Freedom of Religion or Belief · Spiritual Minorities · Global Advocacy
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CICNS's reading digest of Eric Forgues's essay: page by page, how Quebec's French-language press covered the new age from outside, as catch-all, plague and infiltration, and what that says about an elite estranged from a quarter of its readership.
Christian Decoeur turns the argument from French specificity back on itself: from the Chevalier de La Barre beheaded for keeping his hat on to two schoolgirls expelled for keeping their scarves on, and through a catalogue of what that specificity has actually produced - record psychotropic consumption, a justice system under the executive, a medicine that hurls anathemas, and a list of therapies that all end at the same guillotine word.
Raphaël Liogier's phrase for how intellectuals concede the anti-cult case without evidence. The CICNS answers it with a reasoning by the absurd - dissolve the two or three groups everyone names, and the fight is still unjustified - and then applies the MIVILUDES's own criteria of dérives sectaires, point by point, to France Télécom and its forty-five suicides.
1 June 2010