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 | | Toby Lester on the proliferation of new religions... | | | cult encyclopedia new religion; cult religion vs. www.youngsynod.com. | | | cult encyclopedia new religion, More Searches Related To for: Search Results for: cult encyclopedia new religion. |
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http://www.just-religion-links.com/cult_encyclopedia_new_religion.html
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| Â | TEN MARKS OF CULT RELIGION |
| | Cult religion does not see the world as the good creation of God. | | | Cult religion demands a complete break from life to this point. |
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http://www.namb.net/helplink/TH-CULT.asp
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| Â | Religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Religion is belief in the divine, supernatural, or sacred that results in worship ; that worship itself; the institutional or culturally-bound expression of that worship; or some combination of these. | | | Another problem is that some individuals feign one religion for public consumption while actually practicing another religion, or practice multiple contradictory religions at the same time, thereby making it difficult to recognize the function of any particular religion, or if any definite function exists. | | | Although there is a tendency, in the West especially, to speak about religion in terms of God not all religions believe in a creator god. |
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http://phatnav.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Religion
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| Â | Cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Indeed, any religion involving unconditional worship and unquestioning obedience to God could be labelled as a cult (using the pejorative connotation of the word), since such a religion would have that high level of dependency, obedience, and unwavering compliance ascribed to cults by definition. | | | Scientology 's claim to be a religion but asserts that it is a business disguised as a religion and puts restrictions on its activities. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
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| Â | Cult (religion) |
| | The cult of a religion, as opposed to its sacred writings (" scriptures "), its theology or myths, or the personal faith of its believers, has traditionally referred to the totality of external religious practice and observance, the neglect of which is impiety. | | | The comparative study of cult practice is part of the disciplines of the anthropology of religion and the sociology of religion, aspects of comparative religion. | | | The sacred places may be elaborated by construction of shrines and temples, on which are centered public attention at religious festivals (called "Feasts" in some Christian communities) and which may become the center for pilgrimages. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/cult__religion_
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| Â | Definition of terms: cults, sects, denominations |
| | This definition would include the Mormon Church, Wicca, mainline and liberal Christian denominations, Islam, Hinduism, and all of the other religions of the world. | | | It holds most beliefs in common with its religion of origin, but has a number of novel concepts which differentiate them from that religion. | | | A Sect is a small religious group that is an offshoot of an established religion or denomination. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/cults.htm
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| Â | Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology |
| | Unusual for a "religion", the Church of Scientology has organised systematic intelligence activities, including bugging, burglary, forgery, framing, infilitration and intimidation since 1955. | | | Freezone is a loose affiliation of people who still believe in some of the ideas of Scientology auditing procedures, but who have left the formal structure of the cult in a type of Scientology reformation. | | | Paulette Cooper's book; she was victim of the worst Dead Agenting attacks by the Church of Scientology ever. |
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http://www.xenu.net
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| Â | THE CULT CONSTRUCTION SET |
| | Simply select the beliefs that are most advantageous to you and ‘The Cult Construction Set’ will generate actual Bible scriptures to support these beliefs. | | | No religion would be complete without a catchy name, so the first thing we need to do is create a name for your newly founded Cult. | | | For thousands of years man has been putting his own spin on Religion and the Scriptures and now so can you. |
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http://www.fadetoblack.com/cultkit
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| Â | Welcome to Maranatha-Pakistan.org |
| | Today all the churches and religions are being united to form an international or world Church. | | | All the mysteries of this cult religion were transferred as sacraments into the church. | | | This Babylonian religion was wide spread and had many "mysteries" (the education of this cult system was divided in many portions or sections, these portions were called as 'mysteries'). |
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http://www.maranatha-pakistan.org/conspiryac.html
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| Â | Christianity/Apologetics/Counter-cult : Religion World |
| | Information on non-Christian religions and sects of Christianity. | | | Non-profit, non-denominational group with three goals: to educate Christians about the dangers and heretical doctrines of religious cults, to use the Gospel of Jesus Christ to reach members of those cults and to warn Christians of unbiblical teachings within the church itself. | | | Ministry in Hawaii researching cults, world religions, false teachings, and movements within Christianity. |
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http://www.religion-world.com/Christianity/Apologetics/Counter-cult/index.html
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| Â | Cult & Religion Definitions |
| | According to Encarta Encyclopedia 2003, scholars use the terms to ‘alternative religion, new religion, or new religious movement’ in replace of the word ‘cult’. | | | The term cult used to mean religious practices that are devoted to a god, or gods or the idolization of a person or object. | | | Does this mean that religions and cults hold the same meaning? |
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http://people.stu.ca/~GWMST/res5a.htm
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| Â | Cult Test |
| | No, not all religions are cults, far from it. | | | I have occasionally called A.A. a religious cult, and so have other people. | | | How do I tell if I have just walked into a real religious cult, rather than just some church with a bunch of overly-enthusiastic members?" |
