Antikultovní hnutí : otázka nebezpečnosti nových náboženských hnutí a metody akademického studia náboženství

The anti-cult movements' research is an integral part of the academie study of new religious movements. Společnost pro studium sekt a nových náboženských směrů (Society for the Study of Sects and New Religious Streams) is an example of the anti-cult movement in the Czech Republic. Its reprezentants offen appear on mass media and that way they form the public image of new religious movements. This paper analyzes the argmumentation of anti-cult movement (concepts of brainwashing, sects and cults, concept of "pseudo-identity" and possibilities of a theraphy) and concentrates on the problem of differences in the approaches to the new religious movements between the anti-cult movements and academie study of religions. It also points to the complexity of the problems of conversion and forming of identity in the contemporary different world.