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Cultic Studies Review Department: Professional Column Law

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Professional Columns: Law

Canadian Security Intelligence Service - Report # 2000/03 (December 18, 1999)

Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001

parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Doomsday Religious Movements - 4/4

Annex I

The Apocalyptic Cult Checklist

CHARACTERISTICS	THREATS	EARLY WARNING SIGNS

Apocalyptic Beliefs dualism the persecuted chosen * imminence * determinism * salvation through conflict Charismatic Leadership * control over members * lack of restraint * withdrawal Actions by Authorities * lack of comprehension * unsound negotiation * hasty action * spiral of amplification	Democratic Governance Weapons Acquisition * firearms * explosives * chemical / biological weapons Institutional Infiltration * political * business Criminal Activity * crimes against individuals * transnational crime	* Intensification of illegal activities * Humiliating circumstances * Relocation to a rural area * Increasingly violent rhetoric * Struggle for leadership

Annex II References and Suggested Reading Internet Addresses

The Center for Millennial Studies
www.mille.org

Cult Awareness and Information Centre
www.caic.org.au

AFF
www.csj.org

FactNet
www.factnet.org

Info-Cult
www.infocult.org

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
www.religioustolerance.org

Monographs

Bainbridge, William S. (1997). The Sociology of Religious Movements. New York: Routledge.

Bromley, David G. & Jeffrey K. Hadden, eds. (1993). The Handbook of Cults and Sects in America. Greenwich, CT and London: Association for the Sociology of religion and JAI Press.

Dawson, Lorne L., ed. (1996). Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements. Toronto: Scholar's Press.

Gesy, Lawrence J. (1993). Destructive Cults and Movements. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.

Introvigne, Massimo. (1996). Les Veilleurs de l'Apocalypse: Millénarisme et nouvelles religions au seuil de l'an 2000. Paris: Claire Vigne.

Kaplan, Jeffrey. (1997). Radical Religion in America: Millennial Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Lewis, James R. (1998). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.

Miller, Timothy. (1991). When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements. New York: State University of New York Press.

Robbins, Thomas & Susan Palmer, eds. (1997) Millennium, Messiah, and Mayhem. New York: Routledge.

Saliba, John A. (1995). Perspectives on New Religious Movements. London: Geoffrey Chapman.

Scotland, Nigel. (1995). Charismatics and the Next Millennium. Hodder & Stoughton.

Stark, Rodney & William Sims Bainbridge. (1996). Religion, Deviance, and Social Control. New York: Routledge.

Storr, Anthony. (1997). Feet of Clay - Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus. New York: The Free Press.

Strozier, Charles B. (1994). Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America. Boston: Beacon Press.

Wilson, Bryan & Jamie Cresswell, eds. (1999). New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response. London: Routledge.

This article is reprinted with permission from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

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