1999 2015-08-25 10.17192/mjr.1999.4.3754 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-1999-126-37542 keine Angabe Scientology -- Is this a Religion? Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion, the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a multi-faceted transnational corporation that has religion as only one of its many components. Other components include political aspirations, business ventures, cultural productions, pseudo-medical practices, pseudo-psychiatric claims, and (among its most devoted members who have joined the Sea Organization), an alternative family structure. Sea Organization's job demands appear to allow little time for quality child rearing. Most disturbing, however, about Sea Organization life is that members can be subject to extremely severe and intrusive punishments through security checks, internal hearings called "Committees of Evidence," and a forced labour and re-indoctrination program known as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) and its harshest companion, the RPF's RPF. Taken together, these harsh and intrusive punishments likely violate a number of human rights clauses as outlined by two United Nations statements. This is a revised and corrected version of a shorter presentation given at the 27th Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, June 20, 1997, Leipzig, Germany)

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2015-08-25 2015-08-25 Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion, the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a multi-faceted transnational corporation that has religion as only one of its many components. Other components include political aspirations, business ventures, cultural productions, pseudo-medical practices, pseudo-psychiatric claims, and (among its most devoted members who have joined the Sea Organization), an alternative family structure. Sea Organization's job demands appear to allow little time for quality child rearing. Most disturbing, however, about Sea Organization life is that members can be subject to extremely severe and intrusive punishments through security checks, internal hearings called "Committees of Evidence," and a forced labour and re-indoctrination program known as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) and its harshest companion, the RPF's RPF. Taken together, these harsh and intrusive punishments likely violate a number of human rights clauses as outlined by two United Nations statements. This is a revised and corrected version of a shorter presentation given at the 27th Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, June 20, 1997, Leipzig, Germany) Scientology -- Is this a Religion? 1999 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-1999-126-37542 English PeriodicalPart 1 Vol 4 No 1 (1999) 4 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/cover.png Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology Religion Philosophy and theory of religion 1996 1418722-x Periodical urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00048 Marburg Journal of Religion 1612-2941 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 1999 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-1999-1262 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/1999/126/cover.png 1999-04-24 https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.1999.4.1 article https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.1999.4.3754 Stephan A. Kent Kent, Stephan A. Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/1999/126/3754/3754.png 2015-08-25 application/pdf

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