Cult

Adams in his article “The `Good War ' Myth and the Cult of Nostalgia”, he states that: “Americans had many reasons to feel positively about their participation in World War II. They were relatively united in a good cause: ending Nazism, Fascism, and Japanese Imperialism. Americans became spected as liberators…

Worsley talks about the people of the central highlands of New Guinea and says they are only the latest to be gripped in the recurrent religious frenzy of the “cargo cults.” However variously embellished with details from native myth and Christian belief. These cults are just advancing the same central theme, that the world is about to end in a terrible cataclysm. Thereafter God, the ancestors or some local culture hero will appear and inaugurate a blissful paradise…

Cult horror films are set apart from traditional horror films for a number of reasons. Unlike traditional horror films which propel the story in a specific direction and can provide a general hunch as to how the plot as a whole will develop, cult horror films are notorious for having little to no civilized plot development. Cult horror films are equipped to take the story in ridiculous directions, and generate a specific audience at midnight showings that consists predominantly of film experts…

directed by Michael Curtis to explain how and why it gained the status of a ‘cult’ movie.He has given a number of reasons in the essay as to why people liked it so much.Eco begins by making it clear that the movie according to him is not a very artistic movie and that despite that the movie has been repeatedly viewed and appreciated by the audiences.In the essay he looks into factors that are required for a movie/text to attain cult status. One of the reasons Eco gives is that the audiences got…

movement as an illegal cult so in consideration of that it became unlawful for anyone to practice Falungong. Militarized policing persecuted all of those who remained loyal to the movement. The purpose of this paper is centered on if it would be fair to categorize Falungong as a cult or religion. Volumes could be written on the atrocities committed though for the time being let us just determine if Falungong is in fact a cult. Before classifying Falungong as a religion or cult I believe it…

Sociology” by Eileen Barker, she talks about each religious place she went and how each one is different from the other. The main idea in this article is cults. She talk a lot about different religion group and talk about the good of them or the bad. In paragraph 27 Barker said “Mutch has a point – to be labeled as either a cult apologist or a cult critic can make access to “the other side” difficult. But while it can be difficult, it is certainly not impossible. And, whenever it is possible,…

The documentary Holy Hell is interesting in how it comes from a different perspective and angle than most cult documentaries. Many cult documentaries are usually formed as a historical overview of a specific large cult or the history of cults (Van Horn). These documentaries mainly consist of experts detailing the events that happened with the cults and giving facts about them and will maybe present a few former members to share their stories. The documentaries will usually have little to no…

A new religious movement may also be known as a cult, and thanks to our modern society; people have begun to connect cults with bad representations and images. Some people believe that cults are a form of practice that brainwash people into doing something that will harm them, this is due to the negative depiction of cults in which we see in today’s film society. Instead cults are meant to represent new forms of existing religions, new contexts of existing religions, or new creations of religion…

One more cult that has gained international notoriety for leading the mass murder of many is called Aum Shinrikyo. Chizuo Matsumoto who is commonly known as Shoko Asahara was the one who established the cult. Born into a poor family of seven children and partially blind, he failed to gain entry into a university. Falling back to plan B he pursued a career in herbal medicine but was fined for not having a proper license. 1981 was about the time he seriously peered into Taoism and Chinese…

How did reputation spur the Japanese cult, Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aum, to use violence and how did they utilize said violence to create a new reputation? An act of domestic terror in 1995, and several smaller scale terroristic acts committed in the early 90s, is the kind of violence used by this cult to change and build a new reputation for themselves. After trying to gain political legitimacy, and failing, cult leader Shoko Asahara turned to building up his credibility and reputation by…