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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.
Jung Myung Seok - South Korean religious sect leader and founder of Providence. Convicted for raping several of his followers. [9] William Kamm - An Australian religious sect leader who was sentenced to prison in October 2005 for a string of sexual attacks on a 15-year-old girl. In August 2007 his sentence was increased after being found guilty ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations. Academics identify a variety of characteristics ...
Old Lights and New Lights (c. 1730 – 1740) were terms first used during the First Great Awakening in British North America to describe those that supported the awakening (New Lights) and those who were skeptical of the awakening (Old Lights).
This category concerns religious cults that are either historical or still active. Pages in category "Religious cults" This category contains only the following page.
"Religious cults are most likely to hook us because we give spiritual leaders more trust, believing they follow a moral code and it also provides an instant community and the promises of spiritual ...
For cults of personality, see Category:Cults of personality. For religious cults, see Category:New religious movements. Note: This category page should be empty. All ...
The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism: Ancient. Proto-Gnosticism ... Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons ...