Welcome to the revived discussion forum for New Religious Movements. Since we are restarting after a break, it might be a good idea to introduce ourselves, so...
Thanks, Steve. Can you clarify whether you are in any way connected with the Church of Scientology? With best wishes Eileen Eileen Barker Professor Emeritus of...
... No, I'm not, though I did enounter them about 45 years ago, before they started calling themselves a church. Why, are you researching them? -- Dr Stephen...
Many thanks - I am not researching them any more than any of the other NRMs that I have been researching over the past 35 years, but my question arose from an...
... That's very interesting. I've been asked whether I was the Steve Hayes who was a fundi on some form of Japanese wrestling (I'm not), but haven't been...
This is the 'other' steve hayes: http://www.slatkinfraud.com/wwc/people_hayes.htm I've been told you will get an apology from the source - who has now admitted...
... The situation seems to call for the application of the old piece of advice, "Put brain in gear before opening mouth". There's a web page given at the...
Of course, you could have made it all up - blogs allow for that. But on balance, I'm prepared to believe you. If you'd gone to all that bother you would...
... Well Irving Hexham has actually met me at various times over the last 40 years, and his first wife was a fellow student at university with me, but I ...
I am a postgraduate (doctoral) student at Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin. My dissertation tries to compare the reaction towards a specific NRM - TM - in three...
Hello, ... Whoever said this libel may have been confused because there is a scientologist with the name "Steve Hayes": http://www.oursites.org/stevehayes/ He...
... Well, yes, but he said he did a Google search on "Steve Hayes religion" and the "other" Steve Hayes came up. I tried the search he said he did, and the...
Forwarded from soc.religion.paganism SATANIC MEDIA FROM PURGING TALON http://www.purgingtalon.com ________________ CHURCH OF SATAN INTERVIEW ARCHIVE The REAL...
MAJOR SYMPOSIUM ON AFRICAN RELIGION PLANNED By Ben Pindar, Community Newswire RELIGION Symposium London, 23/1/2006, 8:53am A large African-led church in London...
In Africa, Islam and Christianity are growing - and blending By Abraham McLaughlin, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Thu Jan 26, 3:00 AM ET ...
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Feb 2, 2006 12:13 am
From the moderator of the New Religious Movements discussion forum: Just a reminder to check the Nurel web page occasionally! ...
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/cultureandhistory/060208doc Pagans and patriarchs Like a scene from a Russian fairy tale, bearded men in richly embroidered...
I have just joined this group as a result of an invitation from Steve Hayes. But i was a member previously, that is before it closed down. I am a writing a...
You can still attend Inform Seminars that take place every six months. The next one is on May 13th and is on the subject of Spirit Possession and Exorcism -...
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william m. ashcraft
washcraf@...
Feb 9, 2006 10:41 pm
Hello nurel subscribers, Others have been introducing themselves, and I would like to as well. I am NRM scholar in the United States. I teach religious...
Hello All, My name is Chris Chiappari, and I'm an anthropologist who teaches at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. My research focuses on Maya spirituality and...
Inform Seminar XXXVI SPIRIT POSSESSION AND EXORCISM DATE: Saturday, 13 May 2006; 9.30am - 4.30pm. VENUE: New Theatre at the London School of Economics and...
Hello the list. This is Dan Fefferman, a participant in the former Nurel. I too have been mistaken for a Scientologist. (It was at my first AFF conference -- ...
I have, of course, in the interests of science, tried deprogramming, love-bombing, thought reform, menticide, brainwashing and exit counseling over the past...
Killing the mind? Eileen Barker Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion London School of Economics Houghton St London...
Hi, everyone! Since few people, as yet, have written formal introductions to themselves, I have followed suit and done nothing either! I don't know whether...
... Thomas Gandow mentions it too, and his source isn't Ted Patrick, but a german book by "O, Se Keun", "Die Volksglaube und das Christentum in Korea" which is...
In a message dated 2/28/2006 11:17:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... Israel Monastery for six months. ... "In the Israel Monastery" may be a bit misleading....
