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...[[city-state]]s became less tolerant of other religions than the official cult, and ''magoi'' were seen as a pernicious, anti-social influence. The Greeks ...e or political power. The official Roman religion was more a nationalistic cult than an individual religious experience, and the new religion of the Christ

...e. The term museum originally referred to the corporation dedicated to the cult of the Muses. <ref>Matson, op cit., 154</ref> Also in the Museum at Alexand

...ministration, but it is their toil that Buddhism exists today as the royal cult of Bhutan.

*{{cite book|title=The Cult of the Amateur | last=Keen | first=Andrew | publisher=Doubleday | date=2007

<blockquote>Michael Carroll, in his The Cult of the Virgin Mary (1986), classifies

While the extremely well funded cult, Aum Shinryo, did synthesize impure GB and released it, inefficiently, in t

...advanced culture, whose routine technology is seen as miraculous. [[Cargo cult]]s are but a few of the potential cultural impacts. In yet another novel b ...}}</ref> Before this is dismissed as anthropomorphic, consider the [[cargo cult]], and the wide range of way that primitive man explains the inexplicable.

...iately, the "Self Defence with a Walking Stick" articles attracted a minor cult following and the illustrations were reproduced, often with humorous captio

...links_s Google Books preview]. | Homeopathy as pseudoscience, quakery, and cult.

...status=live}}</ref> Founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew was averse to a [[cult of personality]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/w

...usinesses and "work festivals" at workplaces. The ideological basis of the cult lay in the celebration of the value of work for the individual and the nati ...in suggests that the "articles of faith," which were presented in the Nazi cult, can be understood as the manifestation of an existential core of religious

...she also penned songs in connection with [[Allen Lanier]] of [[Blue Öyster Cult]]. Lanier recorded a few songs that Smith had contributed to, including "De

There was also a [[warrior]] cult that centered on the severed heads of their enemies.

...e [[International Space Station]], [[Hale-Bopp]] and the [[Heaven's Gate]] cult, [[Dolly the sheep]], [[environmentalism]], [[Boris Yeltsin]], [[Princess D

...sold approximately 125,000 copies in the months after release but earned a cult following and garnered raves from critics. Rolling Stone named it the best In early 1985, R.E.M. stepped into a London recording studio as a cult icon with a growing and adoring group of fans. They had been universally p

...n of Poseidon, that is, the Atlanteans. As [[Lewis Spence]] comments, this cult was in existence already 125 years before Plato, which means that the story

...tic''</ref> In 1966 the AMA declared that "chiropractic is an unscientific cult whose practitioners... constitute a hazard to healthcare in the United Stat

...e rise to a new political identity. Heraclio Bonilla writes, "The miners' cult of the Tio constructs an identity, fortifies a solidarity, and at the same

In 1997, [[Heaven's Gate]], a [[new religious movement]]/cult based in [[San Diego, California|San Diego]], [[California (U.S. state)|Cal

...the river fertility god, Osiris. As dynastic history was forgotten and the cult of Osiris grew in the era two millennia BCE, prosperous Egyptians traveled