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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.
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] [1] 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]
Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America. Religious Information Series, 7 (Rev. and updated ed.). New York: Garland Publ. ISBN 0-8153-0502-8. Melton, J. Gordon (1999). Religious Leaders of America: A Biographical Guide to Founders and Leaders of Religious Bodies, Churches, and Spiritual Groups in North America (2nd ed.).
Mysterious alleged Zizian cult leader Jack Lasota was arrested alongside an accomplice in Maryland on Monday.. The elusive head of the largely transgender, vegan group had gone as far as to ...
The 1938 book The Chaos of Cults by Jan Karel van Baalen (1890–1968), an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America, was especially influential. [ 6 ] [ 128 ] In the US, the Christian Research Institute was founded in 1960 by Walter Ralston Martin to counter opposition to evangelical Christianity and has come to focus ...
The statement says “it is not true that there is any business affiliation between the two entities,” Shekinah and 7M: “It is quite common for a person of faith to own and operate one of many ...
The "Tama-Re" compound as it stood in 2002 Flag used by the Nuwaubian Nation, featuring a Star of David and an Ankh [1] [2] [3]The Nuwaubian Nation, Nuwaubian movement, or United Nuwaubian Nation [4] [5] [6] (/ n uː ˈ w ɔː b iː ən /) is an American new religious and black supremacist movement founded and led by Dwight York, also known as Malachi Z. York. [4] [5] [6] York began founding ...
Charles Manson suggested he was a killer long before he became the infamous cult leader who instructed his followers to commit a series of heinous murders, known as the Manson Murders, that ...