Stephen A. Kent

Stephen A. Kent is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He researches new religious movements (NRMs), and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God (The Family), the Church of Scientology, and other NRMs operating in Canada.

Quotes about Kent

  • Kent’s critics have long accused him of using anti-cultism as a tool to promote a broader hostility toward religion, and [his book Psychobiographies and Godly Visions: Disordered Minds and the Origins of Religiosity] reads like a spectacular confirmation. All religious leaders are painted with the same brush: deluded, dangerous, and diagnostically compromised. This worldview is so totalizing that it leaves no room for metaphor, mystery, or the possibility that [the] spiritual experience might be more than just neurological noise.
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