Stephen A. Kent

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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 (also known as The Family), the Church of Scientology, and newer faiths operating in Canada.

Plagiarism victim

In June 2005 the newspaper "The Independent" ran an article "A Dangerous War on Psychiatry" by Dr. Raj Persaud, which was plagiarized from Kent's article "The Globalization of Scientology; Influence, Control and Opposition in Transnational Markets".cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2139192/TV-psychiatrist-Dr-Raj-Persaud-admits-copying-work-of-other-academics.html|title=TV psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud admits copying work of other academics: Raj Persaud, the television psychiatrist, has admitted copying the work of other academics in his book `From the Edge of the Couch' and in articles that he submitted to the national media and scientific journals|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=June 16, 2008|accessdate=2008-06-16|last=Peterkin|first=Tom] At that time, the paper blamed a "production error" and altered the article in its web archives to properly attribute Kent. [cite web |url=http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article295712.ece |title=Raj Persaud: A dangerous war on psychiatry |publisher=The Independent |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-16] In June 2008, Persaud admitted his plagiarism at a disciplinary hearing, and blamed a "confused mental state" because of workload. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7465539.stm Media doctor's future in balance] , BBC, June 20, 2008] It resulted in him being suspended for three months. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4179597.ece TV psychiatrist Raj Persaud suspended for plagiarism] , The Times, June 21, 2008]

Works

Books

* "", Syracuse University press, 2001, ISBN 0-8156-2948-6
* " [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/Brainwashing%20and%20Re-Indoctrination%20Programs%20in%20the%20Children%20of%20God.htm Brainwashing Programs in The Family/Children of God, and Scientology] ." in Zablocki, Benjamin et al.: "", 2001, ISBN 0-8020-8188-6, 349-378

Articles

* "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.
* " [http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/kent/eastern.html Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions] " Berliner Dialog Heft 1-97
* " [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/lustfulprophet.htm 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
* " [http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Misattribution_and_Social_Control_in_the_Children_of_God Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God] ", Journal of Religion and Health. 33 No.1,: 29-43, 1994.
*" [http://www.lermanet2.com/scientology/gulags/BrainwashinginScientology'sRehabilitationProjectForce.htm Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)] ", 1997
* " [http://www.skeptictank.org/wsns.htm When Scholars Know Sin] ", Skeptic Magazine Vol. 6, No. 3, 1998.
* " [http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a13.html The Globalization of Scientology] ", Religion 29, 1999: 147-169.
* " [http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Clarifying_Contentious_Issues:_A_Rejoinder_to_Melton%2C_Shupe%2C_and_Lewis Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis] " Skeptic 7 No.1, 1999, 21-26.
* " [http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/kent.html Scientology -- Is this a Religion?] " Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, No. 1, 1999.
* " [http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/kent-fake-religion.htm The Creation of 'Religious' Scientology] ", Religious Studies and Theology, 18 No. 2, 1999.
* " [http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/kent2.html The French and German versus American Debate over 'New Religions', Scientology, and Human Rights] ", Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, 2001.
* " [http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/kent_stephen_exitanddeclineofdeprograming_abs.htm Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming] .", Cultic Studies Review 1 No.3, 2002.
* " [http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Generational_Revolt_by_the_Adult_Children_of_First-Generation_Members_of_the_Children_of_God/The_Family Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family] ", Cultic Studies Review 3 No. 1, 2004.

ee also

*List of cult researchers

References

External links

* [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/ Stephen Kent's homepage at the university of Alberta]
* [http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/sociology/kent.cfm faculty profile] at the University of Alberta
* [http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Stephen_A._Kent Stephen Kent] on xFamily.org (wiki encyclopedia about the children of God)