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Biography
Shupe completed his doctorate in political sociology at Indiana University in 1975 under the direction of Lawrence E. Hazelrigg. During the late 1970s, he began combining his interests in religion, politics, and deviance, publishing several books and numerous articles in professional journals, analyzing new religious movements and the anti-cult movement counter-movements that arose in opposition to them.
Shupe diversified his research to include religious groups and movements in the New Christian Right, religious broadcasting, and the role of fundamentalist religious traditions politics.
Shupe also produced another body of research on violent and abusive practices within families, combining his research interest in family violence and his prior work on religion in a new line on violation of trust by clergy, most notably In the Name of All That's Holy: A Theory of Clergy Malfeasance (Praeger 1995).
Shupe collaborates in his research with a number of other other scholars in the sociology of religion, including David G. Bromley and Jeffrey K. Hadden. Shupe was elected to office in several professional associations, including the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association for the Sociology of Religion. He also became an articulate advocate, through his writing for both popular and professional audiences, for religious libertarianism.
Publications
- The Anti-Cult Movement in America: A Bibliography and Historical Survey New York: Garland Press, 1984. (with David G. Bromley and Donna L. Oliver) i-xiii + 169 pp.
- A Documentary History of the Anti-Cult Movement. Arlington, TX, University of Texas Center for Social Research Press, 1986. (with David G. Bromley) 376 pp.
- Bad Pastors: Clergy Misconduct in Modern America (8/1/2000), Edited by Anson Shupe, William A. Stacey, Susan E. Darnell; ISBN 0814781470
- Televangelism, Power and Politics on God's Frontier, Anson Shupe and Jeffrey Hadden, Henry Holt & Co; 1st ed edition (April 1, 1988), 325pp. ISBN: 0-805007-78-4
- The Darker Side of Virtue: Corruption, Scandal, and the Mormon Empire, Prometheus Books (May 1, 1991), 168pp. ISBN 0-879756-54-3
- Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: Revival of Religious Fundamentalism in East and West, Bronislaw Misztal & Anson Shupe (Eds.), Praeger Publishers (November 30, 1992), 240pp. ISBN 0-275942-18-X
- "Moonies" in America: Cult. Church. and Crusade. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, 1979. (with David G. Bromley). Introduction by John Lofland. 269 pp.
- The New Vigilantes: Anti-Cultists, Deprogrammers and the New Religions Beverly Hills, SAGE Publications. 267 pp.
Criticism by by the anti-cult movement
As many other scholars that study New religious movements, Shupe has been criticized as a cult apologist by sociologist Stephen Kent, and members of the anti-cult movement Anton Hein and Tilman Hausherr. During the Jason Scott process against Rick Ross and the Cult Awareness Network, Shupe gave a deposition and worked closely together with Scientology lawyer Kendrick Moxon, whom he calls in a letter to Massimo Introvigne "my friend and colleague" . In the article "When Scholars Know Sin", published in The Sceptic, Stephen Kent and Theresa Krebs detail his activities there: According to court acts, Shupe admitted having no first hand knowledge about CAN. . Also according to court acts, the judge stated, "bout 90 percent of what I heard there I would have sustained objections to" (Scott v. Ross, et. al., 1995b, 54; see Scott v. Ross, et. al., 1998, 3223-3224). .
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