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	Shunning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shunning is often intended to teach obedience, discipline disobedience/nonconformance by the shunned and to punish defiance from the shunned.
		Extreme shunning often causes traumas to the shunned (and to their innocent dependents) similar to what is studied in the psychology of torture.
		Shunning is often particularly painful, for the shunnee, in these denominations since they are generally very close-knit, since they teach members to look down on non-members from childhood, and since the shunned person usually has no significant social links with anyone other than those in their denomination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shunning (2087 words)

	Talk:Shunning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shunning is applied by the group to a member of the group who has violated group norms.
		That is exactly what happens in shunning cases too...(just google a few) so I do insist on a balanced pov here...that is the shunned and shunners statements minus all that bury-us-in-bull bible babble.
		Unfortunately the actions of Baha'i shunning may affect the shunnee if they have family or friends that are Baha'i, but that is a side-effect, and not the primary purpose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Shunning (3573 words)

	SNAP of Tennessee \| Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
		The bishops’ campaign to shun survivor/victims of pedophile priests and vulnerable adults molested by ordained sexual predators is a callous campaign of disinformation.
		Shunning, in fact, has become a nefarious acknowledgment by the American bishops to the laity that survivor/victims should be silenced and expelled from the Catholic Community, inferring that they have challenged the authority of magisterium, vilified the Roman Catholic priesthood, and scandalized the faithful.
		Shunning those who seek healing and restorative justice — as victims of child-rape and sodomy — clearly demonstrates that Roman Catholic spiritual leaders have become pathological in their attempts to quell the abuse scandal.
	www.rememberthesurvivors.com /wegs052505.htm (1211 words)

	Shunning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shunning means those whom we used to call brothers and sisters we would now pass in the market or street without acknowledging.
		When I practiced shunning while in the company of another Witness the act of shunning would, in my own eyes, be a witnessed proof of my loyalty to Jehovah.
		Shunning is probably the ultimate rejection of anyone as a person and maybe the cruelest mental, emotional, and psychological form of abuse.
	users.uniserve.com /~renford/shun.htm (1526 words)

	Anti-State.com : A Market For Exile?, by Ray Daugherty
		A shunning firm, as the name implies, is a company that handles the business of shunning those who have been accused of crimes and make no attempt to answer the charges.
		The assumption is that the shunning firms have clout and rely on nothing more than that; though the state may rely on a similar strategy, what makes it evil is that they do so not only under the implicit threat of social ostracism, but also under the explicit threat of death.
		This would be akin to the voluntary shunning that has been going on in society for ages, as with people who simply refuse to patronize businesses owned by criminals, or neighbors who don't invite the whiate supremacists on the corner to the block party.
	www.anti-state.com /article.php?article_id=421 (2407 words)

	Shunning-A Part of the Faith of Jehovahs Witnesses
		Shunning is probably the ultimate rejection of me as a person and maybe the cruelest mental, emotional, and psychological form of abuse.
		The results of the shunning by Jehovah’s Witnesses done to me was substantial pain and suffering … but only as long as lowed it to continue.
		Shunning is one of the WT's main reinforcers.
	www.freeminds.org /buss/shunning.htm (1823 words)

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		Shunning, in terms of isolation, was not suppose to be a rejection of the person, but rather a process of putting nonviolent pressure on the person to return to the fold.
		Freedom of religion in the sense of being free to switch churches was classified by the lawyers for the plaintiff as a civil right that shunning interfered with, in the sense that pressure was brought to bear on the individual to return to the church of original membership.
		The defendants basically pointed out that the practice of shunning the excommunicated was rooted in the Dortrecht Confession of Faith of 1632 and they were only doing what they sincerely believed was their freedom of religion to do and indeed their duty to do as they understood the Scriptures.
	www.umanitoba.ca /Law/Courses/esau/lr/lr_amish.txt (13908 words)

	Search Results for "Shunning"
		...Memnonian shadows of Memphis, it rose from the slime, A reed of the river, self-hid, as though shunning the curse of its crime, And it shook as it measured in whispers...
		...of faith, rejected infant baptism, and believed in the separation of church from state, in the shunning of nonbelievers, and in simplicity of life.
		Shunning e en the thought of pain: 10 For our gentle child will weep, If the theme...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Shunning (302 words)

	Shunning Brothers
		One person who grew up Amish, reported that "shunning remains that hard rule to swallow for the Amish, something that could be seen as a dagger on a thread, just above each of their heads." Members, under the fear of the "ban" and the "shun" would submit to the rules laid down by the elders.
		Even so, "shunning" as practiced by the Amish has always been exercised with a redemptive purpose, has not been practiced when a member would leave to join another church, and has been administered by the congregation, not by the minister alone as it is often practiced in cult groups.
		The second occasion for shunning is when a member of the church has been properly disciplined, and consequently put out of the church.
	www.webedelic.com /church/keepawayf.htm (3402 words)

