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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.
The Peoples Temple was labeled a "cult of death" by both Time and Newsweek magazines. [201] In February 1979, 98% of Americans polled said that they had heard of the tragedy. [202] George Gallup stated that "few events, in fact, in the entire history of the Gallup Poll have been known to such a high percentage of the U.S. public." [202]
[3] [61] [62] In the chapter "Influencing An Election: America's First Modern Bioterrorist Attack" in his 2006 book Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators from the Famous to the Forgotten, author Joseph T. McCann concludes: "In every respect, the Salmonella attack carried out by the cult members was a major ...
From the Manson Family to Jonestown, the most infamous cults in recent history have made headlines and lasting impacts around the world. R. Kelly allegations evoke memory of the most infamous ...
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [236] Imperial Klans of America [249] Knights of the White Camelia [250] Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, headed by national director and self-claimed pastor Thomas Robb, and based in Harrison and Zinc, Arkansas. [251] [252] It claims to be the largest Klan organization in America today. [253]
American sociologist Howard P. Becker further bisected Troeltsch's first two categories: church was split into ecclesia and denomination; and sect into sect and cult. [22] [2] Like Troeltsch's "mystical religion", Becker's cult refers to small religious groups that lack in organization and emphasize the private nature of personal beliefs. [23]
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