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Scientology sources

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• deChant/Jorgensen (in Neusner, Jacob (2003). World Religions In America. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664224752.)]
• Wilson
• Melton: The Church of Scientology (2000, Signature Books) (I have a copy of that book and can contribute more material from it)
• Chryssides
• Gallagher
• Wallis
• Black
• Bromley & Cowan 1
• Bromley & Cowan 2: Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
• Rothstein in Lewis/Hammer (eds.)
• Lewis (ed.) (upcoming, Feb. 2009; this will be a major publication in this field)
• Zellner/Petrowsky (eds.): Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis. Praeger 1998 (available to subscribers on questia.com)
• Zellner William W. ( 1995). Countercultures: A sociological analysis. New York: St. Martin's Press
• Paul Finkelman: Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties
• Brigitte Schön (scholarly paper on the Germany controversy, conflicting frames etc.)
• Urban: Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America

Derek Davis New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America, Baylor University Press, 2004 ISBN 978-0918954923

• Scholarly books on web countermovements, Internet controversies: [2][3]
• Corrigan, John (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 9780195170214. - A brief overview of Hubbard's tone scale.
• Lewis, James R. (1997). "Clearing the Planet: Utopian Idealism and the Church of Scientology". SYZYGY Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture Volume : numbers 1-2 Winter-Fall 1997. Mandeville Press. ISBN 0-914829-42-4. - a brief description of the history of Scientology and Dianetics and some of its core beliefs, and biographical data on L. Ron Hubbard.
• Introvigne, Massimo (2002). "Religious Minorities and Anti-Cult Activity in Italy in Comparative Perspective". International Perspectives on Freedom and Equality of Religious Belief. J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University. ISBN 929182-66-9. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help) - a good reference for the religious nature of Scientology and why it was given religious recognition in Italy.
• Jennifer, Robinson (2002). "Scientology (Church of Scientology)". The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-888-7. - Description of Dianetics, Scientology training as a religious practice, as well as some historical information.

[4], [5],[6], [7], [8], [9], "No New Religious Movement has been a subject of more public interest and of more heated discussions in Germany during the last two decades than Scientology" (Marco Frenschkowski, Universität Mainz), [10]. Gale webcitation link [11]

Waste Books

The Waste Books (German: Sudelbücher) are a celebrated collection of aphorisms by the 18th-century German polymath Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799).

The history of the Waste Books

Lichtenberg was one of the most prominent physicists, mathematicians and astronomers of his day – he discovered the electric principles underlying the modern photocopier – and was also a noted art and literature critic. Throughout his life, he kept informal notebooks in which he jotted down ideas as they occurred to him. The title Sudelbücher was Lichtenberg's translation of "waste book", a bookkeeping term no longer in current use, defined in the OED as a "rough account-book ... in which entries are made of all transactions (purchases, sales, receipts, payments, etc.) at the time of their occurrence, to be 'posted' afterwards into the more formal books." In the same way, Lichtenberg wanted to record ideas and observations as they occurred to him.

He kept his Sudelbücher from his student days until the end of his life. Each volume was accorded a letter of the alphabet from A, begun in 1765, to L, which broke off at Lichtenberg's death in 1799. The notebooks first became known to the wider world after Lichtenberg's death, when the first and second editions of Lichtenbergs Vermischte Schriften (1800-06 and 1844-53) were published by his sons and brothers. Some time later, notebooks G and H, and most of notebook K, were destroyed or disappeared. The missing notebooks are believed to have contained sensitive materials. The manuscripts of the remaining notebooks are today preserved in Göttingen University. An English version published in

Reception

Lichtenberg's Waste Books drew praise from many of Europe's greatest thinkers, among them Tolstoy, Freud, Einstein, and André Breton, and were acknowledged as an inspiration by such philosophers as Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, who deemed Lichtenberg Germany's greatest aphorist. Schopenhauer greatly admired Lichtenberg for what he had written in his notebooks, calling Lichtenberg a Selbstdenker, someone who thought for himself. The Chinese scholar and wit Qian Zhongshu quotes the Waste Books in his works several times.

Lichtenberg's own feelings on what was destined to become his most famous work varied. When he felt downcast, he referred to their contents as Pfennigs-Wahrheiten – "penny-truths" – while at other times he felt certain that he had "scattered seeds of ideas on almost every page which, if they fall on the right soil, may grow into chapters and even whole dissertations."

