Working group for questions of religion and ideology

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The working group for religious and ideological issues (abbreviated ARW ) is an information center with a publisher close to the Evangelical Church in Germany , founded in 1965 by Friedrich Wilhelm Haack (from 1969 commissioner for sect and ideological issues of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Bavaria ) and up to whose death in 1991 was directed by him. It has set itself the task of making information available to the public on questions affecting religion and ideology, while being guided by a “Christian-Occidental and humanitarian tradition”.

Contributions by employees in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television served this purpose. The work was supported by an archive with material on religious and ideological movements and organizations of the present. This form of public relations and archive work ended with Haack's death.

Furthermore, the ARW publishes several series of publications (Material Edition, Moonchild Edition, Nada Edition, Asgard Edition, Irmin Edition, Hiram Edition, Information Edition, Documentation Edition), which are published by a publisher belonging to ARW appear. This publishing house, founded in 1976, was originally separated from the ARW and had employees in Inge Haack and the Munich writer Manfred Ach , but after Haack's death the publishing house and ARW largely merged. Since 2000, the ARW has been run by Manfred Ach alone. The main focuses of the publishing program are

  • sect-critical and apologetic writings,
  • Source material on pseudosciences , religious fringe groups, extremist cults, ideological sects and ideological fundamentalisms and
  • Reprints of older, poorly accessible, mainly religious or folkloric works, as well as primary literature from the areas of magic , Satanism , theosophy and ariosophy .

Important authors of the ARW publishing house were, besides Haack, of whom numerous writings have appeared here, Manfred Ach and Peter-Robert König .

literature

  • Manfred Ach: Under Cover. 20 years of ARW. Documentation Edition 27th Working Group for Religious and Weltanschauung questions, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-927890-24-3 .
  • Hans Wagner: 50 years of interreligious work in Germany. Dortmund Lectures, Book 100. Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund, Dortmund 1972, p. 16 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oh: Under Cover . Munich 1995, p. 6.
  2. ↑ ARW - The story of a word monster