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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoktrinace" title="Indoktrinace – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Indoktrinace" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoktrinering" title="Indoktrinering – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Indoktrinering" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoktrination" title="Indoktrination – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Indoktrination" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" 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data-title="Индоктринация" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoktrinacija" title="Indoktrinacija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Indoktrinacija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoktrin%C3%A1ci%C3%B3" title="Indoktrináció – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Indoktrináció" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrinatie" title="Indoctrinatie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" 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title="Lustgarten">Lustgarten</a> in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, 1933</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SECOND_GRADERS_PLEDGE_ALLEGIANCE_IN_ROCKPORT_ELEMENTARY_SCHOOL_-_NARA_-_548243.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/SECOND_GRADERS_PLEDGE_ALLEGIANCE_IN_ROCKPORT_ELEMENTARY_SCHOOL_-_NARA_-_548243.jpg/220px-SECOND_GRADERS_PLEDGE_ALLEGIANCE_IN_ROCKPORT_ELEMENTARY_SCHOOL_-_NARA_-_548243.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/SECOND_GRADERS_PLEDGE_ALLEGIANCE_IN_ROCKPORT_ELEMENTARY_SCHOOL_-_NARA_-_548243.jpg/330px-SECOND_GRADERS_PLEDGE_ALLEGIANCE_IN_ROCKPORT_ELEMENTARY_SCHOOL_-_NARA_-_548243.jpg 1.5x, 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(August 2024)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It can refer to a general process of <a href="/wiki/Socialization" title="Socialization">socialization</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term often implies forms of <a href="/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">brainwashing</a> or disagreeable forms of socialization.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, it can refer to both positive and negative forms of cultural transmission, and some academics consider it an integral element of education.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The precise boundary between education and indoctrination is contested. The concept originally referred to education, but after World War I, the term took on a pejorative meaning akin to brainwashing or propaganda (popular among Flat Earth cultists).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some distinguish indoctrination from education on the basis that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or <a href="/wiki/Critical_thinking" title="Critical thinking">critically examine</a> the doctrine they have learned.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As such the term may be used <a href="/wiki/Pejorative" title="Pejorative">pejoratively</a> or as a <a href="/wiki/Buzz_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Buzz word">buzz word</a>, often in the context of <a href="/wiki/Political_opinion" class="mw-redirect" title="Political opinion">political opinions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a>, religious <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a> or <a href="/wiki/Antireligion" title="Antireligion">anti-religious</a> convictions. </p><p>Common vectors of indoctrination include the state, educational institutions, religions, the arts, culture, and the media. 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Specifically the public educational system,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the police, and mental health establishment are a commonly cited <i>modus operandi</i> of public pacification. In the extreme, an entire state can be implicated. <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a></i> famously singled out explicit, state-mandated <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> initiatives of <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarian</a> regimes. For example, the Nazi influence in Germany during World War II is an instance of government indoctrination through all forms of public life, including education, politics, and culture.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, following World War II, democratic nations sought to counteract the Nazi indoctrination in Germany through the process of re-education, mobilizing education as a way to reinstate new ideas of democracy and Western ideals.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The process of American re-education included initiatives for the <a href="/wiki/Denazification" title="Denazification">denazification</a> of American-occupied Germany that also resulted in the indoctrination of German society with a "collective guilt phenomenon" to take accountability for World War II. <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opinions differ on whether other forms of government are less doctrinaire, or merely achieve the same ends through less obvious methods. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_indoctrination">Religious indoctrination</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indoctrination&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Religious indoctrination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Religious indoctrination, the original sense of <i>indoctrination</i>, refers to a process of imparting <a href="/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine">doctrine</a> in an authoritative way, as in <a href="/wiki/Catechism" title="Catechism">catechism</a>. Most religious groups among the <a href="/wiki/Revealed_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Revealed religion">revealed religions</a> instruct new members in the principles of the religion; this is now not usually referred to as <i>indoctrination</i> by the religions themselves, in part because of the negative connotations the word has acquired. <a href="/wiki/Mystery_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystery religion">Mystery religions</a> require a period of indoctrination before granting access to <a href="/wiki/Esoteric" class="mw-redirect" title="Esoteric">esoteric</a> knowledge. (cf. <a href="/wiki/Information_security" title="Information security">Information security</a>) As a pejorative term, <i>indoctrination</i> implies forcibly or coercively causing people to act and think on the basis of a certain <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some secular critics believe that all religions indoctrinate their adherents, as children, and the accusation is made in the case of <a href="/wiki/Religious_extremism" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious extremism">religious extremism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Harris_(2011)_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harris_(2011)-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sects such as <a href="/wiki/Scientology" title="Scientology">Scientology</a> use personality tests and peer pressures to indoctrinate new members.