What is a cult?
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What is a cult?
• small group that wants to secede from its social origins
• disciples of heretical leader• gather around leader or ideology, for
religious or nonreligious purposes• use strict discipline/mind control methods
organized around master/specific ideology
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Characteristics of leader
• Charismatic• Demanding• Possibly Abusive• Controlling• Only one in contact
with answers (God)• Claim “Big event
around corner”
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Cults based on charismatic leadership follow routinization of charisma, described by German sociologist Max Weber
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Types of Cults
• Doomsday• Satanic• Religious• Other world• New Age• Christian
Abberational
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• Rev. Sun Myung Moon-The Unification Church, The Moonies
• David Koresh-The Branch Davidians• Jim Jones-The People’s Temple• Shoko Ashara-Aun Shinri Kyo (Sacred
Supreme Truth)• Charles Manson-The Manson Family• Heaven’s Gate – Ron Appelwhite
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Cult ProspectsPeople with:• deprived childhoods • Confusion about religion• Low and wandering self-
esteem• Searching for
new identities• Feel alienated• failure/personal crisis• Freshmen/seniors/ Jobless
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Recruitment
S e du ction P e rsua s ion F a sc in a tion
T h ree S te ps
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Tactics• Milieu control: manage inner
communication - control over all person sees, hears, reads, and writes
• Mystical Manipulation: extensive personal manipulation (mostly God centered)
• Demand for purity: dividing world into pure/impure groups - everything in group is pure - everything outside group is evil
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• Cultic confession of sins: subjected to patterns of criticism and self-criticism by group members
• Sacred science: aura of sacredness around cults doctrine
• Loading the language: words are given new meanings according to organization
IE: MARRIAGE REDEFINED TO INCLUDE ONLY LEADER
TATICS
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TATICS• Doctrine over person:
cults doctrine more valid, true, and real than any aspect of human character and/or experience
• Dispensing of existence: idea that people who are not in group can’t be enlightened or saved
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Ways to exit cult• Deprogramming• Family Intervention• Thought Reform • Exit Counseling• Run fast