
Ritual abuse (RA) & Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA)
Books and other resources
that are skeptical of RA and SRA
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Books which are skeptical of the existence of SRA:
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Church of all Worlds staff, "Witchcraft, Satanism & Occult Crime:
Who's Who & What's What, a Manual of Reference Materials for the Professional
Investigator," Phoenix Publ., (1994) Review/order
this book. This book, and Kerr Cuhulain's book (below) are a great investment
for every Wiccan or other Neopagan who might be faced some day by a police
officer who has attended a Satanic Ritual Abuse misinformation seminar. At
about $17 plus shipping for the pair, they are a very wise insurance policy.
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Kerr Cuhulain, "The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca,"
Horned Owl Publ., (1997). Review/order
this book. A very useful book, written by a law enforcement officer who
is also a Wiccan. Explains that Wicca and other Neopagan religions are
benign.
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J.M Feldman, et al., "Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us,"
American Psychiatric Press, Washington DC, (1998). Review/order
this book Discusses false memories.
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E. Goldstein & Kevin Farmer, "Confabulations: Creating false
memories, destroying families," Upton Books, Boca Raton FL,
(1995). It describes destruction of families as a result of therapists creating false
memories of childhood sexual abuse. Review/order
this book
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M. Hertenstein & J. Trott, "Selling Satan, the tragic
history of Mike Warnke," Cornerstone Press, Chicago, 1993
(Expose of the fraudulent claims of Mike Warnke, the Christian seminar leader
who may have been the person most responsible for
spreading the Satanic panic throughout North America). Review/order
this book
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Robert Hicks, "In Pursuit of Satan: The police and the occult," Prometheus Books, Buffalo,
(1991) (studies
misguided police investigations; exposes what he calls "cult cops" - police officers
with religious agendas). Read
reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store.
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Malcolm McGrath, "Demons of
the Modern World," (2001). Review/order
this book. The author asserts that "the illusion of a world of demons
lurking behind our day to day reality is built right into the structure
of modern western culture." It emerges from time to time in the form
of the Salem witch trials, beliefs about Satanic Ritual Abuse, abuse in
preschools and day care centers, UFO abductions, etc.
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Gareth J. Medway, "Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of
Satanism," New York University Press, (2001) This is debunks the
outlandish accusations of abuse made against Satanists, Pagans and
followers of other minority religions. The book discusses the history of
SRA from the 19th century to the present day.
Read
reviews or order this book
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Debbie Nathan & Michael Snedeker, "Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the
Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt," Basic Books, (1995). This book
is out of print.
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Mark Pendergrast, "Victims of Memory, Sex abuse accusations
and shattered lives," Second Edition, Upper Access, Hinesburg VT,
(1996). (Discusses the unreliability of recovered memories and
deals with some ritual abuse cases). Review/order
this book
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James Richardson et al, The Satanism Scare, Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1991 (18
chapters written by various social service specialists on the Satanic Panic) Review/order
this book
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Colin Ross, Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, University of Toronto
Press; Toronto, Buffalo, London (1995). (It asserts that perhaps only 10% of the recovered
memories of Multiple Personality Disorder (Dissociative Identity Disorder) have any basis
in reality, and that the latter are distorted recollections of Christian
exorcism rituals, KKK
activities, or rituals by isolated Satanic groups). Review/order
this book
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Jeffrey Victor, "Satanic Panic: The creation of a contemporary
legend," Open Court, Chicago, 1993 (examination of the
satanic cult hysteria; how rumors become publicly accepted fact; documents dozens of
Satanic panics) Review/order
this book
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Hollida Wakefield & Ralph Underwager, Return of the Furies: An
investigation into Recovered Memory Therapy, Open Court
Publishers, 1994. (Discusses recovered memories, and Satanic ritual abuse
hoaxes) Review/order
this book
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Wiccan Information Network, WIN INTELLIGENCE REPORT, SAMHAIN 1993 Wiccan
Information Network, PO Box 2422, Main Post Office, Vancouver BC, V6B 3W7 Canada.
