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Church in Arizona, United States Potter's House Christian Fellowship Christian Fellowship Ministries The Door, Victory Chapel 34°37′50.48″N 112°25′38.33″W / 34.6306889°N 112.4273139°W / 34.6306889; -112.4273139 (Potter's House) Location Prescott, Arizona Country United States Denomination Non-denominational, Pentecostal Previous denomination Foursquare Gospel Church ...
Unification Church (统一教; tǒngyī jiào), known as "The Moonies" in the US, founded by Korean-American Sun Myung Moon in Busan in 1954, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1997. [ 10 ] Sanban Puren Pai ( 三班仆人派 ; sān bān púrén pài ), a Christian sect founded by Xu Wenku in the 1990s, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1999.
A church is a religious group that accepts the social environment in which it exists, a sect is a religious group that rejects it. [6] [2] The church-sect typology and the notion of a church-sect continuum or movement from the sect to the church came under strong attack in the sociology of religion of the 1960s onwards.
In 2005, 1,500 people were regularly attending the church. [5] [6] [7] By 2010, about 4,000 people were watching the church's broadcast of worship on the church's official site. [8] Worships are broadcast by satellite in 37 countries and in Internet. [9] In 2015, the church had expansion work done in its building to create a capacity of 2,500 ...
Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith is a sociological book based on field study of a group of Unification Church members in California and Oregon. It was first published in 1966 and written by the sociologist John Lofland .
A number of former adherents of IBLP programs have described the organization and/or associated circles as a cult. [ 4 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Don Veinot, president of Midwest Christian Outreach , says that the charismatic leader, authoritarian control, isolation of members, severe punishments, and demand for absolute and blind loyalty add up to IBLP ...
In a review, John Moryl writes that the book addresses the topic of cults from the viewpoint of an evangelical Christian.Moryl questioned Rhodes's inclusion of certain groups in the book, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unitarian Universalism, and Freemasonry, and attributed this to a unique evangelical perspective.
Church plan. Above right is the baptistery.. The Christian chapel at Dura-Europos was a domus ecclesiae that occupied an old, private dwelling in the ancient city's M8 block, along the western rampart of the city, opposite Gate 17, a short distance south of the main door.