- This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word cult (religious practice).
- The term cult is now often used to refer to contemporary religious groups whose beliefs and practices depart from the conventional norms of society.
- This article gives a general cultural account of "cult". For its usage in the original sense of "veneration" or "religious practice", see Cult (religious practice).
- Cults tend to lack a fixed religious doctrine, and typically have very loose religious beliefs, which are open to a wide range of interpretation by members.
- While all cults are not religions, many exhibit religious characteristics, such as a belief in a higher power or a set of spiritual practices.
- A cult is a religious and small group that is not part of a more and larger accepted religion, with unique beliefs or socially deviant and practices.
- A cult (not to be confused with occult) is any religious or political group too small to have its own army and navy or without political power.
- 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.
- Cults and Other Forms of Religious Organization. The most commonly used classification of religious organizations is as churches or sects.
- A cult is a minority religious group that typically tightly controls the behaviours and beliefs of its members, as well as shunning former members and critics.