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Encyclopedia > Cult (disambiguation)

There are many meanings for the word cult:

There is also the British rock band The Cult, and the psychedelic band Blue Öyster Cult.


"The Cult" is also the name of the official web site of the novelist Chuck Palahniuk.


A suburb of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland is called Cults.


Cult is a commune of the Haute-Saône département, in France


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Cult - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (10174 words)
Since this definition of "cult" is defined in part in terms of tension with the surrounding society, the same group may both be a cult and not a cult at different places and times.
Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and/or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership's demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders.
A website affiliated with Adi Da Samraj [10] sees the activities of cult opponents as the exercise of prejudice and discrimination against them, and regards the use of the words "cult" and "cult leader" as similar to the manner in which "nigger" and "commie" were used in the past to denigrate fls and Communists.
Cult (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (217 words)
Cult (religious practice), the totality of external religious practice and observance, the neglect of which is the definition of impiety
Cult, a social group sometimes accused of mentally controlling its members.
CULT, another name for Committee on Culture and Education, a committee of the European Parliament
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