religious fraud | Action Alliance to Redress 1219 https://act1219.org/en Reveal the Truth · Stop the Persecution Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:03:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 https://act1219.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-IMG_1561-32x32.jpg religious fraud | Action Alliance to Redress 1219 https://act1219.org/en 32 32 Black Magic, False “Victims,” and “Religious Fraud”: Parallels Between the Cases of the Unification Church in Japan and Tai Ji Men in Taiwan https://act1219.org/en/black-magic-false-victims-and-religious-fraud-parallels-between-the-cases-of-the-unification-church-in-japan-and-tai-ji-men-in-taiwan/ Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:03:24 +0000 https://act1219.org/en/?p=5206 While certain features of criticism against “cults” are international, others are typical of the Sinosphere and are present in both cases. by Rosita Šorytė* *A paper presented at the third international ISFORB conference “Secular States Struggling with Freedom of Religion and Belief,” Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, May 4–5, 2023. I always considered Taiwan and Japan ... Read more

The post Black Magic, False “Victims,” and “Religious Fraud”: Parallels Between the Cases of the Unification Church in Japan and Tai Ji Men in Taiwan first appeared on Action Alliance to Redress 1219.]]> The Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting https://act1219.org/en/the-tai-ji-men-case-discussed-at-the-association-for-the-sociology-of-religion-annual-meeting/ Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:20:40 +0000 https://act1219.org/en/?p=4879 Scholars argued that labels such as “cult,” “xie jiao,” or “religious fraud” have no real meaning and are used as tools for discrimination. by Alessandro Amicarelli The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) held in Los Angeles on August 6–8, 2022, its 83rd Annual Meeting. It opened with presenting to senior sociologist James T. Richardson ... Read more

The post The Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting first appeared on Action Alliance to Redress 1219.]]> “Cults,” “Xie Jiao,” “Religious Fraud”: Misusing Labels and the Tai Ji Men Case https://act1219.org/en/cults-xie-jiao-religious-fraud-misusing-labels-and-the-tai-ji-men-case/ Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:01:02 +0000 https://act1219.org/en/?p=4873 Tai Ji Men was accused of being a “cult” or a “religious fraud.” These labels do not mean anything and are used as tools to discriminate and persecute. by Jeff Kuo* **An in-session response to the paper presented by Massimo Introvigne in the session “‘Cults’: The International Return of a Dubious Category,” at the 83rd Annual ... Read more

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