	Shunning :: Cast Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shunning is not a topic that typically arises when detectives interview a murder suspect.
		But Christian Longo, accused in the December 2001 killings of his wife, MaryJane, and their three children, raised shunning as the reason they moved to Oregon, so far from friends and family in Michigan.
		Both families were members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, who say shunning is an act of love intended to inspire repentence and a return to right living.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /2563-_Cast_Out.html (3116 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The shunning or harassment of former Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) by active members of the sect is behaviour that is mandated by the governing body of the Jehovah's Witnesses' church (officially titled the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society).
		Shunned JWs who have been disfellowshipped have launched a variety of claims in the courts to challenge the legality of the disfellowshipping or shunning processes.
		This paper has attempted to describe the disfellowshipping and shunning practices of JWs and to present possible remedial actions which might be taken by an individual to address the injury he or she is caused by these practices.
	users.uniserve.com /~renford/parlimen.htm (4966 words)

	Jewish Law - Articles ("Forming Religious Communities and Respecting Dissenter's Rights: A Jewish Tradition Model for a ...
		The religious parameters relating to excommunication and shunning differ from religion to religion, and it is vitally important to grasp that these same terms mean drastically different forms of treatment towards shunned and excommunicated individuals depending on the faith group.
		Because the practice of shunning is a part of the faith of [a religion], we find that the "free exercise" provision of the United States Constitution.
		This theory assumes that the state interest in preventing shunning and excommunication is strong enough to allow state interference in all of these decisions.
	www.jlaw.com /Articles/excom4.html (1198 words)

	The Practice of Shunning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When I practiced shunning while in the company of another Witness the act of shunning would, in my own eyes, be a witnessed proof of my loyalty to Jehovah (i.e.
		Shunning is one of Jehovah's Witnesses main reinforcers and confirmations, right up there with cold feet and slammed doors.
		When Jehovah's Witnesses shun me, and I allow it, thereby showing respect for their rules I only reinforce their bad behavior and give them permission to do it again next time.
	home.earthlink.net /~defender/de01020.htm (2478 words)

	Who are the Mennonites? - Third Way Cafe - Mennonite Media
		The idea behind shunning is based on Matthew 18:15-17: "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you.
		Mennonites today do not practice shunning, though it is still practiced by the Amish church in some communities.
		In fact, the issue was one of the main reasons the Amish began as a split-off sect of the Mennonites in the late 17th century.
	www.thirdway.com /menno/glossary.asp?ID=104 (147 words)

	SHUNNING
		One of the characteristics of a destructive religion is an enforced policy that requires the members to shun anyone who leaves or gets expelled from the religion.
		Of all the Watchtower Society's legalistic doctrines, this one is perhaps the most responsible for uprising among former members against the Organization that has resulted in exhaustive examination and exposés of their flawed teachings and history.
		Let us pray that the Watchtower Society will soon be blessed with "new light" on their policy of extremist shunning of former members, thereby liberating thousands--both within and out of the organization--from the heart-strickening anguish imposed by this cruel, unjust, and unscriptural dogma.
	www.xjw.com /shunning.html (2116 words)

	Shunning - religious cults and sects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shunning is practices, in one form or another, in various religions, cults and sects.
		But the Jehovah's Witnesses are among a minority of Christian groups in the United States known to cut off social - and, as a result, business and family - contact with the disfellow- shipped.
		Such shunning is "a fairly common practice of radical reformation sects, groups that tend to be drawn in very much on themselves," said Carl Raschke, a Denver University religious studies professor.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /s50.html (909 words)

	Leonard Gross Background Dynamics of Amish Movement
		It was of course the publishing of this very treatise on shunning that helped, ultimately, to precipitate the Great Swiss Brethren Schism a century later, in large part due to a direct clashing of two, disparate faith-cultures that came into juxtaposition, yet up to the time of the schism, had never found adequate correlation.
		Table shunning, on the other hand, as an idea stemming from Menno Simons and other Dutch Anabaptist bishops,[36] was accepted by the Amish from the beginning.
		For his was the steady and reasoned hand that influenced the movement in the 1690s, favoring a firm approach to orthopraxis which included shunning; at the same time, he also seems to be the one to grant an ongoing viability to an otherwise shaky movement which in the year 1700 was close to collapse.
	www.goshen.edu /facultypubs/GROSS.html (5531 words)

