Anti-Cult Movement: A Possible Expression of Religious Intolerance
Anti-Cult Movement: A Possible Expression of Religious Intolerance

Summary/Abstract: The author points to the misunderstandings present in sciences of religion as well as on the Yugoslav public stage about the comprehension and designation of different types of religious organizing. Disputes are particularly prominent about cults and newly established sects, i. e. new religious movements, primarily in the media. Big domiciliary churches help towards this, pronouncing all sects and cults, with no exception whatsoever, to be satanic, totalitarian and destructive quasi-religious phenomena. All this together gave rise and helped the establishment of an uncivilized anti-cult movement. The mentioned movement ("the anti-cult movement in the Serbian variant", as called by the author), arising in the absence of the pre-cult as a necessary balance, is not only an expression of religious intolerance, but its generator itself. The author backs up his attitudes by empirical documentation and allows for an insight into the collage of extremely anti-cult newspaper headlines, as well as into the reactions and letters of institutions and individuals provoked by this indecent public campaign.

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