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The application of the labels "cults" or "sects" to (for example) religious movements in government documents usually signifies the popular and negative use of the term "cult" in English and a functionally similar use of words translated as "sect" in several European languages.
Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement. Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-25937-4. Urban, Hugh B. (2015). New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28117-2. York, Michael (2004).
The twenty-first century saw continuation of signs of NRM's and cults in popular culture. Over the next several decades, the twenty-first century saw more novels revolving around this topic, although with the advancement of technology, it began to see more through the internet via, shows, documentaries, and movies.
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate, a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet. The deceased ...
Druid gathering at Stonehenge Ukrainian temple of the RUNVira in Spring Glen, New York. Modern paganism, also known as "contemporary" or "neopagan", encompasses a wide range of religious groups and individuals.
By the time Joaquin Phoenix was born, his parents Arlyn and John Lee Phoenix had already joined the religious cult Children of God.Before leaving the the group when he was 3 years old, his parents ...
Dianetics was an immediate commercial success and sparked what Martin Gardner calls "a nationwide cult of incredible proportions". [119] Following the prosecution of Hubbard's foundation for teaching medicine without a license and Hubbard's loss of the rights to Dianetics, in 1953 Hubbard rebranded as Scientology, an explicitly religious movement.
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