The first type of cult is the totalistic cult. These cults attempt to control all aspects of the lives of their followers. There type of cults exert great pressure for conformity and force members to sever ties with the past and with the outside world which is viewed evil or Satanic. Totalistic cults also force members to give up independent ways of thinking and activities; all life is directed along the lines of the cult. With this type of thinking there is usually mind altering techniques such as chanting and meditation. An example of this type of cult is the Hare Krishna.
The second type of cults would be the non-totalistic cults. They are at the other end of the scale. The leaders of these types of cults would be less influential over its followers. The people who are involved in these type of cults would still live fairly normal lives. There minds are not controlled. Someone would join these cults because they can meet the needs of the members without absorbing all of their time and energy. There are still forms of meditation that take place but they are not nearly intense as the totalistic cults. These are the extremes of cults; most cults will fal in between these two. One type of cult that falls between these two extremes but closer to the totalistic side of the spectrum would be political cults. They are composed of militant political activists who seek to change or overthrow the current government. An example of this could be the terrorist group Al Quai. They are extremists who do not care about the lives of people, all they want to do is try and bring down the superpower of the United States. Another type of cult that is closer to the non-totalistic end of the scale would be faddist cults. They are groups of people who share an exaggerated enthusiasm for an obsessive loyalty to a person, product, object, idea, or place, out of reasonable or realistic proportion. This type of cults in my eyes could be called fan clubs.
Cults There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. ... Cults can be involved in churches and even are earliest religions are called cults. ... Cults sometimes are illegal to. ... Many times' cults survive through a decade, and also cults allow you to come and go as you want. ... Cargo Cults Cargo cults are usually neutralist and are in it for money. ...
Cult literature lures potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Cults provide a controlled family environment that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society. ... No one plans to join a cult unless they see that cult as a possibility for a family, or a better society. ... Cult novels, pamphlets and websites draw in potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. ... Cults provide a separate society that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exter...
Cult literature lures potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Cults provide a controlled family environment that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society. ... No one plans to join a cult unless they see that cult as a possibility for a family, or a better society. ... Cult novels, pamphlets and websites draw in potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. ... Cults provide a separate society that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior...
What causes people to join cults? ... Generally most people think that a cult is strange or abnormal, the problem of identifying a cult is affected by the fact that even experts in cultic studies realize that, no scientific test accurately establishes whether or not a group is indeed a cult (Barker). ... Another example of cults would be the Branch Davidian Cult that existed in Waco, Texas. ... Among the cult members, only two causes had an effect. ... A second cause common in cults, is commitment. ...
Cults really started to fascinate people when Jimmy Jones cult began in November of 1978 when all attention was focused on the mass suicide in Jonestown. ... Mormonism began as a small cult then grew bigger until it eventually became a church. ... The most well known cult so far is the Heaven's Gate cult. ... Many times in mystery cults, cult leaders feel they died and were brought back to be god or Jesus. Cults have been known to brainwash people. ...
Cult activity has been on the rise over the past few decades. ... From this fear, society has learned much about cults, how they get members and what to look out for as far as cult recruiters go. ... A cult is "a therapeutic or unconventional religious movement (McBride, 1985,22)," and the more Cults that fall beneath the public eye, the more serious the fear of cults become. ... The cults usually make a separation from the members and their previous social support and surround them with other members of the cult. ... Although the cult was dangerous there was a cult that shocked the wor...
What is a Killer Cult? ... We call these groups 'killer cults.' A cult is a system of religious rites and observances. ... Unfortunately, there also exist hostile cults; they are referred to as Killer Cults. ... Over nine hundred people died in connection to this cult. ...
Most of the practices of the mystery cults were done secretly. ... Of the most well known of these are the cult of Demeter and the cult of Cybele. ... The cult of Dionysus was slightly different. ... A vastly different sort of cult was that of Mythra. ... Regardless of which cult a person belonged to, one thing was the same: the incredibly well kept secrecy of the particular details of that cult. ...
Cult Killings In the last twenty years there has been about twenty million people have in one way or another been involved in a cult. ... In modern days the word cult is taken much more lightly. ... Cults become more appealing to people that want to belong to something almost like a family. Cults do have something to do with the calendar year, because at the end of every century cult form to pronounce the end of the world. ... Thirty-nine members twenty women eighteen men that were a range of ages and the cult leader were all found dead. ...
