Table of Contents
463 relations: Ad hominem, African Americans, Al-Ahram, Al-Qaeda, Alt-right, Alternative media, American Civil War, American Journal of Sociology, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, Amnesty International, Andrei Soldatov, Anti-Americanism, Anti-communism, Anti-cult movement, Anti-Mormonism, APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control, Apocalypticism, Apologetics, Arbitrary arrest and detention, Arlette Laguiller, Armstrongism, Aryan race, Associated Press, Aum Shinrikyo, Ayn Rand, Baháʼí Faith, Baker Publishing Group, Basic Books, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Zablocki, Bethany House, Bible, Black nationalism, Black people, Bob Sipchen, Bounded Choice, Brainwashing, Branch Davidians, British Sociological Association, Bruderhof Communities, Bryan R. Wilson, Buddhism, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Cabal, Cambridge University Press, Car bomb, Cargo cult, Catherine Wessinger, ... Expand index (413 more) »
Ad hominem
, short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are fallacious.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Al-Ahram
Al-Ahram (الأهرام), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya (The Egyptian Events, founded 1828).
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Alt-right
The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a far-right, white nationalist movement.
Alternative media
Alternative media are media sources that differ from established or dominant types of media (such as mainstream media or mass media) in terms of their content, production, or distribution.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American Journal of Sociology
The American Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences.
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American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world.
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American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, also known as The American TFP, and legally incorporated as The Foundation for a Christian Civilization, Inc. is a Traditionalist Catholic American advocacy group.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Andrei Soldatov
Andrei Alekseyevich Soldatov (Андрей Алексеевич Солдатов, born 4 October 1975 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment and Americanophobia) is a term that can describe several sentiments and positions including opposition to, fear of, distrust of, prejudice against or hatred toward the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general.
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.
Anti-cult movement
The anti-cult movement, abbreviated ACM and also known as the countercult movement, consists of various governmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals that seek to raise awareness of cults, uncover coercive practices used to attract and retain members, and help those who have become involved with harmful cult practices. Cult and anti-cult movement are cults.
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Anti-Mormonism
Anti-Mormonism is often used to describe people or literature that are critical of their adherents, institutions, or beliefs, or involve physical attacks against specific Mormons, or the Latter Day Saint movement as a whole.
APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control
The APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods (or Techniques) of Persuasion and Control (DIMPAC/DITPACT) was formed at the request of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1983.
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Apocalypticism
Apocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.
Apologetics
Apologetics (from Greek label) is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse.
Arbitrary arrest and detention
Arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention is the arrest or detention of an individual in a case in which there is no likelihood or evidence that they committed a crime against legal statute, or in which there has been no proper due process of law or order.
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Arlette Laguiller
Arlette Yvonne Laguiller (born 18 March 1940) is a French politician.
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Armstrongism
Armstrongism is the teachings and doctrines of Herbert W. Armstrong while leader of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG).
Aryan race
The Aryan race is a pseudoscientific historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
Aum Shinrikyo
, better known by their former name, is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. Cult and Aum Shinrikyo are cults.
Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American author and philosopher.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Baker Publishing Group
Baker Publishing Group is an Evangelical book publisher that discusses historic Christian happenings for its evangelical readers.
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Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician, serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office in 1996–1999 and 2009–2021.
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Benjamin Zablocki
Benjamin David Zablocki (January 19, 1941 – April 6, 2020) was an American professor of sociology at Rutgers University where he taught sociology of religion and social psychology.
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Bethany House
Bethany House Publishers is a publisher that publishes Christian fiction and non-fiction books.
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
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Black nationalism
Black nationalism is a nationalist movement which seeks representation for black people as a distinct national identity, especially in racialized, colonial and postcolonial societies.
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Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
Bob Sipchen
Bob Sipchen (born June 13, 1953).
Bounded Choice
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults is a 2004 psychology and sociology book on cults by Janja Lalich.
Brainwashing
Brainwashing, also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and forced re-education, is the controversial theory that purports that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques.
Branch Davidians
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are an apocalyptic cult or doomsday cult founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. Cult and Branch Davidians are cults.
