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Contact Us Email and Phone Email: inform@kcl.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)20 7848 1132 Our phone line normally operates 10am - 4.30pm Monday - Wednesday However please email us to arrange a time to talk. Address Inform King’s College London Arts and Humanities Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies Bush House South East Wing 300 Strand London WC2R 1AE Newsletter
Health and Healing in Minority Religions - 1st Edition - Sarah Harvey, Eileen Barker
Health and Healing in Minority Religions - 1st Edition - Sarah Harvey, Eileen Barker
This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions. The introductory chapter focuses on the metaphors and meanings that religions use to indicate their understandings of the body and its boundaries and concepts of health and healing. Chapters follow on the concepts of health and healing in the Jehovah’s W
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'Is this group harmful?'
'Is this group harmful?'
Is this group harmful? Some groups sometimes harm some people. But, simply because a beliefs and/or practices are unfamiliar, or new or 'different' does not mean that they are necessarily a cause for concern. Research shows that much of the 'conventional wisdom' about 'cults' or new religions is not always well-founded. Criminal, dangerous or even ‘anti-social’ behaviour
'When is a group a cult?'
'When is a group a cult?'
When is a Group a Cult? Inform believes it is important to recognise that definitions are man-made decisions. Exactly what characteristics are 'put together' under a label, and where the distinguishing boundaries are drawn between different phenomena, can vary from place to place and time to time. Furthermore, different people may use the same concept to refer
Guidelines for Friends & Family
Guidelines for Friends & Family
Guidelines for Friends & Family Inform is not an 'advice agency'. Our main aim is to help people by providing them with information that is as accurate and balanced as possible and by directing them towards other experts, and, when asked, to people with first-hand experience of the movements. However, scholarly research into religious movements has
Guidelines for 'Seekers'
Guidelines for 'Seekers'
'Sources of Support' Leaflet
'Sources of Support' Leaflet
Resources
Archive and Database
Archive and Database
Archive and Database Significance of Collection Our archive provides an exceptional record of the diversity of new and minority religious groups in twentieth-century Britain. The archive is a unique source in its historical records of the transformations of religious groups, as well as the responses and reactions of the state and other
Group Info
Group Info
Individual Groups and Movements Inform takes every care to provide as accurate and balanced an account as possible, but we welcome corrections and comments. Please use the search function in the upper right hand corner to search, or contact Inform directly for more information. Some of our information has been commissioned by external organisations, particularly the
Podcasts | The Religious Studies Project
Podcasts | The Religious Studies Project
Exploring contemporary issues in the academic study of religion through podcasts. The Religious Studies Project is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated
Factsheet: New Religious Movements
Factsheet: New Religious Movements
Projects
John Templeton Foundation - New Religiosity and the Digital Study of Eudaimonia
John Templeton Foundation - New Religiosity and the Digital Study of Eudaimonia
A comprehensive study creating the world's largest open-access dataset on contemporary religious movements, examining their impact on human flourishing and societal wellbeing through innovative digital humanities methods.
About the Project - 'Powerful Perpetrators' *TW - SA*
About the Project - 'Powerful Perpetrators' *TW - SA*
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INFORM Seminar - 'Public Health After Covid'
INFORM Seminar - 'Public Health After Covid'
Public Health After COVID: beliefs, religion and competing epistemologies 26-27 May 2023, King's College London Communities of trust, expert knowledge, reliability of evidence, and competing rationalities have become central
Round Table on Identifying, Naming and Treating Harm in New Religious Movements
Round Table on Identifying, Naming and Treating Harm in New Religious Movements
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Religion Media Centre Briefing: Inform
Religion Media Centre Briefing: Inform
The charity Inform (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) has just celebrated its 35th anniversary and in this briefing, we look back at its work...
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