Cult

Cults In the past there have been clubs, religions, and social groups, but there is a different kind of organization that doesn’t fit in within these groups. This organization is known as Cults. Cults are worship groups following “godly” things of their religious beliefs regarded by others as weird or sinister. Throughout history there have been different types of cults, some with good intention and some with bad intentions. Although the cults with “good intentions” followed or used part of the…

origin of the cult of Dionysus is unclear. It is clear that he came as a foreigner but there are different theories as to from where. Thrace and Phrygia are traditionally viewed as his birthplace before he migrated to Greece. Nilsson, however, proposes that Dionysus originated in three different regions: Thrace, Phrgia, and Greece itself, each time in different forms.1 Because the cult of Dionysus was so well received in the mainland of Greece, Nilson makes the assumption that the cult had been…

The essay I found to be most interesting this week was The Cult of Virginity . As a woman, I think that it is hard to talk about our sexuality and the topic of virginity compared to men. It is sad that women who have had sex are considered damaged goods while sexually active men are treated like kings. The idea of virginity has so much power yet the Harvard medical school library didn't have a clear definition of it. I doesn't make much sense, the difference between men and women and how we talk…

historic figure. Miri Rubin's recent magnum opus Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary provides a much needed global examination of the cultural significance of the Virgin Mary over the longue duree. On a more localised level, Bridget Heal's The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany and the book under review here, Carol Engelhardt Herringer's Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830–85, provides a narrower focus and allows for the confessional and…

Since the beginning of time women has been subjected to gender role stereotypes. The woman should stay home, cook, clean, and raise the children as stated in “The Cult of Domesticity”. The woman’s sole purpose from that point on is to take care of the house and remain slaves to their male counterpart. They would be forced to birth children that they did not want resulting in many suicides and unhappy women. That was until the seventies came rolling around with its idealistic views of equality…

After reading the transcript to the “Japanese Sarin Cult,” it is easy to see what an inherent threat Aum Shinrikyo was to Japan, and potentially to the United States. The overall evidence that is provided fully explains why this terrorist organization was in fact a threat to the Japanese people. Not only were numerous test drafts conducted, but there was an overwhelming amount of intelligence suggesting Asahara and his Aum were a threat to the Japanese people (Wright, 2008). Asahara and his Aum…

The Cult of True Womanhood which is commonly known as the Cult of Domesticity, is the ideology that was introduced in the nineteenth century that women's nature suited them especially for tasks associated with the home. Welter Barber stated that “ The attributes of True Womanhood, by…

ourselves success. This is a thought, however, in the eyes of Barbara Ehrenreich to be somewhat naive. She elaborates on the relationship of success and busyness, revealing to readers that one does not have to be busy to achieve success. In “The Cult of Busyness,” we the readers are pulled into the story as Ehrenreich successfully creates somewhat of a playful joking air. She tells of one's “stress taking its toll…. her children resented the fact that she sometimes gets their name mixed up,…

Holier than thou puritan cult like beliefs and communities. The Puritan belief system was so intrusive into every part of an individual’s life that it could be comparable to a cult type civilization. Control over every aspect of a member’s life was scrutinized and dictated by Church elders. Laws regarding everything from mandatory church attendance, style of clothing, manner of speech and social interaction were strictly enforced. Those found guilty of improper or sinful behavior were often…

J. K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, states that “...the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us.” Jack Merridew, an innocent twelve year old at the start of the novel, Lord of the Flies, and Ralph, also an innocent school boy in the beginning , portray the very thing Rowling talks about. All people have both light and dark in them. By the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, both innocent schoolboys have turned into…