Stephen A. Kent

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Stephen A. Kent
Occupation	Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta

Stephen A. Kent, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new and alternative religions, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God/The Family, the Church of Scientology, and newer faiths operating in Canada.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Books 1.2 Articles 2 See also 3 External links

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• From slogans to mantras: social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam war era, Syracuse University press, 2001, ISBN 0-8156-2948-6
• Brainwashing Programs in The Family/Children of God, and Scientology. in Zablocki, Benjamin et al.: Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field, 2001, ISBN 0-8020-8188-6, 349-378

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• Valentinian Gnoticism and Classical Samkhya--A Thematic and Structural Comparison, Philosophy East and West 30 no.2 (April, 1980): 241-259.
• Puritan Radicalism and the New Religious Organizations: Seventeenthe Century England and Contemporary America, Comparative Social Research 10, (1987): 3-46.
• Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions Berliner Dialog Heft 1-97
• Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Leader, David Berg, Cultic Studies Journal Volume 11 No. 2 : 135-188, 1994
• Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God, Journal of Religion and Health. 33 No.1,: 29-43, 1994.
• Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), 1997
• When Scholars Know Sin, Skeptic Magazine Vol. 6, No. 3, 1998.
• The Globalization of Scientology, Religion 29, 1999: 147-169.
• Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis Skeptic 7 No.1, 1999, 21-26.
• Scientology -- Is this a Religion? Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, No. 1, 1999.
• The Creation of 'Religious' Scientology, Religious Studies and Theology, 18 No. 2, 1999.
• The French and German versus American Debate over 'New Religions', Scientology, and Human Rights, Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, 2001.
• Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming., Cultic Studies Review 1 No.3, 2002.
• Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family, Cultic Studies Review 3 No. 1, 2004.

[edit] See also

• List of cult researchers

[edit] External links

• Stephen Kent's homepage at the university of Alberta
• faculty profile at the University of Alberta
• Stephen Kent on xFamily.org (wiki encyclopedia about the children of God)