International Cultic Studies Association

Table of Contents

 

 Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004

 

In this issue
 

Articles

 

News Summaries

 

Book Reviews

 

Departments/Archives

 

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Articles
 
Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups: A Partial Model
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.
 
Cults and Religious Privileges in England and Australia: Can the Wheat be Separated from the Chaff?
Stephen Bruce Mutch, M.A., LL.B.
 
Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film
Joseph P. Szimhart
 
Cults and Families
Doni Whitsett, Ph.D. & Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.

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  News
  News Summaries: Posted 10/21/04

 

Al-Arqam and Al-Maunah

Creating Blind Faith

Al-Muhajiroun

Alleged Bomb Plotter Brainwashed Says Family

Amish

Ruling against Keeping Horses

Arthur Allen

Minister Denied Parole on Abuse Conviction

Aum Shinrikyo

Asahara Refuses to See Lawyer

Barred from Philippines

Court Orders School to Admit Asahara’s Daughter

Life Sentence Changed to Death on Appeal

Arrested for Illegal Sales

Arrests for 1995 Shooting

Asahara Still Their Guru

Beasts of Satan

Accused of Human Sacrifices

Brainwashing

Muslim Leader Calls for Curbs on “Rogue” Preachers

Branch Davidians/Koresh/Waco

Video Game Based on Waco Disaster

Brother Julius

Late Leader’s Followers Surface

Children of God

HBO Developing Documentary

Children, Now Grown, Tell of Raid Experience

Children of Thunder

Guilty of Murder in “War Against Satan”

Psychiatrist Says Helzer Mentally Unsound

Prophet Accused of Murders Aimed to Take Over Mormon Church

Coercive Persuasion/Deprogramming

Unique “Cure” for Hate Crime Perpetrators Proposed

Deeper Life Church

Accused of Exploiting the Indigent

Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith

Charged in Exorcism Death

Falun Gong

Psychiatric Abuse against Practitioners Alleged

The Family

Suit Alleges Long-term Psychological Injuries

Fossmo, Helge

Pastor Accused of Manipulating Woman to Murder

Pushed to Believe She Was “Bride of Christ”

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Woman’s Life in Polygamous Community

Doomsday Failure Leads to Bankruptcy

Texas Sheriff Tours Polygamous Town

Lawsuits versus Bountiful Branch

Texas Town Anxious about Polygamist Newcomers

Probe into Polygamous Police

Church Can’t Take His House

Public School Teaches Polygamy Is Good

Says Polygamy Is His Constitutional Right

Investigation Requested, Promised

General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn

Parents Charged in Faith Healing Death

Great Deliverance Spiritual Baptist Church

“Torture and Cruelty” in Church Faith Healing Rituals

Greater Grace World Outreach

Internet Website Focus of Criticism

Group Pressure/Abu Ghraib

“Atrocity-Producing Situations”

Hare Krishna [International Society for Krishna Consciousness/ISKCON]

Bhaktipada Released from Prison but Banned from Community

Paroled Swami Returns to Breakaway Faction

Heartland Christian Academy

Judge Bars Raids

House of Prayer

No New Trial

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Activities Banned in Moscow

Death from Transfusion Refusal Alleged

Saved by Transfusion

Judge Says Transfusion Violated Rights

Jesus Christians

Kidneys as “Living Sacrifices” to God

Johane Church of God

Refuses Immunization from “Pharaoh’s” Government

Kabbalah

Madonna Studying with “Sinister Cult”

Last Warning Church

Asks Government to Lift Ban

Latter-day Church of God/The Order

Alleged Child Abuse in Polygamous Clan Detailed

Polygamist Ruled Abusive to Daughters

Lord’s Resistance Army

Ritual Indoctrination

UN Appeal to Rebel Group

Lyndon Larouche

Parents Call for Cult Awareness

Claims Star Wars Defense Was His Idea

Manganin Sibuea

Doomsday Leader Sentenced

Manson Family

Van Houten again Refused Parole

New TV Movie Based on Murders

Still Has Following

Mind Control/Marc Dutroux

Victims Embraced Abuser

Ministerial Christian Academy

Police Remove Allegedly Abused Students

Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy/Palm Lane Academy

Schools Closed Over Discipline Issues

Movement for Spiritual Integration into Absolute (MISA)

