Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003, Page 172
10 Robin Munro. Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era.
Human Rights Watch/Geneva Institute of Psychiatry. 2002.
11 Jonathon Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ New York Review of Books, Vol. L, No. 3, Feb. 27,
2003.
12 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ 38.
13 Mirsky complains about the too exclusive focus of the forthcoming WPA investigation on Falun
Gong members. ―While members of Falun Gong are indeed detained in mental hospitals in large
numbers, it seems unjustifiable for the WPA to exclude virtually all other political detainees about
whom Mr. Munro provides so much evidence.‖ ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 38.
14 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 38.
15 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 41.
16 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 40.
17 Rosedale. ―Perspectives on Cults as Affected by the September 11 Tragedy.‖
18 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 39.
19 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 40.
20 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 40.
21 Lowe. ―Religion on a Leash.‖
22 Lowe. ―Religion on a Leash.‖
23 W.H.C. Frend. The Early Church. Fortress Press, 1962, 1985. p. 69.
24 Frend. The Early Church. p. 69.
25 Frend. The Early Church. p. 69.
26 Frend. The Early Church. p. 70.
27 Frend. The Early Church. p. 71.
28 E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety. Cambridge University Press. 1965. p. 67.
29 Thomas Robbins, ―Apocalypse, Persecution and Self-Immolation.‖ pp. 205-219 in Catherine
Wessinger, ed, Millennialism, Persecution and Violence. University of Syracuse Press, 2000. Dr.
Wessinger‘s book collects sixteen original case studies which probe the interrelationship of
millennialism, persecution and significant outbreaks of violence in different contexts. The groups
studied include early Mormons, Tiapings, Russian Old Believers, Solar Templars, People Templars,
Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidians, Native Americans at Wounded Knee and others. Persecution was
definitely a factor in the Old Believer episodes, as was the movement‘s initial apocalypticism and the
authoritarian politicoreligious context of Caesaropapism and lack of church-state separation.
30 Vatro Murvar. ―Messianism in Russia: Religious and Revolutionary,‖ Journal for the Scientific Study
of Religion. Vol. 14, No. 3. pp. 229-257, 1978.
31 Robbins. ―Millennialism, Persecution and Violence.‖
32 To avoid the whole issue of whether to accede to government demands that they publicly reject
Christianity and sacrifice to the Emperor, ―Christians had only to lie low, avoid being too obvious on
the day appointed for the sacrifice, and then resume membership of the church. Only prominent
Christians were pursued ...‖ Frend. The Early Church. pp. 99.
33 Frend. The Early Church. p. 86.
34 Frend. The Early Church. p. 63.
35 Quoted by Frend. The Early Church. p. 63.
36 Frend. The Early Church. p. 63.
37 Quoted by Frend. The Early Church. p. 80. Tertullian ultimately joined the Montanist sect.
38 Grant Underwood. ―Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: The Mormons.‖ pp. 43-61 in Catherine
Wessinger, ed. Millennialism, Persecution and Violence. U. of Syracuse, 2000.
39 Susan Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ Montreal Gazette. June 9, 2001, p. B5.
40 Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ p. B5.
41 Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ p. B5.
42 Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ p. B5.
10 Robin Munro. Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era.
Human Rights Watch/Geneva Institute of Psychiatry. 2002.
11 Jonathon Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ New York Review of Books, Vol. L, No. 3, Feb. 27,
2003.
12 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ 38.
13 Mirsky complains about the too exclusive focus of the forthcoming WPA investigation on Falun
Gong members. ―While members of Falun Gong are indeed detained in mental hospitals in large
numbers, it seems unjustifiable for the WPA to exclude virtually all other political detainees about
whom Mr. Munro provides so much evidence.‖ ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 38.
14 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 38.
15 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 41.
16 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 40.
17 Rosedale. ―Perspectives on Cults as Affected by the September 11 Tragedy.‖
18 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 39.
19 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 40.
20 Mirsky. ―China‘s Psychiatric Terror,‖ p. 40.
21 Lowe. ―Religion on a Leash.‖
22 Lowe. ―Religion on a Leash.‖
23 W.H.C. Frend. The Early Church. Fortress Press, 1962, 1985. p. 69.
24 Frend. The Early Church. p. 69.
25 Frend. The Early Church. p. 69.
26 Frend. The Early Church. p. 70.
27 Frend. The Early Church. p. 71.
28 E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety. Cambridge University Press. 1965. p. 67.
29 Thomas Robbins, ―Apocalypse, Persecution and Self-Immolation.‖ pp. 205-219 in Catherine
Wessinger, ed, Millennialism, Persecution and Violence. University of Syracuse Press, 2000. Dr.
Wessinger‘s book collects sixteen original case studies which probe the interrelationship of
millennialism, persecution and significant outbreaks of violence in different contexts. The groups
studied include early Mormons, Tiapings, Russian Old Believers, Solar Templars, People Templars,
Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidians, Native Americans at Wounded Knee and others. Persecution was
definitely a factor in the Old Believer episodes, as was the movement‘s initial apocalypticism and the
authoritarian politicoreligious context of Caesaropapism and lack of church-state separation.
30 Vatro Murvar. ―Messianism in Russia: Religious and Revolutionary,‖ Journal for the Scientific Study
of Religion. Vol. 14, No. 3. pp. 229-257, 1978.
31 Robbins. ―Millennialism, Persecution and Violence.‖
32 To avoid the whole issue of whether to accede to government demands that they publicly reject
Christianity and sacrifice to the Emperor, ―Christians had only to lie low, avoid being too obvious on
the day appointed for the sacrifice, and then resume membership of the church. Only prominent
Christians were pursued ...‖ Frend. The Early Church. pp. 99.
33 Frend. The Early Church. p. 86.
34 Frend. The Early Church. p. 63.
35 Quoted by Frend. The Early Church. p. 63.
36 Frend. The Early Church. p. 63.
37 Quoted by Frend. The Early Church. p. 80. Tertullian ultimately joined the Montanist sect.
38 Grant Underwood. ―Millennialism, Persecution and Violence: The Mormons.‖ pp. 43-61 in Catherine
Wessinger, ed. Millennialism, Persecution and Violence. U. of Syracuse, 2000.
39 Susan Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ Montreal Gazette. June 9, 2001, p. B5.
40 Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ p. B5.
41 Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ p. B5.
42 Palmer. ―Listening to Master Li.‖ p. B5.
