Antroposofie; Nederlands

General	Rudolf Steiner	Agriculture
Art		Drugs
Ecology		Education
Health		'Races'

General

• Lively debate on Anthroposophy in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands); from Indian Skeptic
• Fredrik Bendz on Anthroposophy
• English translation of a part on Anthroposophy in the Belgian parliamentary report on cults, April 1997
• Anthroposophy and its Defenders; nationalism, anti-Semitism, and capitalism; I, by Peter Staudenmaier and Peter Zegers
• Anthroposophy and its Defenders; and Nazism, part II, by Peter Staudenmaier and Peter Zegers
• Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier: Ecofascism / 'Ecology', Anthroposophy, and the Right in Germany
• Rudolf Steiner was at first a leader of the Theosophical Society
• Anthroposophy; from Skeptic's Dictionary; in German
• Anthroposophy; Cincinnati Skeptics
• Conflict between Steiner and other Anthroposophists; 1915
• Site of Dutch Anthroposophist; Dutch/English
• Anthroposophie, Waldorfschulen: Kritik
• Ist Anthroposophie Wissenschaft? German translation of article by Sven Ove Hansson
• Anthroposophie; Site Schweiz
• ZEGG, Dieter Duhm, Wilhelm Reich und Rudolf Steiner
• Anthroposophie und WaldorfpŠdagogik
• Criticisms of Anthroposophy; German
• Christengemeinschaft; German
• Achtung, Anthroposophie! Buch
• Christengemeinschaft
• Critical literature (German) on Anthroposophy:
  • Anthroposophie, Waldorfschulen: Kritische BŸcher
  • Anthroposophiekritik. Osnabruck, 1993
  • J. Badewien: Anthroposophie: eine kritische Darstellung. Konstanz - Friedrich Bahn Verl. - 4. Aufl. 1990
  • Gerhard Kern: Anthroposophie und kein Ende. In: Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit 4/96, p. 9-13
• Anthroposophie; French criticism
• Societˆ Antroposofica; Italiano
• Steiners to Jesus; dansk
• Swedish skeptical magazine Folkvett, of "Vetenskap och Folkbildning" published critical articles on Anthroposophy:
  • 1/93: Folkvetts antroposofihŠfte
  • 2/92: Antroposofin granskad
  • 2/92: Den framgŒngsriak antroposofin
  • 2/91: Kritisk litteratur om antroposofi

  Agriculture

• Fredrik Bendz on Anthroposophy and agriculture
• Lars HedenŠs: Biodynamisk forskning

  Drugs

  Ecology

• Janet Biehl: Ecofascism / 'Ecology', Anthroposophy, and the Right in Germany
• Fascist Ideology: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents, by Peter Staudenmaier
• Anthroposophy and Ecofascism, by Peter Staudenmaier

  Education: Waldorf schools

• Public Schools Teaching Occult Religion?; World Net Daily
• Waldorf salad with Aryan mayonnaise? by Toos Jeurissen
• Lively debate on Anthroposophy in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands); from Indian Skeptic
• Racial Ethnography by Robert Sikkes, The Netherlands; De Volkskrant, February 4, 1995
• Daily Northwestern (USA) on Steiner, Waldorf, and 'races'
• People for Legal and Non-Sectarian schools
• Waldorf Critics discussion list
• Watchman Expositor: Waldorf Schools
• Review of critical film on Waldorf
• German book on Waldorf
• German literature on Anthroposophy [scroll down]
• Critical literature (German):
  • Peter Bierl: Wurzelrassen, Erzengel und Volksgeister. Die Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners und die Waldorfpaedagogik. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg, 1999. ISBN 3-89458-171-9 DM 40,-
  • Martina Kayser and Paul Albert Wagemann: Wie frei ist die Waldorfschule? Berlin, 1993
  • Gilbert Reis: Waldorfschulen fur Arier? In: Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit 1/93, p. 11-17
  • [interview with ex-Waldorf teacher Norbert Biermann]: Waldorfschulen: Warten auf die Reinkarnation von Jesus und Steiner in einer Person. In: Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit 4/96, p. 4-8
• Steinerpaedagogik; dansk
• The Dialog Centre (Professor Aagaard, Aarhus University) has critical books in Danish on Waldorf and Anthroposophy:
  • Steinerp¾dagogik - okkult og iscenesat by Andreas Wolff and Michael Hoffmann. Price: kr. 50,- "Read this before sending your child to Waldorf school"
  • Steiner/Antroposofi (generel introduktion); kr. 30,-
  • Steiner (introduktion til p¾dagogikken og dens foruds¾tninger); kr. 30,-
  One can order these at the Dialog Center info service, tel. [Denmark] 86 10 54 11; or E-mail info@dci.dk

