What is a “cult”? The raelian movement: a UFO religions or flying saucer cult?
Susan Palmer | Pia school (Olot) | September 27, 2017
Friday, 29 September 2017 , Olot
What is a “cult”? The raelian movement: a UFO religions or flying saucer cult?
Susan Palmer presented the question of how to distinguish a “cult” from a mainstream religion. Referring to sociological definitions of cult, sect and church developed by R.S. Ellwood, Yinger, J. Gordon Melton and others, she used the example of a new religious movement, the International Raelian Movement, which was the subject of her 2004 book, Aliens Adored, to examine the characteristic of a “cult” as opposed to a “religion”.
