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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
Covers the basic outline for recruiting and financing of several cult organizations: the Children of God) active in California), the New Testament Missionary Fellowship (focus on Yale University students), the Church of Armageddon in Seattle, Washington, the Hara Krishnas, and the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
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Covers the basic outline for recruiting and financing of several cult organizations: the Children of God) active in California), the New Testament Missionary Fellowship (focus on Yale University students), the Church of Armageddon in Seattle, Washington, the Hara Krishnas, and the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
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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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2017
Extract: Cults are a universal phenomenon, and can likely be found in some form in every country around the world. Haworth (1997) suggests that there are 500 cult groups operating in the UK and other parts of Europe, meaning that on a per capita basis, the problem is the same as in the USA. Langone (undated) suggests that cult educational organizations
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Extract: Cults are a universal phenomenon, and can likely be found in some form in every country around the world. Haworth (1997) suggests that there are 500 cult groups operating in the UK and other parts of Europe, meaning that on a per capita basis, the problem is the same as in the USA. Langone (undated) suggests that cult educational organizations
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2005
In February 1993, 76 federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. After a 51-day siege, more than 80 members died. In March 1995, a poison gas attack that occurred in a Tokyo subway and killed 12 people was attributed to the controversial Japanese religious group AUM Shinrikyo.
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In February 1993, 76 federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. After a 51-day siege, more than 80 members died. In March 1995, a poison gas attack that occurred in a Tokyo subway and killed 12 people was attributed to the controversial Japanese religious group AUM Shinrikyo.
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1999
Abstract From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven’s Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as extensive research, Marc Galanter offers ...
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Abstract From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven’s Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as extensive research, Marc Galanter offers ...
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2017
This chapter focuses upon the literary representations of the importance of rituals, religious offices, and cult traditions in the time of the Second Sophistic. The “real-life” sophists’ involvement in cult organization, their euergetism in favor of sanctuaries and festivals, and their holding of priesthoods of the imperial cult and of other gods and ...
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This chapter focuses upon the literary representations of the importance of rituals, religious offices, and cult traditions in the time of the Second Sophistic. The “real-life” sophists’ involvement in cult organization, their euergetism in favor of sanctuaries and festivals, and their holding of priesthoods of the imperial cult and of other gods and ...
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