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some religions have commitment ceremonies for children 13 years and younger, such as <a href="/wiki/Bar_Mitzvah" class="mw-redirect" title="Bar Mitzvah">Bar Mitzvah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confirmation" title="Confirmation">Confirmation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Shichi-Go-San" title="Shichi-Go-San">Shichi-Go-San</a>. In Buddhism, <a href="/wiki/Temple_boy" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple boy">temple boys</a> are encouraged to follow the faith while young.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Some critics of religion, such as <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a>, maintain that the <a href="/wiki/Children_and_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Children and religion">children of religious parents</a> are often unfairly indoctrinated.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ideological_indoctrination">Ideological indoctrination</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indoctrination&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ideological indoctrination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Indoctrination can occur in non-religious or anti-religious contexts. For example, during the 20th Century, the former <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania" title="People's Socialist Republic of Albania">People's Socialist Republic of Albania</a> and the former <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> instituted programs of government-sponsored <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheistic</a> indoctrination in order to promote <a href="/wiki/State_atheism" title="State atheism">state atheism</a>, specifically <a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_atheism" title="Marxist–Leninist atheism">Marxist–Leninist atheism</a>, within their citizenry.<sup id="cite_ref-Franzmann2006_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Franzmann2006-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sabrina_P._Ramet" title="Sabrina P. Ramet">Sabrina P. Ramet</a>, a professor of political science, documented that "from kindergarten onward children [were] indoctrinated with an aggressive form of atheism" and "to denounce parents who follow religious practices at home."<sup id="cite_ref-Ramet1990_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ramet1990-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, after the death of Albania's leader, <a href="/wiki/Enver_Hoxha" title="Enver Hoxha">Enver Hoxha</a> in 1985, his successor, <a href="/wiki/Ramiz_Alia" title="Ramiz Alia">Ramiz Alia</a>, adopted a relatively tolerant stance toward religious practice, referring to it as "a personal and family matter." Émigré clergymen were permitted to reenter the country in 1988 and officiate at religious services. <a href="/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa">Mother Teresa</a>, an ethnic Albanian, visited Tirana in 1989, where she was received by the foreign minister and by Hoxha's widow. In December 1990, the ban on religious observance was officially lifted, in time to allow thousands of Christians to attend Christmas services (see <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Albania" title="Freedom of religion in Albania">Freedom of religion in Albania</a>). </p><p>Similarly, in the former Soviet Union, "science education [in] Soviet schools [was] used as a vehicle for atheistic indoctrination", with teachers being instructed to prepare their course "so as to conduct anti-religious educations at all times," in order to comport with state-sanctioned Marxist–Leninist values.<sup id="cite_ref-Witt1961_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Witt1961-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in 1997, several years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian government passed a law recognizing <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Russia" title="Religion in Russia">religion as being important to Russian history</a> with <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christianity</a> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: Православие Pravoslaviye), Russia's traditional and largest religion, declared a part of Russia's "historical heritage." </p><p>Ideological indoctrination is also a contemporary issue in the United States public education system, specifically in the realm of social science instruction. However, ideological indoctrination may take different forms than the implantation of certain ideas into education or instruction. For example, in this case, indoctrination through education occurs through the process of limiting instruction and "allowing diverse social institutions to control educational philosophy and procedure."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, this has been seen through changes with required course concepts in social studies curriculum and the state-restriction of participatory civic education as a result of Senate Bill 3 from the <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas State Legislature">Texas State Legislature</a> in 2021, interfering with the "rights of the learner"<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military">Military</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indoctrination&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Recruit_training" class="mw-redirect" title="Recruit training">Recruit training</a></div> <p>The initial psychological preparation of soldiers during training is referred to (non-pejoratively) as indoctrination.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Information_security">Information security</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indoctrination&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Information security"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the field of <a href="/wiki/Information_security" title="Information security">information security</a>, indoctrination is the initial briefing and instructions given before a person is granted access to <a href="/wiki/Classified_information" title="Classified information">secret information</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Voth, Hans-Joachim (2015-06-30). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1414822112">"Nazi indoctrination and anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany"</a>. <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i>. <b>112</b> (26): <span class="nowrap">7931–</span>7936. