স্বধর্মত্যাগ

স্বধর্মত্যাগ (; ) হলো কোনো ব্যক্তির দ্বারা কোনো ধর্ম থেকে আনুষ্ঠানিক বিচ্ছিন্ন হওয়া, পরিত্যাগ করা বা ত্যাগ করা। এটিকে একজনের পূর্ববর্তী ধর্মীয় বিশ্বাসের বিপরীতে মতামত গ্রহণ করার বিস্তৃত প্রেক্ষাপটের মধ্যেও সংজ্ঞায়িত করা যেতে পারে। ধর্মত্যাগকারীকে ধর্মত্যাগী বলা হয়। সমাজবিজ্ঞানীরা ধর্মত্যাগ শব্দটি ব্যবহার করেন  একজন ব্যক্তির প্রাক্তন ধর্মের ত্যাগ ও সমালোচনা বা বিরোধিতা বোঝাতে, অবমাননাকর অর্থ ছাড়াই প্রযুক্তিগত অর্থে।

তথ্যসূত্র

আরও পড়ুন 
 Bromley, David G. 1988. Falling From the Faith: The Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy. Beverly Hills: Sage.
 Dunlop, Mark, The culture of Cults, 2001
 Introvigne, Massimo (1997), Defectors, Ordinary Leavetakers and Apostates: A Quantitative Study of Former Members of New Acropolis in France, Nova Religio 3 (1), 83–99
 The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906). The Kopelman Foundation.
 Lucas, Phillip Charles, The Odyssey of a New Religion: The Holy Order of MANS from New Age to Orthodoxy Indiana University press;
 Lucas, Phillip Charles, Shifting Millennial Visions in New Religious Movements: The case of the Holy Order of MANS in The year 2000: Essays on the End edited by Charles B. Strozier, New York University Press 1997;
 Lucas, Phillip Charles, The Eleventh Commandment Fellowship: A New Religious Movement Confronts the Ecological Crisis, Journal of Contemporary Religion 10:3, 1995:229–241;
 Lucas, Phillip Charles, Social factors in the Failure of New Religious Movements: A Case Study Using Stark's Success Model SYZYGY: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture 1:1, Winter 1992:39–53
 Oropeza, B. J., Apostasy in the New Testament Communities, 3 Volumes. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011-12.
 Wright, Stuart A. 1988. "Leaving New Religious Movements: Issues, Theory and Research", pp. 143–165 in David G. Bromley (ed.), Falling From the Faith. Beverly Hills: Sage.
 Wright, Stuart A. 1991. "Reconceptualizing Cult Coercion and Withdrawal: A Comparative Analysis of Divorce and Apostasy." Social Forces 70 (1):125–145.
 Wright, Stuart A. and Helen R. Ebaugh. 1993. "Leaving New Religions", pp. 117–138 in David G. Bromley and Jeffrey K. Hadden (eds.), Handbook of Cults and Sects in America. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
 Zablocki, Benjamin et al., Research on NRMs in the Post-9/11 World, in Lucas, Phillip Charles et al. (ed.), NRMs in the 21st Century: legal, political, and social challenges in global perspective, 2004, 

সাক্ষ্য, স্মৃতিকথা ও আত্মজীবনী
 Babinski, Edward (editor), Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists. Prometheus Books, 2003. 
 Dubreuil, J. P. 1994 L'Église de Scientology. Facile d'y entrer, difficile d'en sortir. Sherbrooke: private edition (ex-Church of Scientology)
 Huguenin, T. 1995 Le 54e Paris Fixot (ex-Order of the Solar Temple, who would be the 54th victim)
 Kaufman, Robert, Inside Scientology: How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman, 1972 and revised in 1995.
 Lavallée, G. 1994 L'alliance de la brebis. Rescapée de la secte de Moïse, Montréal: Club Québec Loisirs (ex-Roch Thériault)
 Pignotti, Monica (1989), My nine lives in Scientology
 Remini, Leah, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. Ballantine Books, 2015. 
 Wakefield, Margery (1996), Testimony
 Lawrence Woodcraft, Astra Woodcraft, Zoe Woodcraft, The Woodcraft Family, Video Interviews

অন্যদের লেখা
 Carter, Lewis, F. Lewis, Carriers of Tales: On Assessing Credibility of Apostate and Other Outsider Accounts of Religious Practices published in the book The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements edited by David G. Bromley Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 1998. 
 Elwell, Walter A. (Ed.) Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 1 A–I, Baker Book House, 1988, pp. 130–131, "Apostasy". 
 Malinoski, Peter, Thoughts on Conducting Research with Former Cult Members , Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001
 Palmer, Susan J. Apostates and their Role in the Construction of Grievance Claims against the Northeast Kingdom/Messianic Communities 
 Wilson, S. G., Leaving the Fold: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004. 
 Wright, Stuart. "Post-Involvement Attitudes of Voluntary Defectors from Controversial New Religious Movements". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 23 (1984):172–182.

বহিঃসংযোগ 
 
 
 
 Laws Criminalizing Apostasy, Library of Congress (overview of the apostasy laws of 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia)

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