PPT-Cults Lecture -3 What The Bible Says About Magic And The Occult, Wicca & Paganism

Some Terms Divination foretelling the future by a system eg palmreading waterreading tealeaves I Ching etc Soothsaying much the same as divination but without a system false prophetic reading of omens portents and signs. Last Edit Date 10102014 102848 AM Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Walt Disney World Operating Hours December 2014 12714 12814 12914 121014 121114 121214 121314 Magic Kingdom 9am 7pm Magic Kingdom 9am 12am Magic Kingdom 9am Last Edit Date 11212014 103822 AM brPage 2br Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Walt Disney World Operating Hours March 2015 3815 3915 31015 31115 31215 31315 31415 Magic Kingdom 9am 11pm Magic Kingdom 9am 11pm Magic Kingdom RELS 225: Cults and New Religious Movements. Agenda. Attendance. Exam description. Review. Essay. Course Evaluations. The Midterm Test. The midterm test will . include . multiple choice, . passage identification, definitions. By Steven Tobey . What is a cult?. a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or . dangerous are you kidding me?. 1. our terms. please keep in mind: . religious culture & social organization our terms (etic) to analyse something else. analytical terms do not necessarily represent the entire phenomenon, just a dimension. An investigation on occult forces expenditures in the heartland of voodoo . Vincent Somville (Michelsen Institute, Bergen). Joël Noret (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Philippe LeMay-Boucher (Heriot-Watt University). Brainwashing. Cults. What distinguishes a harmful cult from a relatively harmless new religious movement or self-help group?. 1) Characteristics of Cults:. A captivating and authoritarian leader who claims to have all the answers to life.. CULTS. b. y June Hunt. What Is a Cult. ? . A cult is a . sect or group of people. that holds to deviant . doctrines. A cult is a . system of religious beliefs. that distorts orthodox Biblical doctrine. “brainwashing,” mind control, cult conversion, and deprogramming. Roots of cultic research. POW camps in the Korean war: emergence of the term “brainwashing”. “. When Prophecy Fails. : . Festinger. Taking the Fecal Occult Blood Test. Requires 3 small stool samples.. Samples are collected with the end of an applicator.. Stool samples have to be taken one day apart, since colon cancers do not bleed consistently and may bleed from time to time.. Supernatural. . in. . Victorian . Britain. Victorian . occult. a. modern phenomenon . (. distinctly. Victorian). r. eligious. . crisis. ; . scientific. . worldview. ; . pseudoscience. ; . issues. Lecture 6. High Priestess . Tehilah. . Firewind. Invocation and Ritual. Invocation. Taking energy in from an outside source to create some change or transformation in oneself. Change one’s perspective (e.g. open the mind’s eye). or wwwusatforgWarm up by walking for five minutes then running one minute and walking one On each successive MM try to better the pace by 20 to 30 seconds huffing and puffing but not gasping for ai Religions. Difference between cults and religions. Deceit in recruitment. Totalitarian. Destroys the family unit. Isolates its members. Keeps non-believers out. Leader and follower consider the Leader to be above reproach.