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1414822112">10.1073/pnas.1414822112</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0027-8424">0027-8424</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMC (identifier)">PMC</a> <span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491745">4491745</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Proceedings+of+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences&rft.atitle=Nazi+indoctrination+and+anti-Semitic+beliefs+in+Germany&rft.volume=112&rft.issue=26&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E7931-%3C%2Fspan%3E7936&rft.date=2015-06-30&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC4491745%23id-name%3DPMC&rft.issn=0027-8424&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1073%2Fpnas.1414822112&rft.aulast=Voigtl%C3%A4nder&rft.aufirst=Nico&rft.au=Voth%2C+Hans-Joachim&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpnas.org%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1073%2Fpnas.1414822112&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFox2016" class="citation journal cs1">Fox, Elizabeth (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=fhr">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Rebuilding Germany's children: the Nazi indoctrination and postwar reeducation of the Hitler youth."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Furman Humanities Review</i>. <b>27.1</b>: <span class="nowrap">31–</span>59.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Furman+Humanities+Review&rft.atitle=%22Rebuilding+Germany%27s+children%3A+the+Nazi+indoctrination+and+postwar+reeducation+of+the+Hitler+youth.%22&rft.volume=27.1&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E31-%3C%2Fspan%3E59&rft.date=2016&rft.aulast=Fox&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarexchange.furman.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1003%26context%3Dfhr&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFConfinoMoeller2005" class="citation journal cs1">Confino, Alon; Moeller, Robert (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/volume4/pdf/confino.pdf">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Remembering the Second World War, 1945-1965: Narratives of Victimhood and Genocide."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Cultural Analysis 4</i>. <b>47</b>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Cultural+Analysis+4&rft.atitle=%E2%80%9CRemembering+the+Second+World+War%2C+1945-1965%3A+Narratives+of+Victimhood+and+Genocide.%E2%80%9D&rft.volume=47&rft.date=2005&rft.aulast=Confino&rft.aufirst=Alon&rft.au=Moeller%2C+Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ocf.berkeley.edu%2F~culturalanalysis%2Fvolume4%2Fpdf%2Fconfino.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/OED" class="mw-redirect" title="OED">OED</a>, <i>indoctrination</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Harris_(2011)-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Harris_(2011)_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHarris2011" class="citation book cs1">Harris, Sam (2011). <i>The moral landscape</i>. Simon and Schuster.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+moral+landscape&rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster.&rft.date=2011&rft.aulast=Harris&rft.aufirst=Sam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Scientology_beliefs_and_practices" title="Scientology beliefs and practices">Scientology beliefs and practices</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawkins, Richard. <i>The God Delusion</i>. New York: Bantam Books, 2006. pp. 25, 28, 206, 367.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Franzmann2006-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Franzmann2006_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFranzmann2006" class="citation book cs1">Franzmann, Manuel (2006). <i>Religiosität in der säkularisierten Welt</i>. Springer-Verlag. p. 89. <q>However, another conspicuous result of our comparison is that some Eastern European countries, in spite of decades of atheist indoctrination, have a considerable percentage of believers in God - Albania for instance, whose Communist rulers once claimed it was the world's first totally atheist country, or Russia, where the percentage of believers surged in the late eighties and rose dramatically once again in the course of the nineties.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Religiosit%C3%A4t+in+der+s%C3%A4kularisierten+Welt&rft.pages=89&rft.pub=Springer-Verlag&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Franzmann&rft.aufirst=Manuel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ramet1990-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ramet1990_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRamet1990" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Sabrina_P._Ramet" title="Sabrina P. Ramet">Ramet, Sabrina P.</a> (1990). <i>Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies</i>. Duke University Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">232–</span>33. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0822310471" title="Special:BookSources/978-0822310471"><bdi>978-0822310471</bdi></a>. <q>From kindergarten onward children are indoctrinated with an aggressive form of atheism and trained to hate and distrust foreigners and to denounce parents who follow religious practices at home.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catholicism+and+Politics+in+Communist+Societies&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E232-%3C%2Fspan%3E33&rft.pub=Duke+University+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=978-0822310471&rft.aulast=Ramet&rft.aufirst=Sabrina+P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Witt1961-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Witt1961_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWitt1961" class="citation book cs1">Witt, Nicholas De (1961). <i>Education and Professional Employment in the U.S.S.R</i>. National Academies. p. 121.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Education+and+Professional+Employment+in+the+U.S.S.R.&rft.pages=121&rft.pub=National+Academies&rft.date=1961&rft.aulast=Witt&rft.aufirst=Nicholas+De&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndoctrination" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGatchel1959" class="citation journal cs1">Gatchel, Richard H. (1959-03-01). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131725909338731">"Evolution of Concepts of Indoctrination in American Education"</a>. <i>The Educational Forum</i>. <b>23</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">303–</span>309. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00131725909338731">10.1080/00131725909338731</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0013-1725">0013-1725</a>.</cite><span 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href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00405841.2024.2389014">"Social studies curriculum in an era of state-restricted civic participation: Responding to Texas Senate Bill 3 with the Rights of the Learner"</a>. <i>Theory Into Practice</i>. <b>0</b> (0): <span class="nowrap">1–</span>12. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00405841.2024.2389014">10.1080/00405841.2024.2389014</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0040-5841">0040-5841</a>.</cite><span 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