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A doomsday cult is a cult that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism, including both those that predict disaster and those that attempt to destroy the entire universe. [1] Sociologist John Lofland coined the term doomsday cult in his 1966 study of a group of members of the Unification Church of the United States: Doomsday Cult: A Study ...
Doomsday cults typically center around predictions of the apocalypse. What many of these groups also have in common is a leader who suggests his own messianic destiny. Several individuals have come forth throughout history holding these extraordinary beliefs and a select few garnering the enough attention to capture a crowd.
An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown massacre, 40 years on. More than 900 people, many of them children, died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978 by drinking cyanide-laced...
Published 4:55 AM PDT, July 18, 2023. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark as detectives exhumed 12 more bodies on Monday believed to be followers of a pastor who ordered them to fast to death in order to meet Jesus.
July 18, 2023, 5:07 PM PDT. By The Associated Press. NAIROBI, Kenya — The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark as detectives exhumed 12...
12 May 2023. By Chelsea Bailey & Holly Honderich,BBC News, Washington. Taylee Ryan Instagram. Lori Vallow photographed with her son, JJ. An Idaho mother in a doomsday cult has been found guilty...
Associated Press. July 19, 2023 1:24 AM PT. NAIROBI — The number of people who died in connection with a Kenyan doomsday cult has surpassed 400 as detectives exhumed 12 more bodies believed to...