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Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [8]
Charles Manson - Leader of the Manson Family who served life in prison for first degree murder until his death in 2017. [14] Shukri Mustafa - Egyptian leader of Takfir wal-Hijra who was captured and executed on March 19, 1978, for the kidnapping and murder of an Egyptian ex-government minister. [15] Fred Phelps - Leader of anti-gay Westboro ...
Cult is a term often applied to new religious movements and other social ... disinterest in society and pronounced mental control and enslavement by cult leaders." ...
Once Lenin's cult of personality had risen in power, creating enough influence, Stalin integrated his ideals into his own cult. [138] Unlike other cults of personalities, the Lenin and Stalin cults were not created to give the leaders power, they were created to give power and validation to the Communist Party.
A cult of personality was developed around Josip Broz Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Emerging from his leading role in Yugoslav Partisans ' liberation struggle in World War II, Tito's cult of personality went on to be solidified by the Tito–Stalin split of 1948, embarking Yugoslavia on a path towards a socialist system ...
Fictional leader of cults, social groups that are defined by their unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by their common interest in a particular personality, object or goal. Pages in category "Fictional cult leaders"
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Amy Carlson (November 30, 1975 – c. April 16, 2021), also known by her followers as Mother God, was an American cult leader and the co-founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won. [1] Carlson and her followers believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ , and that she could heal people of ...