Cult
SOCIAL GROUP WITH SOCIALLY DEVIANT OR NOVEL RELIGIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL OR SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
Totalitarian religious group; Destructive cult; Cult worshipping; Political cult; Cultist; Cult debate; Cult war; Millennial cult; Destructive cults; Religious cult; Cultism; Dangerous cult; Cult leader; High control group; Cult homicide; Homicidal cult; Cult homicides; Cults and terrorism; Cultlike; Cults; Xiejiao; Terrorist cults; Polygamist cult; Cultists; Polygamous cult
In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals, or its common interest in a particular personality, object, or goal. This sense of the term is controversial, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia, and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.