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| | The Twelve Tribes : A 25 Year Retrospective On The Impact Of The Anti-Cult Movement On Children Of The Twelve Tribes Communities |
| | They are marrying, raising their children and choosing the faith of their parents who taught them according to the Word, including the command to discipline by spanking, a practice that has provoked the wrath of many and has provided fodder for the anti-cult movement to charge abuse. | | | One of the favorite tactics of the anti-cult movement is to work through disaffected, ex-members of the Twelve Tribes' Communities, using their testimony to manipulate government agencies and the media. | | | One graphic example of a child abused by the tactics of the anti-cult movement is Darlynn Church, the alleged 12-year-old victim in the 1983 pre-raid simple assault charge against Eddie Wiseman. |
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http://www.twelvetribes.com/controversies/retrospective-anticult.html
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| | The Anti-Cult Movement |
| | The Rationale of the Anti-cult Movement: The program of the anti-cult movement required a means of transforming the purely familial and religious concerns of the parent groups in to a secular public issue and turning the personal hurt felt by families into the aura of potential harm threatening all of society from the cults. | | | Critics of the anti-cult movement quickly attacked the testimonies of the ex-cultists noting the distortion which had entered into their accounts due to the deprogramming process and the infusion of the anti-cult rhetoric into the ex-member's story. | | | This single concern determines the shape of the movement's program and most of the organizations within the movement exist solely to serve parents who want their son or daughter removed from a particular religious group. |
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http://www.americanreligion.org/cultwtch/anticult.html
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| | Anti and Counter Cult Links |
| | The secular movement is referred to as the anti-cult movement and the non-secular as the counter-cult movement. | | | Social scientists who study cults and sects do not deny that the leadership of religious movements use techniques of influence, but they generally do not see these techniques as different from techniques of influence that are rather widely distributed in all human societies. | | | Anti-cultists accept uncritically theories on the use and power of brainwashing to control young converts to NRMs and countered the supposed mind-controlling effects of cult leaders with "deprogramming." "Brainwashing" was the term coined by British journalist Edward Hunter to describe the process of alleged "mind control" used by Chinese Communist agents during the Korean War. |
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http://www.gbgm-umc.org/webberville/cult/anticult.htm
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| | Religious cults in twentieth century America |
| | Experts criticise the anti-cult movement for failing to recognise both the wide diversity amongst cults and the freedom of choice exercised by joiners and leavers. | | | While the term 'sect' classically refers to a breakaway movement from a mainstream church, the term 'cult' became a popular way of referring to new and different religious groups, particularly those groups surfacing in the 1960s and 1970s in America. | | | Unlike sects, cults provide radical alternatives to western Judaeo-Christian traditions, for example in the form of groups influenced by eastern religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism. |
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http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/cults.htm
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| | Cult - Wikiquote |
| | As he rightly points out, one person's cult is another's religion; all religions begin life as cults. | | | An alternative definition is that a cult is a religion which you happen to dislike. | | | "The difference between a cult and an established religion is sometimes about one generation." |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cult
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| | “Verfassungsfeindlich” |
| | The primary argument used by the German anti-cult movement is that new religions are | | | First, thinly disguised theological and ideological counter-cult arguments are used to define religion in terms acceptable to the church establishment. | | | Cult investigators are people with theological training who investigate the activities of potential spiritual rivals. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/papers/irving/Verfas.htm
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| | The Counter Cult Movement |
| | Many cults present themselves as viable Christian churches, and people seeking spiritual truth and a relationship with God are being deceived into believing the enemy's [Satan's] lies. | | | God is perceived as sending members of many "cults" to Hell after they die, because they have believed the incorrect teachings of their faith groups. | | | Agnosticism, Atheism, New Age Movement, Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions, Wicca and other Neopagan religions, etc. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/ccm.htm