• Swedish skeptical magazine Folkvett, of "Vetenskap och Folkbildning" published critical articles on Waldorf education:
  • 1/94: "Walldorfdemokrati" rŠcker inte
  • 1/94: Waldorfskola fick underkŠnt
  • 2/93: Varning fšr Walldorfskolor

  Medicine

• Anthroposophical medicine; Health Care Reality Check
• Lively debate on Anthroposophy in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands); from the Indian Skeptic
• English translation of a part on Anthroposophy in the Belgian parliamentary report on cults, April 1997
• British Columbia Cancer Agency on Iscador (mistletoe medicine)
• Critical literature (German) on Anthroposophy and medicine
  • Donald Frankenberg: Anthroposophische Medizin und Pflege. In: AKAZ IX, p. 123-129
  • Donald Frankenberg: Mythos Mistel ['The Myth of Mistletoe'; allegedly curing cancer and other diseases]. In: Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit 4/96, p. 14-20
  • Gabius, H.-J.; *AndrŽ, S.; *Kaltner, H.; *Siebert, H.-C.; v.d. Lieth, C.W.; *Gabius, S. Mythos Mistel - Anspruch, Wirklichkeit und prŸfbare Perspektive. Z. €rztl. Fortbildung 90: 103-110 (1996).
  • Franz Stratmann: Zur Bedeutung der anthroposophische Lehre im Bereich der Medizin. Marburg university, MD thesis, 1988
  • Franz Stratmann: Zum Einfluß der Anthroposophie in der Medizin. W. Zuckschwerdt Verlag, 1988. ISBN 3-88603-284-1. Costs 32 DM; can be ordered via skeptic_euro@compuserve.com

  'Races'

