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its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

a religion. By practice, the Church of Scientology is a cult. Since practice and the effects on people are more important than she...

by Lafayette Ron Hubbard and is not only incompatible with most of the worlds other religions, particularly Christianity, but open...

Discusses the Church of Scientology and whether it is a "viable" religion or a brainwashing cult. There are 5 sources listed in th...

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Recent stories of mass suicides of cult members has led to an interest in the people who join cults and their rationale. Tis paper...

In five pages the 'business' of religion is examined in a consideration of The Unification Church, the Church of Scientology, the ...

but as partial descriptions of what is included in religion and what is not included in religion and as such definitions or descri...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

this movement, they are turned against their families, their grades fall and they drop out of school, and they "surrender" their w...

of society. How do these cults form? Often, there is one spiritual leader who attracts the group. The newly emerging gurus are m...

It might be contended that the development...

up their brand. This is true for the Apple Company in general. The introduction of iPod gadget, iTunes, iPhone and iPad all supp...

Religious cults have been a fact of life for years, but the phenomenon of mass suicides has recently engrossed the public. This pa...

and the power of the government to act; it is the implementation of formal rules by the society. The second type of authority that...

In ten pages this cult's history and its techniques of persuasion are analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...

would marry in 1990 ("Tom Cruise"). They were together for close to ten years and produced two children. His introduction to Ni...

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

as he would receive the messages and the revelations he would record them and then teach these things to his followers (History of...

Tylor asserts that in order to assess a culture, one must approach it from an objective standpoint: if one does not do so, ones ow...

to the heart of "religions purpose and meaning" (Idinopulos). In other words, the "study of religion is not the same thing as the ...

gender equality is seen throughout the world and not limited to the Middle East (Kandiyoti, 1991). To assess the link between wo...

to enlightenment. The aim of the focus is to achieve an ultimate and final freedom from existence (Religious Tolerance [1], 2007)....

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

because of the construct of human nature, and the constant conflict caused by physical needs, sexual urges, and the desires for lo...

theory of the secular, in other words, the idea that religion would fade in significance as the industrial society grew in importa...