On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways a...
Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution of regar...
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
One man's cult is another man's religion.
One person's religion is another person's cult.
I'm definitely a cult artist.
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very proc...
Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God on earth. When the se...
I discourage a cult of personality.
I had a hard-core cult following of at least 12.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.
Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.
As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'
I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?
All culture must have arisen from cult.