Yoga “Master” Arrested for Practices

Native American Church

Ritual Peyote Use Legalized for All Members

New Alliance Party

Nader’s Cult Support

NXIVM

Criticism Can Stay Online

Order of Christ Sophia

Cult-like Controls Alleged

Order of the Solar Temple

Refusal to Reopen Investigation

Palo Mayombe

Convicted of Cemetery Theft

Persuasion

Using Religion to Persuade Investors

Group Pressure Can Transform Individuals

Polygamy

Editorial Approval, But Not with Minors

Psychological Warfare

Loud Music Tactic in Iraq

Rajneesh

New Book on Youngster’s Life in Rajneesh

Remnant Fellowship Church/Weigh Down Workshop

Leader Says Critics and Police Want to End Her Ministry

Group’s Teachings Investigated in Murder Case

Research and Education

Conference on Cults’ Impact on Mental Health

Satanism

Now Says She’s Innocent of Satanic Ritual Crime

Scientology

Wins Claim against Former Member for Public Disclosures

Call for Tax Agreement with IRS to Be Made Public

Establishing in Boston Neighborhood

Use of Public Space Draws Criticism

Shock Therapy Trial

Fear Drug Lecture May Lead to Recruiting

Stars Open Scientology Center

Settlement in McPherson Case

What Was Nature of McPherson Settlement?

Narconon Program Threatened

Tom Cruise Opens Narconon Center

Deficit in Ireland

Negative Downtown Image

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Office Open to Scientology Lobby

Display Dismissed as Unscientific

Anti-Psychiatry Tour

Consultants Help Build Community Connections

Spiritual Healing/Faith Healing

12 Years for Abuse

Sri Chinmoy

Accused of Sexual Exploitation

Sri Haribharanidhara Raghavendra Swamigal

Parents Abduct 13-Year-Old Holy Man

Taxation/Unitarian Church

Official Says Unitarian Church Not Tax Exempt

Transcendental Meditation

Considered for Schools

Twelve Tribes

Arrest in Child Custody Dispute

Unification Church

Former Member Rehabilitating

Orphan Assistance

Chile Denies Legal Status

U.S. House Member Helps Crown Moon

Reaction Called Witch Hunt

Finally Accepted in Gloucester

United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors

York Followers Quit Jobs in Protest

York Sentenced to 135 Years

Members Disqualified to Run for Office

Suing Sheriff for Inaction in Abuse Case

Harassing Lawsuits

1,000 Celebrate York’s Birthday

Government Can Take Group’s Property

Word of Faith Fellowship

Wife Agrees to Keep Kids Out of Group

Children File for Emancipation

 

 

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Book Reviews
   
Terrorismo Religioso. La Guerra del Siglo XXI. El Ataque al World Trade Center y al Pentágono
Reviewed by Carmen Almendros
   
Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat
Reviewed by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
 
The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold
Reviewed by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
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C&S: Table of Contents - Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 01, No. 01, 2002
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 01, No. 02, 2002
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 01, No. 03, 2002
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 02, No. 01, 2003
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 02, No. 02, 2003
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 02, No. 03, 2003
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 03, No. 01, 2004
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 03, No. 02, 2004
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 03, No. 03, 2004
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 04, No. 01, 2005
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 04, No. 02, 2005
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 04, No. 03, 2005
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 5, No. 1, 2006
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 5, No. 2, 2006
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 6, No. 1, 2007
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 6, No. 2, 2007
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 6, No. 3, 2007

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Issue Archives Professional Columns
Article Archives Education
News Archives Getting Help
Book Reviews Guest Column
Profile Groups Law
Profile Individuals Personal Accounts
Profile Organizational Psychology
Feedback Individual Letters Religion
Send Feedback Group Reports
     
 ___________________________________________________________^
 

International Cultic Studies Association

Table of Contents

 

 Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004

 

In this issue
 

Articles

 

News Summaries

 

Book Reviews

 

Departments/Archives

 

___________________________________________________________^

Articles
 
Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups: A Partial Model
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.
 
