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for a further distinction between three kinds of cults: cult movements, client cults, and audience cults, all of which share a "compensator" or rewards...

Archived from the original on 10 January 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2013. "CULTS Announces Electric Album U.S. Tour UPDATED With Full First Leg Dates!"....

"Rising: Cults". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 30, 2011. "Cults — Pitchfork". Pitchfork. September 29, 2013. Rowe, Sian (May 27, 2011). "Cults: loved by Lily...

Cargo cults are spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the early 20th...

in the 20th century that the most notorious personality cults arose. Frequently, these cults are a form of political religion. The advent of the Internet...

practices. Cult or cults may also refer to: Cult, Haute-Saône, France Cults, Aberdeen, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland Cults Academy, a school in Cults, Aberdeenshire...

considered a major success by small core groups or communities of fans. Some cults are only popular within a certain subculture. The film Woodstock (1970)...

Cult of the Lamb is a 2022 roguelike video game developed by Australian studio Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released...

sent by Zeus. Cults of Cybele – A number of cults following Cybele, or Magna Mater, were present in Greece, Anatolia, and Rome. This cult followed Cybele...

labels "cults" or "sects" to (for example) religious movements in government documents usually signifies the popular and negative use of the term "cult" in...

Cults of a Goddess of the Seas. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-41389-4. Bricault, Laurent (2013). Les cultes isiaques dans le monde Gréco-romain [Isiac cults in...

Cults is the debut album by American indie pop band Cults. The album was released in the US on June 7, 2011, on In the Name Of, an imprint of Columbia...

Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field is an edited volume discussing various topics related to cults, including the...

of Royal Deeside. Cults, known for its historic granite housing, sits approximately six miles from the coast of the North Sea. Cults maintains village...

Whitley distinguishes four or five essential types of hero cult: Oikist cults of founders. Such cults arose in colonies in the Hellenic world in Magna Graecia...

Christian, but deemed outside of Christian orthodoxy, were considered "cults." Christian cults are new religious movements which have a Christian background but...

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults is an American documentary television miniseries revolving around the religious group Heaven's Gate and its leader Marshall...

Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers is a book about cults by Robert L. Snow. It was published November 30, 2003, by Praeger Publishers in hardcover...

deistic Cult of the Supreme Being, promoted by Robespierre. Both cults were officially banned in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte with his Law on Cults of 18...

Cults Academy is an Aberdeen City Council secondary school in Cults, Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the recipient of The Sunday Times Scottish State Secondary...

deceptive cults Doomsday cult, a cult that believes in, and may attempt to bring about, an end-of-world prophecy The Cult, formerly Death Cult, a British...

Look up cultic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cultic may refer to: Of or relating to a cult, social groups with unusual, and often extreme, religious...

Gaelic cùilt meaning a corner or recess. Cults' most well-known resident was Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) born in Cults Church manse. His father was parish...

The Kingdom of the Cults. Grand Rapids Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House. Martin, Walter Ralston (1966). The Kingdom of the Cults. Zondervan Publishing...

Gate incident, "Reporting on so-called doomsday cults became a mainstay of the media, just as satanic cults had been a decade before." Jenkins regards the...

notes). Cults. Sinderlyn. October 6, 2017.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) Phares, Heather. "Host – Cults". AllMusic...

the god himself. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms. Traditionally the cult of Dionysus has been said to have originated from Asia...

It's Not A Cult is an adult horror fiction novel by Joey Batey. It was published October 23rd, 2025, by the publisher Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury...

Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental...

28, 2013. Potamkin, Harry Allen (2007). "Film Cults". In Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier (eds.). The Cult Film Reader. McGraw-Hill International. p. 26...

decades. Greek cults and Greek influences had been part of Rome's religious life since the 5th century BC, and Rome's acquisition of foreign cults—Greek or...

the most enduring UFO cult". He places the Aetherius Society and Raëlism among the "most renowned" of the "flying saucer cults". Heaven's Gate and Order...

themselves. Cults was founded in 2014 and is the first fully independent 3D printing marketplace. In 2015, La Poste established a partnership with Cults and 3D...

(1896–1909). Cults of the Greek States, 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Still the standard reference. Farnell, Lewis Richard (1921). Greek Hero Cults and Ideas...

Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives is a study of cults by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by Robert...

then speculated to have been the origin of the cult's own rituals. Others speculate that the Dionysian cults sprung from the wishes of Dionysus himself....

are known for their mortuary cults, because they left behind extraordinary memorials, which were used for mortuary cults during the epochs in which they...

accompanied by a UFO overhead. Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults, a documentary miniseries about the cult, was released on HBO Max in 2020. In 2021, Heaven's...

"Cults: Static | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 15, 2013. "Review: Cults – Static". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved October 15, 2013. "Cults: Static...

element that they termed aethyr.[citation needed] A number of fictional cults dedicated to "malevolent supernatural entities" appear in the Cthulhu Mythos...

A cult of personality is a system of worshipful behavior through uncritical flattery and praise directed at national leaders. Cults of personality use...

forms of Cybele's cults spread throughout Rome's empire. Greek and Roman writers debated and disputed the meaning and morality of her cults and priesthoods...

harmful practices in cults. It is edited by Michael Langone, director of the anti-cult non-profit organization International Cultic Studies Association...

The mango cult (Chinese: 芒果崇拜; pinyin: Mángguǒ Chóngbài) was the veneration or worship of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period...

The Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses are ancient cults that were practised in the region of Arcadia (or Arkadia). Religious cults across Greece took on...

Pure Cult is the first of several greatest hits compilations by the British rock band The Cult, released in 1993. The title of the original release was...

RuneQuest: Classic Edition Kickstarter. Cults of Prax is a supplement which provides descriptions of 15 cults as well as the gods they worship. Since...

relations with northeast African religions. The numerous animal cults (especially bovine cults and panther gods) and details of ritual dresses (animal tails...

book, Cults in Our Midst, she writes: As soon as any interest is shown by the recruits, they may be love bombed by the recruiter or other cult members...

temples appointed to this purpose. Funerary cults are found in a wide variety of cultures. Funerary cults are especially associated with ancient Egypt...

Look up culter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Culter may refer to: Culter, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Culter (fish), a genus of cyprinid...

all the other mystery cults too." He adds that at the individual level, various individuals did hold roles both in the state cults and the priesthood of...

called Jon Frum, John Brum, and John Prum) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides). He is often...

contemporary Satanic cults were part of an ancient conspiracy of evil, though ultimately no evidence of devil-worshiping cults existed in Europe at any...

Cult Classic is a 1994 studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult containing newly recorded versions of many of the band's most popular early...

The discography of British rock band The Cult includes 11 studio albums, two live albums, six compilation albums, seven video albums, five box sets, 20...

1995 report, see Governmental lists of cults and sects.) Subsequent French Parliamentary Commissions on cults reported in 1999 and in 2006. In a 2005...

cults, a desire to shock and a penchant for triumphal dress or simply mental illness. Whatever his plans, there is no evidence for his official cult as...

Larson, Jennifer (1995). Greek Heroine Cults. University of Wisconsin Press. Larson, Jennifer (2007). Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide. Routledge. pp. 1–14....

dungeon crawls and stat books, many others were groundbreaking. Cults of Prax (1979) and Cults of Terror (1981) gave precise details on the worship of a few...

"Dark Cults gets the highest recommendation. It is quite addictive, and can be used as inspiration for horror RPG scenarios. [...] Dark Cults isn't going...

The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the...

Cults and Kidnapping: Season 1". Metacritic. Retrieved March 8, 2024. Keller, Joel (March 5, 2024). "Stream It or Skip It: 'The Program: Cons, Cults and...

brainwashing or coercive persuasion did indeed control cults members. The task force concluded that: Cults and large group awareness trainings have generated...

minorities led authors to invent fictional cults for their villains to belong to. New religious movements and cults then began to appear in more modern culture...

