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Cybersectarianism

Index Cybersectarianism

Cybersectarianism is the phenomenon of new religious movements and other groups using the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information sharing. [1]

31 relations: Al-Qaeda, Aum Shinrikyo, Ballymena, BBC, China, Ching Hai, Communist League, Computer-mediated communication, Cyberterrorism, Dru C. Gladney, Eastern Lightning, Falun Gong, Guanyin Famen, Hacktivism, Heaven's Gate (religious group), Information exchange, Internet, New religious movement, Northern Ireland, Parthenia (place), Paul Virilio, Peer-to-peer, Qigong, San Diego, Shia Islam, Social Democrats, USA, Socialist Party of America, Sunni Islam, University of Oxford, Xinjiang, Zhong Gong.

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda (القاعدة,, translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Fundament" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988.

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Aum Shinrikyo

, formerly, is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984.

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Ballymena

Ballymena is a large town in County Antrim, and the eighth largest in Northern Ireland.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Ching Hai

Ching Hai (born 12 May 1950) is a Vietnamese author, entrepreneur, and teacher of the Quan Yin Method of meditation.

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Communist League

The Communist League (German: Bund der Kommunisten) was an international political party established on June 1, 1847 in London, England.

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Computer-mediated communication

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined as any human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices.

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Cyberterrorism

Cyberterrorism is the use of the Internet to conduct violent acts that result in, or threaten, loss of life or significant bodily harm, in order to achieve political gains through intimidation.

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Dru C. Gladney

Dru C. Gladney, recent President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, is currently Professor of Anthropology there.

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Eastern Lightning

Eastern Lightning, which prefers to use the name The Church of Almighty God, is a new religious movement established in China in 1991, to which Chinese governmental sources attribute from three to four million members, although scholars regard these figures as somewhat inflated.

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Falun Gong

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa (Standard Mandarin Chinese:; literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a modern Chinese spiritual practice that combines meditation and qigong exercises with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

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Guanyin Famen

Quan Yin Buddhism (Chinese 觀音法門 Guanyin Famen, 中華民國禪定學會) or the teachings of the Ching Hai World Society is a school of Buddhism founded by the ethnic-Chinese Vietnamese teacher Ching Hai.

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Hacktivism

In Internet activism, hacktivism or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism) is the subversive use of computers and computer networks to promote a political agenda or a social change.

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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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Information exchange

Information exchange or information sharing are informal terms that can either refer to bidirectional information transmission/information transfer in telecommunications and computer science or communication seen from a system-theoretic or information-theoretic point of view.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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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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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Parthenia (place)

Parthenia was a Roman–Berber town in the former Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis, the easternmost part of ancient Mauretania.

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Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio (born 4 January 1932) is a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Qigong

Qigong, qi gong, chi kung, or chi gung is a holistic system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used in the belief that it promotes health, spirituality, and martial arts training.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Social Democrats, USA

Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA) is an American association of social democrats founded in 1972.

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Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a multi-tendency democratic socialist and social democratic political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

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Zhong Gong

Zhong Gong (中功) is a spiritual movement based on qigong founded in 1987 by Zhang Hongbao.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersectarianism

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