The Fourth World Conference on Religious Dialogue and Cooperation, held in Skopje on 22–24 June, featured a session on Taiwan’s freedom of religion or belief issues and the Tai Ji Men culture.
Religious Liberty
Religion and Conflict: From Historical Scars to the Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan
A critical examination of how political and legal systems appropriate religious symbols, and how conscience offers a path beyond violence and injustice.
日本の統一教会：解散後の「粛清」 4.学校による監視と強制的カウンセリング
学校現場に導入された新たな手続きは、統一教会信者の家庭で育つ子どもたちを特定・監視することを教育関係者に指導しており、プライバシー侵害への懸念を引き起こしている。
When Law Loses Its Conscience: Common Manifestations of Religious Conflict within Modern Rule of Law
Administration, taxation, and media narratives are the new arenas of religious controversy and discrimination.
日本の統一教会：解散後の「粛清」 3. 政府による「再教育」計画
国の新たな政策には、統一教会信者の家庭で育つ未成年者の考え方を変えることを目的とした学校教育プログラムが導入されている。
The Political Instrumentalization of Religious Identity and Conscience-Oriented Reform: A Comparative Analysis
Examining the manipulation of religious identity by state and private actors and the transformative role of conscience in legal, social, and tax reform.
Brainwashing Returns Through Trafficking Laws: A New Threat to Religious Freedom
How the revival of discredited psychological‑coercion theories inside trafficking frameworks endangers every religious and spiritual community: a call to action.
When a Menpai Meets the State: Categorical Misfit and Institutional Violence in the Tai Ji Men Case
At the core of the case was the abusive classification as a cram school of a community practicing qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation.
Unification Church in Japan: Dissolved for Funding Humanitarian Activities
What crime did the religious organization commit? Apparently, collecting donations to support its charitable endeavors abroad.
The Repression of the New Testament Church and the Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan: Parallels and Differences
Two very different spiritual movements were targeted, at different times, by similar forms of repression.