Legal cases, new religious movements, and minority faiths
By: edited by James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno, USA and François Bellanger, Université de Genéve, Switzerland
Series: Ashgate inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781472428745; 9781472428752; 9781472428769
Subjects: Religious minorities; Legal status, laws; Cults; Law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Controversial religious groups and the legal system; title: Courts, crusaders, and the media : the family international / Claire Borowik; title: Scientology in Italy : Plagio and the twenty year legal saga / Massimo Introvigne; title: The Order of the Solar Temple : from apocalypse to court / Jean-Francois Mayer; title: Part II. Specific legal cases involving minority eligious groups; title: The Mohan Singh case : what price confidentiality? / Philip Katz QC; title: The resurrection of religion in the U.S. : the "sacred tea" cases, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the war on drugs / James T. Richardson and Jennifer Shoemaker; title: Religion or sedition? : the domestic terrorism trial of the Hutaree, a Michigan-based Christian militia / Susan J. Palmer; title: The Dang case : when Chakras opening leads to a Belgian criminal court / Henri de Cordes.; title: Part III. Legal issues raised by cases involving minority faiths; title: How to know the truth : accommodating religious belief in the law of libel / Alistair Mullis and Andrew Scott; title: Religious libel : are the courts the right place for faith disputes? / Hardeep Singh; title: The European Court of Human Rights, minority religions, and new versus original member states / Valerie Lykes and James T. Richardson; title: Part IV. Minority religious groups in court : experimental evidence; title: Cults in court : jury decision-making and new religious movements / Jeffrey Pfeifer; title: Parents' use of faith healing for their children implications for the legal system and measuring community sentiment / Monica Miller; title: Muslims in the courtroom : legal issues and empirical research / Evelyn Maeder and Jeffrey Pfeifer.