British Sociological Association
The British Sociological Association (BSA) is a scholarly and professional society for sociologists in the United Kingdom.
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Bruderhof Communities
The ('place of brothers') is a communal Anabaptist Christian movement that was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold.
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Bryan R. Wilson
Bryan Ronald Wilson (25 June 1926 – 9 October 2004) was a British sociologist.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) is a bureau within the United States Department of State.
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Cabal
A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Car bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Cargo cult
Cargo cult is a term used to denote various spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the late 19th century.
Catherine Wessinger
Catherine Lowman Wessinger (born 1952) is an American religion scholar.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Center for Libertarian Studies
The Center for Libertarian Studies (CLS) was a libertarian and anarcho-capitalist oriented educational organization founded in 1976 by Murray Rothbard and Burton Blumert, which grew out of the Libertarian Scholars Conferences.
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CESNUR
CESNUR ("Center for Studies on New Religions"), is a non-profit organization based in Turin, Italy that studies new religious movements and opposes the anti-cult movement.
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Cf.
The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning 'compare') is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.
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Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)
The Chamber of Representatives (Dutch:, Chambre des représentants, Abgeordnetenkammer) is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Senate.
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Charisma
Charisma is a personal quality of presence or charm that other people find psychologically compelling.
Charismatic authority
In the field of sociology, charismatic authority is a concept of organizational leadership wherein the authority of the leader derives from the personal charisma of the leader.
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Charles A. O'Reilly III
Charles A. O'Reilly III is an American academic.
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Charles Hurt
Charles Hurt (born 1971) is an American journalist and political commentator.
Chaz Bufe
Charles Bufe, better known as Chaz Bufe, is a contemporary American anarchist author.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.
Child abuse
Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child, especially by a parent or a caregiver.
Christian Church
In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original institution established by Jesus Christ.
Christian countercult movement
The Christian countercult movement or the Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement among certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries") and individual activists who oppose religious sects that they consider cults.
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Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.
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Christian fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism, also known as fundamental Christianity or fundamentalist Christianity, is a religious movement emphasizing biblical literalism.
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Christian nationalism
Christian nationalism is a form of religious nationalism that is affiliated with Christianity.
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Christian Science
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
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Christianity Today
Christianity Today is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.
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Church (congregation)
A church (or local church) is a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location.
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Churches That Abuse
Churches That Abuse, first published in 1992, is a best-selling Christian apologetic book written by sociologist Ronald M. Enroth.
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Classical element
The classical elements typically refer to earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
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Clique
A clique (AusE, CanE, or), in the social sciences, is a small group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests rather than include others.
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Coercion
Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Communist Party of Korea
The Communist Party of Korea was a communist party in Korea.
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Congressional Record
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Publishing Office and issued when Congress is in session.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.
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Continuum International Publishing Group
Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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Crucifixion of Jesus
The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33.
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Cult (religious practice)
Cult is the care (Latin: cultus) owed to deities and temples, shrines, or churches.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
Cult of personality
A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction.
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Cultural Office of Cluny
The Cultural Office of Cluny, often named OCC (renamed Cultural Office of Cluny – National Federation of Total Animation in 1978) is a Catholic-related association registered as a voluntary association, created in France by Olivier Fenoy in 1963.
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Dan Fefferman
Daniel G. Fefferman (known as Dan Fefferman) is a church leader and activist for the freedom of religion.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is a European politician.
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David Koresh
David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was an American cult leader.
David North (socialist)
David North (born David Green in 1950) is an American Marxist, who has been active in the international Trotskyist movement since 1971.
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Defamation
Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury.
Dehumanization
Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it.
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Democratic Workers Party
The Democratic Workers Party was a United States Marxist–Leninist party based in California headed by former professor Marlene Dixon, lasting from 1974–1987. Cult and Democratic Workers Party are cults.
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Deprogramming
Deprogramming is a controversial tactic that seeks to dissuade someone from "strongly held convictions" such as religious beliefs.
Deviance (sociology)
Deviance or the sociology of deviance explores the actions and/or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores).
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Dick Anthony
Dick Anthony (September 24, 1939 – July 24, 2022) was a forensic psychologist noted for his writings on the validity of brainwashing as a determiner of behavior, a prolific researcher of the social and psychological aspects of involvement in new religious movements.
