Cult
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Cults are social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal is another character
Max Weber (1864–1920), an important theorist in the study of cults
Hundreds of dead bodies on the ground after the Jonestown Massacre, orchestrated by cult leader Jim Jones
An anti-Aum Shinrikyo protest in Japan, 2009
Falun Gong books being symbolically destroyed by the Chinese government
Various sociological classifications of religious movements have been proposed by scholars. In the sociology of religion, the most widely used classification is the church-sect typology. The typology
Herättäjäjuhlat, or the Awakening festival, in Seinäjoki, Finland in 2009
A scene from the 1904–1905 Welsh revival. Dan Davies of Hermon Chapel conducting a baptism in the River Gwaun in 1905.
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, by John Henry Lorimer, 1891. National Gallery of Scotland.
Ordination to Priesthood, St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich, Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia, 2019