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A cult is a religious or social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices.
Cult or cults may also refer to:
Geography
- Cult, Haute-Saône, France
- Cults, Aberdeen, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland
- Cults Academy, a school in Cults, Aberdeenshire
- Cults railway station, a former station near Aberdeen
- Cults, Fife, a parish in the Fife area, Scotland
Sociology and religion
- Cult (religious practice), literally the "care" owed to God or gods and to temples, shrines, or churches
- New religious movement, cult in a common modern sense
- Cult following, a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific work of culture
- Cargo cult, a religious practice ritually mimicking another culture, popular in Melanesia in the late 1900s
- Cult of personality, when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and at times, worshipful image
- Imperial cult, a form of state religion in which a ruler is worshipped as a demigod or deity
- Roman imperial cult, identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State
- Greek hero cult, one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion
Film and television
Music
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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