Cults & New Religious Movements

Slide Agenda Attendance Announcements Job Feedback Peoples Temple Brainwashing

Slide 3. Typical Agenda Attendance New Religions in the News (4 minutes) Announcements / Administrativa (2 minutes) Explaining a concept (35 minutes) – for the exam’s paragraph answer section. Video with focus questions (20 minutes) and discussion Homework for Next Time (1 minute)

Slide 4. 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/hr Hours: 20 Apply: cover letter and résumé to: Robert Kennedy

Slide 5. 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.

Cults in the Media 1. youtube.com /watch?v=ee HGQa2Lplc& feature=play er_profilepag ehttp://www. youtube.com /watch?v=ee HGQa2Lplc& feature=play er_profilepag e

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Brainwashing

Ticket to Heaven Ticket to Heaven Ticket to Heaven Ticket to Heaven How well does David fit the profile of a joiner? 1.Predisposing conditions: 1.Tensions 2.Religious orientation 3.Seeker (already reading, investigating) 2.Situational Contingencies: 4.Encounter 5.Bonds-making 6.Bond-breaking 7.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

Slide 10. 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