“Cults,” Music, and Discrimination
Words may be easily used to discriminate against religious or spiritual groups. There are examples even in music.
The Tai Ji Men Case
The Tai Ji Men tax case in Taiwan is exemplary of how even democratic states can undermine freedom of religion or belief by using ordinary bureaucracy and taxation in an unfair and intimidating way.
The Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting
Scholars argued that labels such as “cult,” “xie jiao,” or “religious fraud” have no real meaning and are used as tools for discrimination.
Citizen to Citizen Diplomacy for Tai Ji Men
Taiwanese students in American universities and others who are in a position to help should be mobilized in favor of Tai Ji Men.
Tai Ji Men’s Youth, Between Tragedy and Hope
A seminar in Walnut, California, celebrates the young Tai Ji Men dizi who continue to fight for justice, peace, and freedom of religion or belief.
“O Timeless Youth, O Ever Renewed Hope:” A Poem for Tai Ji Men
Controlling the youth is a common feature of all totalitarian regimes. To show it is a real democracy, Taiwan should solve the Tai Ji Men case.
Generation Z, Spirituality, and Tai Ji Men
Introduction to the hybrid seminar “The Stolen Youth of Tai Ji Men,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on August 8, 2022, in Walnut, California, in sight of the UN International Youth Day of August 12.
True Friendship, Peace, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Tai Ji Men is the living testimony that friendship can be a problem-solving tool at both domestic and international levels. A 12th-century Cistercian monk taught it already.
Cloridano, Medoro, and the Epic of Tai Ji Men
Epic tales of friendship remind us of the importance of global networks of friends for solving the Tai Ji Men case
Mieczysław Dordzik’s Story: Disasters, Friendship, and Tai Ji Men
The political consequences of a 1931 incident in Vilnius, when a Polish student died trying to rescue a drowning Jewish child, demonstrate that friendship may change the course of history. We hope this will also happen in the Tai Ji Men case.