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  2. Cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, [1] is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.

  3. List of cults of personality - Wikipedia

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    [104] [105] These attitudes were seen by public opinion as clear examples of the new political style that Berlusconi brought into Italy, focused on the leader's charisma, cult of personality and media domination. [106] Silvio Berlusconi was Prime Minister of Italy for three terms and four governments. He governed the country for a total of ...

  4. Cult - Wikipedia

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    Cult is a term often applied to new religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal is another characteristic often ascribed to cults.

  5. Client cults, in which the service-providers exhibit a degree of organization in contrast to their clients. Client cults link into moderate-commitment social networks through which people exchange goods and services. The relationship between clients and the leaders of client cults resembles that of patients and therapists.

  6. Adolf Hitler's cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    The cult of leader was evidenced in Nazi propaganda films by Leni Riefenstahl, such as 1935's Triumph of the Will, which Hitler ordered to be made.The film showed the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, which was attended by over 700,000 supporters, and is one of the first examples of the Hitler myth filmed and put into full effect during Nazi Germany. [27]

  7. Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from ...

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    Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped carry out the shocking killings of a wealthy Los Angeles couple at the direction of the violent and ...

  8. Joseph Stalin's cult of personality - Wikipedia

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    Gill, Graeme (1980) "The Soviet Leader Cult: Reflections on the Structure of Leadership in the Soviet Union", British Journal of Political Science v.10; Kelly, Catriona (2005) "Riding the Magic Carpet: Children and the Leader Cult in the Stalin Era", Slavic and East European Journal v.49; Kershaw, Ian (2016). To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949.

  9. Cult leaders convicted of forcing children to work 16-hour ...

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    Cult leaders convicted of forcing children to work 16-hour days without pay KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Six members of a Kansas-based cult have been convicted in a scheme to house children in overcrowded, rodent-infested facilities and force them to work up to 16 hours a day without pay while subjecting them to beatings and other abuse.