- a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies
- a group of sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc
- a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of charismatic leader
- a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
- have different kinds such as cult wine, cult following, following a cult, and suicide cult
- Cults showed up first in 1617
- French word culte(meaning a particular kind of worship).
- Culte was a spin ion the Latin cultus which means "cultivations," "care," or "tending"
- In the 19th century, cult first took on its sense of devotion
- Cults are usually smaller than churches, most churches were at one time cults.
- The word CULT tends to associate thousands of harmless groups with the handful of destructive cults
- Main technique of cults is brain washing
- Charimatic leaders
Sources: http://search.aol.com/aol/search?=types+of+cultshttp://www.religioustolerance.org/cultmenu.htm
http://www.csj.org/studyindex/studycult/cultqa2.htm
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