• Waldorf salad with Aryan mayonnaise? by Toos Jeurissen
• Anthroposophy and its Defenders; racism, by Peter Staudenmaier and Peter Zegers
• Peter Staudenmaier/Janet Biehl: Anthroposophy, Ecology, Racism
• Dutch Anthroposophists lose court case
• Lively debate on Anthroposophy in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands); from Indian Skeptic
• Racial Ethnography by Robert Sikkes, The Netherlands; De Volkskrant, February 4, 1995
• Daily Northwestern (USA) on Steiner, Waldorf, and 'races'
• Diskussion Ÿber Anthroposophie
• Anthroposophie; Margret Chatwin
• ZEGG, Dieter Duhm, Wilhelm Reich und Rudolf Steiner
• Rudolf Steiner and racial discrimination; from Swiss anti-racist bulletin
• Anthroposophy and its Defenders; anti-Semitism, by Peter Staudenmaier and Peter Zegers
• Children of the Holocaust site: Anthroposophie und Antisemitismus
• Basel (Switzerland): debates on Anthroposophy and "races"
• Anthroposophie und Antisemitismus; Reformierter Pressedienst Schweiz
• Kinder der Holocaust gegen Anthroposophie; Reformierter Pressedienst Schweiz
• Konflikt Schweiz; Reformierter Pressedienst Schweiz
• Anthroposophie und 'Rassen'; JŸdische Rundschau
• German reaction to anti-Semitic article in Anthroposophical magazine Das Goetheanum
• Steiners Rassismus; Antifaschistische Nachrichten
• Diskussion: Judentum und Anthroposophie
• Ludwig Thiebens RŠtsel des Judentums
• Antisemitismus und Anthroposophie; Thieben
• Barbro Karlen; die wiedergeborene Anne Frank?; Site Schweiz
• Chronologie Rassismus und Rechtsextremismus: Thieben on Jews; also here
• Anthroposophist's criticism of Anthroposophist Ernst Uehli; German
• Neo-pagans, Anthroposophy (Haverbeck), the extreme Right, and fairy tales; German
• Collegium Humanum; Haverbeck
• Haverbeck. Biographisch
• Haverbeck; ESO Info
• Chronologie Rassismus und Rechtsextremismus: Anthroposophist and Holocaust 'revisionist' Bernhard Schaub
• Bernhard Schaub
• Tages-Anzeiger: Schaub
• Critical literature [German]:
  • Peter Bierl: Wurzelrassen, Erzengel und Volksgeister. Die Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners und die Waldorfpaedagogik. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg, 1999. ISBN 3-89458-171-9 DM 40,-
  • Gerhard Kern: Der (esoterische) Rassismus aus der besseren Gesellschaft. Die Hierarchie der "Völker" bei Rudolf Steiner. In: Gerhard Kern/Lee Traynor [eds.]: Die Esoterische Verführung. Angriffe auf Vernunft und Freiheit. Aschaffenburg/Berlin 1995, p. 129-158
  • Herbert Rätz: Die Steiner-JŸnger und der Rassismus; blick nach rechts, 22 April 1998
  • Gilbert Reis: Waldorfschulen fur Arier? In: Materialien und Informationen zur Zeit 1/93, p. 11-17
  • Markus Sint: Okkult-rassistisches Gedankengut in modernen Bewegungen. Anthroposophie, Esoterik, Neue Akropolis [Occult racist ideas in modern movements. Anthroposophy, Esotericism, New Acropolis]. Political Science institute of Innsbruck University, Austria, 1998, M.A. thesis
• Swedish skeptical magazine Folkvett, of "Vetenskap och Folkbildning" published articles:
  • 3/92: €r antroposofin rasistisk? [Reaction by an Anthroposophist]
  • 1/92: De svenska antroposoferna och "negerproblemet"

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  German book on Waldorf

  In the summer of 1998, Alibri publishers, Postfach 167, 63703 Aschaffenburg, Germany; phone/fax +6021-15744, E-mail: alibri@compuserve.com

  published a critical book (about 300 pages; Prize: about 32 DM.) by Guido and Michael Grandt: Waldorf Connection [in German]. See review. From Alibri's Gesamtverzeichnis 98/99:

  [The authors] 'provide documentation of the occult and racist aspects of Steiner's philosophy and discuss the question to what extent these still influence Anthroposophy today. They discuss the pedagogical concepts and education at Waldorf schools extensively, and point out the influences of the 'Master's' views.

  Conclusion: it really is time for a critical debate about Rudolf Steiner's ideology and its application in Waldorf schools.'

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  Dutch Anthroposophists lose court case

  On 31 May 2000, the Dutch Anthroposophical Society lost the court case which they brought against "independent Left" weekly De Groene Amsterdammer, on all counts.

  The Anthroposophists objected to an article in De Groene Amsterdammer, which quoted extensively from Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, on, according to Steiner, negative racial characteristics of Africans, Asians, Native Americans, and Jews. According to a recent report by the Dutch Anthroposophical Society itself, if Steiner would live today, he might face prosecution under the law against [racial] discrimination on sixteen counts; apart from many more 'mildly discriminatory' texts in Steiner's collected works.

  The court rejected all demands of the Anthroposophical Society against De Groene Amsterdammer.

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