1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794009903321

Titolo

More stories from Langley : another glimpse inside the CIA / / edited and with an introduction by Edward Mickolus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64012-377-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

327.127300922

Soggetti

Spies - United States

Intelligence officers - United States

Intelligence service - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Do your brother a favor : apply to CIA / Elizabeth Arens -- Reflections from an analytical change agent : twenty-seven years and counting / acurrently serving DI officer -- What's a librarian do at the CIA? / Peggy Tuten -- More of what a librarian does at the CIA / Kim Condas -- Getting to do what I was meant to do / Robert Kresge -- We're not in Kansas-er, Missouri-anymore! / Mary O'Sullivan -- My thirty years in scientific and weapons intelligence at CIA / Julian Nall -- The pathway of a life unnoticed / Michael Douglas Smith -- The DIToolkit : don't leave home without it / Janet Stiegler -- A nightmare come true / Elinor Houghton Kelly -- How Hoosier basketball and spying came together in Moscow during the Cold War / GeneArthur Coyle -- How intelligence saved the Pope / Terrence L. Williams -- Flirting with the Directorate of Intelligence : a Directorate of Operations officer's short story / Bob Phillipson -- Soldier, sailor, artist, spy / Chip Beck -- Terminating an asset / Doug Patteson -- The rocky but interesting road of intelligence-policy relations / Paul R. Pillar -- Cement, speeches, terrorism, and stray cats / Susan Hasler -- Rock star or CIA officer / Kathy Thomas -- An accidental career of consequence / Jeff J. Johnson -- Developing a better understanding of the personal dimensions of working at the CIA / Hector J. Escobar,III -- Beginnings / Lester Paldy



-- My career as a CIA logistics professional, 1986-2013 / James R. Pasqualini -- Black programs and services / Robert M. Blansfield -- The CIA Book of Honor / Doug Patteson -- Camp Chapman / Doug Patteson -- Prince and the revolution : the re-engineering of open source intelligence collection / Doug Naquin -- Bell ringers! / Elinor Houghton Kelly -- Ode to new CIA members / Ed Mickolus.

Sommario/riassunto

"Collection of personal essays detailing the adventures, advice, and experience of generations of CIA support and technical officers"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958532903321

Titolo

New religious movements in the twenty-first century : legal, political, and social challenges in global perspective / / edited by Phillip Charles Lucas and Thomas Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-88901-5

1-135-88902-3

1-299-28528-7

1-280-28905-8

9786610289059

0-203-50832-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Classificazione

11.05

Altri autori (Persone)

LucasPhillip Charles

RobbinsThomas <1943->

Disciplina

200/.9/051

Soggetti

Cults

Sects

Religion and law

Religion and state

Religion and sociology

Religions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Introduction.  Alternative religions, the state, and the globe / Thomas Robbins -- pt. 1. Western Europe.  General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain / Eileen Barker -- Religious minorities and new religious movements in Denmark / Armin W. Geertz and Mikael Rothstein -- France's obsession with the "sectarian threat" / Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- The secte response to religious discrimination : subversives, martyrs, or freedom fighters in the French sect wars? / Susan J. Palmer -- Italy's surprisingly favorable environment for religious minorities / Massimo Introvigne -- New religions in Germany : the publicity of the public square / Brigitte Schoen -- pt. 2. Eastern Europe and Eurasia.  New religions in the new Russia / Marat Shterin -- New religious minorities in the Baltic States / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova -- Crushing Wahhabi fundamentalists in Central Asia and the Caucasus : subplot to the global struggle against Al Qa'ida or suppression of legitimate religious opposition? / Brian Glyn Williams -- pt. 3. Africa, Asia, and Australia.  Prophets, "false prophets," and the African state : emergent issues of religious freedom and conflict / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Religion on a leash : NRMs and the limits of Chinese freedom / Scott Lowe -- Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shift and moral panic in the post-Aum era / Ian Reader -- New religions in Australia : public menace or societal salvation? / James T. Richardson --

pt. 4. North and South Americas.  The mainstreaming of alternative spirituality in Brazil / Robert T. Carpenter -- The fate of NRMs and their detractors in twenty-first century America / J. Gordon Melton -- New religions and the anticult movement in Canada / Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe -- pt. 5. Theoretical considerations.  New religious movements and globalization / James A. Beckford -- Apocalypse 9/11 / John R. Hall -- Establishments and sects in the Islamic world / Mark Sedgwick -- Research on new religious movements in the post-9/11 world / Benjamin Zablocki and J. Anna Looney --Cults, porn, and hate : convergent discourses on First Amendment restriction / Thomas Robbin and Dick Anthony -- Conclusion.  The future of new and minority religions in the twenty-first century : religious freedom under global siege / Philip Charles Lucas.

Sommario/riassunto

New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first centur