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628: Amanda Montell | Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Jordan Harbinger Show
High School Theatre Teacher
Young people are looking more for meaning, but also just meaning, and not getting it through regular faith. Scholars at the harvard divinity school have done studies finding that groups like soul cycle and cross fit are some of the sihts that are filling this religious craving. These are sort of like secular forms of religion. That sounds like an oxy moron, but i think it really can exist wellness spaces. So many different spaces are serving this spir tual and community roll in people's lives. Not all of them are destructive, but some of them are. And it's really like the wild west in terms of cultishness, particularly with social media.
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