Mary Johnson, from Michigan, said the closed society, which contains secret ceremonies and countless rituals, carried the characteristics of those groups that we easily recognise as cults .
Was Mother Teresa a cult leader? Perhaps the difference between a strict monastic community and a cult lies simply in the social acceptability of the faith.
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During the Trump years, there was a small boom in documentaries about cults. At least two TV series and a podcast were made about Nxivm, an organization that was half multilevel marketing scheme, half sex-abuse cabal. Wild Wild Country, a six-part series about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh s compound in Oregon, was released on Netflix. Heaven s Gate was the subject of a four-part series on HBO Max and a 10-part podcast. Indeed, there have been so many recent podca