The Return of the "Cult"
Recent years have seen an apparent "return" of normative religious and cultic language in political and media discourses, often adopted in pejorative and confrontational contexts. Arguably driven by contemporary political divisions and debates surrounding COVID-19 restrictions, terms inclu...
| Published in: | Implicit religion |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: The Return of the Cult: Bad Religion in the Age of Trump and COVID" |
| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox
2023
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| In: |
Implicit religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sect
/ Research
/ Rhetoric
/ New religion
/ Politics
/ Society
/ History 1970-2021
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
New Religious Movements
B Methodology B Minority Religion B Vaccines B Cults B Trump |
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| Summary: | Recent years have seen an apparent "return" of normative religious and cultic language in political and media discourses, often adopted in pejorative and confrontational contexts. Arguably driven by contemporary political divisions and debates surrounding COVID-19 restrictions, terms including "cult," "brainwashing," and "groupthink" have reignited discourses surrounding so-called "cultic" behaviour and beliefs. We argue, however, that the "cult debate" has not returned, but rather transitioned into new and implicit conversations surrounding "good" and "bad" religion. In this special issue of Implicit Religion, we seek to avoid re-treading old ground concerning definitions of "cults," and instead adopt a renewed approach to the academic study of normative cultic language - placing an emphasis on the ways in which these terms are used, negotiated, and understood in contemporary discourses. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.23573 |