Further reading

• Joseph Peter Stern (1959) Lichtenberg: A doctrine of scattered occasions, reconstructed from his aphorisms and reflections
• Ralph W. Buechler (1991) Science, Satire, and Wit: The Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Studies in Modern German Literature)

Falun Gong

Pro persecution

BBC

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/ukfs_sport/hi/newsid_7060000/newsid_7069700/7069740.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1813797.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2153018.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/asia-pacific/2075613.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4415438.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4072424.stm

German gov't

• http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2006/0908/aktuell/hib/2000/0015102.html&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=
• http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/2006_11/2006_353/01.html

Contra persecution

• http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,QUERYRESPONSE,CHN,,48d2237fc,0.html
• http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:EHdpGrkN8zwJ:www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/479dd8f72.pdf+persecution+falun+gong+site:unhcr.org&hl=en&gl=uk&sig=AFQjCNHO-vg9CIuSDs0TNZ-GGIRX2lQW1w

Ambiguous

• http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2006CSIH59.html

Godesburg

Die Ruine der Godesburg

Die Zerstörung der Godesburg 1583

Die Godesburg vor der Zerstörung (Merian-Stich von 1646)

Die Godesburg und der Aufzugsturm

The Godesburg is a castle in Bad Godesberg wurde vermutlich als Fliehburg bei Bad Godesberg am Rhein – heute Stadtbezirk von Bonn – von den Franken erbaut. Die Spitze des Bergfrieds der heutigen Burgruine befindet sich auf 122 Metern ü. NN, die dortige Plattform ermöglicht einen einzigartigen Blick über das Rheintal.

Geschichte

Die Burg liegt auf einem in vorgeschichtlicher Zeit erloschenen Vulkan. Eine bereits römische Besiedlung wurde durch einen in die Godesburg eingemauerten Altarstein nachgewiesen. 722 wurde der Berg als ubische Kultstätte Woudensberg (Wotansberg) urkundlich erwähnt.

Am 15. Oktober 1210 legte der Kölner Erzbischof Dietrich I. von Hengebach den Grundstein für einen Neubau. Erzbischof Konrad von Hochstaden erweiterte die Burg 1244 um die ersten fünf Geschosse des Bergfrieds. Erzbischof Walram von Jülich erhöhte diesen auf 32 Meter und ließ die Vorburg erbauen.

Während der Reformationszeit verstieß der Kölner Erzbischof Gebhard I. von Waldburg gegen den Augsburger Religionsfrieden, als er sich mit Gräfin Agnes von Mansfeld vermählte und zum Calvinismus übertrat. Er löste damit den Truchsessischen Krieg aus. Truppen des neu gewählten Kurfürsten Ernst von Bayern belagerten die Anlage 1583. Zerstört wurde die Godesburg durch die Sprengung der Mauer im Zuge eines Angriffes. Erobert wurde sie am 17. Dezember 1583 durch einen katholischen Söldner, der durch den Abort in die Burg gelangte. Auf gleichem Weg folgten ihm weitere seiner Kameraden, so dass sich die Besatzung, von Feinden innerhalb und außerhalb der teilweise zerstörten Mauern umringt, letztendlich ergeben musste.

1891 schenkte Kaiser Wilhelm II. die Ruine der Stadt Godesberg.

1959 wurde die Burg nach Plänen von Gottfried Böhm umgebaut. Eine Erweiterung beherbergte zu Beginn ein Hotel-Restaurant, heute ist nur noch das Restaurant in Betrieb. Der ehemalige Hoteltrakt ist, aufgeteilt in kleinere Wohnungen, vermietet.

Auf dem Burgfriedhof bei der Michaelskapelle befinden sich viele reich gestaltete Grabstätten des Großbürgertums aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Auch der Filmschauspieler Paul Kemp fand hier seine letzte Ruhe. Der Burgfriedhof ist heute Nordrhein-Westfälisches Kulturerbe.

In den letzten Jahren wurde die Godesburg in großen Teilen saniert. Bis 2003 wurden durch die Stadt Bonn 2,7 Millionen Euro für den Umbau der Gastronomie ausgegeben. Im Juni 2006 wurde die Sanierung des Bergfrieds abgeschlossen, in dem ein kleines Informationszentrum zur Geschichte der Burg eingerichtet wurde. Im Juli 2006 ließ die Stadt Bonn an der Aussichtsplattform auf der Turmspitze Orientierungstafeln in allen vier Himmelsrichtungen anbringen. Der Burghof der Godesburg ist über einen Aufzug zu erreichen.

