Elderly religious leaders are kept in detention, while the politician quotes the Gospel against the “heretics” and hails what happened in Japan.
Sixten Ringbom’s “dynamite”: how a young scholar’s archival shock reshaped the history of modern art.
Nothing in today’s anti-cult agitation can be compared to the scale of the Rwandan genocide. Yet, the logic is the same: dehumanization, fear, and hate speech.
The 1994 tragedy had multiple causes, but hate speech spread by the media was crucial. The lesson should be remembered when confronting hate speech today.
How the revival of discredited psychological‑coercion theories inside trafficking frameworks endangers every religious and spiritual community: a call to action.
What crime did the religious organization commit? Apparently, collecting donations to support its charitable endeavors abroad.
An elderly man who devoted his life to faith is now treated as a public menace.
A rapid and thinly reasoned verdict closes the case but leaves profound concerns about neutrality, due process, and the future of religious freedom in Japan.
A leading journalist documented, with statistical data, how activists and media fabricated a climate leading to the dissolution of the religious organization.
Artists associated with eroticism, particularly with the esoteric erotic traditions, faced discrimination, censorship, and reputational destruction.