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What (who) is M'Bona Cult - definition
M'Bona Cult
The M'Bona Cult is a system of religious beliefs and rituals which is currently restricted to the most southerly parts of Malawi, but which probably extended more widely, both in other parts of Malawi and adjacent parts of Mozambique. The cult is found mainly among the local Mang'anja people and its former extent reflected that people's wider past distribution.
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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
¦ noun
1. a system of religious devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.
a relatively small religious group regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.
2. [often as modifier] a thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group: a cult film.
Derivatives
cultic adjective
cultish adjective
cultishness noun
cultism noun
cultist noun
Origin
C17: from Fr. culte or L. cultus 'worship'.
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.