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http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult.html
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| Â | Cults: from positive to homicidal faith groups |
| | Examples are the religions of Wicca and Hinduism. | | | In reality, the only "crime" of most "cults" is that they they hold different religious beliefs from whomever is doing the attacking. | | | An alternative definition is that a cult is a religion which you happen to dislike. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/cultmenu.htm
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| Â | AllRefer.com - cult (Religion, General) - Encyclopedia |
| | cult, ritual observances involved in worship of, or communication with, the supernatural or its symbolic representations. | | | These groups vary widely in doctrine, leadership, and ritual, but most stress direct experience of the divine and duties to the cult community. | | | The English scholar Jane Harrison pointed out the importance of the cult in the development of religion. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/cult.html
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| Â | Why Linux IS a CULT RELIGION |
| | A synopsis of why Linux is a cult religion. | | | The very same pedestal as the three great religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, that "hold up the world." | | | There are four basic steps to establishing a cult religion. |
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http://peanut-gallery.kadaitcha.cx/linux_religion.html
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| Â | Adherents.com |
| | In 1964 he reorganized his followers as the Gospel Spreading Church, but most of the congregations continued to call themselves the Church of God. | | | The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy & Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. | | | "; "The most distinctive feature of Gond religion is the cult of the Persa Pen, or the clan deities. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_292.html
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| Â | cult/religion |
| | This topic on distinguishing ‘cults’ from ‘normal’ religions is obviously a very touchy subject, simply because any strongly religious person is going to have an opinion and want it to be heard. | | | And most communities need a majority religion in order to function properly. | | | If people have the free will to start their own religion and if their acts are purely religious then why can’t they practise them? |
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http://people.stu.ca/~gwkcg/res5a.htm
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| | About compatibility of scientology to other religions: http://germany.freedommag.org/experts/eng/flinn01.pdf (part 4) "Scientology does not require members to renounce prior religious beliefs or membership in other churches or religious orders. | | | Has no formal education related to cults (although he has education in the philosophy of religion and in law, and teaches about "new religions" a few days a year). | | | The truth is that most religions do not use any coercive tactics, or deceptive persuasion. |
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http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/faq-you/cult.apologists.txt
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| Â | Cults and Religion: cults, churches, denominations, sects and new religions, or nrm's |
| | Cults and Religion: cults, churches, denominations, sects and new religions, or nrm's | | | World religions graphic by Roberta Polfus, from Irving Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion, InterVarsity Press, Carol Stream, 1994 | | | There are six edited volumes of texts and various volumes of essays dealing with African Religion. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb
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| Â | ex-cult Resource Center |
| | Open Directory: Society: Religion and Spirituality: Opposing Views: Cults | | | Open Directory: Society: Religion and Spirituality: Opposing Views: Scientology | | | Yahoo: Society and Culture: Religion and Spirituality: Cults |
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http://www.ex-cult.org/
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| Â | Wired News: Cult of Mac |
| | If "fanatic" is the root of the word "fan," then this adequately describes the legions of followers who love their machines. | | | Read all about the cult of Macintosh and Mac users in this special section. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/mac
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| Â | Cult Information of AFF's Cult Information Service |
| | This explosive first-person account of life in a cult that encouraged "sacred prostitution" is a compelling, cautionary tale of a spiritual odyssey gone haywire. | | | Information on cults, cultic groups, psychological manipulation, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, brainwashing, mind control, thought reform, abusive churches, extremism, totalistic groups, new religious movements, alternative and mainstream religions, group dynamics, exit counseling, recovery, and practical suggestions for those affected by or interested in these subjects. | | | AFF's New internet journal (with abridged print version) provides information on psychological manipulation and abuse, cults, new religious movements, sects, the New Age movement, other charismatic groups, and how to help people involved in such groups. |
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http://www.csj.org/
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| Â | Opposing Views/Anti-Cult : Religion World |
| | English version of an article by Wim Haan, examining a court case in Holland around a failed attempt to deprogram practitioners from the African Ifa religion. | | | Most ACM groups seem to take the legitimate public fear of destructive doomsday cults, raise it to a fever pitch, and then direct it against benign new religious groups. | | | The anti-cult movement is responsible for abuses often worse than cult abuses themselves. |
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http://www.religion-world.com/Opposing_Views/Anti-Cult/index.html
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| Â | Cult information from Steve Alan Hassan, Cults Expert. |
| | Hassan has been at the forefront of cult awareness activism since 1976 and is the author of two critically acclaimed books – Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (1988) and Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves (2000). | | | Ex-cult members and others seek him out for specialized counseling to help them recover from symptoms other mental health professionals are not trained to address. | | | The fact that a person’s name or group appears on our website does not necessarily mean they are a destructive mind control cult. |
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http://www.freedomofmind.com/
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