User:Ed Poor/cults

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You are welcome to add to this list any articles related to new religious movements which some people consider spurious.

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There are '''multiple contradictions within the deprogramming movement''':
 * 1) Cults brainwash with coercive persuasion, amounting to mind control, so we brainwash your children out of cults, using one-sided arguments and coercive persuasion, but this isn't mind control: we're freeing their minds; we believe steadfastly in "freedom of mind"
 * 2) Call or write, and we'll tell you all the terrible things we know (or have heard, or want you to believe) about the cult your son just joined, and we'll help you get him out vs. "We don't maintain a list of cults, these are just groups of concern" and "We feel no need to prepare a balanced evaluation of any particular group, because you can get positive information directly from them";
 * 3) the major effect of deprogramming and charges of mind control and maintaining "cult info" clearinghouses, is that people are extremely wary of contacting the NRMs directly for any info, especially after hearing from the anti-cultists that NRMs are "cults" which "use deception" and can "zap" nearly anybody into snapping.

Redirects

 * List of purported cults
 * from Cult homicide 00:47, Mar 16, 2005 Willmcw


 * Anti-cult movement
 * from Debunking of the anti-cult movement myths 04:48, Mar 18, 2005 Willmcw (changed to redirect to anti-cult movement)

Deletions, past and future

 * Christian cults - vfd 22:32, Mar 13, 2005 Binadot


 * Definitions of cult - vfd since March 22


 * List of deadly cults vfd 20:31, Mar 19, 2005 Zappaz

New or "hot" articles

 * Multiple contradictions within the deprogramming movement, talk:Multiple contradictions within the deprogramming movement
 * Ticket to Heaven, talk:Ticket to Heaven
 * personality alteration, talk:personality alteration
 * List of deadly cults, talk:List of deadly cults (see List of purported cults)
 * Recovery from Cults, talk:Recovery from Cults (book)
 * Destructive cult, talk:Destructive cult (see List of purported cults)
 * Steven Hassan, talk:Steven Hassan - an "exit counselor" or deprogrammer
 * Opposition to cults, talk:Opposition to cults - This page should be merged with anti-cult movement, opposition to cults and new religious movements, cults
 * Christian cults, talk:Christian cults - tagged for deletion
 * Debunking of the anti-cult movement myths, talk:Debunking of the anti-cult movement myths (see Anti-cult movement)
 * mass suicide, talk:mass suicide

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General

 * definitions of cult, talk:definitions of cult
 * cult, talk:cult
 * new religious movement, talk:new religious movement
 * cult suicide, talk:cult suicide
 * suicide cult, talk:suicide cult
 * cult homicide, talk:cult homicide

Mind control - theory & practice

 * mind control, talk:mind control
 * brainwashing, talk:brainwashing
 * deprogramming, talk:deprogramming
 * exit counselling, talk:exit counselling
 * Snapping, talk:Snapping
 * , talk:
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Movements
Eileen Barker proposed 5 categories of these:
 * cult watching groups
 * cult watchers
 * cult watch
 * cultwatch


 * NRM, talk:NRM - should redirect to:
 * new religious movement, talk:new religious movement - general, scholarly
 * list of controversial new religious movements, talk:list of controversial new religious movements
 * anti-cult movement, talk:anti-cult movement
 * counter-cult movement, talk:counter-cult movement - Christians vs. heretics


 * list of purported cults, talk:list of purported cults

NRM - general, scholarly anti-cult and counter-cult movements - POV of "cult opponents" destructive cult - indisputably bad groups


 * Votes for deletion/Christian cults, talk:
 * List of purported hate groups, Talk:List of purported hate groups
 * List of purported hate groups, Talk:List of purported hate groups

People

 * cult apologist, talk:cult apologist
 * Anson Shupe, talk:Anson Shupe
 * Robert J. Lifton, talk:Robert J. Lifton
 * Steven Hassan, talk:Steven Hassan
 * Rick Ross, talk:Rick Ross
 * Ted Patrick, talk:Ted Patrick
 * Andrew Wilson, talk:Andrew Wilson

Groups

 * CARM, talk:CARM
 * Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, talk:Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
 * CAN, talk:CAN
 * Cult Awareness Network, talk:Cult Awareness Network



General info
Thanks to anonymous, who provided this list:

Maharaji
Guru Maharaj Ji, the "perfect spiritual master" who was so famous in the 1970s.


 * Prem Rawat, talk:Prem Rawat
 * Teachings of Prem Rawat, talk:Teachings of Prem Rawat
 * Techniques of Knowledge, talk:Techniques of Knowledge
 * Premie, talk:Premie


 * Divine Light Mission, talk:Divine Light Mission
 * Elan Vital, talk:Elan Vital


 * Criticism of Prem Rawat, talk:Criticism of Prem Rawat
 * Divine United Organization, talk:Divine United Organization

Unificationism

 * Sun Myung Moon, talk:Sun Myung Moon
 * Unification Church, talk:Unification Church
 * Unification Movement, talk:Unification Movement
 * Moonies, talk:Moonies
 * Unification Church and anti-Semitism, talk:Unification Church and anti-Semitism
 * Unification Thought, talk:Unification Thought
 * Unification Theology, talk:Unification Theology
 * Sang Hun Lee, talk:Sang Hun Lee
 * UT, talk:UT
 * Object (philosophy), talk:Object (philosophy)
 * Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, talk:Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
 * Common base, talk:Common base
 * Subject-object problem, talk:Subject-object problem
 * Give and take, talk:Give and take
 * Common base, talk:Common base
 * Subject and object, talk:Subject and object

Someone asked Damian Anderson for the definitions of the following terms:


 * Boonville
 * CARP
 * Creative Community Project
 * dual characteristics (of creation, God)
 * Fall of man (Unificationism)
 * four position foundation
 * give-and-take relation
 * heart (Unificationism)
 * Holy Spirit Association
 * ICUS
 * indemnity (Unificationism)
 * Lord of the Second Advent (Unificationism)
 * matching (Unificationism)
 * MFT
 * New ERA (Unificationism)
 * Oakland Family
 * Ocean Church
 * Pusan
 * restoration (Unificationism)
 * Second Adam
 * spiritual parent (Unificationism)
 * suffering
 * The Principle (Unificationism)
 * three blessings (Unificationism)
 * True Parents
 * Unification Theological Seminary
 * Washington Times

It's a long list, so I can see why Damian might have felt justified in saying, "do your own homework".