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Cult centralization as a device of cult control?
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 1999Abstract Cult centralization as a device of cult control that it be rectified for the purpose of serving the king's interest. How is this statement, made by Onias in his letter to Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra in Josephus, Am 13.65–68, to be distinguished from Deut 12,8: “that you shall not do as we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own ...
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Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012 This article suggests a rational explanation for extreme voluntary sacrifice in situations in which the state of the world when the decision must be made is observable only by the agent. Such explanation is the cult of martyrs, heroes, and saints. This cult may get out of control and fuel fanaticism, or excessive sacrifice from the standpoint of the ...
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The Cult of Christ and the Cult of the Saints
New Testament Studies, 1998In ancient apologetic and polemic and in modern scholarship the cult of Christ and the cult of the saints in the early church have both been derived from Greek and Roman veneration of divinities, heroes, and rulers (see section I). Here it is argued that a case for a Jewish factor in the origins of the cult of saints can be made on lines slightly ...
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The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 1959
(1959). The Cult of Facilosis. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 465-470.
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(1959). The Cult of Facilosis. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 465-470.
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2005
Given this definition of cults, it seems logical that we should look to other groups to see whether under this description they might also be designated ‘cult’. Using this definition and some of the features of cult texts, I will now examine the recruiting materials of McKinsey and Corporation, international management consultants.
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Given this definition of cults, it seems logical that we should look to other groups to see whether under this description they might also be designated ‘cult’. Using this definition and some of the features of cult texts, I will now examine the recruiting materials of McKinsey and Corporation, international management consultants.
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American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1979
Abstract Beginning in the 4th century B.C., the cult of Asklipios flourished for a thousand years, spreading from Greece to Rome, Egypt, and Carthage. Marcus Aurelius. Galen. Socrates, and Sophocles were among those who took part in its rituals. The “temple sleep” and “dream healing” practiced by the Asklipians were probably forms of hypnosis.
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Abstract Beginning in the 4th century B.C., the cult of Asklipios flourished for a thousand years, spreading from Greece to Rome, Egypt, and Carthage. Marcus Aurelius. Galen. Socrates, and Sophocles were among those who took part in its rituals. The “temple sleep” and “dream healing” practiced by the Asklipians were probably forms of hypnosis.
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Cult of an Individual [The Personality Cult]
Soviet Studies in Philosophy, 1966Initially, the deification of representatives of religious and lay authority, endowing them with superhuman merits and power; sanctification of the authority of emperors, tsars, kings, and members of the clergy - high priests, popes, etc.; in its contemporary manifestations, the imposition upon the people of worship of the carriers of authority as ...
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