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Controversies about Opus Dei

According to Massimo Introvigne, a sociologist and conservative Catholic scholar, these secularist groups could not tolerate what he saw as "a return to religion of the secularized society."

Ilchi Lee

Religions scholar Massimo Introvigne suggests that Dahn World School is an offshoot of Taejonggyo, as exemplified by the large statue of Tan'gun at its U.S. headquarters in Sedona and memorization of passages from Taejonggyo's scriptures, "Heavenly Code," or "Chun Bu Kyung," by members.

Massimo Introvigne

Sette e nuovi movimenti religiosi, Chapter 6, in Various Authors (Marcella Danon, Mario Di Fiorino, Eugenio Fizzotti, Massimo Introvigne, Alfredo Jacopozzi, Giorgio Nadali, Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi, Enzo Pace, Federico Squarcini, Aldo Natale Terrin, Gaia Zanini), Edizioni Paoline (2007),ISBN 978-88-315-3327-0

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Introvigne has also written books and articles in several languages criticizing The Da Vinci Code and the documentary on pedophile priests Sex Crimes and the Vatican.

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In Italy, Introvigne is known as one of the main proponents of the sociological theory of religious economy developed by Rodney Stark and Lawrence Iannaccone.

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Anti-cult activists and scholars sympathetic to the anti-cult movement such as Thomas Gandow, Stephen Kent, as well as Benjamin Zablocki see Introvigne's framing of scholars and academics (those who agree with CESNUR) vs. anti-cult movement (those who do not agree with CESNUR regardless of their academic qualifications) as biased, not to mention the term anti-cult terrorism he coined.

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