Disaster
A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone.
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission (Divya Sandesh Parishad; DLM) was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India.
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Divinity
Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.
Domestic violence
Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Dong Moon Joo
Dong Moon Joo is a Korean American businessman.
Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith
Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith is a sociological book based on field study of a group of Unification Church members in California and Oregon.
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Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.
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Eastern religions
The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western, African and Iranian religions.
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Eileen Barker
Eileen Vartan Barker (born 21 April 1938, in Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1933 until his death in 1975.
Elijah Siegler
Elijah Siegler is the chair of the Religious Studies department at the College of Charleston.
Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
Ephemerality
Ephemerality (from the Greek word ἐφήμερος, meaning 'lasting only one day') is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly.
Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.
Ernst Troeltsch
Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch (17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician.
Erwin Fahlbusch
Erwin Fahlbusch (born 26 May 1926 in Frankfurt am Main; died 10 August 2007 in Montouliers, Département Hérault, France) was a research consultant at Konfessionskundliches Institut in Bensheim and was an honorary professor of Systematic theology in the Faculty of Evangelical Theology at the University of Frankfurt for many years.
Eugene V. Gallagher
Eugene V. Gallagher (born June 23, 1950) is a retired American professor of religious studies at Connecticut College.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
Evangelism
In Christianity, evangelism or witnessing is the act of preaching the gospel with the intention of sharing the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Excommunication
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.
Falun Gong
Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a new religious movement.
Fanaticism
Fanaticism (from the Latin adverb fānāticē) is a belief or behavior involving uncritical zeal or an obsessive enthusiasm.
Far-left politics
Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left.
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Far-right politics
Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.
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Federal Constitutional Court
The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht; abbreviated: BVerfG) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law of Germany.
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Federal Supplement
The Federal Supplement is a case law reporter published by West Publishing in the United States that includes select opinions of the United States district courts since 1932, and is part of the National Reporter System.
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First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
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Flattery
Flattery, also called adulation or blandishment, is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject.
Followership
Followership are the actions of someone in a subordinate role.
Forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
Forensic psychology
Forensic psychology is the practice of psychology applied to the law.
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Free will
Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action.
Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of peaceful assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their collective or shared ideas.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
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Freedom of the press
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.
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Front line
A front line (alternatively front-line or frontline) in military terminology is the position(s) closest to the area of conflict of an armed force's personnel and equipment, usually referring to land forces.
Frye standard
In United States law, the Frye standard, Frye test, or general acceptance test is a judicial test used in some U.S. state courts to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (abbreviated to FLDS and not to be confused with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations whose members practice polygamy. Cult and fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are cults.
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Gang
A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.
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Gérard Chaliand
Gérard Chaliand (born 1934) is a French expert in geopolitics who has published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy.
Geneva
Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.
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Geoffrey W. Bromiley
Geoffrey William Bromiley (7 March 1915 – 7 August 2009) was an English ecclesiastical historian and Anglican theologian.
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George D. Chryssides
George David Chryssides (born 1945) is a British academic and researcher on new religious movements and cults, has taught at several British universities, becoming head of Religious studies at the University of Wolverhampton in 2001.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Gerry Healy
Thomas Gerard Healy (3 December 1913 – 14 December 1989) was an Irish-born British political activist, a co-founder of the International Committee of the Fourth International and the leader of the Socialist Labour League and later the Workers Revolutionary Party.
Gino Perente
Eugenio Mario Perente-Ramos (Gino Perente) (21 November 1937 – 18 March 1995) was the founder of the National Labor Federation (NATLFED), a collection of anti-poverty organizations in the United States.
Goal
A goal or objective is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan, and commit to achieve.
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God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
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Greco-Roman mysteries
Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai).
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Greenville Technical College
Greenville Technical College is a public community college in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Groypers
Groypers, sometimes called the Groyper Army, are a group of alt-right and white nationalist activists, provocateurs, and internet trolls.
Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.
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Heaven's Gate (religious group)
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Cult and Heaven's Gate (religious group) are cults.
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Heresy
Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. Cult and Heresy are pejorative terms.