Retrieved 7 February 2018. "New Zealand Cults, Sects, Religions, Christian Organisations, and other groups". www.cults.co.nz. Archived from the original on...

for information on controversial religious groups, therapy cults, and political cults. The Cult Information Centre was founded in 1987 by Ian Haworth, who...

is Cults House, near Cupar, Fife. The former was Crawford Priory, also in Fife. Thomas Horatio Arthur Ernest Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults (1857–1951)...

stronger man. Cults also charge annual membership fees of between 10,000 (US$80) and 30,000 naira. Frequent criminal activity for cults includes intimidating...

element of the cult.[need quotation to verify] Cults, like sects, often integrate elements of existing religious theologies, but cults tend to create...

Info-Cult, also known as Info-Secte, is a non-profit group that offers information to the Canadian public about religious cults and related topics. From...

Cults and Extreme Belief (also known as A&E Investigates: Cults and Extreme Belief) is an American documentary series on A&E. The show premiered on May...

Cult Hero may refer to: a pseudonym used by an extended lineup of The Cure to release the 1979 single "I'm a Cult Hero" Cult Hero (film), a 2022 Canadian...

Cult Killer is a 2024 American crime thriller film directed by Jon Keeyes and written by Charles Burnley, starring Alice Eve and Antonio Banderas. In order...

List of cult films: B List of cult films: C List of cult films: D List of cult films: E List of cult films: F List of cult films: G List of cult films:...

The Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults (Russian: Совет по делам религиозных культов) was a government council in the Soviet Union that dealt with...

Bacchanalia cults may have offered challenge to Rome's traditional, official values and morality but they were practiced in Roman Italy as Dionysiac cults for...

Ecstatic dancing was a feature of the mystery religions, particularly the cults of Cybele and Isis. In the secular realm, dancing girls from Syria and Cadiz...

personality cult began soon after Kim Il Sung took power in 1948, and was greatly expanded after his death in 1994. While other countries have had cults of personality...

and its values. Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica). Non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals...

cancer "with the power of love". Her group has been described as a cult and Carlson as a cult leader by many, including ex-members and media outlets. Carlson's...

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity is a book by British historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. It was published by New...

Cargo cults are millenarian movements that arose in Melanesia under colonial rule, and inspired Richard Feynman to coin the expression cargo cult science...

of ethnic reconstructionism that seeks to re-establish the traditional cults and customs of ancient Rome as a culturally-rooted spiritual framework for...

The Cult are an English rock band. The Cult may also refer to: The Cult (album), a 1994 album from the rock group The Cult The Cult (novel), a 1978 novel...

Host is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Cults, released on September 18, 2020, by Sinderlyn. Host received generally favorable reviews...

"a compendious account of Greek cults [...] has long been a desideratum in English," and as such Farnell wrote The Cults of the Greek States to sate that...

which the game is set. All ten stories in Cthulhu’s Dark Cults are linked by Cthulhu Mythos cults and characters that first appeared in Call of Cthulhu gaming...

Christian critics of NRMs began referring to them as "cults". The 1938 book The Chaos of Cults by Jan Karel van Baalen (1890–1968), an ordained minister...

2022. "David Brandt Berg". Cowan and Bromley, Cults and New Religions, 101–2. Cowan and Bromley, Cults and New Religions, 102. "History - TFI". www...

The Cult of the Self (French: Le Culte du moi) is a trilogy of books by French author Maurice Barrès, sometimes called his trilogie du moi. The trilogy...

coercive control that is what really makes a cult. Without it, it's just beliefs." She writes "The bones of cults are patriarchal, the structure needs someone...

Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age' reviews, Metacritic". Metacritic. Phares, Heather. "Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio...

Nameless Cults. Like the Necronomicon, it was later mentioned in several stories by H. P. Lovecraft. The book was originally called Nameless Cults by Robert...

(September 2002). "The Impact of Cults on Health" (PDF). Nursing Spectrum. Benjamin, Elliot (June 2005). "Spirituality and Cults" (PDF). Integral Science. Retrieved...

The Cult is the sixth studio album from English rock band The Cult. It was released in October 1994 on Beggars Banquet Records and is the band's last album...

Cults railway station was opened on 8 September 1853 by the Deeside Railway and served part of Cults with mansion houses such as Southfield, Wellwood,...

Foundation. "Cults of violence". The Economist. July 31, 2008. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-05-13. Oyibo, Helen (2020-06-02). "Nigeria's campus cults: Buccaneers...

Amber Coffman & Cults – She Knows". IFPI Danmark. Retrieved May 7, 2024. "British single certifications – J Cole ft Amber Coffman/Cults – She Knows". British...

frequently appears in the news and other media discussing groups some consider cults. Ross has intervened in more than 500 deprogramming cases in various countries...

the supposedly spontaneous outbreaks of popular piety exemplified by the 'Cults of Carts' to evoke an over-romanticised view of medieval Europe as a religious...

troubled teenagers." The 2024 Netflix documentary series The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping documented the conditions at the facility and the lasting...

Cult Records is an independent record label founded by Julian Casablancas (of The Strokes) in 2009. Initially used as an imprint for Casablancas' solo...

West Cults railway station served the small suburban village of West Cults area within the parish of Peterculter from 1894 to 1937 on the Deeside Railway...

Ceaușescu presided over the most pervasive cult of personality within the Eastern Bloc. Inspired by personality cults surrounding Kim Il Sung in North Korea...

deprogramming. Hassan categorizes cults into four groups: religious, political, psychotherapy/educational, and commercial. Most cults have five types of members...

Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is a non-fiction book on cults and coercive persuasion, written by Marc Galanter. The book was published in hardcover...

book about cults and new religious movements by Ron Rhodes. The book was published by Zondervan on September 1, 2001. The book defines cults and new religions...

Cult of Chucky is a 2017 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by series creator Don Mancini. The seventh mainline installment of the...

The cults of Persephone and Demeter in the Eleusinian mysteries and in the Thesmophoria were based on old agrarian cults. The beliefs of these cults were...

Cult of Static is the sixth studio album by American industrial metal band Static-X. It was released on March 17, 2009 via Reprise Records. The album's...

the years following the first two seasons, the show has gained a devoted cult following and been referenced in a wide variety of media, earning widespread...

gifts at cult shrines, and includes rainmaking rituals in the event of drought. It has been related to a number of other territorial cults among the...

2017) Covering Evil (12 Years Doing The Devil's Work) (Black Lotus, 2001) Cults of the Shadow (contains Crossing the Fiery Path and Scarlet Evil Witching...

dictated by the stars; the Christian apologist has often defined new age as a cult; the historian of ideas understands it as a manifestation of the perennial...

About Cults is a 2019 non-fiction book by Australian writer and podcaster Jo Thornely. The book addresses and describes high-profile religious cults such...

cult-leader-killed-in-jail Archived March 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Kovalchik, K. (February 16, 2010). 4 Cults You Might Not Know...

Identity (2019), The War on the West (2022), and On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West (2025). Murray was the associate...

present in the cult, or in any other mystery cults. Bowden doubts that afterlife beliefs were a very important aspect of mystery cults and therefore thinks...

a University of Alberta sociologist specializing in new religions and cults. Scientology holds that psychiatrists are "cosmic demons", he says. Kirsten...

raised to the peerage as Baron Cochrane of Cults, of Crawford Priory in the County of Fife. Lord Cochrane of Cults was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice...

The Johnson cult, formerly misidentified as a cargo cult, was initiated on New Hanover Island in Papua New Guinea in 1964. Although initially labelled...

(né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained...

pharaoh to have a cultic devotion during their lifetime was a form of earned exaltation of status. These cults differed in nature from cults of personality...

the International Cultic Studies Association. Captive Hearts, Captive Minds Cults in Our Midst Crazy Therapies Misunderstanding Cults, contributor Take...

Sally (1990). Cults: The Battle for God. Christopher Helm. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-7470-1414-0. Langone, Michael D. (1995). Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims...

'Evil Cults'". Foreign Policy. Retrieved January 15, 2019. Irons, Edward A. (2018). "The List: The Evolution of China's List of Illegal and Evil Cults" (PDF)...

