Examples of cult of personality in the following topics:
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- In popular speech, we think of charisma as a positive personality trait, but for Max Weber, charisma referred simply to a relationship between a leader and his or her subjects.
- Weber defined charismatic authority as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him" .
- Charismatic authority is power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities, or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
- In order to help to maintain their charismatic authority, such regimes will often establish a vast cult of personality, which is signaled when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
- Weber defined charismatic authority as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him."
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- The Christian counter-cult movement is a social movement of Christian ministries and individual Christian counter-cult activists who oppose religious sects thought to either partially or entirely fail to abide by the teachings of the Bible.
- In the 1930s, cults became the object of sociological study in the context of the study of religious behavior.
- Cults, for Becker, were small religious groups lacking in organization and emphasizing the private nature of personal beliefs.
- Mind control refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated. "
- Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple, a cult that committed a mass murder-suicide in 1978.
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- Cults are also more likely to be led by charismatic leaders than are other religious groups and the charismatic leaders tend to be the individuals who bring forth the new or lost component that is the focal element of the cult.
- Cults, like sects, often integrate elements of existing religious theologies, but cults tend to create more esoteric theologies from many sources.
- As cults grow, they bureaucratize and develop many of the characteristics of denominations.
- Some denominations in the U.S. that began as cults include: Christian Science, and The Nation of Islam.
- Most religious people would do well to remember the social scientific meaning of the word cult and, in most cases, realize that three of the major world religions originated as cults, including: Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism.
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- The cult of domesticity or cult of true womanhood was a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain.
- Magazines which promoted the values of the cult of domesticity faired better financially than competing magazines which offered a more progressive view in terms of women's roles.
- With a circulation of 150,000 by 1860, Godey's reflected and supported the ideals of the cult of true womanhood.
- The cult of domesticity affected married women's labor market participation in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
- During the Progressive Era, the new woman emerged as a response to the cult of true womanhood.
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- During the early nineteenth century, women were mainly relegated to the private sphere through the "cult of domesticity."
- The "cult of domesticity" was an ideal of womanhood that was prominent during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- Women of this era were generally pushed to the sidelines as dependents of men, without the power to bring suit, make contracts, own property, or vote.
- During the era of the "cult of domesticity," women tended to be seen merely as a way of enhancing the social status of their husbands.
- Portrait of Angelina Emily
Grimké, one of the Grimké sisters who called for women to engage in antislavery reform.
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- He was often the brother or direct blood relation to the Sapa Inca,
or emperor, and was the second most powerful person in the empire.
- Power consolidated around the
cult of the Sun and scholars suggest that the emperor Pachacuti
expanded this Sun Cult to garner greater power in the 15th
century.
- Each province also had a temple with male and
female priests worshipping the Inti cult.
- The temple housed
the bodies of deceased emperors and also contained a vast array of
physical representations of Inti, many of which were removed or destroyed when the Spanish arrived.
- This image of Inti appears at the center of Argentina's modern-day flag.
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- Though the theory turns out not to be true, the logic follows that of Durkheim's explanation of organic solidarity.
- Along with Marx and Weber, French sociologist Emile Durkheim is considered one of the founders of sociology.
- Yet all around him, Durkheim observed evidence of rapid social change and the withering away of these groups.
- Simpler societies, he argued, are based on mechanical solidarity, in which self-sufficient people are connected to others by close personal ties and traditions (e.g., family and religion).
- To stress the importance of this concept, Durkheim talked of the "cult of the individual. " However, he made clear that the cult of the individual is itself a social fact, socially produced; reverence for the individual is not an inherent human trait, but a social fact that arises in certain societies at certain times .
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- Located at the mouth of the Tiber on the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ostia was the main port city of Rome.
- Today, due to the silting of the river, the remains of Ostia lay about 3 km from the sea.
- Excavations at Ostia reveal a variety of temples and meeting sites for cults and rituals.
- The god Mithras was also popular among the Ostians and worshiped solely by men in the form of a mystery cult.
- The wealthier families of Ostia were able to build large, elaborate burial houses for their personal use,ƒ while the everyday shopkeepers and workers relied on their guilds to create communal funerary homes and see to the proper burial of each other's remains.
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- In many ways these deities are similar to humans (anthropomorphic) in their personality traits, but with additional individual powers, abilities, knowledge, or perceptions.
- The gods of polytheism are in many cases the highest order of a continuum of supernatural beings or spirits, which may include ancestors, demons, wights, and others.
- Cultural exchange could lead to "the same" deity being renowned in two places under different names, as with the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans, and also to the introduction of elements of a "foreign" religion into a local cult, as with Egyptian Osiris worship brought to ancient Greece.
- Similarly, polytheist groups often depicted cult images of their pantheons in sculpture or paint, as in relief carvings of the Twelve Greek Olympians .
- Ceramic, h. of bodhisattva 17 cm; National Museum of Korea)
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- The purposes of rituals are varied.
- Rituals of various kinds are a feature of almost all known human societies, past or present.
- They include not only the various worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also the rites of passage of certain societies, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals, school "rush" traditions and graduations, club meetings, sports events, Halloween parties, veterans parades, Christmas shopping and more.
- Alongside the personal dimensions of worship and reverence, rituals can have social functions that express, fix and reinforce the shared values and beliefs of a society.
- Identify the types of and purposes of rituals in various contexts of society, such as religion or politics