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Destructive cult is a term frequently used by the anti-cult movement. [18] Members of the anti-cult movement typically define a destructive cult as a group that is unethical, deceptive, and one that uses "strong influence" or mind control techniques to affect critical thinking skills. [32]
Aum Shinrikyo (called the "Aum cult") [7] In 2005, the Hate Crimes Unit of the Edmonton Police Service confiscated anti-Falun Gong materials distributed at the annual conference of the American Family Association by staff members of the Calgary Chinese Consulate (Province of Alberta, Canada). The materials, including the calling of Falun Gong a ...
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.
Glenn Close spent her childhood as a member of a cult-like religious group called the Moral Re-Armament.
Seven members of the group were charged with abuse of a corpse as well as child abuse due to the presence of two children in the property. [30] [31] A photo from a few weeks before Carlson is thought to have died shows her appearance to be emaciated; she had thinning hair and discolored skin with a purplish hue. [30] She was 75 pounds when she ...
About Category:Cults and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about Cults, which may be a contentious label Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cults . The main article for this category is Cult .
But for members of the Source Family, a group that some call a cult, it’s a way of life honed over decades of study and ritualism based in Western esotericism.
In 1998 former Ku Klux Klan wizard Samuel Bowers was convicted of his murder and sentenced to life. Two other Klan members were indicted with Bowers, but one died before trial and the other's indictment was dismissed. In July 1966, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a stronghold of Klan activity, Clarence Triggs was found murdered. [210]