When new religious movements are victims of violence, “it is their fault” campaigns are immediately started by their opponents.
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Donald Westbrook’s “L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies”: A New Way of Studying Scientology
The book in the Cambridge Elements series may one day be remembered as the first textbook of “Scientology Studies 2.0.”
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 5. The “Secret Databases”
The Telegraph’s podcast claims that there are secret lists of sexual abusers and that they should be disclosed to the authorities and to lawyers representing the victims.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 4. The Montana Case
The Telegraph’s podcast criticized a 2020 decision by the Supreme Court of Montana that protected the confessional privilege. But it correctly applied the law.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 3. The Clifford Whitely Case
The Telegraph’s podcast used a 2019 case to claim that the new child protection policies of the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not followed in practice. This is false.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 2. The Peter Stewart Case
How The Telegraph presented the case of pedophile Peter Stewart is different from how a British judge assessed it.
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sexual Abuse. 1. A Biased Investigation
The Telegraph’s podcast and series privileged apostate sources and ignored the larger context.
“Hermetic Spirituality and Historical Imagination”: What We Can Learn from Hermes
An epic book by Wouter J. Hanegraaff offers a new interpretation of ancient Hermetic writings—and a revolutionary path both to studying and experiencing spirituality.
A Museum for the Victims of Communism in Washington, D.C.
The Museum inaugurated last month by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation reconstruct the deadliest catastrophe in human history
Sacred and/or Secret, Confession and Other Forms of Religious Secrecy: A Scholarly Discussion
At the European Sociological Association’ RN34 conference, a panel discussed contemporary criticism of secrecy in religion, from the Catholic Church to Scientology