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Alternative Religions And Their Academic Supporters An Apologetics Index research resource |
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"When Scholars Know Sin" Forum Debate
Stephen A. Kent and Theresa Krebs
Original article Rejoinder by Krent and Krebs Credits and Copyright
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-----. and Stephan Langdon, 1998, "How the Problem of Malfeasance Gets Overlooked in Studies of New Religions: An Examination of The AWARE Study of the Church Universal and Triumphant," "Wolves Within the Fold: Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power." Anson Shupe, (Ed.). Rutgers University Press, 191-211.
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Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT), 1997. "Business Plan Annual Report: Portrait of An Organization in Transition." 29.
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-----. and Karin Ronnow, 1993. "Jury Believed What Deprogrammers Did Was Right." "Livingston Enterprise" [Montana] (April 28). 3.
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-----. 1988. "Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Mertonian Deviance Analysis of Conversion to the Religious Organizations of the Early 1970s," "Sociological Analysis," 49 (2): 104-118; reprinted in "Sights on the Sixties," B. L. Tischler (Ed.). Rutgers University Press, 1992.
-----. 1993a, Radical Rhetoric and Mystical Religion in America's Late Vietnam War Era." "Religion," 23 (1) January: 45-60.
-----. 1993b. "Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences." "Religion" (23: 229-241.
-----. 1994, "Diabolic Debates: A Reply to David Frankfurter and J.S. La Fontaine." "Religion," 24: 361-378.
-----. 1996a. Abstract. "Brainwashing and Membership Maintenance: Confinement Systems in Two Nontraditional Religions." April 4.1.
-----. 1996b. Memo from Steve Kent to Gordon Melton, April 23. 1.
-----. 1997a. "Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force." Paper Presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego, CA: November 7. Electronic versions < http://www.lermanet.com/cos/brainwashing.html > < http://www.innernet.net/joecisar/rpf1000.htm >
-----. 1997b. "Scientology--Is This a Religion?" Paper Presented to the 27th Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, Leipzig, Germany, June 20.
-----, and Theresa Krebs. 1998a. "Academic Compromise in the Social Scientific Study of Alternative Religions." "Nova Religio," 2 (1) October: 44-54.
-----. 1998b. "When Scholars Know Sin: Alternative Religions and Their Academic Supporters." "Skeptic," 6 (3): 36-44.
Krebs, THeresa. 1998. "Church Structures That Facilitate Pedophilia Among Roman Catholic Clergy." "Wolves Within the Fold: Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power." Anson Shupe, (ed.). Rutgers University Press. 15-32.
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-----. 1994b. "Church Universal and Triumphant: In Scholarly Perspective," Stanford, CA: Center for Academic Publication.
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-----. 1993 [sic: 1996]. Memo from J. Gordon Melton to Steve Kent. April 13. 2pp.
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