Sparta, Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa. The various cults of Athena were all branches of her panhellenic cult and often proctored various initiation rites of...

sentenced to 60 years in prison. He had founded what was described as a "sex cult" at Sarah Lawrence College, after moving in to his daughter's dormitory there...

religion" means broadly all forms of common cults of gods and ancestors, in Chinese usage and in academia these cults have not had an overarching name. By "folk...

ostensibly foreign figures in order to give their cults legitimacy and to distinguish them from the cults of the traditional Roman gods. assumed to have...

Farnell Cults I, p.195 Nilsson, "Geschichte", Vol i, p.428-429 Farnell Cults I, 194-197 Pausanias, Description of Greece:9.2.7-9.3.2 Farnell Cults I, 241-243...

signed was New York noise pop duo Cults. The label closed in 2014, concurrently with Allen's return to performing music. Cults Tom Odell "Lily Allen - Lily...

Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published...

of personality cults. In 1956, as a response to the Khrushchev Report that criticised Joseph Stalin, Mao stated that personality cults are "poisonous...

Leo Ryan. Jonestown had a defining influence on society's perception of cults. As a child, Jones developed an affinity for Pentecostalism and a desire...

accounts of the two cults differ in detail. But the two islands are close to each other, at the northern end of the Aegean, and the cults are at least similar...

An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities...

mother earth" Farnell, Cults III, p.8 Farnell, Cults III, p.8. Farnell, Cults III, 8-10. Farnell, Cults III, 11-14. Farnell, Cults III, 15-16 Nilsson, Geschichte...

case vs ‘Dating Daan’ evangelist Sects and Cults: Iglesia ni Cristo Keating, Karl 'Into the Maw of the Cult' This Rock (San Diego: Catholic Answers, February...

(Switzerland). From 1896, Farnell published many books, including: The Cults of the Greek States (5 volumes) Greece and Babylon (See Ancient Greece and...

definition, of "cult" as a form of religious sect, is not applicable here. Dowden 2007, p. 41. Henrichs & Bäbler, "IV. Rites, cults, festivals", para...

On Democracies and Death Cults is a 2025 book by British journalist Douglas Murray. HarperCollins published the book in the United Kingdom with the subtitle...

ISBN 978-0-415-26324-5. Reece, Gregory L. (2007). UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-451-0. Saliba, John A. (November...

the natural world. A group of people performing such rites is a fertility cult. Such rites may involve the sacrifice of "a primal animal, which must be...

American mental health professional and author who specializes in the area of cults. In his early career, in the late 1970s, he participated in deprogramming...

traditions, particularly the Bhagavata cults of Vāsudeva-Krishna and Gopala-Krishna, as well as the Pancaratra-cult of Narayana, developed in the 7th to...

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence is an American true crime documentary television miniseries, directed by Zachary Heinzerling, revolving...

children go to Cults Primary School, then on to Cults Academy or nearby International School of Aberdeen or Private Schools in the city centre. Cults Academy...

responsible for the deaths at Jonestown. The Cult Awareness Network (CAN), a group aimed at deprogramming members of cults, was formed soon after the deaths at...

of religious cults. According to an expert in online conspiracy, Renee DiResta, QAnon's pattern of enticement is similar to that of cults in the pre-Internet...

Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae southwest of Sparta dates from the Mycenaean era. The hero is mythically linked to local cults and identified with...

"The Children of God Sex Cult". AJJ released a song entitled "Children of God" on their 2014 album Christmas Island. A&E's Cults and Extreme Belief, episode...

their Greek counterparts. Beyond official state cults, Greco-Roman religion also included local cults, household worship, and the widespread participation...

veneration". The word "worship" (in a similar way to how the liturgical term "cult" is traditionally used) was not synonymous with adoration, but could be used...

Cult Beauty is a web store which sells cosmetics and specialises in independent brands. It was acquired by THG plc for £291.3m in 2021 and migrated into...

dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and comedic roles in blockbusters and cult films, Swayze was nominated for three Golden Globes and received a star on...

Israelite culture, snake cults were well established in Canaan in the Bronze Age. Archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata...

Publishing Company, November 2001. pp. 16–21. Burkert, Walter. Ancient Mystery Cults. Harvard University Press (1987) pp. 20-25. ISBN 978-0674033870 Bremmer...

"Narcosatanist", was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug trafficker, and cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros...

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the person, deity, spirit, or daemon that it embodies...

about the use of language in cults. It was published on June 15, 2021 by Harper Wave. Montell argues in Cultish that cults and cultists can be identified...

investigative journalist, YouTuber, and documentary filmmaker specializing in cults, Internet scams, and social manipulation. Tamayo graduated in film direction...

noted by Lewis Richard Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality: the Gifford Lectures, "The Cults of Epic Heroes: Peleus" 1921:310f. Farnell...

Saber, the Ming Cult is also known as the "Cult of Mani" (摩尼教) or "Demonic Cult" (魔教) in the wulin (martial artists' community). The cult originated in...

According to Steven Hassan, an author and counselor specializing in cults, many destructive cults use small "fringe groups" to deceptively recruit members, of...

should instead read old newspaper headlines. Crean, Ellen (July 21, 1978). "Cults' brainwashing focus of Ehrlich book". The Daily Argus. No. 114. p. 8. Retrieved...

those of cults which were growing in popularity at that time, such as Isis or Serapis and was also smaller than the official imperial cult of Hadrian...

This is a list of cult films organized alphabetically by name. See List of cult films for main list. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W...

cults, sects, and new religious movements (NRMs). The Dialog Center is firmly against religious beliefs of cults but promotes dialogue between cult members...

Perugia, Italy: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. Schachter, Albert. 1986. Cults of Boiotia. Vol. 2, Heracles to Poseidon. London: Institute of Classical...

book's discussion of cults "transcends" then-current Congressional hearings on the Waco siege. Pitts, Bill (1998). "Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for...

Guinea cargo cult site. 1962.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: location (link) Witkowski, Tomasz (2016). Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and...

dangerous cults can be classified into two general categories—defensive violence and offensive violence. Defensive violence is utilized by cults to defend...

Scientology". In Zablocki, Benjamin; Robbins, Thomas (eds.). Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field. University of Toronto...

Cults (Vision House, Santa Ana, 1983). ISBN 0-88449-103-X The Christian and the Cults (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1956). Christian Science. Modern Cult...

Screen Rant lauded the miniseries' artwork, dark tone, and depiction of cults, writing, "this is possibly one of the greatest Batman stories of all time...

had canonized Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg. Before that time, the popular "cults", or venerations, of saints had been local and spontaneous and were confirmed...

ISBN 978-3110278880. Burkert 1985, p. 208. Burkert, Walter (1987). Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 75–76. ISBN 978-0674033870. Hornblower...

(1255), and Simon of Trent (1475) – became objects of local cults and veneration; the cult of Hugh of Lincoln gained the support of Henry III and his son...

The Cult of the Cenote was a legendary tradition by the Mayan particularly under the rulership of the Mayapan in the Yucatán Peninsula. The tradition includes...

allegedly employed by these groups. The Cult Awareness Network presented itself as a source of information about "cults"; by 1991 it was monitoring over 200...

spiritual tradition. Instead, it was now one of a myriad of "destructive cults" that won converts and took over their lives by "mind control" and "brainwashing"...

marriage is. A number of New Religious Movements have been branded sex cults by the media. In many cases, charges of sex trafficking have led to convictions...

female and carried their relationship to the sun atop their heads, and their cults remained active throughout the history of the culture. Later another sun...

protection, purification, ancestral continuity, agricultural fertility, and the cults of the Sun (Dielli) and the hearth (vatër). In other traditions, as the...

He fathered many of the heroes and was featured in many of their local cults. Though the Homeric "cloud collector" was the god of the sky and thunder...

the units which was rejected by the local NHS board after pharmacies in Cults and Kingswells said it would lose them business - this is awaiting appeal...

