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Television & Society: Exploring the Telemovie 'Cult'

This quiz explores key aspects of the telemovie 'Cult,' focusing on character roles and related social themes. It challenges your knowledge of the cast and the societal implications presented in the narrative.

1 Who played Rahul the telemovie Cult?

2 [34] According to Barrett, the most common accusation made against groups referred to as cults is ________.

3 What role did Joel Michaely play in the telemovie Cult?

4 Who played Joe the telemovie Cult?

5 Who played Alex the telemovie Cult?

6 van der Lans, there is no uniform ________.

7 The organizations that formed the secular "________" (ACM) often acted on behalf of relatives of "cult" converts who did not believe their loved ones could have altered their lives so drastically by their own free will.

8 In the late 1980s psychologists and sociologists started to abandon theories like brainwashing and ________.

9 What role did Len Shaffer play in the telemovie Cult?

10 Who played Gee Ming the telemovie Cult?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective.
  • the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested.
  • the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers.
  • the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults, by the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology.
  • due to the reputation of its founder, Jan Groenveld, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre of Australia became used as a resource in publications on cults soon after its founding.
  • Credonia Mwerinde founded the doomsday cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, with Joseph Kibweteere.
  • Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp.
  • a cult in Mexico venerates "Santa Muerte" (pictured), who is condemned by the local Catholic Church.
  • Powderfinger's "Living Type" was about Charles Manson's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts.