Giant monuments and hero cults have coexisted throughout history, and with all sorts of politics.
As a classicist, it actually reminded me a lot of the state cults of many a Greek city-state.
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Most of the material concerns UFO cults, and their behavior in recruiting people.
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It seems that, long before The Da Vinci Code, writers were effectively weaving esoteric cults into the plots of their mysteries.
Halfway through the book many readers will feel they have read quite enough reverential descriptions of naturist and pagan cults in 1930s Britain.
The cults, it seems, like other businesses, are feeling the effects of the longest recession in Japan's modern history and have responded with strong-arm sales tactics.
"It is very regrettable that the law quietly changed before the trial, " Georges Fenech, the head of the Inter-ministerial Unit to Monitor and Fight Cults, told French TV.
Her dissertation was on witch-and-warlock cults in contemporary England.
What started out as a technological novelty with nameless actors, directors and engineers working in obscurity, quickly grew into an industry dominated by buzz and cults of personality as movie-going became commonplace for tens of millions of Americans.
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"As good as those groups can be, they can take control and doom a brand, " says Douglas Atkin, a partner at the ad agency Merkley Newman Harty in Manhattan and the author of the upcoming Cults and Brands.
And it is true, as Gershom Gorenberg argues in his racy discussion of the various weird cults with designs on Temple Mount, that Jerusalem does not want for religious crackpots of every persuasion who would resort to violence in pursuit of some millenarian dream.
But perhaps his best chapter is on 19th-century America, where he distinguishes the reformers who prepared Christ's coming, as they saw it, by combating slavery, alcohol and other social evils, from the separatists, who withdrew into their own sects and cults, the better to wait out Christ's judgment on an unrescuable world.
Gaia, Greek Goddess of Earth, was worshipped on the island of Crete as the ancient mistress of all the animals, and the many cults that grew up in her name gave rise to modern geography, the now accepted biochemical Gaia Hypothesis, and what the ancient Greeks considered the most sacred of all oaths: our indebtedness to Earth.
This movement will also show its face in the arrival of an increasingly utopian society, which toys with the same paradoxical lens by offering opportunities to be isolated in reveries of never before seen levels of personalization and customization, while also producing a new crop of specialized cults that renew our sense of belief and satisfy our need to belong (SoulCycle, Blueprint Cleanse, Girls).
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