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Heterodox teachings (Chinese law)
Heterodox teaching is a concept in the law of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its administration regarding new religious movements and their suppression.
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Heterodoxy
In religion, heterodoxy (from Ancient Greek:, "other, another, different" +, "popular belief") means "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position".
Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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Historical Jesus
The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally religious interpretations.
History of China
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.
Howard P. Becker
Howard Paul Becker (December 9, 1899 – June 8, 1960) was a longtime professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Human sacrifice
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure or spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.
Ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".
Incel
Incel (a portmanteau of "involuntary celibate") is a term closely associated with an online subculture of people (mostly white,*.
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Individual
An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity.
Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
Indoctrination
Indoctrination is the process of inculcating (teaching by repeated instruction) a person or people into an ideology (i.e. a doctrine).
Insight on the News
Insight on the News, also called Insight, was an American conservative print and online news magazine.
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Intentional community
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.
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International Cultic Studies Association
The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a non-profit educational and anti-cult organization.
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International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–292, as amended by Public Law 106–55, Public Law 106–113, Public Law 107–228, Public Law 108–332, and Public Law 108–458) was passed to promote religious freedom as a foreign policy of the United States, to promote greater religious freedom in countries which engage in or tolerate violations of religious freedom, and to advocate on the behalf of individuals persecuted for their religious beliefs and activities in foreign countries.
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InterVarsity Press
Founded in 1947, InterVarsity Press (IVP) is an American publisher of Christian books located in Lisle, Illinois.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islamic eschatology
Islamic eschatology (عِلْمآخر الزمان في الإسلام) is a field of study in Islam concerning future events that would happen in the end times.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he resides.
James R. Lewis (scholar)
James Roger Lewis (November 3, 1949 – October 11, 2022) was an American philosophy professor at Wuhan University.
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James T. Richardson
James T. Richardson (born August 25, 1941) is Emeritus Foundation Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Janja Lalich
Janja Lalich (born 1945) is an American sociologist and writer.
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jennifer Chatman
Jennifer A. Chatman, an American academic, is the interim dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management.
Jim Jones
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978.
John A. Saliba
John A. Saliba is a Maltese-born Jesuit priest, a professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and a noted writer and researcher in the field of new religious movements.
John Gordon Clark
John 'Jack' Gordon Clark (1926–1999) was a Harvard psychiatrist known for his research on the alleged damaging effects of cults.
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John Lofland (sociologist)
John Franklin Lofland (born March 4, 1936) is an American sociologist best known for his studies of the peace movement and for his first book, Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith, which was based on field work among a group of Unification Church members in California in the 1960s.
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Jonestown
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones.
Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi
Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi (September 3, 1930 – October 7, 1991) was an Argentine poet, novelist, self-taught philosopher, essayist, educator and lecturer of Italian heritage best known for having founded and directed New Acropolis, an international philosophical educational and cultural organisation.
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Joseph Di Mambro
Joseph Léonce "Jo" Di Mambro (19 August 1924 – 5 October 1994) was a French cult leader and convicted conman who founded and lead the Order of the Solar Temple with Luc Jouret.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell in the United States under the auspices of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles in the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, and anthropology, devoted to the study of religion.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007)The flight number KAL 007 was used by air traffic control, while the public flight booking system used KE 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska.
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Korean independence movement
The Korean independence movement was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts to liberate Korea from Japanese rule.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
L'Express
(stylized in all caps) is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris.
L'Humanité
() is a French daily newspaper.
Lee Shapiro
Lee Shapiro (1949–1987) was an American documentary filmmaker.
Legal case
A legal case is in a general sense a dispute between opposing parties which may be resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process.
Legal immunity
Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.
Leninism
Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.
Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory.
Libération
(liberation), popularly known as Libé, is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; translit, translit; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
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Liberty (libertarian magazine)
Liberty is a libertarian journal, founded in 1987 by R. W. Bradford (who was the magazine's publisher and editor until he died from cancer in 2005) in Port Townsend, Washington, and then edited from San Diego by Stephen Cox.
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Library Journal
Library Journal is an American trade publication for librarians.
Likud
Likud (HaLikud), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (HaLikud – Tnu'ah Leumit Liberalit), is a major right-wing political party in Israel.
