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Cults & New Religious Movements

Cults & New Religious Movements. 2011-11-01. 2011-11-01 Agenda. Attendance Announcements Job Feedback Peoples Temple Brainwashing. Student Assistant jobs. Duties for assisting Ken Penner. Duties for assisting Linda Darwish. Internet search for films on Islam

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Cults & New Religious Movements

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  1. Cults & New Religious Movements • 2011-11-01

  2. 2011-11-01 Agenda • Attendance • Announcements • Job • Feedback • Peoples Temple • Brainwashing

  3. Student Assistant jobs Duties for assisting Ken Penner 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 • Enter bibliographic data into Zoterosoftware • 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 Criteria: taken RELS courses Pay:$12/hr Hours: 20 Apply: cover letter and résumé to: Robert Kennedy rkennedy@stfx.ca

  4. Course 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.

  5. Peoples Temple

  6. Brainwashing

  7. How well does David fit the profile of a joiner? • Predisposing conditions: • Tensions • Religious orientation • Seeker (already reading, investigating) • Situational Contingencies: • Encounter • Bonds-making • Bond-breaking • Interacting • Who joins: • social networks. • No Ideological alignment; Other commitments • history of seekership • hostile environment (Christianity?) • Competition • Characteristics • Young • Middle-upper middle class • Higher educated • Balanced male-female • More secular religious backgrounds Ticket to Heaven

  8. Homework • 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

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