Ritual." Greek Mysteries: the Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults. Ed. Michael B. Cosmopoulos. New York: Routledge, 2004. 218–40, ISBN 978-0-415-24872-3...

ecstatic form of worship characteristic of some mystery cults. The orgion is in particular a cult ceremony of Dionysos (or Zagreus), celebrated widely in...

culture of Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, where religions or 'possession cults' formed around her. In the 20th century, the name "Nyabinghi" was adopted...

Latin word culter, meaning "knife". Culter is closely related to Chanodichthys and some species have been moved between these genera. Culter has the following...

Cult of Luna is a Swedish post-metal band from Umeå founded in 1998. Their style of music is similar to contemporary bands Neurosis and Isis. Cult of Luna...

38–44. – A critical point of view is taken by J. T. Hooker (1988). "The cults of Achilleus". Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 131 (3): 1–7. One or more...

described as a cult by ex-members, with sociologist Janja Lalich describing it as "fit[ing] into a constellation of self-help and wellness cults that sell...

Cult Fiction is the third studio album by Virginia-based metalcore band Spitfire. It is the follow-up to the band's 2006 album Self-Help. The title of...

cults and coercive control. In a 2022 feature, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) described Steel as having "spent years interviewing cult...

minority cults to attain official recognition, since it was passed by the dictatorial government of the time basically to search those cults for politically...

as the Great Leader (Suryong), he established a far-reaching personality cult which dominates domestic politics in North Korea. At the 6th WPK Congress...

classroom. The temple-building tradition of Mesopotamia derived from the cults of gods and deities in the Mesopotamian religion. It spanned several civilizations;...

It's a Love Cult is the tenth full-length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho. The album was preceded by the EP release of "Serpentine", for...

and Cory Stier (Cults, Weatherbox) from San Diego that formed in 2010. They have toured the country with Rocket from the Crypt, Cults, Metz, Hot Snakes...

The police contacted Manfred Wohlfahrt, a church officer and expert on cults, who raised doubts about the existence of the group Fritzl described. He...

nomination. He has appeared in various motion pictures, most notably the 1986 cult classic Troll and as Nancy Allen's boyfriend in 1989's Limit Up. In 2012...

of Daleks known as the Cult of Skaro were able to escape the Time War by travelling to the void between dimensions. The Cult escaped as the Cybermen...

Culter alburnus, the topmouth culter, is an East Asian species of freshwater ray-finned fish genus Culter, this belongs to the family Xenocyprididae....

that cults were responsible for cattle mutilation was developed in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s, a time of growing national concern over cults (such...

Moribund Records, also known as Moribund Cult or just Moribund, is an extreme metal record label based out of Port Orchard, Washington. It was founded...

Cult wines are wines for which dedicated groups of committed enthusiasts will pay large sums of money.[citation needed] Cult wines are often seen as trophy...

Angeles Times, December 4, 1929. "California Cults", Time, March 31, 1930, p. 3. "Priestess of Mystic Cult Guilty in $40,000 Swindle: Jury Out Three Days...

Blue Öyster Cult (/ˈɔɪstər/ OY-ster; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in the hamlet of Stony...

drama miniseries Flesh and Bone (2015). He is also known for having played cult leader Charles Manson twice, first on the second season of the Netflix psychological...

the god's well-attested associations with healing, protection, and water cults documented in epigraphic and archaeological sources. Belenus appears to...

Cult With No Name (often abbreviated to CWNN) is a German/English musical duo from London, comprising Erik Stein and Jon Boux. Influenced largely by electronic...

"trappings of divinity". Compared to the full-blown cults to major deities of state, genius cults were quite modest in scope. Augustus, once deceased...

Update on Cults Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, by Michael D. Langone, Psychiatric Times, July 1996 Vol. XIII Issue 7 Destructive Cults: A View...

Culter Fell is a hill in the Culter Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is the county top of the historic county of Lanarkshire...

Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France to investigate cults. In December 1995, the Commission delivered a report on cults which caused much controversy...

personal accounts of near-death experiences as well as media related to cults and cult leaders. Dory's spiritual leader persona was also inspired by public...

were doing missionary work. In 1973 the family had joined the religious cult known as the Children of God and settled in Caracas, Venezuela, where the...

during which he made significant efforts to further intensify the personality cult of his father and attach himself to it. In 1969, he produced a film adaptation...

"Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History". Booklist. 96 (14): 1295. "Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American...

Publishing. p. 344. ISBN 978-1629149981. Snow, Robert L. (2003). Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 237. ISBN 0275980529...

Cult of One is the fourth studio album by American thrash metal band Whiplash. It was released on Massacre Records in 1996 and follows a seven-year absence...

New Delhi, 1984. Mishra, K.C.: The Cult of Jagannath, Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta, 1971. Mishra, K.C.: The Cult of Jagannath, Calcutta, 1971. Miśra...

2026. Retrieved 30 April 2026. Fullerton, Huw (28 April 2026). "Real life cults that inspired Netflix's number one drama Unchosen". LADbible. Retrieved...

known for its inclusion on the list of dangerous cults established by the Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France in the 1995 report, which led to a public...

concerned by cults. For its first few years, it focused largely on trying to convince various levels of governments to take up legal action against cult groups;...

pg. 160. Kyodo, Jiji (24 January 2015). "Surveillance of Aum successor cults extended three more years". Japan Times. "Court lets Aum splinter group...

Christian cult may refer to: Cult (religious practice) Christian new religious movement This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

Unholy Cult is the fifth album by death metal band Immolation. It was released on Listenable Records in 2002. It is the band's last album with drummer...

"Everything Is a Cult" is a single by American rock band Hinder from their upcoming seventh studio album "Back to Life". It was released on November 15...

nature. In most of her myths and cults, Demeter is the "Grain-Mother" or the "Earth-Mother". In the older chthonic cults the earth goddess was related to...

November 23, 2021. Tabor, James D.; Gallagher, Eugene V. (1997), Why Waco?: Cults & the Battle for Religious Freedom in America, Berkeley, California: University...

In Sicyon, Peitho had a cult and a temple, which was connected to the cults of Artemis and Apollo. According to a local cult practice recorded by Pausanias...

Orpheus. Many springs and memorials dedicated to Orpheus and Orphic cults. Cults of the Muses were also celebrated, under the epithet Pimpleids (Πιμπληίδες)...

attack therapy. It was said to be one of the "most dangerous and violent cults America had ever seen". Synanon disbanded in 1991 after several members...

the Extremist Cults (Zondervan Publishing House, 1977) A Guide to Cults & New Religions (editor) (InterVarsity Press, 1983) Why Cults Succeed Where The...

original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023. "Satanic and neo-Nazi cults 764 and CVLT finding victims to target on Roblox". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)...

Ferreira on Her New York Homecoming and Forming a Family with the Cast of Cult of Love". Vogue. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Levine...

The Application of Human Trafficking Laws to Groups Popularly Known as Cults, and Proposed Changes to Laws Regarding Federal Immigration, State Child...

suggested that the cult was brought from Cyprus to Sparta. She was also known by this name on the Areopagus and at Corinth. There were cults dedicated to the...

long-term story arc was criticized near the conclusion. Initially considered a cult series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust...

A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East is a 1970 monograph by philologist John Marco Allegro...

Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult is a 2024 American documentary series directed by Derek Doneen about cult allegations against the talent management...

the first regions in the Tamil country to witness the rise of the Agamic cults. Sanskrit texts of the centuries which immediately precede the Christian...

‹ The template Infobox play is being considered for merging. › Cult Of Love is a dramatic stage play with music, written by American playwright Leslye...

Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, leader of the Malindi cult. As of June 2024, the death toll has risen to 448. Cult Religious fanaticism Puputan Folie à deux Magness...

her main cult centers were Uruk, Zabalam, Agade, and Ilip. Her cult was also introduced from Uruk to Kish. During later times, while her cult in Uruk continued...

amended his confession to claim he had been a member of a violent Satanic cult that orchestrated the incidents as ritual murder. A new investigation of...

