Interesting piece in The Guardian about the problems that a Catholic revivalist group is making in the pagan-rich town of Glastonbury via heckling and intimidation. In Korea scholar Frank Tedesco has long chronicled the assault which Buddhism has faced from evangelical Christians. In Brazil the rise of charismatic evangelical Christianity has witnessed violence against followers of Afro-Brazilian cults, as well as symbolic destruction of Roman Catholic statuary. Of course in the first story it seems that the local cleric responded in anger at the actions of vigilantes, but it is important to remember that this sort of behavior is likely latent in the religious psychology of particular meme-complexes....
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