What is a cult? What is the difference between a cult and a religion? Who joins cults and why? What are the social, cultural, and psychological reasons that people join cults? In this lecture Dr. Shermer presents research from sociologists and psychologists to attempt to answer these questions, while examining several examples of cults from recent history and when and why they can be dangerous.
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Topics addressed: paranormal/supernatural/occult • religion/spiritualism/new age
Resource type: powerpoint and keynote presentations
Academic discipline: psychology • religious studies and/or theology • sociology and/or anthropology
Academic level: college and university
Resource type: powerpoint and keynote presentations
Academic discipline: psychology • religious studies and/or theology • sociology and/or anthropology
Academic level: college and university
