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Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity ( yazata ) Mithra , the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the degree of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman ...
Lev Tahor (Hebrew: לֵב טָהוֹר, lit. 'pure heart') is a Jewish cult [3] [4] [1] founded in Israel by Shlomo Helbrans in 1988. It consists of about 200–300 members and according to Guatemalan authorities, engages in child sexual abuse, pedophilia and rape.
The novel critiques the loss of spiritual depth in favor of mass consumerism and artificial happiness. While not a traditional cult, the state-sponsored religious-like movement, "Community, Identity, Stability", functions like a cult in that it enforces absolute conformity through ritualistic behaviors and psychological conditioning.
The MRA has been described as a "ineffective cult" with absolutes that were naïve, impossible to fulfill, and overly dependent on personal revelations. [ 5 ] [ 21 ] Actress Glenn Close , whose parents were part of the movement, publicly called the organization a cult.
Roch Thériault ([ʁɔk te.ʁjo]; May 16, 1947 – February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse (French for "Moses"), founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. They were a doomsday cult whose beliefs were based on those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Cults range from the relatively benign to those that exercise extraordinary control over members' lives and use thought-reform processes to influence and control members. While the conduct of certain cults causes nonmembers to criticize them, the term cult is not in itself pejorative but simply descriptive.
Love Has Won (LHW), also known as the Galactic Federation of Light and Joy Rains, is an American new religious movement which was led by Amy Carlson until her death in 2021. . Carlson was referred to within the group as "Mother God", who described herself as, among other things, the creator of the univer
The other cult leader was Sara Aldrete, a Matamoros native and an honors student and cheerleader at Texas Southmost College. [15] She was the girlfriend of Gilberto Sosa, a drug dealer linked to the Hernández clan to which Constanzo wanted an introduction. [16] [17] In 1987, she met Constanzo and eventually became the cult's main recruiter.