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Cult Group Controversies: Conceptualizing "Cult" and "Sect"
Religious Movements ^ | Jeffrey K Hadden

Posted on 12/12/2007 9:57:40 AM PST by xzins

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To: xzins

But from a purely academic standard, I tend to think your definitions are about as spot on as anything I’ve ever seen.

I hope your book becomes widely known and used to accomplish that goal of educating the public about what has happened in religion in the last twenty years. Its good to have some people who are actually favorably disposed to religious people writing the textbooks instead of somebody writing it like a case study on aliens living amongst us.


41 posted on 12/12/2007 12:59:16 PM PST by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: Strategerist

:>)

(However, not by the above definitions.)

What do we call a group of carmakers who strike out on their own from previous positions in General Motors?

(Crazy.....entrepreneurs?)

If they succeed what are they (small businesses?)

Same thing really.


42 posted on 12/12/2007 1:02:21 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain! True Supporters of Our Troops Support the Necessity of their Sacrifice!)
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To: LetsRok
So what is a BEER handling southern baptist?
43 posted on 12/12/2007 1:27:45 PM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (I'm really made of people!)
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To: -YYZ-

If I am a proponent of, and adhere to the teachings of, several of those groups would you say I’m a fan of group sects?


44 posted on 12/12/2007 1:30:26 PM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (I'm really made of people!)
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