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The anti-cult movement, abbreviated ACM and also known as the countercult movement, [1] consists of various governmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals that seek to raise awareness of religious groups that they consider to be "cults", uncover coercive practices used to attract and retain members, and help those who have become involved with harmful cult practices.
The movement was founded by Shoko Asahara in his ... an anti-cult lawyer threatening a lawsuit ... his wife and his child went missing from their home in Yokohama ...
He was a member of the Yokohama Bar Association. [2] From 1987 he worked as a lawyer at Yokohama Law Offices. At the time of his murder, Sakamoto was known as an anti-cult lawyer. He had previously successfully led a class-action suit against the Unification Church on behalf of relatives of Unification Church members. In the suit the plaintiffs ...
The association feared that any message from Abe would endorse their anti-social activities in Japan. The letter was published after Abe had given an online speech on "Think Tank 2022 Rally of Hope" held by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which is also founded by Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han in 2005.
Apocalypse Observed was published in December 2000 by Routledge. [2] [3] Its author, John R. Hall, was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. [4]The chapter on Aum Shinrikyo was written by Hall alongside Sylvaine Trinh, while the chapter on the Order of the Solar Temple was written with Philip D. Schuyler. [1]
Masaki Kito (紀藤 正樹, Kitō Masaki, b.November 21, 1960) is a Japanese attorney at law who specializes in consumer affairs, [1] investment frauds [2] and cases involving religious cults, especially Aleph (formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo) [3] [4] [5] and the Unification Church. [6]
Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, and Steven Barrie-Anthony discuss the conflict between new religious movements and the anti-cult movement, viewing it through the lens of Erik Erikson and Robert Jay Lifton's treatment of totalism; they argue that responding to group totalism with state totalism only fuels the fire.
Aum Shinrikyo (called the "Aum cult") [7] In 2005, the Hate Crimes Unit of the Edmonton Police Service confiscated anti-Falun Gong materials distributed at the annual conference of the American Family Association by staff members of the Calgary Chinese Consulate (Province of Alberta, Canada). The materials, including the calling of Falun Gong a ...