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Convicted cult leader Larry Ray made himself into a father figure, a boyfriend or whatever his victims needed. Director of doc on Sarah Lawrence cult says warning signs are 'very hard to detect ...
American sociologist Howard P. Becker further bisected Troeltsch's first two categories: church was split into ecclesia and denomination; and sect into sect and cult. [22] [1] Like Troeltsch's "mystical religion", Becker's cult refers to small religious groups that lack in organization and emphasize the private nature of personal beliefs. [23]
[144]: 79–80 Assadist cult of personality functioned as a psychological tool for the totalitarian regime; which attempted to claim towards the Syrian society that the Ba'athist system shall continue ruling eternally, forever, with no end. [143] The Assadist cult is being dismantled following the fall of the Assad regime. [citation needed]
The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society, is a book on cult culture within the United States, written by Arthur J. Deikman, M.D. The book was originally published in hardcover format in December 1990 by Beacon Press, and reprinted in paperback form September 1994.
The claim: Image shows a warning from the Ad Council on marijuana being 'the leading cause of America's youth joining satanic cults' A viral public service announcement warning on the effects of ...
The academic study of new religious movements has been noted to be unusually hostile, with scholars holding strong opinions as to the influence of cults on society. [1] [2] A 1998 article in the magazine Lingua Franca reported on the acrimony of the scholarly debate on the topic; in the "cult-anticult debate", [3] scholars have been described as exhibiting a "toxic level" of suspicion toward ...
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues ...