Irish Attitudes towards New Religious movements

oomahony

Hi, I'm a student and one of my courses is sociology. I'm currently doing a project examining Irish attitudes towards new religious movements and was wondering if anyone could help me. I've compiled a survey below and if anyone could fill it in and return in to my e-mail address (o_omahony@hotmail.com) or post the reply I would very much appreciate it. Also if any one has any suggestions for improvements of the survey or general comments or insight to the topic I would be very greatful to hear from you. Thanks for your time:

Survey...
Questionnaire on Irish attitude towards new religious movements and the leaders

Q1 AGE

16-21 [ ] 22-30 [ ] 30-45 [ ] 45+ [ ]

Q2 GENDER

MALE [ ] FEMALE [ ]

Q3 OCCUPATION

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Q4 MARTIAL STATUS

SINGLE [ ] MARRIED [ ]

Q5 CHILDREN

YES [ ] NO [ ]

Q6 RELIGION

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Q7 DO YOU THINK THAT THERE ARE MORE CULTS IN IRELAND TODAY THAN THERE WAS 10 YEARS AGO ?

YES [ ] NO [ ] DON’T KNOW [ ]

Q8 HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THESE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS ?

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Q9 WOULD YOU VIEW YOU OWN RELIGION AS A NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT ?

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Q10 PLEASE MENTION THE RELIGIONS THAT YOU CONSIDER TO BE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS BELOW ?

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Q10 DO YOU CONSIDER SOME OF THESE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS TO BE DANGEROUS ?

YES [ ] NO [ ] DON’T KNOW [ ]


Q11 PLEASE GIVE YOUR VIEWS ON THESE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS LEADERS ?


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Meh

Originally posted by oomahony
Q1 -Q6

24, male,software developer, single, no kids, agnostic

Q7 DO YOU THINK THAT THERE ARE MORE CULTS IN IRELAND TODAY THAN THERE WAS 10 YEARS AGO

Don't know.

Q8 HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THESE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS ?

I distrust a lot of them, especially the ones that try to recruit on the streets.

Q9 WOULD YOU VIEW YOU OWN RELIGION AS A NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT ?

Nope.

Q10 PLEASE MENTION THE RELIGIONS THAT YOU CONSIDER TO BE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS BELOW ?

Scientologists, Church of Christ, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses.

Q10 DO YOU CONSIDER SOME OF THESE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS TO BE DANGEROUS ?

The Scientologists, definitely. They've killed before, and their abuse of the copyright laws is a danger to free speech. I've heard bad things about the Church of Christ as well -- indoctrination etc.

Q11 PLEASE GIVE YOUR VIEWS ON THESE CULTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS LEADERS ?

I think the public should definitely be more aware of the dark side of Scientology in particular. It gets a lot of good publicity from people like Tom Cruise, so people don't realize how dangerous it is,

Stephen

1: Age: 19
2: Male
3: Student
4: Single
5: None
6: None/Atheist
7: Dunno
8: I dislike some of them, like scientologists and such. I agree with Meh about the ones that preach at you in the street too. This includes Christians by the way. There's some psycho Christian dude in Kilkenny who shouts about god to people and waves a crucifix about and follows them around when they disagree with/ignore him. Fvckwit.
9: No
10: Scientologists mainly. I don't know much about the rest.
10 (b?): Yes
11: I don't know anything about their leadership.

davros

What about Falun Gong? With all the focus on politics in China I think people are forgetting to ask what kind of an organisation is this - is it a cult?

I tried to read some of "Master Li's" books on the web (Falun Dafa). I came to the part where he claims to be able to produce radiation from his body (measured on a geiger counter) and also to be able to float magically.

Is it a cult if it makes you subscribe to stupid beliefs?