Falun Gong Outside of China

Ownby, David

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195329056.003.0005

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“…Most non-Falun Gong writers concurred that Falun Gong is a form of qigong [46,[48][49][50][51] or a Buddhist qigong system [52]. Other expressions used to describe Falun include traditional Chinese religious practice, or revival of traditional Chinese spiritual practice [49,[53][54][55][56], or as a new religious movement [57][58][59][60]. Gale and Gorman-Yao [61] described Falun Gong as a cultural movement, while Ackerman [62] referred to the practice as a New Age spiritual movement.…”

Section: What Is Falun Gong?mentioning

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Use of Falun Gong to Address Traumatic Stress among Marginalized Clients

Trey¹,

West-Olatunji²

2020

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Although mental health service providers have focused on the effects of trauma and related interventions for decades, little is known about pervasive and historic trauma, particularly for socially marginalized individuals. Thus, clinical issues associated with sociopolitical oppression have been under-investigated. Coupled with the lack of sufficient cultural competence when working with diverse clients, mainstream clinicians frequently lack adequate case conceptualization skills and culturally sensitive interventions to assist clients from diverse backgrounds. Using traumatic stress as a framework for exploring evidence-based interventions to address long-term, pervasive marginalization and its psychological effects, the authors propose that mindfulness techniques are particularly beneficial to this client population. The authors reviewed culture-centered interventions to address traumatic stress for marginalized client populations, focusing on the mindfulness practice of Falun Gong. Recommendations for practice include the inclusion of traumatic stress theory and techniques in pre-service training, professional development training for practitioners focusing on mindfulness techniques with clients assessed with historical trauma, and Web-based training for clinical faculty to enhance their knowledge about traumatic stress, historical trauma, and associated interventions for clients from marginalized communities. The authors offer recommendations for future research that focuses on studies exploring the usefulness of Falun Gong in working with clients with traumatic stress.

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Section: What Is Falun Gong?mentioning

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Use of Falun Gong to Address Traumatic Stress among Marginalized Clients

Trey¹,

West-Olatunji²

2020

Psychosomatic Medicine

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“…Thought reform has never disappeared from the Chinese landscape, but it has become increasingly less idealistic and exhortative, and more nasty in its coercion and violence. That shift was expressed by the regime’s treatment of Falun Gong, a sizable meditation group with its own elements of cultism, when that group came to be viewed as a threat to its political power (Ownby 2008). Communist authorities made widespread arrests and applied versions of thought reform that included torture and the notorious “reform through labor.” A glaring more recent example has been the version of thought reform applied to the Uyghurs, a large Muslim minority.…”

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Owning reality: Reflections on Cultism and Zealotry

Lifton¹

2020

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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“…Starting in 1999, the Chinese government launched a repressive campaign against the Falun Gong by outlawing its activities and worshipping locations, jailing some of its key followers, forcing some practitioners to flee abroad and placing a ban on all materials published by the organization (Keith and Lin 2003: 636; Ownby 2008: 15; Perry 2001: 170; Tong 2009: 76–77). The Falun Gong was a spiritual organization founded in 1992 in north-east China by its leader Li Hongzhi, who promoted the practice of qigong (Chan 2004: 665).…”

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Autocracies and the Control of Societal Organizations

Reny

2019

Gov. & oppos.

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Authoritarian regimes seek to prevent formal and informal organizations in society from engaging in mobilized dissent. What strategies do they use to do so, and what explains their choices? I posit that state actors in autocracies use four mechanisms to control societal organizations: repression, coercion, cooptation and containment. How they control these organizations depends on whether they think they might undermine political stability. Two factors inform that assessment. First is whether state actors think societal organizations’ interests are reconcilable with regime resilience. Second is whether groups are in national or international networks that are either cohesive or incohesive. While the irreconcilability of interests influences state actors’ perceptions of groups as subversive, network cohesion shapes organizations’ capacity for large-scale mobilization.

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Falun Gong Outside of China

Cited by 8 publications

References 64 publications

Use of Falun Gong to Address Traumatic Stress among Marginalized Clients

Use of Falun Gong to Address Traumatic Stress among Marginalized Clients

Owning reality: Reflections on Cultism and Zealotry

Autocracies and the Control of Societal Organizations

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