Originalmente, los comunistas rusos y chinos fueron acusados de utilizar técnicas de control mental. Algunos profesionales de la salud mental extendieron la acusación a las religiones.
Massimo Introvigne
Here We Are: Leading Shiite Cleric Arrested in Pakistan Based on New Blasphemy Law
“Bitter Winter” correctly predicted that new penalties against those who “offend the wives and companions of the Prophet” were intended for cracking down on Shiites.
Tai Ji Men: Defending Conscience Against Its Enemies
We live in a historical time when ideologies regard conscience as something suspect. Dr. Hong’s apology for conscience offers the best defense against the ideologues.
Poniendo a prueba las teorías del “lavado de cerebro”: La CIA y el experimento MK-Ultra
Tras inventar la teoría, la CIA se creyó su propia propaganda e intentó “lavar el cerebro” a “voluntarios” en Canadá. No funcionó.
Belarus: Persecution of New Life Church Enters a New, Dangerous Stage
Courts have banned as “extremist” Internet postings the church had long since removed. These are steps preparing New Life’s Russian-style “liquidation.”
Why China Dined (But Did Not Wine) Islamic Radicals in Pakistan
The Chinese Embassy hosted and celebrated leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a party that supports death penalty for blasphemy and persecution of the Ahmadis.
Tai Ji Men Promotes Global Peace at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religion in Chicago
From the pre-Parliament “Parade of Faiths” to their Global Prayer for World Peace, it was impossible not to notice the large and smiling contingent of Tai Ji Men dizi.
Russia Claims that Ukrainian Counter-Offensive Uses “Gay Super-Soldiers” Created by “Cults”
Academic Sergei Markov absurdly claimed on prime-time state TV that Ukraine cooperates with Neuro-Linguistic Programming to brainwash soldiers who become homosexual, zombie-like, and invincible.
Argentina: El gobierno promueve la teoría pseudocientífica del lavado de cerebro
Las teorías sobre la “persuasión coercitiva” que la mayoría de los estudiosos de la religión consideran desacreditadas desde hace décadas son promovidas oficialmente por organismos gubernamentales.
Argentina: Government Promotes the Pseudo-Scientific Theory of Brainwashing
Theories about “coercive persuasion” most scholars of religion regard as debunked from decades are officially advocated by governmental agencies.
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.