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Religious Cults
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Religious Cults
Examines common features, social causes, charismatic leaders and submissive followers, examples, views on the Apocalypse, techniques of recruitment and brainwashing.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages) |
13 sources |
1999
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"Since the 1960s cults of one kind or another have regularly made headlines with outrageous, bizarre, and even lethal behavior and their number has increased enormously in the past four decades. Writers of all kinds--scholars, journalists, psychologists, and social critics--have frequently pointed out that cults have existed throughout recorded history and that the distinction between an established religion and a cult is often no more than a question of size, socialization, wealth, power, or longevity. But others hold that the sheer number of contemporary cults and the increasing levels of abuse, crime and suicide among many of them are phenomena that distinguish postindustrial society's cult behaviors from those of other eras. While it is difficult to cite any one or two principal causes of the expansion of the cult phenomenon in the present day, there are ..."More papers on Religious Cults:
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"Religious Cults" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Religious-Cults/14838>
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