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Mysterious alleged Zizian cult leader Jack Lasota was arrested alongside an accomplice in Maryland on Monday.. The elusive head of the largely transgender, vegan group had gone as far as to ...
“Cult mom” Lori Vallow has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for the murders of her two children in a dramatic case that gripped the nation. Vallow, 50, was convicted in May of ...
A Lena Dunham–produced Netflix documentary, Orgasm Inc, cast the group in an occult light, mixing dramatized footage of robed rituals involving snakes with real-life footage from the group's events.
The word cult in current usage is a term often used to describe a new religious movement (NRM) or any group whose beliefs, practices, or organizational structures are viewed as abnormal, eccentric, or bizarre by the larger society. The term cult has been most commonly used as a pejorative term for a religious group that falls outside the ...
New religious movements are generally seen as syncretic, employing human and material assets to disseminate their ideas and worldviews, deviating in some degree from a society's traditional forms or doctrines, focused especially upon the self, and having a peripheral relationship that exists in a state of tension with established societal ...
The University of Cosmic Intelligence (UCI) is an American new religious movement founded by rapper and convicted child molester Rashad Jamal. Described as a cult, the UCI is primarily based on social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and has a predominately African-American membership.
From UFOs and flying snakes to smoke from Canadian wildfires bathing U.S. cities in a postapocalyptic glow, 2023 had more than its share of weird news. Here are just some of the strange things ...
Controversial New Religions is an edited volume discussing new religious movements, or cults, that have resulted in controversy. It was co-edited by James R. Lewis and Jesper Aagaard Petersen, and was first published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. A second edition containing mostly new content was published with the same two editors in 2014.