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4 days ago · Sep 28, 2024, 01:00 PM. From duping 20,000 people in Singapore in 2006 to part with their money in a Ponzi scheme to inciting more than 400 people to starve themselves to death to attain heaven ...
4 days ago · Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Sociology, is an international authority on cults, extremism, and coercion. She specializes in self-sealing, or closed, systems (cults, narcissistic relationships, human trafficking, ideological extremism) with a particular focus on recruitment, indoctrination, and methods of influence and ...
5 days ago · Published: 12:30pm, 29 Sep 2024. Asia, home to billions and a multitude of faiths, is a fertile breeding ground for shamans, spiritualists, cults, and sects that exist outside formal religions....
4 days ago · Cults often discourage questioning or independent thought, instead promoting blind faith and obedience. Over time, this can lead to a kind of cognitive atrophy, where the ability to analyze information critically becomes severely impaired. Memory distortion is another common cognitive effect of cult involvement.
3 days ago · Characteristics Associated With Cults. Concerted efforts at influence and control lie at the core of cultic groups, programs, and relationships. Many members, former members, and supporters of cults are not fully aware of the extent to which members may be manipulated, exploited, or even abused.
2 days ago · Someone who stood up and said, this is both dangerous and ridiculous, would have been ushered to the door. Jehovah’s Witnesses are well known to practice ostracism of any member who seems to have slipped in his belief. In other words, cults are characterized by extreme in-versus-out memberships.
3 days ago · The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.
