Politik pengkultusan

Politik pengkultusan adalah istilah yang digunakan untuk menjelaskan beberapa golongan atau kelompok yang pada umumnya dianggap sebagai pelaku politik pinggiran. Meskipun sebagian besar kelompok ini memakai istilah agama" (saat ini sering digunakan sebagai istilah yang merendahkan menurut beberapa perbandingan cendekiawan agama Miller, Timothy. Religious Movements in the United States: An Informal Introduction (2003)  Melton, J. Gordon. Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.) kadang-kadang diterapkan adalah agama secara natural, urutan agama yang tidak baik dan terfokus pada sekuler yaitu memperbaiki diri sendiri Dave Mitchell, "Light to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Its Pulitzer," Point Reyes Light, April 15, 2004 (on Synanon drug rehabilitation clinic)Carol Lynn Mithers, "When Therapists Drive Their Patients Crazy," California, August 1988 (on Center for Feeling Therapy, a psychotherapy clinic) Stephen Butterfield, Amway: The Cult of Free Enterprise, Boston: South End Press, 1985Compendium of press articles and public record documents on Landmark Education (successor to the "est" self-improvement organization) at  atau pada tindakan politik dan ideologi.Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth, On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. Sociologist Janja Lalich has written that this book helps to dispel "the old myth that all cults are religious" but she criticized the authors for using what she believed was "disparaging language" (e.g. "political automatons") to describe those trapped within political cults. ("On the Edge" (review), Cultic Studies Review (online journal), 2:2, 2003  

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 Characteristics of a cult checklist 
 Tourish and Wohlforth's On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left