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Research Topics on: cults

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Books on: cults

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Encyclopedia Articles on: cults

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  • Cult
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...pointed out the importance of the cult in the development of religion. Sacred persons may have their own cults. The cult may be associated with a single...the divine and duties to the cult community. Such cults tend to proliferate during periods...
     
  • Cargo Cult
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CARGO CULT native religious movement found...distribution among its adherents. The cult had its beginnings in the 19th...islands with surplus cargo. The cult aims to restore a past time...the native Melanesians. Cargo cults are revivalistic, in that the...
     
  • Mysteries
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Roman religion, some important secret cults. The conventional religions of both Greeks...foreign origin, such as the Middle Eastern cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithra; some were...indigenous rites. The most important mystery cults in Greece were the Eleusinian, the Orphic...
     
  • Roman Religion
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...and then a state, the family cult and ritual formed the basis of the state cult and ritual. Vesta had a community...the Greek and Middle Eastern cults from about the 3d cent. b...attributes and myths. Such important cults as the worship of Dionysus and...
     
  • Egyptian Religion
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...was a monotheistic cult actually established. That unique cult apparently proved unsatisfactory...restored. The Major Cults The most important of...riches into the state cult and built huge and splendid...feeling in the funerary cults. The great body of...
     

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