"Cult of Personality" is a song by American rock band Living Colour, featured as the opening track and second single from their debut studio album Vivid...

is through the use of cults. Chamba Daka refer to cults as jup. Each jup is connected with misfortune or disease. These cults can control these misfortunes...

never certain which one—with a rich mythological tradition and an oracular cult at Lebadea (Ancient Greek: Λεβάδεια) in Boeotia, Greece. The name is derived...

hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-08-23. Reid, Poppy (2020). "Australian Cults: The Grim, The Bad And The Ugly - Pt. Two, Divine Truth". au.rollingstone...

9.35.5 Hyginus, Fabulae Preface. Larson, Jennifer (2007). Ancient Greek Cults. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 162–163. ISBN 978-0415491020. Pindar, Olympian...

Coulter or Culter (both spellings in use, pronounced "Cooter" with no "l") is a small village and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies...

ISBN 978-0-8108-5588-5. Morrison, Barry (July 1981). "Cults: A different view". Third Way Magazine: 17. Clark, John G. (1979). "Cults". Journal of the American Medical Association...

magazine Starburst from Marvel UK, its list of titles expanded to include: Cult Times Film Review Movie Idols Shivers Space Junkk TV Zone Ultimate DVD The...

of cults and published a number of articles on mind control ("psychological coercion") and similar areas. She developed theories about how cults recruit...

non-fiction book The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers was published by Pan Macmillan. In 2026, Gold debated with...

Roman Empire were dedicated to a particular genius loci. The Roman imperial cults of the Emperor and the imperial house developed in part in connection with...

benevolent gods or spirits in the cosmos, only daemons and evil gods, and the cults dedicated to them are proliferating. In the long run, the Imperium of Man...

historical forms of fascism. The fourteen properties are as follows: "The cult of tradition," characterized by cultural syncretism, even at the risk of...

The Gorgon Cult is the third studio album by the Italian symphonic black metal band Stormlord. Melodic riffs, high speed double bass intensive drumming...

which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes, her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous...

of "Cargo" Cults in Melanesia is a noted sociology/social anthropology book by Peter Worsley on the development and features of cargo cults in Melanesia...

Does Uganda Have So Many Cults?". ABC News. Retrieved 20 March 2005. Atuhaire, Patience (17 March 2020). "Uganda's Kanungu cult massacre that killed 700...

Prefecture, and Tsushima Shrine in Aichi Prefecture There are many other cults of Susanoo that are not derived from the Gion faith, but rather from indigenous...

"very cult-like". Opus Dei was investigated as a cult by the Belgian government after an investigation, and some aspects were found to be cult-like. The...

been listed as a cult by the Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France 1995 list of cults; displeased by their designation, they contacted Abgrall to...

The Cult Is Alive is the 11th studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone. It was released 27 February 2006 by Peaceville Records. This album...

celebrations of Victory Day in Russia. This has been also dubbed the Victory Cult. The term has been further extended to refer to the weaponization of the...

(honorable-child-kami)) is a term used within the context of parent-child deity cults to refer to an offspring kami. A mikogami is also referred to as a byōeishin...

hard rock band the Cult. Despite the similarities in the names, "Southern Death Cult" were distinct from "Death Cult" and "the Cult". The musical history...

Russian anti-cult activist. From 1999 to 2012 he was professor and head of the department of the study of new religious movements (cults) at Saint Tikhon's...

Seventeen long cult write-ups for RuneQuest. 4044 Cults of RuneQuest: The Earth Goddesses - Stafford, Greg; Richard, Jeff (2023). Cults of RuneQuest Volume...

released a collaborative album Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, with The Focus Group, the music project of graphic designer...

Nameless Cults, but both Lovecraft and Derleth gave it the German title which can translate to either Unspeakable Cults or Unpronounceable Cults (both meaning...

Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed) is a book by Carl Honoré containing his analysis of the "Cult of Speed", which he claims is becoming...

later published under the title The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, is a book about Ariosophy and Nazi...

standards may have led to the development of cargo cults. Many have died out, but the John Frum cult remains strong on Tanna today, especially at Sulphur...

cult films organized alphabetically by name. See List of cult films for main list. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See Cult film...

Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-61592-738-8. Tucker, Ruth A. (1989). Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative...

Mystery Cults, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674033870 Price, Simon R. F. (1984), Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia...

consecutively in 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections in a landslide vote count and has a cult following. "Profile of Natham R. Viswanathan". TN Assembly. Retrieved 11...

authorities were unconcerned with personal beliefs or privately funded cults unless they offended natural or divine laws or undermined the mos maiorum...

disused suspension footbridge which crosses the River Dee from Ardoe to Cults near Aberdeen in Scotland. The foundation stone was placed on 27 August...

topic relating to cults, the far-right, pseudoscience, terrorism, and religious fundamentalism. He has been referred to as a cult expert by the media...

religious cults, connected the 1920s Blackburn Cult (also known as, "The Cult of the Great Eleven,") with Hecate worship rituals. He noted that the cult regularly...

across Africa in her own writing. Among extant varieties of Sudanese zār cults that receive little attention are zār Sawāknī or zār Sawākiniyya (the zār...

Claude Calame and other scholars try to analyze the affinity between the cults of Helen and Artemis Orthia, pointing out the resemblance of the terracotta...

it as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on its tenth anniversary, The New York Times dubbed it the "defining cult movie of...

Silas Bunch in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. He is also known for starring in the cult classic science fiction comedy horror film Killer Klowns from Outer Space...

what she saw as cults available to the general public. Groenveld first began providing information about groups she referred to as cults to the public and...

The cult of the dead is the practice of venerating the dead. Cult of the dead may also refer to: Cult of the Dead, a 2008 album by Legion of the Damned...

his eyes and there it is." Cowan, Douglas E.; Bromley, David G. (2008). Cults and New Religions: A Brief History. Blackwell Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4051-6128-2...

deity. E-ri-nu (Erinys) is attested in the inscriptions. In some ancient cults Erinys is related to Poseidon and her name is an epithet of Demeter. It...

Illinois P. pp. 7–. ISBN 9780252077210. House, H. Wayne (2000). Charts of Cults, Sects, and Religious Movements. Zondervan. ISBN 0-310-38551-2. "Karen Zerby...

The Astrologer (also known as Suicide Cult) is a 1975 American horror film directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Bob Byrd, Mark Buntzman, and James...

actor, and filmmaker. He is known for his work with The Willowz, Guards, Cults, CRX, Follin, and his solo music and film projects. Richie James Follin...

the Focus Group titled Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (2009). Their final release as a group was Distant Call...

typical cults, such as not advancing a totalist ideology and lack of isolation from the outside world. Lifton identifies similarities with cults that disparage...

turns (in a rare leading role) as mortician Ernie Kaltenbrunner in the 1985 cult zombie horror-comedy The Return of the Living Dead, and the bumbling hitman...

name given to the cults representing them. Within the larger group of the grey flair, those who would not press the button, smaller cults formed with unique...

establishing its presence overseas, eventually gaining an unprecedented cult following and becoming one of the major factors in cable programming's rise...

Cult of VHS is a 2022 documentary film directed by Rob Preciado, that focuses on the age of VHS, eccentric collectors from around the globe, and the video...

p. 31-43. ISBN 9781441192011. James Lewis (2002). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books. Retrieved 13 May 2015. "Are...

and Eddie Valetik in Take Two. Some of his best known films include the cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader and The Best Man Holiday. Cibrian, an only...

Latex Cult is the fourth full-length album by Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene. A music video was made for "1999: Karmakeddon Warriors". The album...

information about cults, and is owned and operated by associates of the Church of Scientology, itself categorized in many countries as a cult. It was formed...

page). Barrett, David V. (2001). The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions. London: Cassell and Co. ISBN 978-0304355921....

American Psycho a Cult Classic". March 14, 2018. "The Controversy and Cult Following of American Psycho (2000)". July 16, 2022. "Cult Classic: American...

University of Oregon. Her research specialties include new religious movements (cults), qualitative research and sociology of gender. She has written four books...

date. The expansion adds cults to the game, which are independent factions with their own agendas. When enabled, these cults make use of new mechanics...

The Decadary Cult (French: Culte décadaire), also called the Cult of the décadi or Tenth-day Cult, was a semi-official religion of France during the Directory...