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| | Countercult : The Counter-Cult Movement - religious cults, sects and movements |
| | pages of research resources on religious cults, sects, new religious movements, alternative religions, apologetics-, anticult-, and countercult organizations, doctrines, religious practices and world views. | | | Their intend is to educate Christians and non-Christians on the dangers of cultic movements, to help Christians counter the claims of such movements, and to provide cult-members with information that may help them leave those movements. | | | In their approach, they use apologetics - the logical presentation and defense of the Christian faith - to 'counter' the claims of cults. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c142.html
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| | New Religions |
| | The Counter-cult movement classifies new religions and non-traditional faith groups as cults because their beliefs differ from historical Christian doctrine. | | | Cults may feel persecuted by anti-cult activists, families, law enforcement, and media, which may have a share in the ultimate violent outcomes that result when these groups are in conflict. | | | In the 1990s, cults were successful in litigation against deprogrammers and anti-cult groups, most notably in a suit against the influential Cult Awareness Network brought by a cult member who claimed his civil rights had been violated by a deprogramming attempt. |
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http://rand.pratt.edu/~giannini/newreligions.html
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| | Institute for the Study of American Religion |
| | Those groups which it has concentrated upon have been known under a variety of labels including sect, cult, minority religion, alternative religion, non-conventional religion, spiritual movement, and new religious movement. | | | Among the most called for information is factual data on the many new and more controversial religious movements, which are popularly labeled as cults. | | | It monitors all of the religious denominations, organizations, and movements functioning in North America and regularly publishes reports drawing from that activity in a series of reference books. |
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http://www.americanreligion.org
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| | Kropveld, Michael: "An Example for Controversy: Creating a Model for Reconciliation" |
| | Hexham, I. New religions and the Anticult Movement in Canada. | | | Hence, scholars who generalize about “the” “anti-cult movement,” when they have had at best superficial contact with only a few organizations and individuals, make the same error as laymen and helping professionals who generalize from their limited experience to the wide world of cults/NRMs, in which there are thousands of groups. | | | The use of terminology such as “Anti-Cult Movement” (ACM) and “Pro-Cult Movement” (PCM), “anti-cultist” and “pro-cultist” or “cult apologist” are examples of divisive labels that are hardly conducive to encouraging dialogue or discernment. |
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http://csj.org/infoserv_articles/kropveld_michael_anexampleforcontroversy.htm
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| | BOOK REVIEW: SCHOLAR'S WORK ASSAILS CULT STEREOTYPE ISKCON WORLD REVIEW 10/87 +quot;The Gr |
| | "On the other hand, the anti cult writers have painted Krishna and the movement that bears His name as dark and demonic blots on the recent religious history in America. | | | Liberty by this definition, is the essential condition and guardian of religion." He concludes: "The Hare Krishna Movement in America reflects the same limitations and foibles as any religious institution. | | | One ad described by Shinn in chapter eight begins with the announcement, "Cult activity didn't die at Jonestown" and ends with a plea for funds saying, "Prevent another Jonestown." Half of the page of the ad is covered with a scene of the dead victims spread on the streets of Jonestown. |
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http://www.skepticfiles.org/rumor/cultbook.htm
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| | What's News -- June 30, 1997 |
| | The secular camp disagrees strongly with the anti-cult movement by generally rejecting the existence of what is understood to be brainwashing or mind control. | | | Observers of the anti-cult movement often get the impression that religious freedom issues go unheeded and that the eventual elimination of cultic systems is a common goal. | | | As I've come to see it, criticism of cults originates mostly from three main camps, which can be classified as anti-cult, countercult, and secular. |
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http://apologia.gospelcom.net/textown/ttWhatsNews/ttWN970630.html
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| | My Conclusion » The anti-cult cult phenomenon |
| | Let’s take a look, for instance, at the classic image of the “dangerous sect” that the anti-cult movement has drummed into us; a movement of abusive, potentially harmful and blindly convinced brainwashed, demented fanatics who will use any and all means toward the furthering of their cause, including abduction, “brainwashing,” violence and even suicide. | | | Thus, it seems to me, that this “cult” (the anti-cult movement) has all the potential to be, and in fact has proven its self to be, a truly dangerous and menacing movement! | | | No doubt, the “victims” of the anti-cult “cult” will justify their own involvement in this cruel deed saying; “we have done evil that good may come.” No doubt, this was also the same logic once employed by the “holy inquisitors.” |
