Abusive Controlling Relationships

Experts' Comments

 

Topics
Nancy Ammerman
Dick Anthony
Philip Arnold
Eileen Barker
David Bromley
CESNUR and M. Introvigne
Cult Awareness Network (CAN)
General
Joseph K. Grieboski
Jeffrey Hadden
Dean Kelley
Lonnie Kleiver
James R. Lewis
J. Gordon Melton
Rebecca Moore
Susan Palmer
James Richardson
John Saliba
Lowell Streiker
James Tabor
Keith Tolbert
Catherine Wessinger
Stuart_Wright

Nancy Ammerman

"Cult apologist" offers explanations about Elizabeth Smart
Report: FBI ignored advice on Waco Cult
Letters to the Editor - What Happened at Waco

Dick Anthony

Is Dick Anthony a full-time professional "cult apologist"?
Cult influence growing?

Philip Arnold

Letters to the Editor - What Happened at Waco
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology

Eileen Barker

Are There Objective and Scientific Studies of NRM?
Cult advisers in clash over clampdown
A Confidential Memorandum
Excerpt from: Cult Control
Cults in eastern Europe targets for intolerance
Integrity and Suspicion in New Religious Movement Research

David Bromley

A Confidential Memorandum
Who the so-called "new CAN" recommends "for factual information on 'new religions'"
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology

CESNUR and M. Introvigne

CESNUR Web Site: CESNUR Home Page

"Mind Control" in New Religious Movements : clarifying some issues
Thinking about an actual issue
APA Memorandum
All Smoke and No Fire
Disreputable forces at work among the sect researchers at CESNUR

Cult Awareness Network (CAN)

Old CAN wins in Illinois Supreme Court Ruling
Anti-Cult Agency Loses Libel Suit
Did Scientology Strike Back?
Who the so-called "new CAN" recommends "for factual information on 'new religions'"
More information on the "New CAN"

General

"Cult" is a loaded word
Cult apologists pop up in news coverage about Elizabeth Smart
"Cult apologists" defend Raelians
Religious scholars attempt to explain Jonestown
'Mind Control" in new Religious Movements and The American Psychological Association
Cults in eastern Europe targets for intolerance
Blind, or Just Don't Want to See?
Religion Today
Maryland Task Force Called Inquisition
Minority Faiths Come Under the Microscope Across Europe
Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology, published list from "Freedom Magazine"
Letters to the Editor - What Happened at Waco
The Threat of Intimidation
Blind, or Just Don't Want to See?
Report: FBI ignored advice on Waco Cult
The corruption of the scientific community: Excerpts from "The Blacklisting of a Concept"
Integrity and Suspicion in New Religious Movement Research
FBI consults theologians
APA Memorandum on Brainwashing 1983
APA Memorandum: Final Draft of Task Force Report
APA Memorandum on Brainwashing: Final Report of the Task Force
Report of the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control
Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Psychological Association
Motion of the American Psychological Association to Withdraw as Amicus Curiae
The Catholic Church faces NRM
Cults: Worry ye not
Cult's presence in Holy Land no surprise to many
Academic Compromise in the Social Scientific Study of Alternative Religions
Combatants in Cult War Attempt Reconciliation
Brainwashed! Scholars of Cults Accuse Each Other of Bad Faith
The Mind Control Myth
Europe spars over faith
When Scholars Know Sin

Joseph K. Grieboski

Scientology Document Suggests Huffington Post Religion Blogger has been on the Church's Payroll

Jeffrey Hadden

Cult apologist dead
A Confidential Memorandum
The New Cult Awareness Network (Bought by Scientologist) Recommends 'Experts' Regarding 'Heaven's Gate' Suicide; List Includes J. Gordon Melton
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology
Jeffrey Hadden defends Scientology's Secrecy
Cults: Worry ye not

Dean Kelley

A Confidential Memorandum
Published response to Dean Kelley article in First Things Magazine
Rev. Dean M. Kelley Dies; Religious Freedom Activist
Letters to the Editor - What Happened at Waco
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology

Lonnie Kleiver

The New Cult Awareness Network (Bought by Scientologist) Recommends 'Experts' Regarding 'Heaven's Gate' Suicide
Who the so-called "new CAN" recommends "for factual information on 'new religions'"
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology
FBI consults theologians

James R. Lewis

Legitimating efforts on the part of John Roger and MSIA through the work of James R. Lewis and Santa Monica University
NPR "hears, speaks and sees no evil" about "cults"
Odd Gods: New Religions & the Cult Controversy
Tokyo Cult Finds an Unlikely Supporter
Alleged Persecution of Cult Investigated
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology

J. Gordon Melton

J. Gordon Melton on Scientology
J. Gordon Melton willing to fight cults, but for a price
NPR "hears, speaks and sees no evil" about "cults"
The New Cult Awareness Network (Bought by Scientologist) Recommends 'Experts' Regarding 'Heaven's Gate' Suicide; List Includes Gordon Melton
Scholar or paid apologist?
A Confidential Memorandum
The New Cult Awareness Network (Bought by Scientologist) Recommends 'Experts' Regarding 'Heaven's Gate' Suicide; List Includes Gordon Melton
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology
Church not a cult, says expert witness
Expert witness testifies that church is a cult
Evidence of expert witness attacked
Tokyo Cult Finds an Unlikely Supporter
Alleged Persecution of Cult Investigated
Giving Cults A Good Name
Cults in eastern Europe targets for intolerance

"Mind Control" in New Religious Movements : clarifying some issues

Thinking about an actual issue
APA Memorandum
All Smoke and No Fire
Letters to the Editor - What Happened at Waco
The power of persuasion

Rebecca Moore

Jim Jones's Tenured Apologist

Susan Palmer

It's the Rael thing
No sects, please - we're French

James Richardson

A Confidential Memorandum
Who the so-called "new CAN" recommends "for factual information on 'new religions'"
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology
The New Cult Awareness Network (Bought by Scientologist) Recommends 'Experts' Regarding 'Heaven's Gate' Suicide; List Includes Gordon Melton

John Saliba

A Confidential Memorandum
The New Cult Awareness Network (Bought by Scientologist) Recommends 'Experts' Regarding 'Heaven's Gate' Suicide; List Includes Gordon Melton

Lowell Streiker

"Dr. Lowell Streiker (a PhD in Religion from Princeton University and a Protestant Pastor) has been of invaluable help to the new CAN. He has also taken numerous phone [referral] calls from around the country."
--Quoted from the "new CAN" newsletter Volume I Issue II

James Tabor

Letters to the Editor - What Happened at Waco
Religious Resources recommended by the Church of Scientology

Keith Tolbert

Letter to Keith R. Tolbert from Rick Ross
Letter from William Tyndale College to Keith Tolbert concerning teaching status
Garnishment papers served on Keith Tolbert
Official request letter from D. James Kennedy, Ph.D to Keith Tolbert

Catherine Wessinger

NPR "hears, speaks and sees no evil" about "cults"
Specious scholar offers spin about Davidians
FBI consults theologians
Is Catherine Wessinger a Cult Apologist?

Stuart Wright

After a decade what is the Branch-Davidian legacy?