The Dangerous Manipulation of the Term 'Cult': A Weapon for Mass Discrimination

The Roman Formula, an ancient discriminatory tactic, continues to be employed today to target undesirable religious and ethnic groups. This insidious strategy involves three phases: intolerance, discrimination and finally, outright persecution.


The first phase aims to spread the idea that a particular group poses a threat to society, through seemingly credible films, stories and even cartoons. Once this belief is instilled in public opinion, the next step is legal discrimination with the introduction of norms that limit the rights of members of that minority group.

With the presumed danger of that minority now "accepted", society ends up justifying such discriminatory laws. The final step is persecution, when citizens are made to believe that only by actively discriminating against that group can they protect themselves from its alleged dangers.

An expert like Massimo Introvigne underscores the importance of stopping intolerance before it escalates into discrimination and persecution, because once that point is reached, it is often too late to put on the brakes.

Massimo Introvigne is an Italian sociologist of religions and jurist. He is the director and co-founder of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) and the executive secretary of the Piedmontese Association for the Sociology of Religion. In the past, he served as the OSCE Chairmanship's Representative on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions. Introvigne is known for his commitment to defending religious freedom and fighting intolerance and discrimination against new religious movements and spiritual minorities. He is the author of numerous publications on the themes of freedom of belief, the sociology of religions and human rights.

A glaring example of this manipulative strategy is the instrumental use of the term "cult" to denigrate entire religious or spiritual movements. As highlighted by surveys, in the Russian public consciousness this term has now taken on a decidedly negative connotation, arousing hostility and a desire for social exclusion towards anyone labeled as such.
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Yet the concept of a "cult" is absent from both Russian and international legislation. This raises a disturbing question: who benefits from this incessant narrative against alleged "cults"? And with what further purposes is hatred and discrimination fueled through this dangerous semantic manipulation? http://www.sclj.ru/news/detail.php?SECTION_ID=447&ELEMENT_ID=6896


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