What is a cult? • small group that wants to secede from its social origins • disciples of heretical leader • gather around leader or ideology, for religious or nonreligious purposes • use strict discipline/mind control methods organized around master/specific ideology
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What is a cult?
• small group that wants to secede from its social origins
• disciples of heretical leader• gather around leader or ideology, for
religious or nonreligious purposes• use strict discipline/mind control methods
organized around master/specific ideology
Characteristics of leader
• Charismatic• Demanding• Possibly Abusive• Controlling• Only one in contact
with answers (God)• Claim “Big event
around corner”
Cults based on charismatic leadership follow routinization of charisma, described by German sociologist Max Weber