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Call of the Shofar (founded by Simcha Frischling) [citation needed]; Context International [2] [9] (previously Context Associated, founded by Randy Revell, who had worked with Mind Dynamics)
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.
Lifespring was an American for-profit human potential organization founded in 1974 by John Hanley Sr., Robert White, Randy Revell, and Charlene Afremow. [1] [2] [3] The organization encountered significant controversy in the 1970s and '80s, with various academic articles characterizing Lifespring's training methods as "deceptive and indirect techniques of persuasion and control", and ...
Days after Keith Raniere, the leader of a cult-like “women-only mentorship group” in upstate New York was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, actress Kristin Kreuk broke her silence ...
The expression 'Nehruvian consensus' reflects the dominance of Nehruvian ideals, a product of Nehru's personality cult and the associated statism, i.e. the overarching faith in the state and the leadership. [57] However, it is also held by some that Nehru himself did not actively encourage the creation of a cult of personality around him.
The cult is also marked by the intensity of the people's feelings for and devotion to their leaders, [110] and the key role played by a Confucianized ideology of familism both in maintaining the cult and thereby in sustaining the regime itself. The North Korean cult of personality is a large part of Juche and totalitarianism.
In 1997, Landmark sued Cult Awareness Network (CAN) after they made statements alleging or implying that Landmark was a cult. [20] That suit was resolved when CAN stated that it has no evidence that Landmark is a cult. [20] In 2004, it was revealed that Landmark had paid French anti-cult expert Jean-Marie Abgrall to "audit" them.
The actress, 77, said in a Jan. 19 broadcast of Today’s Sunday Sitdown that she relied on her "active imagination" while growing up in a cult-like religious group.