WordNet
Usage examples of "religious cult".
Although in the divine hierarchy they occupied an inferior rank, they were occasionally admitted to Olympus, and mortals honoured them with a religious cult.
Apart from that there was no special religious cult, except perhaps of Confucius himself.
In fact, the logical assumption was that a militant religious cult, determined to force its views upon society at large, would make a special point of planting its people in various law-enforcement agencies and converting those who were already employed in that capacity.
Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.
As much to the flight crew as to Fertility I say, It just so happens that I'm the last survivor of an almost extinct religious cult.
That was one of my biggest fears before coming here, that the Rangers would turn out to be just some kind of religious cult.
She had made a life's study of criminal cults and intended to research first-hand Victorian London's teeming subculture of spiritualists, occult worshipers, Celtic-revivalists, magic practitioners, and the city's numerous flourishing, quasi-religious cult groups.
Now she's trying to lure the best idle computer and mathematical minds to her while building her little religious cult at the same time.