Freemasonry and the anti-Catholic rhetoric of the “Third Rome” were important for the friends Balla met when he moved from Turin to Rome. Theosophy was not far away.
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二世：統一教会の二世背教者は信頼できるか？3. 安倍元首相暗殺後の危機
安倍晋三暗殺後、突如として宗教二世問題が日本の公共言説の中心となった。
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 4. The China and Japan Connection
Why are Christian anti-cultists cooperating with leftist Japanese lawyers and an atheistic regime that persecutes religion?
韓国における宗教の自由の危機１．「教会への凶悪な襲撃」
教会が家宅捜索を受け、国際的に著名な宗教指導者が不当な扱いを受け、宗教に基づく政治活動が禁止される。韓国では一体何が起こっているのだろうか？
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 3. Criminal Anti-Cultism: Deprogramming
The practice of kidnapping, confining, and “de-converting” members of “cults” has been banned in all democratic countries—except Korea, where some victims died.
二世：統一教会の二世背教者は信頼できるか？2. 背教者：元信者の中の少数派
ほとんどの元信者は、離れた宗教に激しく反対することなく、ただ自分の人生を歩んでいく。
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 2. The Korean Anti-Cult Movement
The opposition to “cults” in the country is mostly a fundamentalist Protestant affair focused on preventing “sheep stealing” and competition.
A Religious Liberty Crisis in Korea. 1. “Vicious Raids on Churches”
Churches raided, internationally famous religious leaders mistreated, and religion-based political mobilizations prohibited. What exactly is happening in South Korea?
二世：統一教会の二世背教者は信頼できるか？1. 「背教者」とは誰か
「背教者（apostate）」という言葉は単なる侮蔑でも、「元信者」の同義語でもない。これは、自らのかつての信仰に対して闘争的な批判者となった元信者の少数派を指す。
The Cult of Consensus: Japan’s Anti-Cultists’ Chinese and Western Connections
“Cult” opponents in Japan started networking with China and the American and European anti-cult movement well before the assassination of Shinzo Abe.
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.