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87 relations: ABC-CLIO, Academic study of new religious movements, Aidan A. Kelly, American Psychological Association, Amicus curiae, Anson D. Shupe, Anti-cult movement, Apostasy, Aum Shinrikyo, Baylor University, Beyond Words Publishing, Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham–Southern College, Brainwashing, Branch Davidians, Céligny, CESNUR, Christian countercult movement, Christian Science, Christine Sutton, Church Universal and Triumphant, Contemporary Authors, Cornerstone (magazine), David G. Bromley, Deprogramming, Douglas E. Cowan, Eckankar, Eileen Barker, Elizabeth Miller (academic), Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Encyclopedia of American Religions, Epistemology, Evanston, Illinois, Freedom of religion, Gale (publisher), Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Heaven's Gate (religious group), History of religion in the United States, Illinois, Infobase Publishing, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, James A. Beckford, James R. Lewis (scholar), James T. Richardson, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jerome Clark, Karl Pruter, Lewis Carter, Los Angeles Daily News, ..., Massimo Introvigne, Micropædia, Misunderstanding Cults, Nashville, Tennessee, New Age, New religious movement, New York City, Northwestern University, Nova Religio, Occult, Parapsychology, Pentecostalism, Peoples Temple, Phenomenology (philosophy), Propædia, Religion, Richard and Joan Ostling, Robert L. Moore, Ronald Enroth, Scientology, Southwestern Journal of Theology, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, Stephen A. Kent, Supreme Court of California, The Church of Scientology (Melton), The Family International, The Reverend, The Washington Post, Tokyo subway sarin attack, Transylvanian Society of Dracula, Unification Church, United Methodist Church, United States Constitution, Vampire, Waco, Texas, Wicca, Wyanet, Illinois. Expand index (37 more) »
ABC-CLIO
ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
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Academic study of new religious movements
The academic study of new religious movements is known as new religions studies' (NRS).
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Aidan A. Kelly
Aidan A. Kelly (born October 22, 1940) is an American academic, poet and influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with around 117,500 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students.
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Amicus curiae
An amicus curiae (literally, "friend of the court"; plural, amici curiae) is someone who is not a party to a case and may or may not have been solicited by a party, who assists a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case, and is typically presented in the form of a brief.
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Anson D. Shupe
Anson D. Shupe, Jr. (21 January 1948 – 6 May 2015) was an American sociologist noted for his studies of religious groups and their countermovements, family violence and clergy misconduct.
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Anti-cult movement
The anti-cult movement (abbreviated ACM; sometimes called the countercult movement) is a social group which opposes any new religious movement (NRM) that they characterize as a cult.
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Apostasy
Apostasy (ἀποστασία apostasia, "a defection or revolt") is the formal disaffiliation from, or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person.
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Aum Shinrikyo
, formerly, is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984.
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Baylor University
Baylor University (BU) is a private Christian university in Waco, Texas.
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Beyond Words Publishing
Beyond Words Publishing is a book publishing company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.
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Birmingham–Southern College
Birmingham–Southern College (BSC) is a private liberal arts college in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
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Brainwashing
Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques.
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Branch Davidians
The Branch Davidians (also known as The Branch) are a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism among the Shepherd's Rod/Davidians.
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Céligny
Céligny is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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CESNUR
CESNUR (English: Center for Studies on New Religions, Italian: Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni), is an organization based in Turin, Italy.
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Christian countercult movement
The Christian countercult movement or Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement of certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries") and individual activists who oppose religious sects they consider "cults".
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Christian Science
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.
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Christine Sutton
Christine Sutton is a particle physicist who has edited the CERN Courier since 2003.
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Church Universal and Triumphant
Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) is an international New Age religious organization founded in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
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Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors is an annually updated reference work published by Gale Cengage.
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Cornerstone (magazine)
Cornerstone was a newspaper and later a magazine published by Jesus People USA, focusing on topics of evangelical Christian faith and engagement with politics and culture.
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David G. Bromley
David G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
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Deprogramming
Deprogramming refers to measures that claim to assist a person who holds a controversial belief system in changing those beliefs and abandoning allegiance to the religious, political, economic, or social group associated with the belief system.
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Douglas E. Cowan
Douglas Edward Cowan (born August 14, 1958) is a Canadian academic in religious studies and the sociology of religion and currently holds a teaching position at Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Eckankar
Eckankar (meaning Co-worker with God), called "the Path of Spiritual Freedom", is a new religious movement founded by Paul Twitchell in 1965.
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Eileen Barker
Eileen Vartan Barker OBE, (born 21 April 1938, Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
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Elizabeth Miller (academic)
Elizabeth Russell Miller (born February 26, 1939) is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is a Scottish-founded, now American company best known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia of American Religions
Encyclopedia of American Religions, renamed Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions in the eighth edition, is a reference book by J. Gordon Melton first published in 1978, by Consortium Books, A McGrath publishing company.
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Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.
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Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance without government influence or intervention.
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Gale (publisher)
Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in the western suburbs of Detroit.
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Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary
Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary (G-ETS) is a graduate school of theology of The United Methodist Church.
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Heaven's Gate (religious group)
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985).
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History of religion in the United States
The religious history of the United States began with European settlers.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Infobase Publishing
Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organisation.
