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Articles on Cults
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The case of this cult-like group shows health consumers need better protection.
A scholar visited Rajneeshpuram and met the many highly accomplished men and women who became devotees of the controversial guru. What brought them to the spiritual community, and what made them stay?
The story of this video game speaks to what seems a powerful political moment, of an American nation literally at war with itself.
A scholar explains the popular use of the label ‘cult,’ and what makes it problematic.
The 1995 Tokyo sarin attack helped make Japanese criminal justice dramatically more punitive.
Charles Manson, who has died aged 83, was a cult leader par excellence.
The Dera Sacha Sauda episode has several important questions, mostly related to the crisis of spirituality and modernity in India today.
Some people have objected to childhood vaccination since it was introduced in the late 1700s. And their reasons sound remarkably familiar to those of anti-vaxxers today.
One of the many roles of Vietnam’s fascinating “cult of heroes” is to ensure government control over religious feeling, channeling it into nationalism.
Twenty years ago, the paranoia that consumed cults like Heaven’s Gate existed on the margins of American society. Now it’s moved toward the center of the nation’s political life.
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