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After reporting on the results of a survey of United States and Canadian samples to determine public attitudes toward religious cults, this article discusses constitutional issues involved in attempts to legislate against specific types of cult activity and beliefs.
There is no government-determined or legal definition of a cult or distinction between cult and religion for purposes of determining religious freedom protections.
cult, usually small group devoted to a person, idea, or philosophy. The term cult is often applied to a religious movement that exists in some degree of tension with the dominant religious or cultural inclination of a society.
If there were cults who were murdering children during their religious ceremonies there were laws, regulations and governments to deal with everyone, whether they belonged to a cult or not, who committed illegal, criminal or immoral acts.
This report explores the meaning of the term cult; explains the concepts of undue influence, fraud, and misrepresentation; reviews case law developments concerning these concepts in cult contexts; provides an extensive bibliography of articles, books, and cases; and includes an appendix addressing the changing standards for admission of expert ...
Cults, which have experienced varying degrees of discrimination and persecution by law enforcement officials, have consistently claimed that the Constitution does not sanction legal distinctions between them on the one hand and long-established and respected faiths on the other.
used in legal proceedings because of its confused and negatively connoted meaning in contemporary society. INTRODUCTION The term cult has a long and revered history in the sociology of religion, deriving from the work of Troeltsch (1931) and being developed since by a number of theorists (see Richardson, 1978, and van Driel and Richardson, 1988,