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List of courts of the United States
The courts of the United States are closely linked hierarchical systems of courts at the federal and state levels.
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List of ethnic slurs
The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.
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Loaded language
Loaded language is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations.
Longo Maï
The Longo Maï Co-operatives are a network of agricultural co-operatives with an anti-capitalist ideological focus.
Lorne L. Dawson
Lorne L. Dawson is a Canadian scholar of the sociology of religion who has written about new religious movements, the brainwashing controversy, and religion and the Internet.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black nationalist organization.
Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Luc Jouret
Luc Georges Marc Jean Jouret (18 October 1947 – 5 October 1994) was a Belgian cult leader and homeopath.
Lutte Ouvrière
Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle) is a Trotskyist communist party in France, named after its weekly paper.
Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).
Lyndon LaRouche U.S. presidential campaigns
Lyndon LaRouche's United States presidential campaigns were a controversial staple of American politics between 1976 and 2004.
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M. E. Sharpe
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Mainstream media
In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.
Marc Galanter (psychiatrist)
Marc Galanter is Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and has served as the Founding Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
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Margaret Singer
Margaret Thaler Singer (July 29, 1921 – November 23, 2003) was an American clinical psychologist and researcher with her colleague Lyman Wynne on family communication.
Marshall Applewhite
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997.
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Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart (born 6 August 1961) is an English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of The Times, where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
Mass suicide
Mass suicide is a form of suicide, occurring when a group of people simultaneously kill themselves.
Matthew Restall
Matthew Restall (born 1964) is a historian of Colonial Latin America.
Max Weber
Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.
Mehring Books
Mehring Books is the publishing house of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.
Michael Langone
Michael D. Langone (born 1947) is an American counseling psychologist who specializes in research about cultic groups and psychological manipulation.
Michael Shermer
Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.
Middle class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
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Millenarianism
Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed".
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD; Министерство внутреннихдел, Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del) is the interior ministry of Russia.
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Ministry of Jesus
The ministry of Jesus, in the canonical gospels, begins with his baptism near the River Jordan by John the Baptist, and ends in Jerusalem in Judea, following the Last Supper with his disciples.
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Ministry of Justice (Russia)
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Miracles of Jesus
The miracles of Jesus are miraculous deeds attributed to Jesus in Christian and Islamic texts.
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Miskito people
The Miskitos are a native people in Central America.
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Misunderstanding Cults
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field is an edited volume discussing various topics related to cults, including the scholarly field itself, the concept of brainwashing, and the public perception of the groups.
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Modern paganism
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.
Money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context.
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Mormonism
Mormonism is the theology and religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 1830s.
Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
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Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School,Ronald Hamowy, ed., 2008,, Cato Institute, Sage,, p. 62: "a leading economist of the Austrian school"; pp.
Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings.
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Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. Cult and Nation of Islam are cults.
National Intelligence Service (South Korea)
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) is the chief intelligence agency of South Korea.
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National Labor Federation
The National Labor Federation (NATLFED) is a network of community associations, called "entities", that claim to organize workers who are excluded from collective bargaining protections by U.S. labor law. Cult and National Labor Federation are cults.
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Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
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Neo-charismatic movement
The Neo-charismatic (also third-wave charismatic or hypercharismatic) movement is a movement within evangelical Protestant Christianity that is composed of a diverse range of independent churches and organizations that emphasize the current availability of gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and faith healing.
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Neo-fascism
Neo-fascism is a post-World War II far-right ideology that includes significant elements of fascism.
New Acropolis
New Acropolis (NA; Organización Internacional Nueva Acrópolis; OINA; Organisation Internationale Nouvelle Acropole, association internationale sans but lucratif) is a non-profit organisation originally founded in 1957 by Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi in Argentina positioning itself as a school of philosophy, although various researchers characterize it as an esoteric and post-theosophical new religious movement, a designated cult according to the French government. Cult and new Acropolis are cults.
New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.
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New religious movement
A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. Cult and new religious movement are cults.
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New religious movements and cults in popular culture
New religious movements and cults have appeared as themes or subjects in literature and popular culture.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.