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http://www.myconclusion.com/archives/2005/02/01/the-anti-cult-cult-phenomenon
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| | Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation |
| | Leading the reconciliation between the two cult camps were Michael Langone, a counseling psychologist and executive director of the American Family Foundation, and Eileen Barker, a sociologist at the London School of Economics and founder of INFORM, a British charity that provides information about new religious movements. | | | Fighting in the cult wars may have reached a peak three years ago, when lawyers and other individuals linked to the Church of Scientology, one of the nation's most controversial and powerful new religious movements, sued the Cult Awareness Network into bankruptcy. | | | Many of the scholars studying cults and sects focus on more abstract questions, such as how religions are born and evolve over time. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/apologist/apologist55.html
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| | The Anti-Cult Movement |
| | The Anti-Cult movement is the name given by sociologists and scholars to designate the loose group of organizations and individuals who are opposing so-called "cults" on a strong "Us vs Them" duality. | | | While there certainly can be elements of cultic influences that are worth being studied, "mind-control" itself is hardly more than sheer superstition, similar to the superstitious Middle-Age belief in demonic possession used to burn "witches". | | | The movement mostly originated with Ted Patrick's kidnappings and deprogrammings in the early 70s and is based on the notion of mind-control, a concept that has been debunked in the 80's but is still alive in popular media. |
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http://bernie.cncfamily.com/acm.htm
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| | Apologia Report 4:17
May 24, 1999 |
| | Synan uses the trend description "Convergence movement" in noting the rise of the Charismatic Episcopal Church and, more briefly, Pentecostalism's influence on the Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Church. | | | Another major Pentecostal trend cited is the New Apostolic Church movement birthed by C. Peter Wagner (Synan makes a passing reference to Wagner's recent book, The New Apostolic Churches (Gospel Light, 1998, hardcover, ISBN 0-8307-2136-3). | | | The Case of ISKCON") the movement's representatives admitted serious ethical errors in their ranks, discussed concrete steps being taken toward correction and reform, and responded to questions from audience members in a positive atmosphere of openness and mutual understanding. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/apologia_report/archive/04/ar04-17.html
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| | It is important for this Task Force to understand the political history that preceded its creation and not to allow itself to be used by the anti-cult movement to achieve political ends that will result in the spread of religious intolerance. | | | In addition, I believe the anti-cult movement itself is a group that could be studied under the Task Force's mission statement, and I intend to say something about its motives and activities. | | | The Task Force should recommend that University administrators, chaplains and counseling centers seek authentic dialog with new religious movements to foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding. |
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http://www.religiousfreedom.com/tskfrce/fefferman2.htm
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| | Cult Apologists? |
| | Expert witness testifies that church is a cult | | | Cult's presence in Holy Land no surprise to many | | | Odd Gods: New Religions & the Cult Controversy |
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| | Department Overview |
| | The term cult as defined by Webster's is a religion or its adherents regarded as unorthodox | | | America has seen thousands of New Religious Movements since the Pilgrams arrived on its shores. | | | Examples of this are destructive cult or totalitarian cult. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~parrjeff
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| | The Judgment of Lord Justice Ward: THE ANTI-CULT MOVEMENT |
| | The suggestion is made on behalf of The Family that the Plaintiff is a mere tool and dupe of the anti-cult movement. | | | The Judgment of Lord Justice Ward: THE ANTI-CULT MOVEMENT | | | NT is no less obdurate and her love/hate relationship with her mother is a demonstration of the observation I make that whilst there is much about both of these ladies which commands my admiration and my respect, each of them in their way and particularly in their dealings with each other, can be jolly difficult! |
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http://countercog.excult.org/judgment/judgment-02.htm
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| | ReligionsNet.com Religious Studies Resource Links: The Anti-Cult Movement |
