The religious landscape in the world has been the scene of shifts and changes almost ever since humans have been on earth. Change has been marked since the late fifties, marked by a rise in new religions. This is the "cult phenomenon" commented on by many people. Modern media has made us more aware of these than we were a few generations ago. Some claims have been made that more than six hundred new religions have bee created or imported here in the last few decades. A flourishing of new faiths highlight a new kind of religious awareness, or consciousness especially among young people. It has been estimated that there may be as many 5oo cults in the United States, with a total membership of approximately three million people. .
There are four aspects of cults that one will take into account throughout the paper. The first aspect of cults that one will consider is the type of cults that are in society; the second is what type of people join cults and why they join; the third is the kind of rituals that are performed within cults; the last aspect of cults is how people become deprogrammed after being part of a cult. Cults are a secret organization, which membership is very exclusive and once one is a member it is very difficult to get the ideologies of the cult out of ones head. The leaders of cults are very manipulative and charismatic, so they can recruit people to join there new religion.
The first aspect of cults that one will take into consideration are that there are different types of cults. To know the different types of cults one must know what a cult is. A cult is a group of person's who share in a special interest differing from the established majority or current religious, social, or cultural values, who meet regularly to continue and extent their purpose or mission independent of previous relationships with family, friends, religion, school , or career, with beliefs, practices and rituals which reinforce cults values and norms.
Cults There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. ... Cults can be involved in churches and even are earliest religions are called cults. ... Cults sometimes are illegal to. ... Many times' cults survive through a decade, and also cults allow you to come and go as you want. ... Cargo Cults Cargo cults are usually neutralist and are in it for money. ...
Cult literature lures potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Cults provide a controlled family environment that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society. ... No one plans to join a cult unless they see that cult as a possibility for a family, or a better society. ... Cult novels, pamphlets and websites draw in potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. ... Cults provide a separate society that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exter...
Cult literature lures potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Cults provide a controlled family environment that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society. ... No one plans to join a cult unless they see that cult as a possibility for a family, or a better society. ... Cult novels, pamphlets and websites draw in potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. ... Cults provide a separate society that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior...
What causes people to join cults? ... Generally most people think that a cult is strange or abnormal, the problem of identifying a cult is affected by the fact that even experts in cultic studies realize that, no scientific test accurately establishes whether or not a group is indeed a cult (Barker). ... Another example of cults would be the Branch Davidian Cult that existed in Waco, Texas. ... Among the cult members, only two causes had an effect. ... A second cause common in cults, is commitment. ...
Cults really started to fascinate people when Jimmy Jones cult began in November of 1978 when all attention was focused on the mass suicide in Jonestown. ... Mormonism began as a small cult then grew bigger until it eventually became a church. ... The most well known cult so far is the Heaven's Gate cult. ... Many times in mystery cults, cult leaders feel they died and were brought back to be god or Jesus. Cults have been known to brainwash people. ...
Cult activity has been on the rise over the past few decades. ... From this fear, society has learned much about cults, how they get members and what to look out for as far as cult recruiters go. ... A cult is "a therapeutic or unconventional religious movement (McBride, 1985,22)," and the more Cults that fall beneath the public eye, the more serious the fear of cults become. ... The cults usually make a separation from the members and their previous social support and surround them with other members of the cult. ... Although the cult was dangerous there was a cult that shocked the wor...
What is a Killer Cult? ... We call these groups 'killer cults.' A cult is a system of religious rites and observances. ... Unfortunately, there also exist hostile cults; they are referred to as Killer Cults. ... Over nine hundred people died in connection to this cult. ...
Most of the practices of the mystery cults were done secretly. ... Of the most well known of these are the cult of Demeter and the cult of Cybele. ... The cult of Dionysus was slightly different. ... A vastly different sort of cult was that of Mythra. ... Regardless of which cult a person belonged to, one thing was the same: the incredibly well kept secrecy of the particular details of that cult. ...
Cult Killings In the last twenty years there has been about twenty million people have in one way or another been involved in a cult. ... In modern days the word cult is taken much more lightly. ... Cults become more appealing to people that want to belong to something almost like a family. Cults do have something to do with the calendar year, because at the end of every century cult form to pronounce the end of the world. ... Thirty-nine members twenty women eighteen men that were a range of ages and the cult leader were all found dead. ...