Retrieved 28 June 2025. Hadzisteliou-Price, Theodora (1978). Kourotrophos: Cults and Representations of the Greek Nursing Deities. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-05251-2...

seem to have been considerable similarities between the two cults; both being mystery cults with secret liturgies, both being popular in the military,...

Lar). Despite official bans on non-Christian cults from the late fourth century AD onwards, unofficial cults to Lares persisted until at least the early...

Witch Cults of the Radio Age (issued by Warp) and the 2010 7-inch EP Familiar Shapes and Noises (released on Ghost Box). Investigate Witch Cults of the...

2022). "Think Twice Before Posting That Osho Quote!". Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion. Retrieved 12 March 2026. Mehta 1993, p. 133 Chryssides 1999...

article on cults, where the article asserts that: "Certain types of political groups and terrorist organizations are still other examples of 'cults' that defy...

The cult of the offensive refers to a strategic military dilemma in which leaders believe that offensive advantages are so great that a defending force...

Cult of the Damned are an English rap group, with a shifting line up of a dozen-plus rappers and producers including Lee Scott, Salar and Black Josh. Formerly...

A. Johnston (eds), Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia (Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2009). Hugh Bowden, Mystery Cults of the Ancient World (Princeton...

downfall of a dynasty in Chinese culture. In the Song dynasty, fox spirit cults, including those dedicated to Daji, became outlawed, but their suppression...

ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) ISO 4 J. Mater. Cult. Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) ·...

or neo-witchcraft religions, presenting themselves as a varied set of cults that claim to descend from or be inspired by the pagan religions of classical...

boy (Cole) who discovers that his babysitter (Bee) is part of a satanic cult that wants to kill him. The film was released by Netflix on October 13, 2017...

BAFTA and a Golden Globe as best original score. Blade Runner later became a cult film, and has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest science fiction...

Dwarf during the third, fourth and fifth series. She was described as a "cult figure in a beloved sit-com" by The List in 2007. Hayridge was a part of...

The Cult of Sincerity is an independent film about hipster culture and postmodernist irony set in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. It was released in its entirety...

Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion is a 2024 documentary film directed by Eva Orner, focused on the business practices of clothing brand Brandy...

of the cult. It was based on ancient, ethnically Greek cults to Demeter, most notably the Thesmophoria to Demeter and Persephone, whose cults and myths...

the group was listed as a cult in the Cults and Money (French: Sectes et argent) report of the Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France. It was one of...

podcast Speaking of Cults on several platforms, with several hundred episodes on iHeartRadio since 2019. The podcast focuses on cults, coercive control...

his critiques of non-Christian religions, new religious movements, and cults, as well as heresy in Christianity. He is also an apologist on doctrinal...

Hurrian cults. According to Piotr Taracha, he might have been introduced in the region in the third millennium BCE already. In Hurrian religion, the cult of...

his death, ascended to join Ra in the sky. After the spread of the Osiris cult, however, the kings of Egypt were associated with Osiris in death – as Osiris...

Hinduism: The Eternal Law : an Introduction to the Literature, Cosmology and Cults of the Hindu Religion. Aquarian Press. ISBN 978-0-85030-348-3. Retrieved...

the UK has 500 to 1,000 cults, with these operating "in major cities", as well as "in quiet, rural areas". Haworth added that cult leaders often break people...

Evans, Clay (August 14, 2009). "At the heart of the matter: Author explores cults in her new self-published novel". Boulder Daily Camera. Retrieved September...

was a critical success and became a cult hit. Dourif reprised her role as Nica Pierce in the 2017 horror film Cult of Chucky and in the 2021 television...

usually reserved to plebeians. The new cult might have partly subsumed the Aventine temple's older, native cults to Ceres, Liber and Libera, but it also...

religions, specializing in the goddess cults and tantric rituals of medieval India, including the yogini cults and the history of yoga. Shaman Hatley...

ISBN 978-0-440-51632-3. Smith, Justin (2010). Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema. Cinema and Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-092-7...

confusedly flamina sive sacerdos – Western Imperial cults show remarkably liberal interpretations of cult and priesthood: some appear to be unique. However...

groups described as cults. In 2000, a representative 1000 person poll indicated that the majority of the polled people considered cults a significant threat...

The Cult Maniax are an English punk rock band that formed in Great Torrington, Devon, in 1978. They had three indie hits in the mid-1980s before splitting...

Tracy Letts as Reuben Nattiv aims to shed light on the coercive power of cults through this film, a project he describes as his "most personal film." He...

Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion (2018) People Magazine Investigates: Cults (2018–19) People Magazine Presents: Crimes of the '2000s (2023) People Magazine...

early history of Ganesha, including supposed tribal traditions and animal cults, and dismisses all of them in this way: In this search for a historical...

syncretized together with Iranian deities. Their rulers established ruler cults in the manner of Hellenistic kings and often used Hellenistic royal epithets...

new material since 2009's Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age. Strickland had previously worked with Broadcast's former...

assimilation, as Ceres' own cult appears to have been considered more tractable and obedient than Liber's. Their Aventine cults, reported in later Roman...

puppet. The cult possibly originated in Macedonia, where similar snake cults had existed for centuries. The Macedonians believed snakes had magical powers...

deprogramming tarnished FAIR's public image along with other anti-cult groups. "POWER aims to destroy cults". Gazette and Post (Acton). 1976-11-04. p. 6. Arweck,...

Nazism, Juche, Maoism, Religion of Humanity, the cults of personality, the Cult of Reason and Cult of the Supreme Being. The term secular religion is...

and commercial failure, but has since been reassessed as an influential cult classic and often appears on lists of the best horror films of all time....

mind control international: An anthropological inquiry (Parapsychology, cults, psychic, religion). Wayne State University. "Business Thought - Silva |...

in technology sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative...

synonyms of Krishna have been traced to 1st millennium BCE literature and cults. In some sub-traditions, like Krishnaism, Krishna is worshipped as the Supreme...

Lalich (1995). Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives. Jossey Bass. pp. 28, 237. Snow, Robert L. (2003). Deadly Cults: The Crimes of...

which has led some scholars to conclude that the Celtic deities and their cults were local and tribal rather than national. Supporters of this view cite...

knowledge of mystery cults were only supposed to be available to their initiates, so relatively little is known about the mystery cults of Ancient Greece...

Soundara Rajan attributes this proliferation to the "insistent demand of cult groups". However, the history of Hinduism is most closely tied to the parallel...

priests of the kingdom and leading patrons of domestic and international cults of the Hellenistic religion. The authority of Macedonian kings was theoretically...

the station, the Cults and Pitlessie Lime Works industrial spur line met the mainline at Cults siding, allowing access to the Cults and Pitlessie Lime...

Press. ISBN 978-1-947137-36-3. Jaganathan V.R., Arun (April 2013). "Yellamma Cult and Divine Prostitution: Its Historical and Cultural Background". International...

or animal sacrifice. An animal 'cult' is formed when a species is taken to represent a religious figure. Animal cults can be classified according to their...

The Cult of Ray is the third solo studio album by American musician Frank Black. Black opted to produce The Cult of Ray himself, after Eric Drew Feldman...

bassist. He has recorded or performed with artists such as Cold Chisel, the Cult, Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Miles Davis...

his son Ptolemy II. The Greek pantheon continued to dominant Ptolemaic cults, with Ptolemy I and his dynasty being associated with them. Farther south...

Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers is a 2020 nonfiction book by Doug J. Swanson. It describes the history of the Texas Rangers...

One of the lime kilns on Cults Hill Cults brick and lime works, formerly owned by the estate List of listed buildings in Cults, Fife Lindsay (1858), pp...

Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil (2015). He wrote and directed the cult film Gridlock'd (1997). Initially a stage actor, Curtis-Hall was a member...

held in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. It specializes in fantasy, horror and cult films. Established in 1968, the festival takes place every year, usually...

Edmondson stated in a 2017 New York Times exposé and a 2018 A&E special on cults details about DOS that she had been branded in an initiation ceremony at...

