" Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream.

" MSNBC review of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen

* In his book iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak mentions Joybubbles as an early inspiration during his college years.

Working with his wife and University of California at Berkeley sociologist Richard Ofshe ( an unpaid consultant for the Synanon investigation ), Mitchell subsequently wrote The Light on Synanon: How a Country Weekly Exposed a Corporate Cult and Won the Pulitzer Prize.

* Satan Wants You: The Cult of Devil Worship in America by Arthur Lyons ( Mysterious Press, 1988, ISBN 0-89296-217-8 ; Warner Books, 1989, ISBN 0-445-40822-7 ) — Out of print

The song was also covered by Jeff Buckley on the DVD Live in Chicago and at the Olympia in Paris, as well as on the 1994 debut album by The Presidents of the United States of America, and by Blue Öyster Cult on their 1978 live album Some Enchanted Evening.

Its title track has been covered by various bands, including The Presidents of the United States of America, who completely reworked the lyrics to an upbeat form on their eponymous debut album in 1995, post-punkers Volcano Suns on their 1989 double album Thing of Beauty, hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult on their 1978 live album Some Enchanted Evening, Rage Against the Machine on their album Renegades with Tom Morello also performing the song with Street Sweeper Social Club and Trent Reznor live, Henry Rollins with Bad Brains for the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack, Afrika Bambaataa, Monster Magnet, Japanese rockers Guitar Wolf on their debut album Run Wolf Run, Jeff Buckley ( whose version was released on his posthumous " legacy edition " of Grace on the bonus CD of unreleased songs ), Entombed on the EP Family Favourites, Silverchair, and Give Up the Ghost ( formerly American Nightmare ) on their Year One compilation.

As a result, the remaining concerts of 1979, Blue Öyster Cult on December 14 and Aerosmith on December 21, were cancelled and concert venues across North America switched to reserved seating or changed their rules about festival seating.

In the two-part story " Daleks in Manhattan " and " Evolution of the Daleks " ( 2007 ) the Cult of Skaro, stranded in 1930s America following an emergency temporal shift, attempt to rebuild the Dalek race.

*" Moonies " in America: Cult, Church and Crusade.

* " Moonies " in America: Cult.

* " The Cult Awareness Network and the Anticult Movement: Implications for NRMs in America " ( with Susan E. Darnell and Kendrick Moxon ) in New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America.

Boom Candle, Tesla, Bad Company-Paul Rodgers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Boy, Jackyl, Skid Row, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Queensryche, David Lee Roth, Badaz, Air Supply, America, Pat Benatar, Billy Squier, The Guess Who, Toy Boys, Slaughter, Uriah Heep, Blue Oyster Cult, Jethro Tull, Ted Nugent

The Chris Aaron Band, America, Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Captain Jack, Wizenhiemers, Gov't Mule, Kansas, The Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Chic Tracy, Amy & The Toy Boys, Survivor, The Dweebs, Marques Bovre & The Evil Twins, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Peter Frampton, Foreigner, Journey

She authored Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It, published Scribner in 2005, and more recently Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in ' 08 and Beyond ( 2008 ).

He was also recently named one of Guitar World's Top 25 Cult Guitarists ,< ref >

Its original and longest serving editor was Jan Vincent-Rudzki and original tagline was " The Magazine of Cult Television " ( later " The World's Longest-Running Cult Television Magazine ").

" Brown also quoted William Shaw, a broadcaster who was presenting the Cult Fiction series on BBC Radio Five Live: " Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.

Most of the pioneers in the field were British ; the first major American bands came in the early 1970s, like Blue Öyster Cult, KISS and Aerosmith.

* 205-Brother's Keeper, Cult Compound Crackdown, Revenge of the Switchhiker, Drug Ring Sting

* Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe, with Mark Alwin Hoffman and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran ( 2009, ISBN 0-87286-470-7 )

The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays ISBN 0-8133-3863-8

* The Culture Cult

* Sandall, Roger 2001 The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays ISBN 0-8133-3863-8

A chapter in the 2005 nonfiction work The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture is titled " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ".

Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique.

The Kachina & The White Man: A Study of The Influence of White Culture on The Hopi Kachina Cult, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbook Institute of Science, 1954.

