Sentence examples for cult movement from inspiring English sources

Its Western character notwithstanding, the statue has since the 1980s been the focus of a cult movement.

Tells about his wife, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington and her links with the cult Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, led by a guru named John-Roger.

Wemba was renowned for his flamboyance, and as the moving spirit behind a cult movement known as the Society for the Advancement of Elegant People, or Sapeurs, whose members – young men – spent huge amounts of money on designer clothes, hitting back at the hardship that surrounded them.

A fire broke out at the headquarters of the doomsday cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Kanungu, Uganda, and it eventually led to the discovery of more than 775 bodies, many of which had been poisoned; a search was undertaken for the cult's leaders, who were believed to have killed their followers after a promised apocalypse did not occur.

"What I thought was only going to be one little restaurant became this little cult movement that eventually grew into 60-some stores," Lam said.

Throughout the course of the show, the crew of the Bebop later encounter technologically-modified superhuman clowns, religious cult movement leaders, "children" who are really decades-old killers, lonely artificial intelligence spy satellites, and eco-terrorists wielding genetic-altering viruses.

Very few Nigerians believe that the web of insurgent, criminal and cult movements fighting in the Delta will be eradicated without fundamental changes in Nigeria's governance and politics.

According to the Ontario-based group Religious Tolerance, there are at least eight different definitions, generally with negative connotations and often promoted by those in the anti-cult movement or the media.

Former Scientologists and members of the anti-cult movement often discuss Scientology's space opera teachings.

In the suicides' aftermath, some reporters and members of the anti-cult movement described Unarius as a similar group.

Alternately, much of it was largely negative and critical of New Age groups, as it was influenced by the U.S. anti-cult movement.