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Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt Patrick, Jr. (born 1930) is an American deprogrammer and author. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of deprogramming." [1] [2]In the 1970s, Patrick and other anti-cult activists founded the Citizens' Freedom Foundation (which later became known as the Cult Awareness Network) and began offering what they called "deprogramming" services to people who wanted a ...
Deprogramming is a controversial tactic that seeks to dissuade someone from "strongly held convictions" [1] such as religious beliefs. Deprogramming purports to assist a person who holds a particular belief system—of a kind considered harmful by those initiating the deprogramming—to change those beliefs and sever connections to the group associated with them.
The Jason Scott case was a United States civil suit, brought against deprogrammer Rick Ross, two of his associates, and the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), for the abduction and failed deprogramming of Jason Scott, a member of the United Pentecostal Church International.
Rick Alan Ross (b. 1952) is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute. [1] He frequently appears in the news and other media discussing groups some consider cults. [2] [3] Ross has intervened in more than 500 deprogramming cases in various countries. [4] [5]
The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was an anti-cult organization founded by deprogrammer Ted Patrick [1] that provided information on groups it considered "cults", as well as support and referrals to deprogrammers. [2] [3] [4] It operated (initially under the name “Citizens’ Freedom Foundation”) from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s in the ...
John Walliss called it an "excellent collection", and a "state of the art survey of the field", recommending it. [3] Bernard Ineichen writing for the journal Mental Health, Religion & Culture in a review of multiple books, said the cases included in the book "present a rich stew of idealism, viciousness, petty meanness, and sheer stupidity."
[1] [5] Just over a year after the launch, in August 2013, the project had reached a key milestone of 2000 registered clients. [6] In 2016, Ray stepped down as director of the project to focus on projects with Recovering from Religion, and made way for Dr. Caleb Lack, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Oklahoma. [1] [7]
Ian Barbour: author of Issues in Science and Religion (1966). [3] [4] E.W. Barnes [1] Stephen M. Barr: author of The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion (2016). Description & arrow/scrollable preview. Arnold O. Benz: astrophysicist at ETH Zurich, author of The Future of the Universe (2002) and Astrophysics and Creation (2017)