satanic groups
type: Concept
broader: cults

Manson family
type: Concept
broader: cults

religion
type: Concept
narrower: cults

community, culture, and change
type: Concept
narrower: cults

vampires, werewolves, and witches
type: Concept
broader: cults

cultural/social anthropology
type: Concept
narrower: cults

theology
type: Concept
narrower: cults

cults
type: Concept
broader: religion
broader: types of groups and subgroups
broader: intergroup relations
broader: theology
broader: community, culture, and change
broader: primordial communities
broader: cultural/social anthropology
narrower: vampires, werewolves, and witches
narrower: Manson family
narrower: satanic groups
narrower: David Koresh
definition: Cults, more appropriately called “new religious movements” in sociology, have emerged since the 1950s in the United States (and elsewhere) and have gathered much media attention. Many of these faiths provide religious alternatives to mainstream Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism and are popular with young adults. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Cults]

types of groups and subgroups
type: Concept
narrower: cults

intergroup relations
type: Concept
narrower: cults

primordial communities
type: Concept
narrower: cults

David Koresh
type: Concept
broader: cults

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: cults