See cult on Wiktionary
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Erhard had some experience with Scientology in 1969. Then he worked for a while in Mind Dynamics, itself an offshoot of Jose Silva's Mind Control.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1996, John Ankerberg, John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 216:", "text": "There are scores of modern religious cults and sects that have been influenced by Hinduism to varying degrees. Werner Erhard, founder of 'Landmark Education's 'The Forum',' and 'est' seminars, which have about 700,000 graduates, was influenced by Hinduism through Swami Muktananda, one of Erhard's principal gurus.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1997, Len Oakes, “Followers and Their Quest”, in Prophetic charisma: The Psychology of Prophetic Charisma, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 137:", "text": "Outsiders often criticize the extreme commitment of group members. But what is really happening is that leader and followers are conspiring to realize a vision that is falsified daily. For the cult is not paradise, and the leader is not God. Hence the follower is embattled; to squarely confront the many failings of the leader and the group is to call into question one's own great work. Only by daily recommitting himself can the follower continue to work toward his ultimate goal. Each follower works out a secret compromise, acknowledging some things while denying or distorting others. Clearly this is a high-risk strategy that may go awry.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1998 June 17, Scott McLemee, “Rethinking Jonestown”, in Salon.com:", "text": "The difference between a cult and an established religion is sometimes about one generation.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1998 June 17, Scott McLemee, “Rethinking Jonestown”, in Salon.com:", "text": "If Jones' People's Temple wasn't a cult, then the term has no meaning.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2000, Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs : Cults and New Religions in American History, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180:", "text": "Another potent element of the new cult milieu was the therapy sect, which offered believers the chance to achieve their full human potential through personal growth and self-actualization by taking total responsibility for one's actions. The prototypical movement of this kind was est (Erhard Seminar Training), in which intense and often grueling sessions forced followers to confront a new view of reality.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016 November 6, “Multilevel Marketing”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 29, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:", "text": "He sounds like a cult leader about to demand his followers drink poison. And it frankly doesn’t help that he looks like Jim Jones to a genuinely creepy degree.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, quoting Marc Andreessen, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:", "text": "Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who has become one of Silicon Valley's most outspoken opponents of regulation, has described people who warn of existential risks from AI as a cult, no different from other millenarian movements that warn of impending social disasters.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader." ], "id": "en-cult-en-noun-aOr0en8N", "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "group", "group" ], [ "sect", "sect" ], [ "movement", 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Doublet of culto.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "inv": "1" }, "expansion": "cult (invariable)", "name": "pt-adj" } ], "lang": "Portuguese", "lang_code": "pt", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Brazilian Portuguese", "Pages with 6 entries", "Pages with entries", "Portuguese 1-syllable words", "Portuguese 2-syllable words", "Portuguese adjectives", "Portuguese doublets", "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header", "Portuguese indeclinable adjectives", "Portuguese lemmas", "Portuguese terms borrowed from English", "Portuguese terms derived from English", "Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷel-", "Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation", "Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English" ], "glosses": [ "cult (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)" ], "links": [ [ "cult", "cult#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Brazil) cult (enjoyed by a small, loyal group)" ], "tags": [ "Brazil", "invariable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkuwt͡ʃ/", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "[ˈkuʊ̯t͡ʃ]", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈkuw.t͡ʃi/", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "[ˈkuʊ̯.t͡ʃi]", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈkuwt͡ʃ/", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "[ˈkuʊ̯t͡ʃ]", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈkuw.t͡ʃi/", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "[ˈkuʊ̯.t͡ʃi]", "tags": [ "Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈkuwt͡ʃ/", "tags": [ "Southern-Brazil" ] }, { "ipa": "[ˈkuʊ̯t͡ʃ]", "tags": [ "Southern-Brazil" ] } ], "word": "cult" } { "derived": [ { "word": "cultic" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "ro", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*kʷel-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "ro", "2": "fr", "3": "culte" }, "expansion": "Borrowed from French culte", "name": "bor+" }, { "args": { "1": "ro", "2": "la", "3": "cultus", "4": "", "5": "care, adoration; cult" }, "expansion": "Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”)", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).", "forms": [ { "form": "culte", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "ro-noun-n", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "cult", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "indefinite", "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "un cult", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "indefinite", "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "cultul", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite", "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "culte", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "indefinite", "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "niște culte", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "indefinite", "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "cultele", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite", "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "cult", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "genitive", "indefinite", "singular" ] }, { "form": "unui cult", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "genitive", "indefinite", "singular" ] }, { "form": "cultului", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "definite", "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "culte", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "genitive", "indefinite", "plural" ] }, { "form": "unor culte", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "genitive", "indefinite", "plural" ] }, { "form": "cultelor", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "definite", "genitive", "plural" ] }, { "form": "cultule", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "vocative" ] }, { "form": "cultelor", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "vocative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "n", "2": "culte" }, "expansion": "cult n (plural culte)", "name": "ro-noun" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "g": "n", "gpd": "cultelor", "gpi": "culte", "gsd": "cultului", "gsi": "cult", "n": "", "npd": "cultele", "npi": "culte", "nsd": "cultul", "nsi": "cult", "vp": "cultelor", "vs": "cultule" }, "name": "ro-decl-noun" } ], "lang": "Romanian", "lang_code": "ro", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 6 entries", "Pages with entries", "Romanian countable nouns", "Romanian entries with incorrect language header", "Romanian lemmas", "Romanian neuter nouns", "Romanian nouns", "Romanian terms borrowed from French", "Romanian terms derived from French", "Romanian terms derived from Latin", "Romanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "Romanian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷel-" ], "glosses": [ "cult" ], "links": [ [ "cult", "cult#English" ] ], "tags": [ "neuter" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/kult/" } ], "word": "cult" }
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