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to a page on how to get started selecting a topic and group. New religious movements and cults: UFO cults, Scientology, Children of God, Unification Church ("Moonies"), Society of Saint Pius X (traditionalist Catholics like Mel Gibson), Falun Gong in China, forms of New Age today, with magic (Kabalah strings?) etc. Older religious movement: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Amish, Mormons, Christian Science, Santería, Voudon (Voodoo), etc. Aspects of traditional religions: the caste system in India, inner and outer jihad in Islam, forms of Buddhism; Native American traditions. Religious views on moral issues: the just war theory, the death penalty, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, homosexual behavior, separating conjoined ("Siamese") twins, etc. Religious hate groups: Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity, Aryan Nations, 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, Aryan Brotherhood, Neo-Nazis. Atheism and skepticism: American Humanist Society; Skeptics Society; the secularization thesis; the decline of religion in Europe. Specific current issues: creationism and evolution in the schools; Catholic liberation theology in Latin America, theories on religion as a source of tension or violence (Bosnia, Palestine/Israel), The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Muslim vs Christian/animists in Sudan, etc. Other?
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