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Discussions over the past few decades of involvement in new religions or “cults” in medical and social scientific journals, courtroom trials, and media treatments reveal a volatile controversy about the meaning of membership in groups such as the Unification Church, the Hare Krishna, Scientology, The Family, and other relatively “high demand” religions.1 Such discussions have significant implications for regulating these controversial groups.
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Richardson, J.T., Stewart, M.W. (2004). Medicalization and Regulation of Deviant Religions. In: Richardson, J.T. (eds) Regulating Religion. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9094-5_32
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