“Cults” and “New Religious Movements”

Gallagher, Eugene V.

doi:10.1086/524210

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“…Trying to shed their negatively biased image, scholars stopped referring to fringe groups as "cults" and started describing them as "new religions" or "new religious movements" (Robbins 2000;Melton 2004;Gallagher, 2007). Ironically, Barker (2004Barker ( , 2014 points out, this concept has been no less criticized, given that many of the groups to whom it pertains are not that new, do not regard themselves as a religion, and do not form a movement so much as a loosely knit network.…”

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(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”: On the Study of Entangled Quests for Meaning in Modern Western Cultures

Vliegenthart

2020

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The disenchantment of reality has bankrupted conventional sources of meaning for many people in modern Western cultures. This has led a growing number of figures and groups to search for alternative sources of meaning. Typical of their quests for meaning is the entanglement of secular and religious discourses. Since the twentieth century, scholars have studied the social configurations of these figures and groups as “cults” or “new religious movements” and their ideologies as “New Age” or “spirituality,” which are seen as parts of a longer tradition of “Western esotericism” (Europe) or “metaphysical religion” (North America). Several leading scholars have also interpreted them as forms of “secular religion,” but this has yet to gain academic traction. This article argues that the former concepts are lacking or losing a logical connection with the socio-historical phenomena to which they pertain and reintroduces the latter concept as a more appropriate one.

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(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”: On the Study of Entangled Quests for Meaning in Modern Western Cultures

Vliegenthart

2020

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“…developing around specific brands, events or personalities (Belk and Tumbat 2005). Gallagher (2007) argues that 'cult' is used as an indicator of 'otherness'. This implies a classification between what is to be considered conventional or unconventional.…”

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“…In research, cult is often replaced with the more neutral term New Religious Movement (Gallagher 2007). Robbins (1988: 5) argues that the growth of New Religious Movements is allied with a growth in the 'human potential movement' and therapeutic mystiques oriented towards growth and self-actualization.…”

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A CULTure of entrepreneurship education

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Frederiksen

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Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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High hopes are invested in a rapid institutionalisation of an enterprise culture in HigherEducation. This has heightened the importance of entrepreneurship education (EE) in most Western societies; however, how values and beliefs about entrepreneurship are institutionalised in EE remains relatively unchallenged. This study applies the lens of the cult, in particular three elements Rituals, Deities and the Promise of Salvation, to reflect on the production and reproduction of entrepreneurship in EE. In doing so, the paper addresses uncontested values and beliefs that form a hidden curriculum prevalent in EE. We argue for greater appreciation of reflexive practices to challenge normative promotions of beliefs and values that compare with forms of evangelising, detrimental to objectives of Higher Education. Consequently, we call for a more critical pedagogy to counteract a 'cultification' of entrepreneurship in EE.

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“…A good example of this is "totalist" groups such as cults (e.g., Curtis & Curtis, 1993;Galanter, 1989). In these groups, leaders are often distinct and remote from followers.…”

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Social Identity Theory of Leadership

2010

Encyclopedia of Group Processes &Amp; Intergroup Relations

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A social identity theory of leadership is described that views leadership as a group process generated by social categorization and prototype-based depersonalization processes associated with social identity. Group Over the past 25 years social psychology has placed relatively little emphasis on the study of leadership. This is probably associated with the well-documented decline during the 1960s and 1970s of interest in small group research, the associated ascendency of social cognition, the European emphasis on large scale intergroup relations, and the "outsourcing" of small group and leadership research to organizational and management departments (for historical overviews, see

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“Cults” and “New Religious Movements”

Cited by 10 publications

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(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”: On the Study of Entangled Quests for Meaning in Modern Western Cultures

(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”: On the Study of Entangled Quests for Meaning in Modern Western Cultures

A CULTure of entrepreneurship education

Social Identity Theory of Leadership

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