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New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
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News World Communications
News World Communications Inc. is an American international news media corporation.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
Nicene Christianity
Nicene Christianity includes those Christian denominations that adhere to the teaching of the Nicene Creed, which was formulated at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 and amended at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381.
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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January 195329 August 2012) was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter, best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of Germany between the World Wars and Western esotericism.
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Nick Fuentes
Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-rightMultiple sources.
Norman Geisler
Norman Leo Geisler (July 21, 1932 – July 1, 2019) was an American Christian systematic theologian, philosopher, and apologist.
Novelty
Novelty (derived from Latin word novus for "new") is the quality of being new, or following from that, of being striking, original or unusual.
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Nuclear holocaust
A nuclear holocaust, also known as a nuclear apocalypse, nuclear annihilation, nuclear armageddon, or atomic holocaust, is a theoretical scenario where the mass detonation of nuclear weapons causes widespread destruction and radioactive fallout.
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Obligation
An obligation is a course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral.
Occult
The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.
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Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
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On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left
On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left is a 2000 non-fiction book about political cults, written by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth.
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Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT) was a group in Kingston, Ontario that was dedicated to the promotion of religious tolerance through their website, ReligiousTolerance.org from 1995 to 2023.
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Order of the Solar Temple
The Order of the Solar Temple (OTS), or simply the Solar Temple, was an esoteric new religious movement and secret society, often described as a cult, notorious for the mass deaths of many of its members in several incidents throughout the 1990s. Cult and Order of the Solar Temple are cults.
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Orlando Patterson
Horace Orlando Patterson (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development.
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Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy (from Greek) is adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion.
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pejorative
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. Cult and pejorative are pejorative terms.
Peoples Temple
The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Cult and Peoples Temple are cults.
Persecution of Falun Gong
The persecution of Falun Gong is the campaign initiated in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to eliminate the spiritual practice of Falun Gong in China, maintaining a doctrine of state atheism.
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Personal identity
Personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person over time.
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Personality change
Personality change refers to the different forms of change in various aspects of personality.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
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Peter A. Olsson
Peter A. Olsson (born 1941, Brooklyn, New York) is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.
Peter Lang (publisher)
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins (born April 3, 1952) is a professor of history at Baylor University in the United States, and co-director for Baylor's Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion.
Philip Zimbardo
Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Pluto Press
Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London, founded in 1969.
Politico
Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.
Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Polygyny
Polygyny is a form of polygamy entailing the marriage of a man to several women.
Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
Prejudice
Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership.
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.
President of the Church (LDS Church)
The President of the Church is the highest office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
Propaganda in China
Propaganda in China is used by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and historically by the Kuomintang (KMT), to sway domestic and international opinion in favor of its policies.
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Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law.
Proselytism
Proselytism is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.
Psychological abuse
Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or psychological violence, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst other psychological problems.
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Psychologist
A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.
Psychopathy
Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy.
Public diplomacy
In international relations, public diplomacy broadly speaking, is any of the various government-sponsored efforts aimed at communicating directly with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence with the aim of building support for the state's strategic objectives.
Public policy
Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs.
PublicAffairs
PublicAffairs (or PublicAffairs Books) is a book publishing company located in New York City and has been a part of the Hachette Book Group since 2016.
Puritans
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.
Quest
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal.
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Rajneesh movement
The Rajneesh movement is a religious movement inspired by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931–1990), also known as Osho. Cult and Rajneesh movement are cults.
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Rapture
The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." The origin of the term extends from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, which uses the Greek word (ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize".
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Rational choice theory
Rational choice theory refers to a set of guidelines that help understand economic and social behaviour.
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Ravi Zacharias
Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (26 March 194619 May 2020) was an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian evangelical minister and Christian apologist who founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM).
Reed Smoot hearings
The Reed Smoot hearings, also called Smoot hearings or the Smoot Case, were a series of Congressional hearings on whether the United States Senate should seat U.S. Senator Reed Smoot, who was elected by the Utah legislature in 1903.
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Reender Kranenborg
Reender Kranenborg (1 June 1942 – 8 April 2020) was a Dutch theologian, pastor, and scholar of religion.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Religious conversion
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.
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Religious denomination
A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name and tradition, among other activities.
