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International Cultic Studies Association - (ICSA) e-Newsletter

e-News Issue Vol. 07, No. 01, 2008

Alert Conference in Ukraine
Alert Inform Seminar XXXIX: Adults Who Grew Up in NRMs
Article A Rising Tide Lifts Mood in the Developing World: Sharp Decline in Support for Suicide Bombing in Muslim Countries
Article Can Meditation Be Bad for You?
Article Childhood Familial Experiences as Antecedents of Adult Membership in New Religious Movements
Article Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics of New Religious Movements Members: New Questions and Data on the Mental Health Issue
Article Collective Identity and the Postcharismatic Fate of Shambhala International
Article Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
Article Four Views on Islam and the State
Article Grassroots Prophecy in the Family International
Article Islamisme: entre jihad et romantisme, parcours d'un jeune Syrien
Article Islam's Up-to-Date Televangelist
Article Mouvements religieux contestés : Psychologie, droit et politiques de précaution
Article Muslim Groups Draft Rulebook for Mosques to Drive Out Extremists
Article Muslim Reformists Support Secular State
Article Muslims Call for Peace with Christians
Article New New Religions: Revisiting a Concept
Article On the transformation of Jim Jones: From God’s minister to the Angel of Death
Article Public Expresses Mixed Views of Islam, Mormonism; Benedict XVI Viewed Favorably But Faulted on Religious Outreach
Article Reassessing Conventional Approaches to Conversion: Toward a New Synthesis
Article Recent Studies on Religion and Violence
Article Religiousness, Spiritual Seeking, and Authoritarianism: Findings from a Longitudinal Study
Article Report on House Education and Labor Committee Hearing on Private Therapeutic Residential Facilities for Adolescents and Children
Article Sects and Cults: A Challenge to Democracy and Human Rights
Article The Apocalyptic Other: On Fundamentalism and Violence
Article Traumatic therapies can have long-lasting effects on mental health
Article Understanding Contemporary Millenarian Violence
Article Understanding Contemporary Millenarian Violence
Article Varieties and Prospects of Salafism
Book/Video Author tells of life in unusual sect
Book/Video Book lifts cowl on 'misogynist' Opus Dei
Book/Video Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
Book/Video Coming to terms with an abusive cult upbringing
Book/Video Islam: Reporting in Context and With Complexity
Book/Video My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
Book/Video New Report on Meditation
Book/Video Underside of cult life emerges
GroupNews Brazil landless raid Reverend Moon cattle ranch
Link Sample link. LaRouche Watch
News A Formal Response to the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
News Abuse Victims Conference in Connecticut
News Award for Dr. Sharon Farber
News Call for Papers: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
News Call for Papers: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
News Conference: Cults, Gangs, and Hate Groups
News Conquering coercion
News Explosion of cults in Japan fails to heed deadly past
News FECRIS Hamburg Conference Presentations Online
News FECRIS Hamburg Conference Presentations Online
News Info-Cult/Info-Secte: New Acquisitions
News Lyndon LaRouche: The New American Fascism - now availability on line
News Professor warns that cults may target students
News U of A researcher talks Scientology on the Emerald Islle
News University of Alberta Researcher, Stephen Kent, Ph.D., Debates Scientology in Ireland
NewsGroup $1-billion class action against Grenville college
NewsGroup 10 Iraqi cult members sentenced to death
NewsGroup 15 members of Kigenkai religious group indicted for death of member
NewsGroup 6 Nuns in Ark. Excommunicated for Heresy
NewsGroup 8,040 young Kenyans executed during police crackdown on outlawed sect: report
NewsGroup A Mosque in America's Heartland
NewsGroup A win for those who want to halt abuses at Bountiful
NewsGroup Al Qaeda indoctrination
NewsGroup Army of Mary cast out
NewsGroup Bishop may convene rare ecclesiastical court
NewsGroup Bomb plotter found guilty
NewsGroup Broken Roses
NewsGroup Canada won't prosecute FLDS members
NewsGroup Catholic Order Files Suit Over Documents
NewsGroup Charges against Scientology in Belgium
NewsGroup Class-action suit being prepared against GCC
NewsGroup Commando raid traps cult group after boy kidnapped
NewsGroup Community of Jesus leader implicated in 1990s abuse probe
NewsGroup Court okays lawsuit against lawyers for alleged ‘deceit’
NewsGroup Court upholds Robidoux murder conviction
NewsGroup Cruisin' Harlem
NewsGroup Cult couples’ unhappy anniversary
NewsGroup Cult leader Dyers 'now a martyr'
NewsGroup Cult leader jailed for more sexual abuse
NewsGroup Cult leader Kenneth Emmanuel Dyers shot dead
NewsGroup Death sentence finalized for ex-AUM member in subway sarin attack
NewsGroup Dianetics, the Tax Plan
NewsGroup Diocese investigates abuse claims
NewsGroup Doomsayers see doom out of the hole
NewsGroup Doomsday cult remains defiant
NewsGroup Family files new defamation lawsuit
NewsGroup Federal Review Looms in Boot Camp Death
NewsGroup Former Sect Leader Appeals Conviction
NewsGroup Former students suing Grenville
NewsGroup German Parties Reject Bid to Ban Scientology
NewsGroup Head of ex-Legionaries group offers court computer files
NewsGroup Hillary's $30,000 fans are her 'cult' following
NewsGroup Home for 'Lost Boys'
NewsGroup How Author of 'Jihadists' Bible' Stirred up a Storm
NewsGroup In China, new crackdown on dissidents
NewsGroup Jeffs found guilty
NewsGroup Jeffs trial: Young bride felt 'dirty and used' after sex with unwanted husband
NewsGroup Kenyan police arrest members of sect blamed for murders
NewsGroup Killing for the cult
NewsGroup Legion of Christ goes to war
NewsGroup Meditators predict Dow 17,000, near U.S. utopia