Cults and Religious Privileges in England and Australia: Can the Wheat be Separated from the Chaff?
Stephen Bruce Mutch, M.A., LL.B.
 
Persistence of “Deprogramming” Stereotypes in Film
Joseph P. Szimhart
 
Cults and Families
Doni Whitsett, Ph.D. & Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.

___________________________________________________________^

  News
  News Summaries: Posted 10/21/04

 

Al-Arqam and Al-Maunah

Creating Blind Faith

Al-Muhajiroun

Alleged Bomb Plotter Brainwashed Says Family

Amish

Ruling against Keeping Horses

Arthur Allen

Minister Denied Parole on Abuse Conviction

Aum Shinrikyo

Asahara Refuses to See Lawyer

Barred from Philippines

Court Orders School to Admit Asahara’s Daughter

Life Sentence Changed to Death on Appeal

Arrested for Illegal Sales

Arrests for 1995 Shooting

Asahara Still Their Guru

Beasts of Satan

Accused of Human Sacrifices

Brainwashing

Muslim Leader Calls for Curbs on “Rogue” Preachers

Branch Davidians/Koresh/Waco

Video Game Based on Waco Disaster

Brother Julius

Late Leader’s Followers Surface

Children of God

HBO Developing Documentary

Children, Now Grown, Tell of Raid Experience

Children of Thunder

Guilty of Murder in “War Against Satan”

Psychiatrist Says Helzer Mentally Unsound

Prophet Accused of Murders Aimed to Take Over Mormon Church

Coercive Persuasion/Deprogramming

Unique “Cure” for Hate Crime Perpetrators Proposed

Deeper Life Church

Accused of Exploiting the Indigent

Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith

Charged in Exorcism Death

Falun Gong

Psychiatric Abuse against Practitioners Alleged

The Family

Suit Alleges Long-term Psychological Injuries

Fossmo, Helge

Pastor Accused of Manipulating Woman to Murder

Pushed to Believe She Was “Bride of Christ”

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Woman’s Life in Polygamous Community

Doomsday Failure Leads to Bankruptcy

Texas Sheriff Tours Polygamous Town

Lawsuits versus Bountiful Branch

Texas Town Anxious about Polygamist Newcomers

Probe into Polygamous Police

Church Can’t Take His House

Public School Teaches Polygamy Is Good

Says Polygamy Is His Constitutional Right

Investigation Requested, Promised

General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn

Parents Charged in Faith Healing Death

Great Deliverance Spiritual Baptist Church

“Torture and Cruelty” in Church Faith Healing Rituals

Greater Grace World Outreach

Internet Website Focus of Criticism

Group Pressure/Abu Ghraib

“Atrocity-Producing Situations”

Hare Krishna [International Society for Krishna Consciousness/ISKCON]

Bhaktipada Released from Prison but Banned from Community

Paroled Swami Returns to Breakaway Faction

Heartland Christian Academy

Judge Bars Raids

House of Prayer

No New Trial

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Activities Banned in Moscow

Death from Transfusion Refusal Alleged

Saved by Transfusion

Judge Says Transfusion Violated Rights

Jesus Christians

Kidneys as “Living Sacrifices” to God

Johane Church of God

Refuses Immunization from “Pharaoh’s” Government

Kabbalah

Madonna Studying with “Sinister Cult”

Last Warning Church

Asks Government to Lift Ban

Latter-day Church of God/The Order

Alleged Child Abuse in Polygamous Clan Detailed

Polygamist Ruled Abusive to Daughters

Lord’s Resistance Army

Ritual Indoctrination

UN Appeal to Rebel Group

Lyndon Larouche

Parents Call for Cult Awareness

Claims Star Wars Defense Was His Idea

Manganin Sibuea

Doomsday Leader Sentenced

Manson Family

Van Houten again Refused Parole

New TV Movie Based on Murders

Still Has Following

Mind Control/Marc Dutroux

Victims Embraced Abuser

Ministerial Christian Academy

Police Remove Allegedly Abused Students

Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy/Palm Lane Academy

Schools Closed Over Discipline Issues

Movement for Spiritual Integration into Absolute (MISA)

