Examples of cult in the following topics:
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- Cult refers to a religious movement or group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.
- 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.
- These religious sects are also known among Christians as cults or discernment ministries.
- Secular cult opponents like those belonging to the anti-cult movement tend to define a cult as a group that tends to manipulate, exploit, and control its members.
- 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, like sects, new religious groups.
- Cults, like sects, often integrate elements of existing religious theologies, but cults tend to create more esoteric theologies from many sources.
- Cults emphasize the individual and individual peace.
- Cults, like sects, can develop into denominations.
- Some scholars are hesitant to grant cults denominational status because many cults maintain their more esoteric characteristics (e.g., Temple Worship among Mormons).
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- A sect differs from cults in the degree that members are recruited and kept.
- Whereas the cult is able to enforce its norms and ideas against members, a sect has followers, sympathizers, supporters, or believers.
- A sect may also have members who choose to leave later, whereas a cult uses any means necessary to keep its members, including coercion.
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- Durkheim's claim of the universality of this dichotomy for all religions/cults has been criticized by scholars such as British anthropologist Jack Goody.
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- 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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- 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.
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- In general, The term religion is reserved for an organized cult with a priesthood and dedicated sites of worship or sacrifice, while magic is prevalent in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religion or more general systems of animism or shamanism.
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- 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.
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- Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.
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- Randall Collins: He stated that emotional energy is the main motivating force in social life, for love and hatred, investing, working or consuming, and rendering cult or waging war.