Young adults are critically examining traditional values in their religions. ... o Cults discourage critical analysis by dictating the suppression of negative thoughts, therefore fostering a dependency on the cult's authority that arrests the maturation process. ...

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One of the most influential theories applied to religion is built upon Emile Durkheim's analysis of the sacred in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1965). ... Puja is critical to Hinduism. ...

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