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Mundane Cults

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The word cult conjures images of hooded figures, mass suicide, and

narcissistic leaders. But this dark image is nonsense—the kind that
makes us more vulnerable to destructive groups. Cults are actually a
pervasive building block of modern community, from veganism to fitness
franchises to health movements. The question isn’t whether you’re in
one, but whether it’s one you chose.

Further reading
  • Successful
    • Prophets
  • The Value of
    • Ritual
  • Human
    • Perspective is Not the Only One
  • Everything
    • is Ideology
  • The
    • Scientific Ritual
  • Panpsychism
  • Questions That
    • Don’t Matter
  • All Food is
    • Toxic
  • Easy
    • Measurement Bias
  • The Placebo
    • Effect
  • The
    • Charismatic Leader (Weber)
  • True Family
    • Ties
  • Abstractions
    • as Gods
  • Belief-Consistent
    • Information Processing
    References
    • Sociological
      • classification of cults
    • Roy Wallis on
      • Wikipedia
    • The Protestant
      • Reformation
    • Robert Jay
      • Lifton on Wikipedia
    • Robert
      • Jay Lifton: Theories of Totalism
    • Margaret
      • Singer on Wikipedia
    • Janja Lalich on
      • Wikipedia
    • Steven
      • Hassan: Combating Cult Mind Control
    • Korean
      • War
    • Brainwashing:
      • China and the Korean War
    • Jonestown
    • Heaven’s
      • Gate
    • Manson
      • Family
    • Religious
      • Behaviour on Wikipedia
    • LA
      • Times: Cults as Places of Value
    • JSTOR: Affiliation
      • and Spiritual Fulfillment
    • Church
      • vs Sect (Troeltsch and Niebuhr)
      ...more
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