Panoramasicht auf Bad Godesberg von der Godesburg aus

Votivstein

thumb|upright|Der Äskulapstein Seit 1981 ist im Burghof die Nachbildung eines römischen Votivsteins aus der Zeit um 200 n. Chr. aufgestellt. Er war den Heilgöttern Äskulap und Hygia geweiht und wurde 1583 auf der Godesburg gefunden.

Weblinks

• Artikel Godesberg in Zedlers Universal-Lexicon (1735)

• Virtueller Rundgang und Historische Bilder

{{Navigationsleiste Burgen und Schlösser im Mittelrheintal}}

TPRF

http://www.causes.com/ http://apps.facebook.com/causes/381473 http://www.parade.com/contests/givingchallenge/2009/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Foundation#Initiatives http: //www.associatedcontent.com/article/2392432/join_causes_on_facebook_support_the_pg2_pg2.html?cat=48 (non RS)

Neil Cooper

Neil Cooper sources

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/laswellbill-book.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/magazine/what-s-new-york-capital-now-reinvention-corner-permanence-change.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/1996/04/11/1996-04-11_hurley-burly__hugh_s_girl_ha.html

Domradio

http://www.webcitation.org/5oEioKQ0A

Univox

Sources for Univox:

• Review in PopMatters
• Review in Verbicide Magazine
• Feature on ROIR in The Guardian, mentions Univox as their latest signing
• Review in Dusted Magazine
• Review in Philadelphia Weekly
• Exec profile on Nick Cooper in Music Connection, page 22, mentions him signing Univox

Dick Anthony

Dick Anthony is a forensic psychologist noted for his writings on brainwashing, and one of the most prolific researchers of the social and psychological aspects of involvement in new religious movements.

Academic career

Anthony holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. He has supervised research at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and is a former director of the UC Berkeley-affiliated Center for the Study of New Religions. His work has received support from government agencies including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has frequently testified or acted as a consultant in court cases involving allegations of religious coercion or harm resulting from involvement in a religious group. He authored or co-authored a large number of scholarly articles on the topic and co-edited several books.

Views

Anthony has been "a leading opponent of brainwashing theories", characterising them as "a pseudo-scientific myth", and spearheaded efforts which from 1990 onward led to the general rejection of brainwashing testimony as unscientific in United States courts, asserting in the Washington Post that "no reasonable person would question that there are situations where people can be influenced against their best interests, but those arguments are evaluated on the basis of fact, not bogus expert testimony." Dismissing the idea of mind control techniques, he has defended new religious movements, and argued that involvement in such movements may often have beneficial, rather than harmful effects: "There's a large research literature published in mainstream journals on the mental health effects of new religions. For the most part the effects seem to be positive in any way that's measurable."

Reception

David G. Bromley and Anson Shupe, writing in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (1998), have credited Anthony and his co-author, sociologist Thomas Robbins, with authoring "the most articulate critique" of the anti-cult movement's perspective on brainwashing.

Publications

Book chapters and articles

• "Brainwashing and Totalitarian Influence", in Encyclopedia of Mental Health, ed. Howard S. Friedman (Academic Press, 1998): 331–346 (with Thomas Robbins)
• "Cults, Brainwashing and Counter-Subversion," Annals 446(1979):78–90 (with Thomas Robbins)
• "Deprogramming, Brainwashing and the Medicalization of Deviant Religious Groups", Social Problems, Vol. 29, No. 3, February 1982 (with Thomas Robbins)
• Getting Straight with Meher Baba: A Study of Drug Rehabilitation, Mysticism, and Post-adolescent Role Conflict, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1972' (with Thomas Robbins)
• "Law, Social Science and the 'Brainwashing' Exception to the First Amendment," Behavioral Sciences and the Law 10(1992):5–30 (with Thomas Robbins)
• "Religious Totalism, Violence, and Exemplary Dualism," in Terrorism and Political Violence 7(1995):10–50 (with Thomas Robbins)
• "Sects and Violence," in Armageddon at Waco, ed. S. A. Wright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995): 236–259 (with Thomas Robbins)
• "Tactical Ambiguity and Brainwashing Formulations: Science or Pseudo-Science?, in Misunderstanding Cults, eds. B. D. Zablocki, Thomas Robbins (University of Toronto Press, 2001): 215–317
• "The "Brainwashing" Metaphor as a Social Weapon: A New Conceptual Tool for the Therapeutic State", for a symposium on deprogramming held at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1977 (with Thomas Robbins and Jim MacCarthy)
• "The Limits of Symbolic Realism: Problems of Emphatic Field Observation in a Sectarian Context", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1973 (with Thomas Robbins and Thomas E. Curtis)
• "Theory and Research on Today's 'New Religions'", Sociology of Religion, Sociological Analysis 1978 39(2):95-122; doi:10.2307/3710211, with Thomas Robbins and James T. Richardson
• "Youth Culture Religious Movements: Evaluating the Integrative Hypothesis", 1975, Sociological Quarterly, Volume 16 Issue 1, Pages 48–64 (with Thomas Robbins and Thomas E. Curtis)

