Stephen A. Kent
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen A. Kent is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new religious movements , and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God , the Church of Scientology, and other NRMs operating in Canada.
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- The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi 'Ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890, by Said Amir Arjomand. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984, xii + 356 pp. $28.00 (1987) (87)
- Weber, Goethe, and the Nietzschean Allusion: Capturing the Source of the “Iron Cage” Metaphor (1983) (27)
- Cults and Families (2003) (25)
- From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era (2001) (24)
- The Globalization of Scientology: Influence, Control and Opposition in Transnational Markets (1999) (23)
- THE FRENCH AND GERMAN VERSUS AMERICAN DEBATE OVER 'NEW RELIGIONS' , SCIENTOLOGY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS (2001) (20)
- Scientology's relationship with eastern religious traditions (1996) (17)
- Scientology -- Is this a Religion? (1999) (16)
- The Quaker Ethic and the Fixed Price Policy: Max Weber and Beyond* (1983) (15)
- Early Samkhya in the "Buddhacarita" (1982) (12)
- Deviance Labelling and Normative Strategies in the Canadian "New Religions/Countercult" Debate (1990) (12)
- Relative Deprivation and Resource Mobilization: A Study of Early Quakerism (1982) (11)
- The grooming of children for sexual abuse in religious settings: Unique characteristics and select case studies (2019) (11)
- A war over mental health professionalism: Scientology versus psychiatry (2012) (10)
- A Matter of Principle: Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy, Children, and Human Rights Debates (2006) (10)
- Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Mertonian Deviance Analysis of Conversion to Religiously Ideological Organizations in the Early 1970s (1988) (10)
- The Creation of 'Religious' Scientology (2007) (9)
- The‘Papist’Charges Against the Interregnum Quakers* (1982) (8)
- The “Other” Civil Religion and the Tradition of Radical Quaker Politics (1994) (8)
- Psychological and mystical interpretations of early Quakerism: William James and Rufus Jones (1987) (8)
- Academic Compromise in the Social Scientific Study of Alternative Religions (1998) (8)
- Weber, Goethe, and William Penn: Themes of Marital Love (1985) (8)
- 8. Brainwashing Programs in The Family/ Children of God and Scientology (2001) (8)
- From Slogans to Mantras (2001) (7)
- Misattribution and social control in the children of god (1994) (6)
- Social control in alternative religions: a familial perspective (1992) (6)
- A sectarian interpretation of the rise of Mahayana (1982) (5)
- Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences (1993) (5)
- Psychology and Quaker Mysticism: The Legacy of William James and Rufus Jones (2012) (4)
- BRAINWASHING IN SCIENTOLOGY'S REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE (RPF) (2000) (3)
- MALIGNANT NARCISSISM, L. RON HUBBARD, AND SCIENTOLOGY'S POLICIES OF NARCISSISTIC RAGE (2008) (3)
- Hollywood’s Celebrity-Lobbyists and the Clinton Administration’s American Foreign Policy Toward German Scientology (2002) (3)
- Narcissistic Fraud in the Ancient World: Lucian's Account of Alexander of Abonuteichos and the Cult of Glycon (2007) (3)
- Deviant scripturalism and ritual satanic abuse part two: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan influences (1993) (3)
- Spiritual Kinship and New Religions (2007) (3)
- Valentinian Gnosticism and Classical Samkhya: A Thematic and Structural Comparison (1980) (2)
- Radical Rhetoric and Mystical Religion in America's Late Vietnam War Era (1993) (2)
- Mysticism, quakerism, and relative deprivation: A sociological reply to R. A. Naulty (1989) (2)
- Seven Thousand "Hand-Maids And Daughters Of The Lord": Lincolnshire And Cheshire Quaker Women’S Anti-Tithe Protests In Late Interregnum And Restoration England (2007) (1)
- The History of Credibility Attacks Against Former Cult Members (2011) (1)
- An Expansion of the Rational Choice Approach: Social Control in the Children of God during the 1970s and 1980s (2015) (1)
- Mormonism: Harm, Human Rights, and the Criminalization of Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy (2011) (1)
- “Hand-Maids and Daughters of the Lord”: Quaker Women, Quaker Families, and Somerset’s Anti-Tithe Petition in 1659 (2008) (1)
- Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult:Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult. (1999) (1)
- Diabolic debates: A reply to David Frankfurter and J. S. La Fontaine (1994) (1)
- A Sociological Interpretation of Millenarian Quakerism--1648-1662 (1980) (1)
- Seven Households: Life in Cheshire and Lancashire, 1582-1714, and: Capital and Innovation—How Britain Became the First Industrial Nation: A Study of the Warrington, Knutsford, Northwich and Frodsham Area, 1500-1780 (review) (2008) (1)
- Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study (2003) (1)
- Narconon, Scientology, and the Battle for Legitimacy (2017) (1)
- New Religious Movements (2006) (1)
- Max Weber: A Skeleton Key, by Randall Collins. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. 1986. 151 pp. $16.95; 8.95 (paper) (1988) (0)
- Introduction to Special Edition: Comparative Reflections on Scientology and NXIVM (2021) (0)
- PUTTING FAMILIES IN FAMILY RESEARCH : NON-SUMMATIVITY, EMOTION, AND UNIT (2016) (0)
- 10. Compelling Evidence: A Rejoinder to Lome Dawson's Chapter (2001) (0)
- Studying Scientology as an Anti-Democratic Institution: Suggestions and Cautions to Future Researchers (2021) (0)
- Review 3 of "Child Sex Abusers in Protestant Christian Churches: An Offender Typology" (2022) (0)
- Late Twentieth-Century Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Sects and Cults: Weston La Bare, Norman Cohn, & E. P. Thompson (2020) (0)
- Intangible racism must be faced and diversity embraced. (1999) (0)
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