The repression of the Christian millenarian movement during the Martial Law period in Taiwan has similarities with the post-authoritarian assault on Tai Ji Men.
How a once-marginal thesis reshaped the understanding of modernism’s spiritual roots.
Accusing “cults” of “coercive persuasion” looked démodé, at least in academia and courts of law outside of France. But the discredited theory is coming back.
How occult ideas and deep esoteric structures shaped the painter who transformed modern art.
From Symbolism to abstraction: how a clairvoyant atlas shaped painters across continents.
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.