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Religious identity
Religious identity is a specific type of identity formation.
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Religious order
A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice.
Religious studies
Religious studies, also known as the study of religion, is the scientific study of religion.
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Religious views on the self
Religious views on the self vary widely.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Research in Organizational Behavior
Research in Organizational Behavior is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in the field of organizational behavior.
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Resurrection of Jesus
The resurrection of Jesus (anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.
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Review of Religious Research
The Review of Religious Research is a quarterly journal that reviews the various methods, findings and uses of religious research.
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Richard Abanes
Richard Abanes (born October 13, 1961) is an American playwright, composer, lyricist, author, singer, and actor.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Richard Ofshe
Richard Jason Ofshe (born 27 February 1941) is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ritual
A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.
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Robert Barcia
Robert Barcia, also known as Hardy and Roger Girardot (22 July 1928 in Paris – 12 July 2009 in Créteil), was a French politician who was leader of the Internationalist Communist Union (UCI), a Trotskyist organisation better known by the name of its weekly paper, Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle).
Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform.
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Rodney Stark
Rodney William Stark (July 8, 1934 – July 21, 2022) was an American sociologist of religion who was a longtime professor of sociology and of comparative religion at the University of Washington.
Roman imperial cult
The Roman imperial cult (cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State.
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Ronald Enroth
Ronald M. Enroth (October 28, 1938 – February 3, 2023) was an American professor of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and an evangelical Christian author of books concerning what he defined as "cults" and "new religious movements" and important figure in the Christian countercult movement.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.
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Roy Wallis
Roy Wallis (1945–1990) was a sociologist and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Queen's University Belfast.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.
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Salvation
Salvation (from Latin: salvatio, from salva, 'safe, saved') is the state of being saved or protected from harm or a dire situation.
San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Sara Diamond (sociologist)
Sara Rose Diamond is an American sociologist and attorney, and the author of four books that "study and expose the agenda and tactics of the American political right wing.".
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Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood.
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Schism
A schism (or, less commonly) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination.
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Scientific literature
Scientific literature encompasses a vast body of academic papers that spans various disciplines within the natural and social sciences.
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Scientific theory
A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world and universe that can be (or a fortiori, that has been) repeatedly tested and corroborated in accordance with the scientific method, using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of results.
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Scientology
Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement. Cult and Scientology are cults.
Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
Second Manifesto
The "Second Manifesto" was a 1904 declaration made by Joseph F. Smith, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in which Smith stated the church was no longer sanctioning marriages that violated the laws of the land and set down the principle that those entering into or solemnizing polygamous marriages would be excommunicated from the church.
Secret society
A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed.
Sect
A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger group. Cult and sect are pejorative terms.
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Sectarianism
Sectarianism is a debated concept.
Secularism
Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion.
Secularity
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.
Self
In philosophy, the self is an individual's own being, knowledge, and values, and the relationship between these attributes.
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Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.
Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shining Path
The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), self-named the Communist Party of Peru (Partido Comunista del Perú, abbr. PCP), is a far-left political party and guerrilla group in Peru, following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought.
Shoko Asahara
, born, was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo.
Skeptic (American magazine)
Skeptic, colloquially known as Skeptic magazine, is a quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine published internationally by The Skeptics Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs.
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Social environment
The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops.
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Social group
In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
Social psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
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Sociological classifications of religious movements
Various sociological classifications of religious movements have been proposed by scholars.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
Sociology of religion
Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.
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Sociology of Religion (journal)
Sociology of Religion is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the sociology of religion.
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Soul
In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
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Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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St. Martin's Press
St.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
Steven Hassan
Steven Alan Hassan (pronounced; born 1954) is an American writer and mental health counselor who specializes in the area of cults and new religious movements.
Stratocracy
A stratocracy, also called stratiocracy, is a form of government headed by military chiefs.
Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations
The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations (also known as the Fraser Committee) was a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives which met in 1976 and 1977 and conducted an investigation into the "Koreagate" scandal.
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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
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Suicide attack
A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.
Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon (born Moon Yong-Myeong; 6 January 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes.
Syndrome
A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder.
