Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths

Contents: Foreword; Part I Controversial Religious Groups and the Legal System: Courts, crusaders, and the media: the Family International, Claire Borowik; Scientology in Italy: Plagio and the twenty year legal saga, Massimo Introvigne; The Order of the Solar Temple: from apocalypse to court, Jean-Francois Mayer. Part II Specific Legal Cases Involving Minority religious Groups: The Mohan Singh case: what price confidentiality?, Philip Katz; The resurrection of religion in the US? The 'sacred tea' cases, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the war on drugs, James T. Richardson and Jennifer Shoemaker; Religion or sedition? The domestic terrorism trial of the Hutaree, a Michigan-based Christian militia, Susan J. Palmer; The Dang case in Belgium, Henri de Cordes. Part III Legal Issues Raised by Cases Involving Minority Faiths: How to know the truth: accommodating religious beliefs in the law of libel, Alistair Mullis and Andrew Scott; Religious libel: are the courts the right place for faith disputes/, Hardeep Singh; The European Court of Human Rights, minority religions, and new versus original member states, Valerie Lykes and James T. Richardson. Part IV Minority Religious Groups and Their Practices in Court: Experimental Evidence: Cults in court: jury decision-making and new religious movements, Jeffrey Pfeiffer; Parents' use of faith healing for their children: implications for the legal system and measuring community sentiment, Monica Miller; Muslims in the courtroom, Evelyn Maeder and Jeffrey Pfeiffer; Index.