Cult (disambiguation)
Appearance
A cult is a cohesive group of people devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream.
Cult may also mean:
- cult (religion)
- destructive cult, a group which exploits and destroys its members or even non-members
- Some of these cults have been known to participate in cult homicide and/or cult suicide.
- cargo cult, some religions in the South Pacific
- A cult of personality is sometimes used to refer to a political leader and his following, voluntary or otherwise.
- Something that has a cult following of devoted aficionados. See the following:
- CULT, an abbreviation for the Committee on Culture and Education, a committee of the European Parliament
- The Cult, British rock band
- Blue Öyster Cult, psychedelic band
- "The Cult" is also the name of the official web site of the novelist Chuck Palahniuk
- Cults, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland
- Cult, Haute-Saône, in France