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		<title>Cast Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2003 13:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cast out: Religious shunning provides an unusual background in the Longo and Bryant slayings 
The Register-Guard, Mar. 2, 2003
http://www.registerguard.com/
By Karen McCowan, The Register-Guard
Shunning. In the eyes of most Oregonians, it&#8217;s an unfamiliar, even archaic, practice &#8211; a throwback to the era of &#8220;The Scarlet Letter.&#8221; Yet it provided a bizarre backdrop for two recent familicides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many religions remove members</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Register-Guard, Mar. 2, 2003
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Karen McCowan
The Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses are hardly unique in sometimes removing folks from membership in the congregation.
&#8220;Almost any religious body would, on occasion, drop a membership &#8211; by request, due to inactivity or as a matter of discipline due to some kind of moral failure,&#8221; said Ron Stansell, professor of religion studies [...]]]></description>
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