Tag: cult
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Types of religious organisation: the cult
Steve Bruce (1995) defines a cult as a ‘loosely knit group organized around some common themes and interests but lacking any sharply defined and exclusive belief system’. Cults correspond closely to Roy Wallis’ category of ‘World Affirming New Religious Movements’. Examples of Cults/ World Affirming NRMs include Scientology Transcendental Meditation The Human Potential Movement Key…