On October 25, 1994, a presidential decree stripped members of the religious organization of Eritrean citizenship and inaugurated decades of persecution.
Donald Westbrook
From Bordeaux to Taipei: Tai Ji Men and the Pursuit of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
Both Scientology’s resilience to French anti-cult laws and campaigns and Tai Ji Men’s strength in front of tax and media harassment prove that public slander can be successfully resisted.
Effective Parliamentarism and the Tai Ji Men Case
The Tai Ji Men case is a distressing example of Taiwan’s failure to live up to its democratic promises.
An Active Fraternity for Tai Ji Men
Fraternity is proactive rather than reactive. Let us stand together for the rights of Tai Ji Men and other persecuted minorities.
Donald Westbrook
Donald A. Westbrook has taught at San José State University, UT Austin, UCLA, University of South Florida, Cal State Fullerton, and Fuller Seminary. In addition, he's held a postdoctoral fellowship at San Diego State University and worked with FVG Antwerp. His first book, Among the Scientologists, was published in 2019 by Oxford University Press as part of the Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism series. This was followed by L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies (2022), Mariachi in the Twenty-First Century (2024), and Anticultism in France (2024), all published by Cambridge University Press.