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Faced with the large number of requests for information from the public generated by Freed's work, Kropveld and some friends established the Cult Information Centre. The Centre became the Cult Project under Montreal's B'Nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, then in 1990 it became a standalone group, adopting its current name. [1] [2] [5] Executive ...
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 ...
The Cult Information Centre (CIC) is a British anti-cult organisation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The organisation also serves as a resource for information on controversial religious groups, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] therapy cults , [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and political cults .
Jan Groenveld (1945 – 22 October 2002) was an Australian Christian countercult activist. She was a member of the Latter-day Saints Church and the Jehovah's Witnesses. [1] [2] She spent fifteen years in these and other organisations before leaving them in 1975 and resolving to make more information about what she saw as "cults" available to the general public.
Wyatt recalled a time when vendors were moving records by Ya Ho Wah 13, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 and other Family-related recordings for $20 or less because the Source had fallen out of ...
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 ...
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a non-profit educational and anti-cult organization. It publishes the International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation , "ICSA Today", and other materials.
Ian Haworth (born c. 1947) is an English anti-cultist.Originally from Lancashire, England, he moved to and lived in Toronto, Canada, in late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. [1] [2] He returned to England in 1987 and founded the Cult Information Centre, an anti-cult organization.