Books

• In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 9780887388002 (with Thomas Robbins)
• Spiritual Choices: The Problems of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation, Paragon House, 1987, ISBN 9780913729144 (with Thomas Robbins and Ken Wilber)

John A. Saliba

John A. Saliba is a Jesuit priest, a professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and a noted writer and researcher on new religious movements.

Life and work

Saliba has been teaching at the University of Detroit Mercy since 1970. Born and raised in Malta, he studied philosophy, theology and anthropology in England and completed his doctorate in Religion and Religious Education at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Saliba is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). His main teaching focus has been on comparative religion, and his research and publications have mostly been about new religious movements. Saliba contributed to a three-year study of new religions for the Vatican conducted by the International Federation of Catholic Universities.

Views

In Understanding New Religious Movements, Saliba "assumes that the appeal of new religions is mostly to young adults who are not grounded spiritually" and argues that "whatever critiques of new religions must be rendered by scholars of various disciplines, dialogue is a more useful response than diatribe". He notes that "all that the heated denunciations of the new religions do is to reinforce the attitudes and beliefs of both their members and detractors. Apologetic debates rarely lead unbelievers or apostates to convert; they do not succeed in persuading renegade Christians to abandon their new beliefs to return to the faith of their birth. Harangues against the new religions do not lead their members to listen attentively to the arguments of zealous evangelizers. On the contrary, they drive them further away and elicit similar belligerent responses." Saliba advocates treating new religious movements as forms of religion, much like those that have arisen at all times throughout history, rather than as "cults" or a social problem specific to recent decades. Noting that new religions often appeal to young people who lack spiritual grounding, he has argued that involvement in such movements is not necessarily a dangerous departure from the path to adulthood, but can also serve as a temporary haven in a materialistic and selfish society, providing "an alternative therapy to many young adults as they are faced with making momentous decisions at important junctures in their lives". He has stated that many members of new religions appear to be healthy and happy, and that in many cases they move away from alcohol and drug use, gaining "a degree of intellectual security, emotional stability and organised behavioural patterns that contrast sharply with their previously confused and chaotic existences". Given that new religions appear to fulfill a need that the mainstream churches are unable to address, he states that there is a need for "some soul-searching on the part of the mainline churches". He also emphasises that membership in new religious movements is often short-lived, with over 90% of members leaving within 24 months of joining.

Saliba is critical of the anti-cult movement and has remarked that "the neutral stance of the social sciences is a stance which has often been interpreted as favoring the NRMs". In 1985, Saliba published a two-part critique of Margaret Singer, a key proponent of the brainwashing hypothesis, in the American Psychology Bulletin, finding numerous faults with the documentation and conclusions of her research. He criticized her sources – deprogrammed ex-members and their friends and families – arguing that they lacked impartiality and objectivity and did not form a representative or statistically significant sample. He maintained that Singer lacked relevant academic background or even interest in the study of religion, and that she failed to consider the possibility that new religious movements might have a genuine religious or spiritual dimension; he thought she was unaware of legitimate forms of Eastern religion, as evidenced by her considering Zen Buddhism to be a cult, and took generally a far too negative view of new religious movements.

Commenting on the Vatican's doctrine on new religious movements disseminated in 1991, Saliba stated that it "... respects the religious freedom of individuals, even though their choices are deemed doctrinally erroneous and their behavior morally unacceptable."

