2009年以降、不相当な献金勧誘とされる事例はほぼゼロにまで減少した。しかし裁判所は、問題は依然として存在すると主張している。
Massimo Introvigne
統一教会に対する決定 3. 「霊感商法」と高額献金
結局、解散の理由とされたのは、献金を捧げる信者に対する操作が行われたという疑いであった。果たして、それを裏付ける十分な証拠は存在するのだろうか。
How Chinese Propaganda Erased Mongolian Identity—and Much More
Soyonbo Borjgin’s PropagandaScope provides an effective new lens on the CCP’s machinery of erasure.
“Brainwashing,” Steven Hassan, and the OneTaste Case. 2. The Prosecution of Nicole Daedone
The anti-cult movement needed a “legal precedent” to reintroduce the discredited idea that “cults” use “mental manipulation.”
中国が日本の統一教会解散を称賛
中国共産党は、日本の裁判所の決定を、不人気な教会に対する世界的なキャンペーンを後押しするものとして称賛している。
“Brainwashing,” Steven Hassan, and the OneTaste Case. 1. Weaponizing Anti-Trafficking Laws
Anti-cultists persuaded prosecutors to reintroduce discredited mental manipulation theories by interpreting anti-prostitution and forced labor statutes.
Plato Goes to Beijing: Why Xi Jinping Wants China to Become a World Leader in Greek and Latin Studies
How the CCP weaponizes classic “non-democratic” Western culture to criticize modern Western ideas of human rights and democracy.
Buy a Chinese Cleaning Robot, Have Your Home Watched by Beijing
An incident shows that robot vacuums made in China might regularly collect and send data back to their country.
Pakistan: How Judges Protect Forced Conversions to Islam and Child Marriage
In the case of Maria Bibi, the Federal Constitutional Court declared a child an adult, a minor a wife, and a conversion a passport out of the law.
When the Esoteric West Sought the Dao—and Discovered Its Own Reflection
A volume edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter classifies and analyzes references by Western esotericists to China.
Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.