Cults & New Religious Movements

Cults & New Religious Movements

2011-11-012011-11-01

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2011-11-01 Agenda2011-11-01 Agenda

AttendanceAnnouncements

JobFeedback

Peoples TempleBrainwashing

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Student Assistant jobs

Student Assistant jobs

Duties for assisting Ken Penner

• Enter bibliographic data into Zotero software

• Scan documents and process them with OCR

• create and organize materials for Moodle• Find and prepare video resources for

classroom use• produce list of religious organizations

around Antigonish• organizing Religious Studies events and

guest speakers• preparing library requisitions

Duties for assisting Linda Darwish

• Internet search for films on Islam • Internet and libraries search for

novels and short stories dealing with Islam in the modern world and with Islam in North America

• Research sources for academic books (in addition to novels), articles, and other materials (news, etc.) on Islam in North America

• Grade quizzes • Organize and file papers, articles• Punch holes in papers for binders

Criteria: taken RELS courses Pay:$12/hrHours: 20Apply: cover letter and résumé to:Robert Kennedy rkennedy@stfx.ca

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Course FeedbackCourse Feedback

• On a piece of paper, complete the following 3 sentences about how this course is being run:• Keep doing …• Stop doing …• Start doing …

• Do not include your name.

Peoples TemplePeoples Temple

BrainwashingBrainwashing

Ticket to HeavenTicket to Heaven

How well does David fit the profile of a joiner?

1.Predisposing conditions:

1. Tensions2. Religious orientation3. Seeker (already reading,

investigating)

2.Situational Contingencies:

4. Encounter5. Bonds-making6. Bond-breaking7. Interacting

3. Who joins:• social networks.• No Ideological alignment; Other

commitments• history of seekership• hostile environment

(Christianity?)• Competition

4.Characteristics• Young• Middle-upper middle class• Higher educated• Balanced male-female• More secular religious

backgrounds

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HomeworkHomework• For Thursday• Read chapter on “The

Children of God” in AAR and write the online quiz

• For Tuesday• Summarize chapter 6

(on sexual deviance) in Comprehending Cults