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The Roman imperial cult (Latin: cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas)...
An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities...- Term 'Cult'" Van Hoey, Sara: "Cults in Court". The Los Angeles Lawyer, February 1991 Zimbardo, Philip: "What messages are behind today's cults?", American...
- in the 20th century that the most notorious personality cults arose. Frequently, these cults are a form of political religion. The advent of the Internet...
Whitley distinguishes four or five essential types of hero cult: Oikist cults of founders. Such cults arose in colonies in the Hellenic world in Magna Graecia...- The Ming Cult is a fictional cult and martial arts school featured in the wuxia novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong, first published in...
personality cult began soon after Kim Il Sung took power in 1948, and was greatly expanded after his death in 1994. While other countries have had cults of personality...- Bacchanalia (redirect from Bacchanalian cult)Like all mystery cults, the Bacchanalia were held in strict privacy, and initiates were bound to secrecy; what little is known of the cult and its rites...
The Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great was an imperial cult in ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC), promoted by the Ptolemaic dynasty...
forbade cults whose beliefs or practices were considered incompatible with the basic tenets of Roman religion. For example, the Romans proscribed cults that...
Greco-Roman mysteries (redirect from Mystery cults)sent by Zeus. Cults of Cybele– A number of cults following Cybele, or Magna Mater, were present in Greece, Anatolia, and Rome. This cult followed Cybele...
Galactic Empire (Star Wars) (redirect from Imperial Navy (Star Wars))warlords and part of the Imperial remnants. Outside the formal chain of command, the Galactic Empire's reins are held by the Sith, a cult of Force-wielders -...
The Cult of the Holy Spirit (Portuguese: Culto do Divino Espírito Santo), also known as the Cult of the Empire of the Holy Spirit (Culto do Império do...
Isis (redirect from Cult of Isis)regarded her cult with suspicion. Women were more strongly represented in the Isis cult than in most Greco-Roman cults, and in imperial times, they could...- Ceres (mythology) (section Cults and cult themes)of the cult. It was based on ancient, ethnically Greek cults to Demeter, most notably the Thesmophoria to Demeter and Persephone, whose cults and myths...
Mithraism (redirect from Cult of Mithras)all the other mystery cults too." He adds that at the individual level, various individuals did hold roles both in the state cults and the priesthood of...- Liber (section Festivals, cults and priesthoods)Bacchanalia cults may have offered challenge to Rome's traditional, official values and morality but they were practiced in Roman Italy as Dionysiac cults for...
Roman Empire (redirect from Imperial Roman)the Arabs Before Islam"), Baghdad, 1955–1983; Harland, P. (2003). "Imperial Cults within Local Cultural Life: Associations in Roman Asia". (originally...
Asia (Roman province) (section Imperial cult)centers of imperial cult further spawned local cults. These sites served as models followed by other provinces throughout the empire. Imperial cult served...- Bona Dea (section Festival and cult)prurient. Bona Dea's cults in the city of Rome were led by the Vestal Virgins and the Sacerdos Bonae Deae, and her provincial cults by virgin or matron...
- cults of Greece and the Orient, which at once laid hold on the popular mind. In the train of the Magna Mater came the secret Oriental deities. cult of
- influenced by Hellenistic religion (notably Platonism) as well as the Roman imperial cult. Western Christianity is based on Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite), as
- micronation. Nova Roma has adopted the ancient Roman religion as its state cult, but also maintains the freedom of religion of its citizens. As a polytheistic