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Cult Leaders Cult Members
1,154 wordsCults have become a phenomenon in our world today. Each year "hundreds of Canadians join some of the 3, 000 unorthodox religions of one type or another" (Fennel, Branswell, 189) all across North America. Like every organization, club or even in the common work place there is usually a person who is a figure of authority or other wise know as a "leader" and with every leader there are always rules and objectives that each and every member has to do and follow. The common psychological profile and...
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Beliefs And Practices Religious Beliefs
1,051 wordsExcept from psychologists of religion, conversion to cults has received little attention from psychologists. Can social psychologists describe and explain the process of religious conversion or is this a topic beyond a social psychological purview? On a more general level, can psychological and sociological descriptions of religious cults handle issues connected with a cult identity as this takes place through ones religious experience? This is an important question because we need to explain th...
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Century Fox Horror Films
2,232 wordsInto The? Time Warp? : The Rocky Horror Into The? Time Warp? : The Rocky Horror Picture Show As An Enduring Pop Cult Classic For years, with its phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has made? don? t dream it, be it? the motto for its ever-growing cult audience. The film continues to be regarded by critics and audiences as the only no-holds-barred, ultimate theatre experience, which has seemingly drawn a repeat audience of cult film followers year after year. More...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford&# 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles&# 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra&# 39; s It&# 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney&# 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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Amount Of Time Cult Members
1,320 wordsA cult is a system of religious worship. These groups can vary in size. One cult may have a leader with a few followers, yet another may have a complex chain of command. They may use secret signals that cannot be understood by outsiders. Most use signs that do not require speech, such as their own version of sign language. This is to keep outsiders from knowing what they are up to. It actually works quite well, and is hard to decode. Cults reject the term, and prefer to call themselves new relig...
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Heavens Gate Cult Leaders
1,592 wordsOn March 29 th, 1997, thirty nine men and women took their own lives in the belief that they would travel to a space ship hidden behind the Hale-Bop comet. The Heavens Gate cult planted these beliefs within their members, resulting in a mass death. It is cults such as these that weave a sense of panic through society. What defines a cult? A cult is a group that has an intense devotion to a person, object, or set of usually new ideas. Cultus is a Latin word translating into to cultivate or to pla...
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