| | ReligionsNet.com Religious Studies Resource Links: The Anti-Cult Movement | | | Apologetics Research Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Movements, Doctrines, Etc. | | | Carol Giambalvo's Cult Information and Recovery (She is a "thought reform consultant.") |
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http://www.markfoster.net/jccc/anticult.html
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| | Anti-cult movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Scholars differentiate the sectarian movement as the counter-cult movement and the secular movement as the anti-cult movement. | | | The anti-cult movement of today goes beyond a group of concerned parents, and it includes a diverse platform composed of individuals, ex-members, groups, and organizations who attempt to raise public consciousness about what they feel are serious emotional, spiritual and physical abuses by various new religious movements, cults, new religious movement, or sects. | | | The anti-cult movement believes that a set of groups can be distinguished from legitimate religious groups in that they appear to exploit and abuse their members; are often centered around an unreliable charismatic leader; and may use deceitful ways of recruiting and retaining members. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-cult_activists
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| | The anti-cult tenets and the position of this web site in contrast. |
| | Because of the use of mind-control, cult members did not really choose to join the movement, and therefore their beliefs cannot be counted as true religious beliefs. | | | Since cults are considered scams rather than religions, the measures proposed by anti-cultists are not seen as religious discrimination. | | | Religious movements, however, are not above criticism, and nothing is lost by recognizing the religious nature of cults. |
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http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/basic_tenets.htm
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| | The Anti-Cult Movement |
| | The Anti-Cult Movement (ACM) consists of individuals and groups who attempt to raise public consciousness about what they feel are extreme danger. | | | "Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours." | | | Books and articles on the ACM and New Religious Movements |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/acm.htm
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| | Sacred Tribes Journal |
| | So many books produced by evangelicals on the subject of "cults," new religions, and the New Age tend to be written merely to reinforce the biblical orthodoxy of evangelical readers by refuting the heretical doctrines of a given new religion. | | | According to this methodology the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is viewed as a cult with a doctrinal system of heresy that needs to be refuted. | | | The genre is largely characterised by a predictable format that focuses on the ex-devotee's disenchantment with the religious movement. |
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http://www.sacredtribes.com/issue1/books.htm
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| | Introvigne's role in Plinio's war on the 'anti-cult movement' |
| | At least in Italy, a large majority of the members of what Introvigne calls "anti-cult movements" are practising Catholics, however ideological/theological issues are never discussed in any such movement I know of. | | | Thirdly, in his more intimate writings in Cristianità, Introvigne quite clearly reveals the strategic nature of cult apology, presenting it as a necessary weapon in the struggle against the "Freudian and Marxist anti-cult movement" and to protect Opus Dei and other groups (T.F.P. is only mentioned rarely) against "persecution". | | | Not having been a member of T.F.P. myself, I cannot say whether it is a cult. |
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| | Law Enforcement Guide to Witchcraft, Wicca and Other Earth Religions |
| | The Religious Movements Homepage of the Univ. of Virginia, and | | | This material is anti-paganism and the groups involved in it's creation look at most religions other than Christianity as Satanic. | | | He attributes the cult conspiracy theory to beliefs fueled by Christian fundamentalist sects and to the ungovernable mechanisms of rumor-panics, subversive mythology, and urban legend. |
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http://www.cultureshocksolution.org/public_html/Law%20Enforcement%20Guide%20to%20Witchcraft,%20Wicca%20and%20Other%20Earth%20Religions.htm
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| | CULTS, SECTS AND NEW RELIGIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| | An attempt is made to place the new religious movements in the context of American history and to interpret their significance for both American culture and the academic study of religion. | | | To understand the rise of new religious movements in the late 1960's and early 1970's, it is essential that the crucial role of the so-called "counter culture" of the 1960's is appreciated. | | | Although the influence of Chinese religious thought on the new religious movements is not as obvious as that of Indian religions, it is |
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