‘Where have all the cults gone?’ One answer might be ‘Nowhere’, another could be ‘Everywhere!’ The vast majority are still here, but they have changed. Societies’ reactions to them have changed and new varieties have emerged.
How to Create a Cult
How do cults survive in the modern world?
Issue 55, 14th September 2015
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Ben Gibran 17 May 2017
Cults and NRMs are not the same thing. Many cults are secular. Cults are characterized by the psychological techniques they use to recruit, indoctrinate and retain members, not by their beliefs per se. I explain that in my free cult awareness handbook, The DIY Prison: Why Cults Work: https://archive.org/details/TheDIYPrison
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