Yoga “Master” Arrested for Practices

Native American Church

Ritual Peyote Use Legalized for All Members

New Alliance Party

Nader’s Cult Support

NXIVM

Criticism Can Stay Online

Order of Christ Sophia

Cult-like Controls Alleged

Order of the Solar Temple

Refusal to Reopen Investigation

Palo Mayombe

Convicted of Cemetery Theft

Persuasion

Using Religion to Persuade Investors

Group Pressure Can Transform Individuals

Polygamy

Editorial Approval, But Not with Minors

Psychological Warfare

Loud Music Tactic in Iraq

Rajneesh

New Book on Youngster’s Life in Rajneesh

Remnant Fellowship Church/Weigh Down Workshop

Leader Says Critics and Police Want to End Her Ministry

Group’s Teachings Investigated in Murder Case

Research and Education

Conference on Cults’ Impact on Mental Health

Satanism

Now Says She’s Innocent of Satanic Ritual Crime

Scientology

Wins Claim against Former Member for Public Disclosures

Call for Tax Agreement with IRS to Be Made Public

Establishing in Boston Neighborhood

Use of Public Space Draws Criticism

Shock Therapy Trial

Fear Drug Lecture May Lead to Recruiting

Stars Open Scientology Center

Settlement in McPherson Case

What Was Nature of McPherson Settlement?

Narconon Program Threatened

Tom Cruise Opens Narconon Center

Deficit in Ireland

Negative Downtown Image

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Office Open to Scientology Lobby

Display Dismissed as Unscientific

Anti-Psychiatry Tour

Consultants Help Build Community Connections

Spiritual Healing/Faith Healing

12 Years for Abuse

Sri Chinmoy

Accused of Sexual Exploitation

Sri Haribharanidhara Raghavendra Swamigal

Parents Abduct 13-Year-Old Holy Man

Taxation/Unitarian Church

Official Says Unitarian Church Not Tax Exempt

Transcendental Meditation

Considered for Schools

Twelve Tribes

Arrest in Child Custody Dispute

Unification Church

Former Member Rehabilitating

Orphan Assistance

Chile Denies Legal Status

U.S. House Member Helps Crown Moon

Reaction Called Witch Hunt

Finally Accepted in Gloucester

United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors

York Followers Quit Jobs in Protest

York Sentenced to 135 Years

Members Disqualified to Run for Office

Suing Sheriff for Inaction in Abuse Case

Harassing Lawsuits

1,000 Celebrate York’s Birthday

Government Can Take Group’s Property

Word of Faith Fellowship

Wife Agrees to Keep Kids Out of Group

Children File for Emancipation

 

 

___________________________________________________________^

 

Book Reviews
   
Terrorismo Religioso. La Guerra del Siglo XXI. El Ataque al World Trade Center y al Pentágono
Reviewed by Carmen Almendros
   
Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat
Reviewed by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
 
The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold
Reviewed by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
 _________________________________________________________^
 

C&S: Table of Contents - Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 01, No. 01, 2002
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 01, No. 02, 2002
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 01, No. 03, 2002
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 02, No. 01, 2003
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 02, No. 02, 2003
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 02, No. 03, 2003
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 03, No. 01, 2004
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 03, No. 02, 2004
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 03, No. 03, 2004
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 04, No. 01, 2005
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 04, No. 02, 2005
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 04, No. 03, 2005
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 5, No. 1, 2006
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 5, No. 2, 2006
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 6, No. 1, 2007
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 6, No. 2, 2007
CSR: Table of Contents - Vol. 6, No. 3, 2007

_________________________________________________________^

  Departments/Archives
Issue Archives Professional Columns
Article Archives Education
News Archives Getting Help
Book Reviews Guest Column
Profile Groups Law
Profile Individuals Personal Accounts
Profile Organizational Psychology
Feedback Individual Letters Religion
Send Feedback Group Reports
     
 ___________________________________________________________^
 

International Cultic Studies Association

Table of Contents

 

 Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004

 

In this issue
 

Articles

 

News Summaries

 

Book Reviews

 

Departments/Archives

 

___________________________________________________________^