Expose of Michelle Remembers.
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Lawrence Wright, Remembering Satan, Knopf, New York, 1994 (Story of one family's
disintegration due to false recovered memories). Review/order
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Articles and videos which are skeptical of the existence of SRA:
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A.U. Bottoms et al, "An Analysis of Ritualistic and Religion-Related Child-Abuse
Allegations", Law and Human Behavior. V. 20, # 1, 1996-Feb., pp. 1-34. Authors
conducted a stratified random sample survey of clinical members of the American
Psychological Association. They found that only a minority of those who responded had
encountered ritual abuse in their clients. Evidence (particularly in cases of child ritual
abuse reported by adults) is questionable.
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John Earl, article in Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, journal published
1995-AUG, Institute for Psychological Therapies, 13200 Cannon City Blvd., Northfield, MN
55057, $15 USF; $20 USF (foreign)
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Various authors, "Journal of Psychohistory", vol. 24, #4,
(1994-Spring). Has one skeptical article followed by a series of articles by believers in
SRA
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R Waterhouse, "The making of a satanic myth," The
Independent on Sunday, 1990-AUG-12, Pages 8 to 9.
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Robin D. Perrin and Les Parrott III, "Memories of Satanic Ritual
Abuse: The truth behind the panic," Christianity Today,
1993-JUN-21, Pages 18-23.
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Television program "The Search for Satan" was broadcast by PBS's
Frontline program on 1995-OCT-24. It dealt with the extensive use of drugs, physical
restraints and suggestive therapy techniques to convince patients that they were involved
in multi-generational Satanic groups. Video copies at US$ 78.45 and transcripts at
US$12.00 are available from Journal Graphics, 1-800-825-5746, Extension 322 (Rebecca
Larson).
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"By Satan possessed: The search for the Devil," a HBO
movie by Antony Thomas. It was aired on 1993-SEP-7. The movie describes in
detail the 1991 abuse by the police and child protection officers of the
Wallis family in Escondido CA. Their children were taken into care for 68
days. The only hard evidence against the parents was that the father had
named his sailboat "Witch Way."
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Internet resources skeptical of the existence of SRA:The following are some skeptical Internet sites which consider SRA to
be non-existent (or almost non-existent)
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A list of skeptical web sites dealing with Satanic Ritual Abuse and Childhood Sexual
Abuse can be found at: http://www.ags.uci.edu/
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Robert Hicks, "Satanic cults: A skeptical view of the law
enforcement approach," at:
http://www.paganlibrary.com/
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"Satanic Media Watch and News Exchange - Fighting the Myth of
Subversive Satanism," at:
http://www.smwane.dk
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Answers in Action, a Christian resource, is skeptical of SRA. This home page
contains an excellent review of the history of SRA beliefs and lists many indicators of
its non-existence. See: http://answers.org/
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Michael Hill, "Satan's excellent adventure in the Antipodes."
at:
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/
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Charles Nemo, "Serial murders and the Satanic/Ritualistic crimes
myth,"
at: http://members.aol.com/
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Mary deYoung, "Sociological Views on the controversial issue of Satanic Ritual
Abuse: Three faces of the devil," at: http://www.aaets.org/ She
analyses SRA as subversion ideology, rumor panic, and contemporary legend.
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Y Tylwyth Teg - Welsh Tradition in America
Religions, "Law enforcement guide: Witchcraft, Wicca and other Earth
Religions," at: http://www.tylwythteg.com/
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Diane Vera, "The 'Satanic Ritual Abuse' scare, and the larger
child sex abuse panic of the early 1980's and 1990's," (2005), at:
http://www.theisticsatanism.com/ This is a very impressive resource.
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Stop Bad Therapy has a page on "The Myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse"
at"
http://www.stopbadtherapy.com/
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Latest update: 2009-AUG-16
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