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Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti.
Amy Carlson (November 30, 1975 – c. April 16, 2021), also known by her followers as Mother God, was an American cult leader and the co-founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won. [1] Carlson and her followers believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ , and that she could heal people of ...
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults is an American documentary television miniseries revolving around the religious group Heaven's Gate and its leader Marshall Applewhite. It consists of four episodes and premiered on December 3, 2020, on HBO Max .
The Seven Mountain Mandate, also Seven Mountains Mandate, 7M, [1] 7MM, [2] or Seven Mountains Dominionism, [3] is a dominionist conservative Christian movement within evangelical Christianity, particularly independent Charismatic groups.
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, [a] among other names, [b] was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997.
The World Mission Society Church of God is a new religious movement established by Ahn Sahng-hong in South Korea in 1964. [5] The church believes that founder Ahn Sahng-hong is the Second Coming of Jesus, and that Zahng Gil-jah is God, in the form of "God the Mother". [6]
[164] [260] A direct translation of that term is "heretical teaching", but during the anti-Falun Gong propaganda campaign was rendered as "evil cult" in English. [210] According to a Washington Post report, it was Jiang Zemin who issued the order to label Falun Gong a "cult". [ 41 ]
Along with other movements that developed as part of the hippie subculture in the 1960s, there has been debate on "cult"-like aspects of the Transcendental Meditation movement. [18] Camille Paglia wrote that TM was the "major Asian cult" of the 1960s. [23] The Israeli Center for Cult Victims also considers the movement to be a cult. [24]