It is God's will: Exploiting religious beliefs as a means of human trafficking
Human traffickers use various methods to maintain and control their victims, including physical, economic, and psychological restraints. Specifically focusing on the psychological aspect of control, this paper seeks to address the role of religion and how it can be exploited as a tool of coercion. E...
| Published in: | Critical research on religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Critical research on religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-61 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
House of Judah
/ Traffic in persons
/ Slavery
/ Will of God
/ Islam
/ Scientology
/ Psychic crisis
/ Dependency (Psychology)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AZ New religious movements ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
House of Judah
B Scientology B Law B Islam B Religion B Human Trafficking |
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| Summary: | Human traffickers use various methods to maintain and control their victims, including physical, economic, and psychological restraints. Specifically focusing on the psychological aspect of control, this paper seeks to address the role of religion and how it can be exploited as a tool of coercion. Employing case study methodology, this paper will focus on examples of Islam, House of Judah, and Scientology, and how belief systems facilitated victim coercion. The purpose is threefold: (1) to establish religion as a tool of coercion at the interpersonal level, (2) to examine specific trafficking cases in which religion was the method of coercion, and (3) to discuss the challenge of prosecuting cases in which the act was the result of religious coercion. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2050303216676520 |