Mary as an example of Christian life and is credited with starting a Marian cult of virginity in the 4th century. Marian veneration was theologically sanctioned...

the more commonly referred-to Olympic gods and their associated rites and cults. Olympic gods are understood to reference that which exists above the earth...

Christian Research Institute. Hoekema, Anthony A. (1963). The Four Major Cults. William B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-85364-094-3. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date...

Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups is a reference book by Robert Anton Wilson with Miriam Joan Hill, first published by Harper...

Egyptian gods. His endowments and restorations of cults were recorded on the Restoration Stela. The cult of the god Amun at Thebes was restored to prominence...

Λιθοβόλια) was an apotropaic festival of ancient Greece associated with the cults of the harvest goddesses Damia [ca] and Auxesia -- sometimes used interchangeably...

ISBN 978-1-4738-3431-6. Franconi, T. (September 26, 2014). "Provincial cults of Mars in The Roman Empire". In Brody, L.; Hoffmann, G. (eds.). Roman in...

Pythagoreans appear to have survived as part of, or deeply influenced, the Bacchic cults and Orphism. Pythagoras was already well known in ancient times for his...

The Perfect Cult is the fourth studio album by the Swedish metal band Deathstars. It was released on 13 June 2014 via Nuclear Blast. All lyrics are written...

him, such as the Roman calendar, Vestal Virgins, the cult of Mars, the cult of Jupiter, the cult of Romulus, and the office of pontifex maximus. According...

goddess who was related to the ecstatic Minoan tree-cult. She was worshipped in orgiastic cults with lascivious and sometimes obscene dances, which have...

On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left is a 2000 non-fiction book about political cults, written by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth. On the Edge...

Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema. Cinema and Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-092-7. French, Karl; French, Philip (2000). Cult Movies...

Cult Following is the second studio album by American-born, Montreal-based indie rock artist Little Scream (Laurel Sprengelmeyer). It was released on Merge...

Republic of China (1976–1989) List of cults of personality Mao Zedong's cult of personality Xi Jinping's cult of personality Jeffries, Ian (2010-07-23)...

prurient. Bona Dea's cults in the city of Rome were led by the Vestal Virgins and the Sacerdos Bonae Deae, and her provincial cults by virgin or matron...

focus of large pan-Hellenic cults. It was, however, common for individual regions and villages to devote their own cults to minor gods. Many cities also...

Highlander film and television franchise, and the writer-director of the cult horror film The Prophecy. A native of Laguna Beach, California, Gregory Widen...

effective as common cults were preserved and revitalised over time. The ancestral ritual is the same in the common and imperial cults. It is composed of...

attesting that the cult of the Rider was significantly different from the cults of Apollo in Greece or Italy, and that the cults of the Rider and of...

religious cults," and not based on Scientology specifically, he thought that "The Profit is a rant against Hubbard and Scientology, no matter how many cults the...

the Parthenon apparently never hosted the official cult of Athena Polias, patron of Athens. The cult image of Athena Polias, which was bathed in the sea...

eventually return to the cult because they can't tolerate the supposed evils of the outside world...Children in most cults are required to study, attend...

Retrieved July 8, 2022. James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher, Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (Berkeley, Los Angeles,...

Divine Light Mission, 1972. Melton, J. Gordon. Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America. New York/London: Garland, 1986 (revised edition), ISBN 0-8240-9036-5...

All of the staff are Christian and "former members of cults", and their staff have included cult researchers and counselors, one being researcher Larry...

Massachusetts which provides information on groups which it considers to be cults. It provides training, counseling, and assistance to individuals who are...

Inside a Vile Child Exploitation Cult Run by Nazi-Linked Teens". Unicorn Riot. Balderas, Óscar (May 11, 2025). "Online cults for teens: now using incel and...

Greek Heroine Cults, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. ISBN 0299143708. Larson, Jennifer (2001), Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford...

in Austin, Texas, focused on fantasy, horror, science fiction, action and cult films. It was founded in 2005 by Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse. It is the...

Latins with a federal cult at the temple named Frutinal in Lavinium. Inscriptions found at Lavinium attest the presence of federal cults, without giving precise...

and importance in the development and spread of healing sanctuaries and cults across the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The name "Epidaurus" is of Greek...

sixty RuneQuest cults for the fantasy world of Glorantha. In addition to descriptions of thirteen pantheons and their related cults, the contents include...

lutte contre les sectes or "Interministerial Mission in the Fight Against Cults", a French government agency Multiple Independent Levels of Security, a...

traditions, but it seems that it had a genuine origin in older Dionysian cults. Once the god Dionysus needed to descend to the Underworld to fetch his...

stations were Holburn Street, Ruthrieston, Pitfodels, Cults, West Cults, Murtle, Milltimber and Culter. The line was chosen to trial the battery multiple...

Cult Leader is an American hardcore punk band that formed in 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded by three members of Gaza following the band's...

road rules the world has ever seen", whose internet videos have achieved a "cult following" with millions of views. Ghost Rider performs in a series of independently...

the Ramessides, following the importation of foreign cults there. Phoenicians introduced her cult in their colonies on the Iberian Peninsula. The Proto-Semitic...

box office, reportedly grossing over $35 million worldwide. It gained a cult following and spawned several sequels, the first of which, Faces of Death...

English p. 160. Kyodo, Jiji (24 January 2015). "Surveillance of Aum successor cults extended three more years". Japan Times. "Court lets Aum splinter group...

The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford is an economist and former director of the...

musician who was the bassist of the post-punk/hard rock band The Cult. He recorded on The Cult's first four albums, Dreamtime, Love, Electric and Sonic Temple...

During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a cultural and literary cult of melancholia emerged in England, linked to Neoplatonist and humanist Marsilio...

and publishing laws and ordinances. He served as Minister of Justice and Cults in the government of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte from 17 July 1869 to 2 January...

Although Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology and no established cults, she was depicted in mosaics decorating baths, pools, and triclinia in the...

often recruiting through yoga studios. The group has been described as a cult by some former members. The leader of Buddhafield is a man previously known...

career, during which she played the role of serial killer Angela Baker in the cult films Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage...

government's Parliamentary Commission on Cults labels it as a "secte", a French term that is equivalent to the English word "cult". In 1997, a parliamentary inquiry...

by its greatest warrior. The dominant Black Panther Cult outlawed the rival White Gorilla Cult's worship in Wakanda. M'Baku (Man-Ape) of the Jabari tribe...

Mumboism, also known as the Mumbo cult, was a new religious movement founded by Onyango Dunde in the early 20th century. Followers of the religion, known...

Cult of the Dead is a 2008 album by thrash metal/death metal band Legion of the Damned. In common with previous albums, the lyrics heavily reference the...

of prestigious cultural institutions such as festival games, religious cults, and oratory. The province of Asia originally consisted of the territories...

responsible mainly for the organization of the imperial cult, since the traditional local cults already had their own priesthoods. Though imposed by the...

particular deity, or as a totem animal impersonating the king or warrior. Horse cults and horse sacrifice were originally a feature of Eurasian nomad cultures...

the cult lost all official sanction and disappeared from public view. It was officially banned by Napoleon on 8 April 1802 with his Law on Cults of 18...

books published by DC Comics. An immensely powerful speedster who leads a cult dedicated to the Speed Force, he is an enemy of the Flash and he has battled...

far-right beliefs are prominent in Filipino culture. Dutertism Ferdinand Marcos' cult of personality Noynoying Mocha Uson Blog Pinoy pride Sara Duterte 2028 presidential...

Shows of All-TIME" in 2007, and TV Guide has noted MST3K as one of the top cult television shows. The show won a Peabody Award in 1993, was also nominated...

[ 17:81] Tribes, towns, clans, lineages and families also had their own cults. Christian Julien Robin suggests that this structure of the divine world...

has also been practiced among members of several Egyptian and Greco-Roman cults. Historically, Christians have engaged in various forms of mortification...

(2001). The Cult of Ra: Sun Worship in Ancient Egypt. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-05107-8. Ray, John D. (2001). "Cults: Animal Cults". In Redford...

and journalist, son of Barbara John Frum, figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu Linda Frum, Canadian journalist, daughter...

Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema. Cinema and Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-092-7. Everman, Welch D. (1995). Cult Science Fiction Films:...

Trinidad Orisha, also known as Orisha religion and Shango, is a syncretic religion in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean, originally from West Africa...

665; Smith, s.v. Paregoros; Pausanias, 1.43.6. Farnell, Lewis Richard, The Cults of the Greek States vol 2, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1896. Internet Archive...

saint God complex God in Hinduism Godman (Hindu ascetic) Hero cult Idolatry Imperial cult Incarnation List of avatar claimants List of Buddha claimants...

Bacteria Cult is the second studio album by musical duo Kaada/Patton. It was released on April 1, 2016 via Ipecac Recordings. Bacteria Cult was met with...

consensus. › In the 19th century, Pusiano became known for a small millennial cult founded by Angela Isacchi (1827-1895) and her sister Teresa (1833-1890)....

"Cult of Snap" is a song recorded by German Eurodance group Snap! featuring American rapper Turbo B and American singer Penny Ford. It was released in...

Germany. Harper & brothers. p. 8. Retrieved 21 October 2025. Media related to Ministres français des Cultes/Affaires ecclésiastiques at Wikimedia Commons...

Zedong a basket of Pakistani mangoes, which caused the rise of a "Mango Cult" in China. "Ministry of Foreign Affairs (List of Former Foreign Ministers)"...

Nesisti, who reunited the cults of Philotera and Arsinoe II under a single administrative title. Thus he served both cults at the same time. Heresankh's...

born October 22, 1948) is an American former member of the Manson Family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for...

Judge stated that 20th Century Fox believed that the film would develop a cult following through its DVD release, similar to Office Space. The film was...

Abducted, a 1996 album by Hypocrisy "Abducted", a song by Cults from their 2011 album Cults All pages with titles containing Abducted Abduction (disambiguation)...

judgment of God. Roden, claiming to have the support of the majority of the cult, forced Koresh and his group off the property at gunpoint. Disturbed by the...

Cult is a 2026 Indian Kannada-language action drama film written and directed by Anil Kumar, and produced by Loki Cinemas in association with KVN Productions...

dangers and heretical doctrines of religious cults, to use the Gospel of Jesus Christ to reach members of those cults and to warn Christians of unbiblical teachings...

is the fifteenth and final studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on April 12, 2024. The album contains material recorded between...

and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema. Cinema and Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-092-7. Everman, Welch D. (1995). Cult Horror Films:...

Caro Cult (born 27 June 1994) is a German actress. She gained popularity in 2020 by starring in the Netflix series Biohackers. Caro Cult grew up near...

The Cult of Snap! is a compilation album from German Eurodance group Snap!. Following Plaything's remixed version of their single "Do You See The Light"...

ISBN 978-1-399-95227-9. Smith, Justin (2010). Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema. Cinema and Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-092-7...

Atatürk's cult has been compared to the personality cults of the Soviet Union, and has also been referred to as "the most grotesque state-sponsored cult of personality...

in Cults in Aberdeenshire where the name can be found since very early times. There are many place names in Cromar and Upper Deeside named Cults/Culsh...

minister between 1995 and 1997. In 1985 he started All-Party Committee Against Cults and 20 October 2000 he became first chairman of The Family Survival Trust...

episodes have been published on YouTube and Newgrounds. The subject of a cult following, Salad Fingers has been described as a viral phenomenon and is...

Lady Gaga), heavy metal (Danzig, Metallica, Slayer), alternative rock (The Cult, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, the Strokes, Weezer), hard...

anthropological literature, these systems of practice may be referred to as astral cults. The most notable instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic...

an FBI agent who is head of the investigation on Joe Carroll and the new cults formed a year after his supposed death Mike Colter as Nick Donovan (seasons...

led a party of policemen on a raid into a swamp which surprised a bizarre cult holding a bacchanal ritual with human sacrifice. After killing five of the...

Milk Cult was an American San Francisco-based electronic band. Founded as a studio-only project in 1990, the band's nucleus comprises musicians Dale Flattum...

III: Cults: a people in denial. Book Craft. ISBN 9789782030559. Retrieved 2 August 2015. Emma Osonna, Oguala Ugwulebo (1 January 1999). Campus Cults: The...

with the reigning emperor.[citation needed] Like many pagan cults of its time, the cult of Serapis declined during the rule of Theodosius I as the emperor...

member, a secret squad of the London Metropolitan Police, assorted religious cults, and various supernatural and mostly dead criminal elements. The wondrous...

Rare Cult is a limited edition, six-CD box set (early copies with a seventh bonus disc) from British rock band the Cult, released in November 2000. The...

authors argue that some allegations of intergenerational, ritualized abuse cults are supported by evidence, contrary to most scholars of the subject who...

Cult MTL is an English language arts, culture and news website and monthly print publication, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first print edition...

Hafez al-Assad's cult of Arab socialist heroism in consultancy with Soviet state propagandists, mimicking the pervasive personality cults prevalent across...

made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was...

work in hard rock and heavy metal. He has been a member of British band the Cult since 2006. He is the brother of guitarist Mike Tempesta, with whom he has...

The Birmingham bathing cult was a cult based in Birmingham, England, that committed serious sexual offences against children for over 20 years. Its leader...

Sciences (1968) The Ecology of Human Intelligence (1970, as editor) The Cult of the Fact (1972) Life Against Death Webster, Richard (2005). Why Freud...

drug-induced memory loss, psychological manipulation, and the dangers of cults and godmen. Anukokunda Oka Roju was critically acclaimed for its unique...

regions in Western Assam. It is an ancient fertility cult and also incorporated into the mother goddess cult as Kamakhya as its centre. By tradition, during...

The Voice of the Cult is the fourth studio album by heavy metal band Chastain, released in 1988 through Leviathan Records. Andy Hinds at AllMusic gave...

greatly impacted Greek worship of Aphrodite. During the Roman era, the cults of Aphrodite in many Greek cities began to emphasize her relationship with...

Votive altars dedicated by the regiment's commanders reflect the official cults of the Roman army. Of 4 such found, 2 are dedicated to Jupiter, the highest...

profit. Other films have succeeded long after cinema release by becoming cult films or being re-evaluated over time. High-profile films fitting this description...

brigands who sanctified their profession with the cult of the goddess [Bhavani], or was it the cult of the Goddess [Bhavani] that turned them into brigands...

cult of Saint Death". The Telegraph. Sonora, Mexico. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2014. "2 women and boy shot dead at altar to folk saint cult "La...

gothic rock movement. The group is commonly associated with Death Cult (later the Cult), which two Ritual members later joined. Ritual was formed out of...

movements. He has written extensively about cults, new religious movements, apostasy, and the anti-cult movement. Bromley received his B.A. in sociology...

including aspects of African cults, Catholicism and Kardecist spiritism. Jarê is a term that covers a large number of beliefs, cults and rituals with diverse...

writer Nathan Rabin's My World of Flops, the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (alongside spinoffs Cinematic Titanic...

ex-cop who, upon an investigation into a missing girl, discovers a secret cult. Originally filmed in August 2017 as an international co-production between...

the series for its strong female protagonist, and it has acquired a strong cult following, attention in fandom, parody, and academia, and has influenced...

Peter Guber, then head of Polygram, approached him to make a movie about cults. Kotcheff was enthusiastic and worked on the film for two years. The film...

Indigenous peoples in Canada mainly practice hunter-gatherer religious cults. Traditional Alaskan shamanism involve mediation between people and spirits...

historical destructive cults like the Peoples Temple, the Manson Family, and the Branch Davidians. As the leader of a religious cult, Joseph Seed surrounds...

Polanski was not home as he was working on a film in Europe. Manson was a cult leader and would-be musician who had tried to get a contract with record...

bank robber it all ends, with tragic consequences. Big Bad Mama became a cult hit and was followed by a sequel, Big Bad Mama II, in 1987. In Texas in 1932...