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Cult

Cults are social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal is another characteristic often ascribed to cults. The term has different, divergent and often pejorative definitions both in popular culture and academia and has been an…

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Cult

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related to Russia · 22
Cult → At, Council, Coup, Experts Conducting State Religious, In, In Russia, Islam, Islamic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Christ, Justice, Latter-day Saints, Next, Pagan, Pentecostals, Russian, Russian Interior Ministry, Russian Ministry, Soviet Union's, Studies Expert Analysis
related to Doomsday cults · 17
Cult → American, Destruction, Doomsday, Festinger, In, Leon Festinger, Modern Group, Predicted, Psychological Study, Riecken, Schachter, Social, The Seekers, Their, UFO, When Prophecy Fails, World
related to Political cults · 13
Cult → Cristo, Dennis Tourish, Edge, Great Britain, Groups, Iglesia, In, Left, On, Philippines, Political Cults Right, Tim Wohlforth, United States
related to Scholarly studies · 13
Cult → American, Becker, Becker's, Beginning, Ernst Troeltsch, German, Howard, Like Troeltsch's, Max Weber, The, This, Troeltsch's, Weber
related to Western Europe · 11
Cult → Belgium, European, France, French, In, Italy, Roman Catholic Church, Scholars, Solar Temple, Sweden, The
related to Christian countercult movement in the United States · 9
Cult → Christian, Christians, For, Hinduism, In, Protestants, The, The Christian, United States
related to Further reading · 9
Cult → America, Borden, Cults Like Us, ISBN, Jane, New York, OCLC, One Signal Publishers/Atria Books, Why Doomsday Thinking Drives
related to Governmental policies and actions · 9
Cult → At, English, European, Groups, Other, Since, Sociologists, The, While
related to China · 8
Cult → China, Chinese, Falun Gong, For, Groups, In, One, The
related to Destructive cults · 8
Cult → Destructive, Eli Shapiro, Family, In Cults, International Cultic Studies Association, Members, Psychologist Michael Langone, This

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Cultis aterm frequently used by the anti-cult movement0.90text
Cultis aterm which is used to describe groups that believe in apocalypticism and millenarianism0.90text
Cultis acult with a primary interest in political action and ideology0.90text
Margaret Singerinstance ofended the usage of brainwashing theories by expert witnesses0.80text
Richard Ofsheinstance ofended the usage of brainwashing theories by expert witnesses0.80text
Dick Anthony.Western EuropeThe governments of Franceinstance ofand expert testimonies which were delivered by scholars0.80text
Belgium have taken policy positions which acceptinstance ofand expert testimonies which were delivered by scholars0.80text
Dick Anthonyinstance ofand expert testimonies which were delivered by scholars0.80text
Cultrelated to ChinaFor0.60section
Cultrelated to ChinaChina0.60section
Cultrelated to ChinaIn0.60section
Cultrelated to ChinaGroups0.60section

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