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	Cult Checklist Encyclopedia Article @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A cult checklist is a group of factors proposed to identify objectively which groups, cults, or new religious movements are spurious, or likely to abuse or exploit or otherwise harm its members.
		The check lists for problematic groups and new religious movements that are generally not labelled "cult checklists" and that have been made by people or organizations not associated by the anti-cult movement, such as sociologists and scholars of new religious movements are treated here too.
		A checklist, allegedly based on empirical research, was made by professor Eileen Barker, in which traits of groups that can evolve to be dangerous are described.
	higherpower.org /encyclopedia/Cult_checklist (1202 words)

	Canadian Report on Doomsday Movements (CESNUR)
		Cults throughout history have thought that critical dates will bring the fulfillment of their beliefs (e.g.
		One estimation indicates that there are 1,200 active cults throughout the world, and that roughly 400 subscribe to doomsday philosophies which foresee catastrophe on or around the year 2000.
		While it is not known which cults have the potential for violence, this does not imply that possible threats posed by Doomsday Religious Movements should be ignored, as they can quickly manifest themselves in a variety of forms.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/canada.htm (2855 words)

	Cult -
		Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and/or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership's demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders.
		A website affiliated with Adi Da Samraj [3] sees the activities of cult opponents as the exercise of prejudice and discrimination against them, and regards the use of the words "cult" and "cult leader" as similar to the manner in which "nigger" and "commie" were used in the past to denigrate fls and Communists.
		Although in the atypical case she describes, the entire cult membership quit, more often rebellion is a combination of the walkaway and castaway patterns in that the rebellion may trigger the expulsion--essentially, the rebels provoke the cult leadership into being the agency of their break with an over-committed lifestyle.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Cult (7918 words)

	Nikolai Bezroukov's Short Introduction to Lysenkoism
		In this sense it's closely related to "cargo cult" phenomenon that is better known in the Western hemisphere as well as science distortions that are associated with the military-industrial complex.
		In this sense it's closely related to "cargo cult" phenomenon that is better known in the Western hemisphere.
		Cult language is intensely divisive, all-encompassing jargon, unmercifully judging.
	www.softpanorama.org /Skeptics/lysenkoism.shtml (9492 words)

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