Reception

Mary F. Bednarowski, reviewing Saliba's Understanding New Religious Movements in the Journal of Ecumenic Studies, described the book as "a significant contribution to conversations about this too-frequently-contentious subject", noting that "the author attributes to the study of new religions the complexity it deserves" and that "his overall contention is that it is more profitable to study new religions constructively than belligerently. New religions, says Saliba, should be looked upon as 'both partners and rivals in the religious quest'." She said she had used the book in one of her own courses on new religious movements and "found it very helpful for the background it offers, the multiplicity of perspectives and methodological approaches it engages, and its exploratory and nondefensive tone."

Publications

Books

• Psychiatry and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography
• Sociology and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography
• Christian Responses to the New Age Movement
• Understanding New Religious Movements

Book Chapters and articles

• "The Earth is a Dangerous Place – The World View of the Aetherius Society", Marburg Journal of Religion
• Psychology and the New Religious Movements", in: Lewis, James R. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements. Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 0-19-514986-6

External links

• John Saliba: Interview on Dialogue with New Religions

Buzzine

Buzzine (aka Buzzine Networks) is an entertainment and pop culture magazine and website.

Content

Buzzine creates and distributes original print, photography, audio, and video content on film, music and culture topics, including interviews with top Hollywood stars, leading rock musicians and other celebrities. The magazine accepts advertising.

History

Buzzine was founded as a website in 1996 by radio personalities Aaron Stipkovich and Steph Sanchez (aka “Stephanie Rose”). It later expanded to include a print magazine appearing on a monthly, then bi-monthly basis, and a radio show. Formerly located in Encino, California, it is presently based in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Since 2009, Buzzine Networks has been owned and operated by the Elfman family.

Personnel

Film director Richard Elfman started writing for the magazine in 2004 and became its editor in 2008. Today, he is the magazine's CEO and editor-in-chief; his wife Lauren Elfman is Director of Content; his son Louis Elfman is publisher and Chief Technical Officer; and novelist "Clare" Blossom Elfman is senior literary editor. Since early 2010 Stefan Goldby, formerly VP of Programming at ManiaTV!, has managed day-to-day operations and overseen development.

Buzzine also publishes an India edition, Bollywood.Buzzine.com, which is managed and edited by the attorney and journalist, Parimal Rohit.

External links

• buzzine.com
• Buzzine Networks channel on YouTube

Elisabeth Arweck

Elisabeth Arweck is a noted scholar of new religious movements and mixed-faith families, a full-time research fellow for the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit at the University of Warwick, and co-editor, with Peter B. Clarke, of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.

Academic career

Arweck was associated with the Centre for New Religions at King's College London from late 1980s until 2003, when the centre closed. She completed her PhD at King's College London in 1999, with a thesis titled Responses to New Religious Movements in Britain and Germany, with Special Reference to the Anti-Cult Movement and the Churches. From January 2004 to May 2006 she served as a research fellow at the University of Warwick's Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR). She is presently a full-time research fellow for the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) at the University of Warwick and is co-editor, with Peter B. Clarke, of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.

From 2000 to 2003, Arweck was Convenor of the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group, and since 2005, she has been a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (SISR/ISSR).

Professional memberships

• BSA & BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
• British Association for the Study of Religion (BASR)
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)
• International Society for the Sociology of Religion (SISR/ISSR)
• Religious Research Association (RRA)
• Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR)
• Association of University Lecturers in Religious Education (AULRE) (until 2008)
• International Seminar in Religions, Education and Values (ISREV)

External links

• Dr. Elisabeth Arweck at the website of the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick
• Mixed-Race and Mixed Families in Britain: The Case of Growing up in a Mixed Faith Family, article by Elisabeth Arweck on intermix.org.uk

India

• There is one sense at least in which Bharat is used as an English word, in the expression "Bharat–India divide", where Bharat refers to rural and traditional parts of the country, and India to the modern country.
  • this, from the World Bank,
  • this,
  • this from Cambridge University Press,
  • this from United Nations University Press,
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=cwP7VmRAq7cC&pg=PA327&dq=bharat+india+inpublisher:university&hl=en&ei=Xd3QTa2-BMvKsgbv4NjECw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=bharat%20india%20inpublisher%3Auniversity&f=false this from Cornell University Press]

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Interracial marriage

Married couples in the United States in 2010 (thousands)

	White Wife	Black Wife	Asian Wife	Other Wife
White Husband	50,410	168	529	487
Black Husband	390	4,072	39	66
Asian Husband	219	9	2,855	28
Other Husband	488	18	37	568

Citogenesis

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