	Shunning
		Shunning, or "disfellowshipping" as it is called, is a common form of "discipline" for people who leave Jews for Jesus and "break the covenant" that is the Worker's Covenant that all vocational staff workers agree to sign.
		Shunning was and is a very effective and insidious tool for keeping the troops loyal.
		The story above is only one out of dozens in which a former member was shunned, friendships were broken, and the truth was learned only after much time and distance from Jews for Jesus.
	www.exjewsforjesus.org /j4jquestions/shun.html (671 words)

	Jewish Law - Articles ("Forming Religious Communities and Respecting Dissenter's Rights: A Jewish Tradition Model for a ...
		So too, one may not excommunicate or shun a person who unintentionally violated Jewish law; indeed, one may not, Jewish law rules, shun a person who is aware of what the rule of law is, tries to observe it, and occasionally slips
		The classical code lists specific offenses that shunning is proper for, and the major characteristic for these violations is not their seriousness, or their religious importance; rather it is their breach of community discipline.
		Only one is a general challenge to the practice of shunning without a specific allegation of impropriety.
	www.jlaw.com /Articles/excom3.html (1044 words)

	Shunning
		For some religious groups, shunning might be seen as the ultimate act of rejection by disconnecting an individual from the group.
		In modern times, occasions arise when one or several countries choose to ‘shun’ another nation as a way of trying to influence a change in that nation’s behaviour.
		And like a miscreant child sent to its room to think about what it has done, there is the possibility that the US will realize it has misbehaved and pledge itself anew to being a better person.
	www.gnn.tv /blogs/9203/Shunning?r=3 (4794 words)

	JBoss.com - Wiki - Shunning
		Shunning causes a member to leave the group and re-join, if this is enabled on the Channel.
		So when D comes back and sends messages to the group, or any individiual member, those messages will be discarded, because A,B and C don't see D in their view.
		D is shunned when A,B or C receive an are-you-alive message from D, or D shuns itself when it receives a view which doesn't include D. So shunning is always a unilateral decision.
	wiki.jboss.org /wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Shunning (302 words)

	Floridian: Spiritual shunning
		Family members and friends still in the religion are forbidden to have contact with a shunned individual.
		ST. PETERSBURG -- As far as her children and 6-million people around the world are concerned, Shirley Jackson is as good as dead, has been for seven years.
		Witnesses are told to immediately shun the disfellowshipped, who are said to be certain to die at Armageddon.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/08/22/Floridian/Spiritual_shunning.shtml (2284 words)

	Jehovahs Witness Discussion Forum - Topic: If shunning was stopped????? (page 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And that is why shunning will never be stopped, as long as these JW fundies are in control, and keep appointing more fundies to the GB.
		They will probably not back off on thier shunning policy unless they have no choice,,because if they did all hell would break loose and their control would slip.
		While it is true that some would still hang on to the Organiztion if they got rid of shunning because theyv'e invested so much already those less invested would leave and future growth would stop, and with in a few years all old timers that continue to support the Organization would die off.
	www.jehovahs-witness.com /12/85077/1.ashx (728 words)

	The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997
		Others employ shunning which can be an extremely powerful deterrent, endangering a lifetime of friendships and even family relationships.
		In Baha'i terminology, they were threatening to have these Baha’is shunned if they continued publicly criticizing (“attacking and undermining”) Baha'i institutions or their policies, even though they were not fomenting a schism.
		Threats to use shunning for this purpose have increased with the rise of cyberspace.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jrcole/bahai/1999/jssr/bhjssr.htm (8296 words)

	This is the Reason : Shunning
		This act of shunning persons who left the organization is not only unchristian, but destructive, harmful and against God.
		The shunning policy of a man made organization has destroyed many families and is a destructive force against Christianity.
		I could say so much more, but I will leave it at this, the shunning of former members ruins many of their lives.
	www.escapefromwatchtower.com /shunletter.html (550 words)

	University of Manitoba Faculty of Law: Esau: THE AMISH AND LITIGATION
		The influence of this "shunning" and "miting" extended into the very family of the plaintiff.
		Yoder claimed that he had voluntarily withdrawn his membership and thus the church had lost any jurisdiction to excommunicate and shun him, since he was no longer a member subject to excommunication.
		Aside from these two shunning cases, brought by ex-members in violation of the Amish anti-litigation norm, there are only four reported cases that I could find, all from Ohio, where members of the Amish community were involved in civil suits.
	www.umanitoba.ca /Law/Courses/esau/lr/lr_amish.html (15552 words)

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