Colonial Justice or a Kangaroo Court?

Doherty, Bernard

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“…In some countries, new religions have been prosecuted for alleged "medical fraud" and "psychological abuse. " In 1965 the Church of Scientology in Melbourne was raided and members prosecuted for violating the Psychological Practices Act, a law passed specifically targeting the Scientology practice of "auditing, " which officials believed was promoting medical fraud (Doherty 2014(Doherty , 2015. Legislators in Victoria subsequently passed the 1968 Scientology Prohibition Act which banned the practice of Scientology altogether and outlawed possession of its instruments and materials.…”

Section: Religion and Religionification: A Problem And A Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Demise of Religion

Baffelli

2020

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Her latest book publication is The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom: Essays on the Intersection of Religion and Pop Culture (co-edited with John W. Morehead and Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, 2019). Erica Baffelli is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester (UK). Her latest book publication is Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese "New" Religion: Transformations and the Founder (with Ian Reader, 2018). Eileen Barker, FAcSS, FBA, OBE is Professor Emeritus of the Sociology of Religion at the London School of Economics and the founder of INFORM (www.Inform.ac), an educational charity providing information that is as reliable, contextualized, and up-to-date as possible about minority religions.

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Section: Religion and Religionification: A Problem And A Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%