Resources

These articles and web sites provide academic discussions about Japanese New Religions, Sukyo Mahikari, and related topics. There are also books that we recommend, links to cult awareness sites, and a bunch of our favourite sceptical and humanist sites.

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Articles and Sites about Mahikari and Cults

• Mahikari in Context - Kamigakari, Chinkon kishin, and Psychical Investigation in Ōmoto-lineage Religions - Anne BRODER
• Magic and Morality in Modern Japanese Exorcistic Technologies - A Study of Mahikari Richard Fox YOUNG
• The Vitalistic Conception of Salvation as Expressed in Sukyo Mahikari - Brian MCVEIGH
• The Crux of the Cross Mahikari's Core Symbol - Peter KNECHT
• Mahikari in the Caribbean - Laennec HURBON
• The Phoenix Flies West: The Dynamics of the Inculturation of Mahikari in Western Europe - Catherine CORNILL
• The End of the Vitalistic Conception of Salvation -スピリチュアルデザイン研究所
• Ideologies and New Religious Movements: The case of' Shinreikyo and its doctrines in comparative perspective Klaus-Peter KOEPPIN
• Recent Trends in the Study of Japanese New Religions - INOUE Nobutaka
• After Mahikari Blog
• General Essay on South East Asian Religions
• Religious Movements Page: Sukyo Mahikari
• Factnet...Cult information site: Sukyo Mahikari
• Mahikari Basics
• An Open Letter to Kamikumite

• 真光について (This an archived Japanese link)
• 新興宗教の魅力
• 真光関係者集合
• Cult Information and Family Support (Australia)
• Cult Counselling (Melbourne, Australia)
• Miguel Perlado Psicología clínica. Psicoterapia. Exit counselling (Spain)

Scepticism and Humanist Resources

• Quackwatch - Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions
• Bandolier - Evidence based thinking about health care

• Richard Dawkins
• The Brights
• Steve Hassan
• The James Randi Educational Foundation
• CSI Online - The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
• The Centre for Inquiry
• Ratbags on the Net
• The Museum of Hoaxes
• The Skeptic's Dictionary

Suggested Reading

• Spirits, Selves, and Subjectivity in a Japanese New Religion : The Cultural Psychology of Belief in Shukyo Mahikari
  by Brian J. McVeigh, 1997

• Dojo : Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan
  by Winston Davis, 1980

• Influence : The Psychology of Persuasion
  by Robert B. Cialdini, 1993

• Combatting Cult Mind Control
  by Steven Hassan, 1988

• Releasing The Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves
  by Steven Hassan, 2000

• Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships
  by Madeleine Landau Tobias, et al, 1994

• Anatomy of Religion
  Adrian Crees, 1989

• Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective (New Religious Movements)
  by Peter B. Clarke (Editor), 2000