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The Cult Experience

Book by Andrew J. Pavlos; Greenwood Press, 1982

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Cults

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...lifestyle, as required by the cult leader, becomes the norm or the accepted...have described the potential cult convert as one who is recruited into the cult and eventually accepts the cults beliefs and values. I now...detailed examination of how cult leaders can call for total loyalty...
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Cults in Our Midst

Book by Margaret Thaler Singer; Jossey-Bass, 2003

Subjects:

Brainwashing, Brainwashing--United States, Cults--Psychology, Cults--United States--Psychology

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Group and Role of the Leader In most cases, there...at the top of the cults structure, and decision...There are some female cult leaders, but most are male...the groups purpose. Cult leaders, in contrast, keep...themselves. In many cults, for example, spouses...their devotion to their leader. Structure: Relationship...visual portrayal of a cult, imagine an inverted...
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Odd Gods: New Religions and the Cult Controversy

Book by James R. Lewis; Prometheus Books, 2001

Subjects:

Cults--United States, Sects--United States, United States--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...has gone or is going "bad." "Cults" or Bad Religion? While the...unreflective stereotypes about "cults" and "cult leaders" that are appropriate for some...objective category of groups called "cults" that can be distinguished from...
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Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis

Book by William W. Zellner, Marc Petrowsky; Praeger, 1998

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Cults--United States--History--20th Century, Religion And Sociology--Case Studies, United States--Religion--1960-

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Amish women. The fate of a cult usually hinges on the caprice of a charismatic leader. Clarence Klug, charismatic...Nettles might never have become cult leaders. Balch says he was shocked...members of the Heavens Gate cult in March 1997. Certainly...
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Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion

Book by Marc Galanter; Oxford University Press, 1990

Subjects:

Cults, Psychology, Religious, Sects, Spiritual Healing

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...planning future operations. If a cult is trying to recruit, information...potential members can be fed back to the cult leaders and guide them in improving the groups...monitoring function that allows the cult system to control the information...

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Journal Articles on: cult leaders

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The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc

Journal article by Matt Killingsworth; Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (Book)--Book reviews

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...Behrends), as means by which the leader cults were maintained. However...childrens reception of the cult, Kelly appreciates that without an attentive audience, the cults would have been redundant. In children, the leaders had an especially attentive...authorities in promoting the cult, and the language used in...
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When Spirituality Goes Awry: Students in Cults

Journal article by Lee J. Richmond; Professional School Counseling, Vol. 7, 2004

Subjects:

Counselor education, Professional practice, Religious cults, School counseling, Spirituality, Students, United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...necessarily so. Religious cults are considered destructive...control and exploit. Such cults generally have a living leader whose doctrines and revelations...the doctrines generated by cult leaders usually supplant or supplement...religious belief. Some religious cults are specifically designed to...
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Imposed Limitations on Freedom of Religion in China and the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine: a Legal Analysis of the Crackdown on the Falun Gong and Other "evil Cults"

Journal article by Bryan Edelman, James T. Richardson; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 47, 2005

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China, Demonstrations & protests, Falun Gong-China, Freedom of religion, International law, Religious cults, Religious discrimination, Religious persecution

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Michael D. Langone, cults employ mind-numbing...about the group or its leader that may arise among...Furthermore, cultic leaders manipulate specific...the control of the cult. Kidnapping and other...scope of Chinas anti-cult law must be clearly...the definition of a cult. Not SUI-Prisingly...Political Science Academy, cults refer to (emphasis...promote and deify their leaders in the name of religion...are characterized by leader worship, spiritual...
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Joining a 'Cult': Religious Choice or Psychological Aberration?

Journal article by Dena S. Davis; Journal of Law and Health, Vol. 11, 1996

Subjects:

Brainwashing--Laws, regulations, etc., Church and state--Laws, regulations, etc., Cults--Membership

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

Joining a cult: religious choice or...Introduction II. What Is A "Cult"? III. The Civil Liberties...their detractors as "cults." The groups were based...all had a charismatic leader; most involved communal...mainstream religious leaders--could hardly claim...way to describe these "cults," and the conversion...different theories about "cult" membership and conversion...
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Adolescent Attraction to Cults

Journal article by Eagan Hunter; Adolescence, Vol. 33, 1998

Subjects:

Cults--Membership, Teenagers--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...that the attraction to cults is strengthened by the fact that a cults rules often are better...family. Adherence to the cult lifestyle often results...enslavement to cult leaders" and further estrangement...term consequences of cult membership. Rudin (1990) defines cults as "groups or movements...goals of the groups leaders to the determent of...

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Magazine Articles on: cult leaders

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Scientists as Well as Cult Leaders Ignore the Moral Questions Behind Cloning

Magazine article by Cristina Odone; New Statesman, Vol. 132, January 6, 2003

Subjects:

Cloning--Moral and ethical aspects, Raelian Movement--Rites and ceremonies, Religion and science

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Scientists as well as cult leaders ignore the moral questions...members of the Dionysian cult danced drunkenly around...likes of the Raelian cult, with its ululating...and its charismatic leader claiming the top totty...all the same. Most cults dabble in the supernatural...ignored by megalomaniac cult leaders and scientists alike...
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Interacting with "cults": a Policing Model

Magazine article by Adam Szubin, Carl J. Jensen III, Rod Gregg; FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Vol. 69, September 2000

Subjects:

Law enforcement, Police Department-Garland TX, Religious cults

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...negative connotations: "cult" leaders are con artists; "cult" followers are brainwashed sheep; "cult" beliefs are bizarre or ludicrous; and "cult" movements are dangerous...These scholars instead refer to cults as "new religious movements...
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Guarding against Cults

Magazine article by Larry Kahaner; Security Management, Vol. 35, March 1991

Subjects:

Commercial crimes--Investigations, Cults--Investigations, Security services industry--Practice, White collar crime--Investigations, White collar crimes--Investigations

Collections: Entire Library

...Others simply think of a cult as a small band of people...malfeasance involved. A cult can be either extreme or anything in between. Cults are often divided into...but advancement of the leaders aims, usually financial...are financial-type cults whose members are convinced by a charismatic leader that they will get rich...destructive and powerful as any cult based in religious dogma...
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Cult Mass Suicide/homicide: Jonesboro/ Heaven's Gate Replay?

Magazine article by J. Gordon Melton; Skeptic, Vol. 8, 2000

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Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, Religious cults, Suicides & suicide attempts

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Cult Mass Suicide/homicide: Jonesboro...apocalyptic pronouncements of its leader. Reportedly he had predicted...Uganda merely stated that the leader had predicted the end of the...case of mass murder by the leaders of the group. This hypothesis...supported the Western myth of cult suicide. It is generally the...
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The Da Vinci Code Cult

Magazine article by Robert Sheaffer; Skeptic, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Brown, Dan, Cults, Literary criticism, Novels

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...But since then the book has become a cult hit, having sold over 25 million copies...organized by Constantine on behalf of church leaders. The Council was convened to resolve...scrutiny.22 This does not mean that no leaders are female, nor does it deny that women...

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Newspaper Articles on: cult leaders

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'Pervert Ring Run as Cult' LEADER ACCUSED OF RAPING GIRL

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 17, 2011

Subjects:

Cults, Rape

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Pervert Ring Run as Cult LEADER ACCUSED OF RAPING GIRL. Byline: ANTONY STONE AN "evil" cult leader tried to force a pregnant...regarded as children of the cult," he said. He said that Batley told one of the cults victims the same thing when...
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'Cult Leader Raped Me at 11 and Told Me I'd Go to Abyss' WOMAN TELLS COURT SEX WITH ACCUSED WAS SEEN AS A TEST

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 11, 2011

Subjects:

Cults, Rape

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Cult Leader Raped Me at 11 and Told Me Id Go to Abyss...court yesterday she became a victim of a sex cult in which women wore Egyptian tattoos and...was raped when she was just 11 by alleged cult leader Colin Batley, 48, who told her she...
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Hi, I'm a Former Miss World. but Now I Bow to the Supreme Master; Rosanna Fronts Series of Ads for Bizarre Cult Leader Ching Hai

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 27, 2009

Subjects:

Advertising campaigns, Cults

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Supreme Master; Rosanna Fronts Series of Ads for Bizarre Cult Leader Ching Hai. Byline: Joanne Hegarty SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR...Television - a satellite channel owned by a controversial cult leader who has been tied up in political cash scandals. Now...
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Leader of Cult Guilty of Rape

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 10, 2011

Subjects:

Child sexual abuse, Cults, Rape

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Leader of Cult Guilty of Rape. Byline: ANTONY STONE AN...yesterday found guilty of leading a satanic sex cult from his home in a small town. Colin Batley...Wales, presided over a quasi-religious cult which preyed on young children and indulged...
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CULT FRICTION; This Is Footballer Marcus Gayle Being Baptised by the Church of Christ, a Religious Sect Which Takes 10 per Cent of Its Members' Pay Cheques. the Picture Is Taken from the Cult's Promotional Video. Now It's Leaders Are out to Convert His Wimbledon Team-Mates . . and the Rest of the Premiership 'S Stars

Newspaper article by Clare Grant; The Mirror (London, England), May 12, 1997

Subjects:

Church of Christ

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...their idols into the cult that uses sex to control...explain themselves to leaders. The church, which...of brainwashing. The leaders have already persuaded...Gayle promotes the cults message while he and...Mirror can reveal how the cults American leader Mark Templar flew over...anxious mother says the cult has changed her son...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: cult leaders

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Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...but not as a theoretician or leader. Toward the end of his illness...prosperity under the NEP. Soviet Leader Prewar Years The political...which Stalin as a military leader subsequently contributed to...Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders attacked the cult of Stalin, confirming many...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...premier in 1958, thus becoming leader of both the government and the...prepared and bloodless move by CPSU leaders, Khrushchev was ousted from...which it was said created a "cult of personality." Several persons...Nikolai V. Podgorny . The new leaders stressed collective leadership...
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China

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...India, and Taoism, a native cult, grew and seriously endangered...and executed many of their leaders. Thus began the long civil...between Chiang and the Communist leader Mao Zedong , but these proved...coalition of political and military leaders purged the Gang of Four, and...Shanghais local Communist party leader, who was also a member of...
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Korea

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...occurred in Aug., 2007; both leaders called for negotiations on...widely known as "The Great Leader"), who had been premier...inception in 1948. A personality cult had glorified Kim, but by...however, led South Korean leaders to draw up a new constitution...States, and in October the leaders of the North and South met...
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Pueblo , Indigenous People of North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Vargas, with the cooperation of some Pueblo leaders, reconquered the Pueblo in New Mexico...gardens are owned by women; the kachina cult emphasizes weather control, and the Pueblo who follow this cult are governed by a council of clan representatives...

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