Taipei
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
The Free Lance–Star
The Free Lance–Star is the principal daily newspaper distributed throughout Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, with a circulation area including the city of Fredericksburg and all or parts of the counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford, King George, Caroline, Culpeper, Fauquier, Louisa, Orange, Prince William and Westmoreland.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Kingdom of the Cults
The Kingdom of the Cults, first published in 1965, is a reference book of the Christian countercult movement in the United States, written by Baptist minister and counter-cultist Walter Ralston Martin.
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The New Republic
The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American mass-media company that publishes The New York Times, its associated publications, and other media properties.
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The Occult Roots of Nazism
The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935 is a book about Nazi occultism and Ariosophy by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who traces some of its roots back to Esotericism in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1945.
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The Register-Guard
The Register-Guard is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Washington Times
The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.
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Theosophy
Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century.
Thesis
A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.
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Think tank
A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.
Thomas Nelson (publisher)
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder.
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Thomas Robbins (sociologist)
Thomas Robbins (1943 – 2015) was an author and an independent scholar of sociology of religion.
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Tim Wohlforth
Timothy Andrew Wohlforth (May 15, 1933 – August 23, 2019), was a United States Trotskyist leader.
Tokyo subway sarin attack
The was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo.
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Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
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Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
Transaction Publishers
Transaction Publishers was a New Jersey-based publishing house that specialized in social science books and journals.
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Trinity
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three,, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion).
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Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.
UFO religion
A UFO religion is any religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is an element of belief.
Ultraconservatism
Ultraconservatism refers to extreme conservative views in politics or religious practice.
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Unification Church
The Unification Church is a new religious movement derived from Christianity, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies. Cult and Unification Church are cults.
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Unification Church of the United States
The Unification Church of the United States is the branch of the Unification Church in the United States.
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Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalism (otherwise referred to as UUism or UU) is a liberal religious movement characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning".
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States District Court for the Northern District of California
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.
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Unity Church
Unity is a spiritual organization founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889.
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Toronto Press
The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.
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University of Utah Press
The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library.
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Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress.
Völkisch movement
The Völkisch movement (Völkische Bewegung, Folkist movement, also called Völkism) was a German ethnic nationalist movement active from the late 19th century through the dissolution of the German Reich in 1945, with remnants in the Federal Republic of Germany afterwards.
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Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement
Lyndon LaRouche (1922–2019) and the LaRouche movement have expressed controversial views on a wide variety of topics.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The (abbreviated as VU Amsterdam or simply VU when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880.
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W. H. Freeman and Company
W.
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Wallace Fard Muhammad
Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard or Master Fard Muhammad (reportedly born February 26, – disappeared), was the founder of the Nation of Islam.
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Walter Ralston Martin
Walter Ralston Martin (September 10, 1928 – June 26, 1989) was an American Baptist Christian minister and author who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a parachurch ministry specializing as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics.
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War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (also known as The Washington Report and WRMEA) is an American foreign policy magazine that focuses on the Middle East and U.S. policy in the region.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.
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Western esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
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When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.
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White power skinhead
White power skinheads, also known as racist skinheads and neo-Nazi skinheads (but derided as boneheads by anti-racist skinheads), are members of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist and antisemitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture.
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White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them.
Why People Believe Weird Things
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time is a 1997 book by science writer Michael Shermer.
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Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff Sr. (March 1, 1807September 2, 1898) was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1889 until his death.
William Sims Bainbridge
William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia.
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World League for Freedom and Democracy
The World League for Freedom and Democracy (WLFD) is an international non-governmental organization of anti-communist politicians and groups.
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World War III
World War III (WWIII or WW3), also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).
Worldview
A worldview or a world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view.
Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
Yeouido
Yeouido is a large island (or ait) on the Han River in Seoul, South Korea.
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Yonhap News Agency
Yonhap News Agency is a major South Korean news agency.
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Young Oon Kim
Young Oon Kim (1914–1989) was a leading theologian of the Unification Church and its first missionary to the United States.
1890 Manifesto
The 1890 Manifesto (also known as the Woodruff Manifesto, the Anti-polygamy Manifesto, or simply "the Manifesto") is a statement which officially advised against any future plural marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
2012 phenomenon
The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012.
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