William V. Chambers, Ph. D. received the John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies from the American Family Foundation, for his work with Michael Langone, Ph. D. in developing the Group Psychological Abuse Scale.

* " Litigating Child Custody with Religious Cults ", Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.

Cultic worship of Dionysus ( and his mother Semele, a moon goddess ) was performed in the earliest Dionysian temples ( usually located beyond the city walls, on the edges of swamps and marshes ).

Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse a 1995 book edited by Michael Langone, director of the International Cultic Studies Association ( formerly the American Family Foundation ), published by W. W. Norton & Company, treats the theories of mind control as related to cults.

The International Cultic Studies Association ( ICSA ), formerly the American Family Foundation, describes itself as an " interdisciplinary network of academicians, professionals, former group members, and families who study and educate the public about social-psychological influence and control, authoritarianism, and zealotry in cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments.

* Cultic Studies Journal: a Journal on Cults and Manipulative Techniques of Social Influence, Michael Langone ( Editor ), ASIN B000JFOZTS

* Cultic Studies Review: An Internet Journal of Research, News & Opinion, Michael Langone ( Editor ), ASIN B000GF1F9O

In an article published in Cultic Studies Journal in 1992, forty-three former students of Livets Ord Bible School were interviewed.

Cultic remains discovered at the site were a row of ten monolithic stone steles, the tallest of which was 3 meters high, and a large, square, stone basin, The Canaanite city was destroyed in a fire, presumably in the wake of a campaign by the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III.

Cultic ceremonies and rituals were part of the everyday life of the SS.

" In 1999, testimony to the Maryland Cult Task Force, Ronald Loomis, Director of Education for the International Cultic Studies Association, reflecting his belief that the term was not invented by critics, asserted: " We did not make up this term.

A review in the Cultic Studies Journal by Arthur A. Dole summarized the contents of the book and specified that it grew out of study groups connected to the American Family Foundation.

The John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies, is an award created by the American Family Foundation in honor of noted Harvard psychiatrist, John Gordon Clark, M. D.

* Profile, International Cultic Studies Association, by Michael D. Langone, as featured in Paradigm

Cowan and Bromley have stated that the use of the cult apologist label was part of a response by the anti-cult movement, notably the American Family Foundation ( now the International Cultic Studies Association ) and the old Cult Awareness Network, to the lack of academic support for the brainwashing hypothesis, and employed as a strategy to undermine social scientists ' credibility.

" Psychologist Michael Langone, executive director of the International Cultic Studies Association, defines a destructive cult as " a highly manipulative group which

* Dubrow-Eichel, Steve K., Ph. D .: Deprogramming: A Case Study, Cultic Studies Journal

* Stephen A. Kent and Josef Szimhart: Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming., Cultic Studies Review 1 No. 3, 2002

The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors.

As of 2009, Barker is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Cultic Studies Association's Cultic Studies Review.

The Editorial Review Board of the Cultic Studies Review contributes to the process of peer review of the academic journal.

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( 1982 ) Cultic models of the female: Rites of Dionysos and Demeter, Arethusa.

: Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants Cultic Studies Journal, Vol.

* Kent, Stephen A. and Szimhart, Joseph: Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming., Cultic Studies Review 1 No. 3, 2002

Michael Langone, executive director of the International Cultic Studies Association, gives three different models for conversion.

* Excerpted chapters, at Cultic Studies Review site.

It publishes the journal Cultic Studies Review.

Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

In Wicca, Imbolc is commonly associated with the goddess Brighid and as such it is sometimes seen as a " women ’ s festival " with specific rites only for female members of a coven.

While sexual practices do exist within the very wide tradition of Hindu Tantra, the Kama Sutra is not a Tantric text, and does not touch upon any of the sexual rites associated with some forms of Tantric practice.

Other rites are associated with eating a victim whose virtues are coveted.

Since the festival of Anna Perenna is in the month of Mars, it is reasonable that the Mars and Anna Perenna should be associated, at least in some rites at that time, as cult partners.

His cult was associated with royalty, and was the subject of the most lengthy and reverent prayers in the rites of kingship, as well as being mentioned frequently in coronation speeches.

She is a racine, or root Loa, associated with Vodoun rites of initiation ( called kanzo ).

Nevertheless, in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, during the Egyptian rule over Kush, Dedun was said by the Egyptians to be the protector of deceased Nubian rulers and their god of incense, thereby associated with funerary rites.

They are associated with fertility rites.

The religious meaning of mummy portraits has not, so far, been fully explained, nor have associated grave rites.

Although Janus had no flamen, he was closely associated with the rex sacrorum who performed his sacrifices and took part in most of his rites: the rex was the first in the ordo sacerdotum hierarchy of priests.

In folklore and mythology, exhumation has also been frequently associated with the performance of rites to banish undead manifestations.

In addition, there can be similar rites of passages associated with parts of naval and military life, which do not constitute true initiations as the participants are already and remain members of the same community.

This may be only a folk etymology, but it may also recall antique tasks and magic rites associated with bridges.

Archeological studies have unearthed and identified tombs associated with Teotihuacan, a Toltec altar on the summit of Chapultepec Hill, vestiges of a colonial era aqueduct, paths associated with Nezahualcoyotl and an area where Aztec priests ingested peyote as part of religious rites.

Jon McGee ( 2002 ) notes that increased participation in a monetary economy because of tourists has decreased the need for subsistence agriculture and with it the religious rites associated with agriculture.

Egyptian records show coronation scenes, such as that of Seti I in 1290 BC, while the Judeo-Christian scriptures testify to particular rites associated with the conferring of kingship, the most detailed accounts of which are found in II Kings 11: 12 and II Chronicles 23: 11.

Many folk games are associated with shamanistic rites and have been handed down from one generation to the next.

The name of the Fabii was associated with one of the two colleges of the Luperci, the priests who carried on the sacred rites of the ancient religious festival of the Lupercalia.

Maržanna, Mara, Maržena, Morana, Moréna, Mora, Marmora or Morena is a Slavic goddess associated with seasonal agrarian rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of the nature.

The sacrifices may have been associated with rites of ancestral renewal and agricultural fertility.

Many Latter-day Saints view the garment associated with the temple rites as sacred.