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What (who) is cult - definition
COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
CULT; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport; Committee on culture and education; Education and Culture Committee; Committee on Culture and Education
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![An anti-[[Aum Shinrikyo]] protest in Japan, 2009](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anti-Aum Shinrikyo protest.JPG?width=200 "An anti-[[Aum Shinrikyo]] protest in Japan, 2009")
![[[Howard P. Becker]]'s church–sect typology, based on [[Ernst Troeltsch]]'s original theory and providing the basis for the modern concepts of cults, [[sect]]s, and [[new religious movement]]s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Church-sect continuum.svg?width=200 "[[Howard P. Becker]]'s church–sect typology, based on [[Ernst Troeltsch]]'s original theory and providing the basis for the modern concepts of cults, [[sect]]s, and [[new religious movement]]s")
![[[Falun Gong]] books being symbolically destroyed by the [[Chinese government]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Destruction d'ouvrages du Falun Gong lors de la répression de 1999 en Chine.jpg?width=200 "[[Falun Gong]] books being symbolically destroyed by the [[Chinese government]]")
![[[LaRouche Movement]] members in [[Stockholm]] protesting against the [[Treaty of Lisbon]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EAP demonstrerar mot EU - 2008-05-01 - 1.jpg?width=200 "[[LaRouche Movement]] members in [[Stockholm]] protesting against the [[Treaty of Lisbon]]")
![[[Cross burning]] by [[Ku Klux Klan]] members in 1915](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ku Klux Klan members and a burning cross, Denver, Colorado, 1921.jpg?width=200 "[[Cross burning]] by [[Ku Klux Klan]] members in 1915")
![[[Max Weber]] (1864–1920), one of the first scholars to study cults.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Max Weber 1894.jpg?width=200 "[[Max Weber]] (1864–1920), one of the first scholars to study cults.")
![[[Jim Jones]], the leader of the [[Peoples Temple]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rev. Jim Jones, 1977 (cropped)2.jpg?width=200 "[[Jim Jones]], the leader of the [[Peoples Temple]]")
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
n.
1) to join a cult
2) a cargo; fertility; personality cult
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
¦ 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
n.
1.
Homage, worship.
2.
System or mode of worship, ceremonial, religious ceremonial, ritual.
Wikipedia
European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education
The Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) is a committee of the European Parliament.
Examples of use of cult
1. Devote yourselves to the cult of couplehood or the cult of passion and freedom.
2. Related Articles Cult Leader Takes Heat Off Kremlin (Sep. 28, 2005) Cult Promises to Resurrect Beslan Children (Sep. 23, 2005)
3. Cult status And the current conflict with Israel has boosted Nasrallah‘s popularity to that of a cult–like figure.
4. The cult of sacred space often involves a ritual separation of the site from its profane surroundings, which can make the cult exclusive.
5. Cave Collapse Sends ‘Sign‘ to Cult By Anna Malpas Staff Writer AP A view on Tuesday of living quarters in a Penza cave where a cult holed up.