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Cult may popularly refer to a religious group with relatively few adherents whose beliefs or practices are regarded by others as strange or sinister. The term "cult" was originally used to denote a s...
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joining cults - religious choice or psychological aberration ... Second, even if one posited that there could be a demonstrable theoretical difference between exercising one's "religion" and joining a "cult," in practice it turns out that one person's cult is another's valid religion. ... Cults and NRMs...
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Cults and new religious movements ... Introduction to Cults and New Religious Movements (NRMs) < Read this first; ... Joining a "cult": Religious conversion to a legitimate faith group, or criminal entrapment by an evil cult?
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These cults may appeal on a variety of levels, not just to those of limited intelligence or those who lack friends; ... While being approached by any suspicious group, and definitely before joining any group (even a church), it is important to ask questions such as:
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ICSA does NOT maintain a list of "bad" groups or "cults." We nonjudgmentally list groups on which we have information. ... This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends,
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Cults, wonderful on the outside but on the inside are very manipulating. Cult leaders are desperate to trick you into joining. They are after ... In other words cults trick people into joining and coerce them into staying. This is the definition that most people would agree with. Except the cults themselves of course!
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THIS IS one of the two people trying to recruit Irish teenagers and students into one of the world’s fastest-growing cults. ... I questioned him further as to whether anyone not in the church would be joining him in heaven.
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Q. Are you saying that joining a cult is like getting addicted to a drug? ... Modern cults do not brainwash people. They offer them a model of reality that appears to work for a large number of people. In effect they are saying, ... Articles Psychology Cults Joining the Club: A New Perspective On Getting People Out of Cult...
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Tune out, lock down, chip in ... Unlike most cults, we actually lull you into a sense of well-being by not enforcing a faceless, all-for-one, selling-pencils-at-the-airport philosophy. Actually, we sell Amway products, but that's another story.
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Cults in addiction support groups ... Recovering alcoholics, addicts, adult children of alcoholics and co-dependents are especially susceptible to joining cults or sects. Often anxious, fearful, lonely, shameful, confused and depressed, we emerge from the fog of addiction vulnerable, naïve and gullible.
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