Re:The Psychology of Cults – Syllabus (Harvard)
by mvncleaninst on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:37AM
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Would disagree. Cults have some charismatic leader running the show, afaik the LDS (or regular organized religions more generally) aren't like this
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Re:The Psychology of Cults – Syllabus (Harvard)
by sidlls on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:26AM
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The priest (or equivalent) generally serves this role in kind, and for some sects degree. Religions include the same kind of inoculation with respect to belief, exclusion, and suspicion of outside influences that cults have: it’s just expressed differently (sometimes).
Re:The Psychology of Cults – Syllabus (Harvard)
by stvltvs on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:28AM
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Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were the charismatic cult leaders of Mormonism. Since their time, the mainstream Mormon Church headquartered in Salt Lake City has become less and less cultish and more bureaucratic, yet they still qualify as a cult according to the BITE model, and there are many Mormon splinter groups that are among the worst cults active today.