PDF-Cults and Terrorism: The Context of Terrorism*

Stuart W TwemlowMD Frank C Sacco PhD George Hough PhD Modified from a chapter entitled 147Reflections on the Making of a Terrorist. 1)W.Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults (Cambridge 1987) 18 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. 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. 1960s: Weathermen. Now: N.S.A. 1960s: F.B.I.. . In response to the Weathermen, . The . FBI started . the COINTELPRO program that. took covert actions against domestic . political . groups. The Weathermen’s home . 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.. nd. …. The History of Terrorism as a Strategy of Political Insurgency. Section 2. SubmitAndPray.com. Tyrannicide. and Regicide. Aristotle wrote “Subjects attack their sovereigns out of fear or contempt, or because they have been unjustly treated by them”. “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. What is a Cult. Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:. 1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members. 2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society.. Ch. 14. The Problem in Sociological Perspective. Arms race. Cold war. Why is war common?. An instinct to fight. The sociological answer: societies channel aggression. Sociologists and anthropologists do not look within. “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9, ESV. Definition: The . use of violence against people or property to force changes. What is the difference between:. A church. A denomination. A sect. A cult. Roy Wallis (1976) - . divided organizations into respectable (uniquely legitimate or pluralistically legitimate) or deviant. Dr Peter Beaney . Faculty of Arts Media and Design. 2. Introduction. Terrorism it has been suggested is the ‘dark side of globalisation’ (Powell, quoted in . Katja. , 2007: 103). Penetrating as this comment . Global Terrorism ter·ror·ism noun the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. Terrorism: Two Main Types Terrorism by individuals and organizations 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.