Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt
A witch-hunt was traditionally a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, which could lead to a witchcraft trial involving the accus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Sociology
Sociology has attributed the occurrence of witchhunts to the human necessity to blame problems on someone. For example, Europe during the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Africa
In many African societies the fear of witches drives periodic witchhunts during which specialist witch finders identify suspects, even to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia - Cult
In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and new religious movement) devoted to beliefs ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Prevalence Of Purported Cults
By one measure, between 3,000 and 5,000 purported cults existed in the United States in 1995.6 While some of the more well-known and infl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cults And Governments
For the main article, see Cults and governments In many countries there exists a separation of church and state and freedom of religion. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Definitions Of Cult
In the English-speaking countries since about the 1960s, especially in North America, the term cult has taken on a pejorative and sometim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cult Nrm And The Sociology And Psychology Of Religion
The problem with defining the word cult is that (1) purported cult members generally resist being called a cult, and (2) the word cult is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Christianity And Cults
Since at least the 1940s, the approach of orthodox or conservative or fundamentalist Christians was to apply the meaning of cult such tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cults And Terrorism
The terrorist waves due to Islamic extremist organizations starting with the 1995 Islamist terror bombings in France and Al-Qaeda's acts ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Theories About The Reasons For Joining A Cult
Michael Langone gives three different models regarding joining a cult 30: "The definitional ambiguity surrounding the term cult has fuel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cult Leadership
According to Dr. Eileen Barker, new religions are in most cases started by charismatic leaders whom she considers unpredictable. Accordin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Relationships With The Outside World
Barer wrote that peripheral members may help to lessen the tension that exists between some groups and the outside world. 27 In the case ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cults: Genuine Concerns And Exaggerations
The stigma surrounding the classification of a group as a cult stems from the purported ill effect the group's influence has on its membe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cult, Nrm And The Sociology And Psychology Of Religion
The problem with defining the word cult is that (1) purported cult members generally resist being called a cult, and (2) the word cult is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Cult Nrm And The Sociology And Psychology Of Religion
The problem with defining the word cult is that (1) purported cult members generally resist being called a cult, and (2) the word cult is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Early Modern Europe
For several centuries, dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and animal servants. These beliefs can...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Early Modern Europe
For several centuries, dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and animal servants. These beliefs ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Usage
A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is condu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Witchhunts
Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming. Hundreds of members of the Unification Church who were caught and harangued by deprogrammers comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Modern Usage
A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is condu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term referring to the time of the Great European Witchhunts (1450-1750). Its first recorded use is by G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - The Burning Times
"The Burning Times" is an English term that was invented by Mary Daly and first used in her book, Gyn/Ecology: The Meta-Ethics of Radical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witch-hunt: Encyclopedia Ii - Witch-hunt - Day Care Sex Abuse
One recent example of a widescale witchhunt in a Western society is the McMartin preschool case. The McMartin preschool owner and employe...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Viii - W
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VIII - W . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word....   » Read the article