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James A. Beckford
James Arthur Beckford, FBA (born 1 December 1942) is a British sociologist of religion.
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James R. Lewis (scholar)
James R. Lewis (born November 3, 1959) is a writer and academic specializing in new religious movements, astrology and New Age.
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James T. Richardson
James T. Richardson (born c. 1943) is a Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies, and the Director of the Master of Judicial Studies Degree Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity.
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Jerome Clark
Jerome Clark (born November 27, 1946"Jerome Clark". Contemporary Authors Online. June 12, 2002. Retrieved on April 11, 2012.) is an American researcher and writer, specializing in unidentified flying objects and other paranormal subjects.
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Karl Pruter
Karl Hugo Prüter (July 3, 1920 – November 18, 2007) was an Old Catholic bishop in the United States.
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Lewis Carter
Lewis Carter (2 May 1925 – 28 May 2006) was an Australian cricketer.
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Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California.
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Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist and intellectual property consultant.
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Micropædia
The 12-volume Micropædia is one of the three parts of the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, the other two being the one-volume Propædia and the 17-volume Macropædia.
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Misunderstanding Cults
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field was edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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New Age
New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.
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New religious movement
A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or an alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and which occupies a peripheral place within its society's dominant religious culture.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.
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Nova Religio
Nova Religio, The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions is a peer-reviewed academic journal of religious studies that focuses on New Religious Movements.
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Occult
The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".
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Parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a renewal movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals",.
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Peoples Temple
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was a new religious movement founded in 1955 by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Phenomenology (philosophy)
Phenomenology (from Greek phainómenon "that which appears" and lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.
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Propædia
The one-volume Propædia is the first of three parts of the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, the other two being the 12-volume Micropædia and the 17-volume Macropædia.
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Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
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Richard and Joan Ostling
Richard Ostling is an American author and journalist living in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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Robert L. Moore
Robert L. Moore (August 13, 1942 - June 18, 2016) was an American Jungian analyst and consultant in private practice in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ronald Enroth
Ronald M. Enroth (born October 28, 1938) has been a Professor of Sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, prominent evangelical Christian author of books concerning what he defines as "cults" and "new religious movements" and important figure in the Christian countercult movement.
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Scientology
Scientology is a body of religious beliefs and practices launched in May 1952 by American author L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86).
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Southwestern Journal of Theology
The Southwestern Journal of Theology is an academic journal published by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship or SFF was founded by Arthur Ford in 1956.
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Stephen A. Kent
Stephen A. Kent, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the court of last resort in the courts of the State of California.
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The Church of Scientology (Melton)
The Church of Scientology is a 2000 book about the Church of Scientology by religious scholar J. Gordon Melton. It is the first of a series of books on new religious movements published by the Center for Studies on New Religions.
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The Family International
The Family International (TFI) is a cult that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, USA.
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The Reverend
The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Tokyo subway sarin attack
The Tokyo subway sarin attack (was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. Aum Shinrikyo was a religious movement and doomsday cult led by Shoko Asahara. The group believed in a doctrine revolving around a syncretic mixture of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Christian and Hindu beliefs, especially relating to the Hindu god Shiva. They believed that Armageddon is inevitable in the form of a global war involving the United States and Japan; that non-members were doomed to eternal hell, but that they could be saved if they were killed by cult members; and that only members of the cult would survive the apocalypse, and would afterwards build the Kingdom of Shambhala. The group had already carried out several assassinations and terrorist attacks using sarin, including the Matsumoto sarin attack nine months earlier. They had also produced several other nerve agents, including VX. The cult had attempted to produce botulinum toxin and had perpetrated several failed acts of bioterrorism. Asahara had been made aware of a police raid scheduled for March 22 and had planned the Tokyo subway attack in order to hinder police investigations into the cult and perhaps to spark the global apocalypse. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three lines of the Tokyo Metro (then part of the Tokyo subway) during rush hour, killing 12 people, severely injuring 50, and causing temporary vision problems for nearly 1,000 others. The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, Tokyo, home of the Japanese government. In the raid following the attack, police arrested many senior members of the cult. Police activity continued throughout the summer, eventually arresting over 200 members, including Asahara himself. Thirteen of the senior Aum management have been sentenced to death, with many others given prison sentences up to life. The attack shocked the Japanese, who had widely thought their nation to be free from crime and unrest. It was the deadliest incident to occur in Japan since the end of World War II until the Myojo 56 building fire on September 1, 2001. The attack remains the deadliest terrorist incident in Japan, and Aum Shinrikyo remain the only group in Japan to have utilized biological and chemical weapons.
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Transylvanian Society of Dracula
The Transylvanian Society of Dracula (TSD) is a cultural-historic, non-profit, non-governmental organization.
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Unification Church
The Unification Church (UC), also called the Unification movement and sometimes colloquially the "Moonies", is a worldwide new religious movement that was founded by and is inspired by Sun Myung Moon, a Korean religious leader also known for his business ventures and support of social and political causes.
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United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant denomination and a major part of Methodism.
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United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
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Vampire
A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.
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Waco, Texas
Waco is a city in central Texas and is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.
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Wicca
Wicca, also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement.
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Wyanet, Illinois
Wyanet is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
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