Alison Moyet ( Alf ), The Art of Noise, The Assembly, The Associates, Aztec Camera, Big Country, Bon Jovi, The Boomtown Rats, Cardiacs, Cliff Richard, Cocteau Twins, The Cramps, Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, The Damned, Dennis Brown with Sly & Robbie, Depeche Mode, Dexys Midnight Runners, Die Ärzte, Dire Straits, Divine, Stephen Duffy, Duran Duran, Echo & the Bunnymen, Vow Wow, Elvis Costello, The Fall, Fatal Charm, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Charged G. B. H., Gregory Isaacs & The Roots Radics, Gun Club, Hanoi Rocks, Heaven 17, Howard Jones, The Human League, Icicle Works, Iggy Pop, INXS, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, Level 42, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Madness, Madonna, Magnum, Meat Loaf, Motörhead, Ofra Haza, Paul Young, Pet Shop Boys, The Pretenders, The Proclaimers, Propaganda, The Psychedelic Furs, The Rainmakers, Robert Palmer, R. E. M., Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Silent Running, Simple Minds, Simply Red, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, Spear of Destiny, SPK, Squeeze, The Style Council, Tears for Fears, Terence Trent D ' Arby, Terry & Gerry, The Smiths, The Cult, The Cure, The Dream Academy, The Jam, The Mission, The Pogues, The Pretenders, The Stranglers, The Toy Dolls, Then Jericho, Thin Lizzy, Thomas Dolby, Tina Turner, Twisted Sister, U2, Ultravox, Voice of the Beehive, Tom Waits, Wall of Voodoo, Wham !, Whitney Houston, XTC, Yazoo, ZZ Top.

Winton left Pick of The Pops on Saturday 30 October 2010 due to other work, and he counted down the charts from 1959 and 1983 with classics from Culture Club, Fats Domino, The Cult, Adam Ant and Dickie Valentine.

He is the author of a number of books, including Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Our Culture, What's Left of It, and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.

* Roger Sandall 2001 The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays ISBN 0-8133-3863-8

Andrew Keen, a critic of Web 2. 0, criticizes some of the Free Culture ideas in his book, Cult of the Amateur, describing Lessig as an " intellectual property communist ".

In 2008, Hiroshi made a rare public appearance in the U. S. and participated in the Imprint Culture Lab's Cult of Collaboration panel.

* The Cult of Collaboration panel at Imprint Culture Lab 2008 ( English )

* 1992 – Nigel Preston, English drummer ( The Cult ) ( b. 1959 )

* Theoi. com Cult of Athena — Extracts of classical texts

* Adena, L. The ' Jesus Cult ' and the Roman State in the Third Century, Clio History Journal, 2008.

Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, and elaborate subculture of fandom, hence the analogy to cults.

Cult films are often known to be eccentric, often do not follow traditional standards of mainstream cinema and usually explore topics not considered in any way mainstream — yet there are examples that are relatively normal.

Cult films usually offer something different or innovative in comparison to mainstream films, but cult films can also be popular across a wide audience.

At the 20th Party Congress Khrushchev, in his speech " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences ", stated that Stalin, the Stalinist cult of personality and Stalinist repression had deformed true Leninist legality.

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

* Behard, Richard: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, Time. com

* Streissguth, Thomas: Charismatic Cult Leaders.

P. J. Riis " The Cult Image of Diana Nemorensis " in Acta Archaelogica Kopenhagen 37 1966 p. 69 ff.

For a short period of time during the French Revolution the Cult of the Supreme Being was the state religion of France.

Stems from " The Cult of Diana " a Diana-centered form of traditional witchcraft.

More significantly, the jury also found that the leading anti-cult group known as the Cult Awareness Network was a co-conspirator in the crime and fined CAN $ 1, 000, 000 in punitive damages, forcing the group into bankruptcy.

Steve Hassan, author of the book Combatting Cult Mind Control, states that he took part in a number of deprogrammings in the late 1970s, and has spoken out against them since 1980.

Murray used 16th to 17th century French sources on supposed Witches ' Sabbaths in the context of the European witch trials to " reconstruct " a Witch Cult in Western Europe.

Notable performers in the freestyle genre include George Lamond, Collage, Jocelyn Enriquez, Nu Shooz, Johnny O, Sa-Fire, Stevie B, TKA, Judy Torres, Information Society, Exposé, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Brenda K. Starr, La India, Shana, Corina, Nocera, Company B, The Cover Girls, Noel, Pajama Party, Shannon, Will to Power, Sweet Sensation, Seduction, Linear, Lisette Melendez, Angelina, Laissez Faire, Cynthia, Coro, and Rockell.

These hits were followed by the success of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, who had been one of the earliest freestyle acts.

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam had a style that was less electro and more pop, and paved the way for artists such as Corina, Stevie B, George Lamond, Sweet Sensation and the Cover Girls to cross over into the pop market.

* 1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.