Long, JenniferFischer, Jamie2020-05-262022-05-312022-05-312020https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1559Presented in absentia on April 27, 2020 at "Student Research Day" at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. (Conference cancelled)Despite the significance of cults as a social group in other disciplines, anthropologists have paid little attention to these sub-cultures as a viable area of research. Social scientists in other disciplines, such as sociology and psychology, have explored cults as a social and mental phenomenon; yet, anthropological investigations tend to be limited to studying cargo cults outside North America. Sociologists have defined and categorized cults in numerous ways: as a social movement or a religious movement. In this presentation, I hypothesize that anthropologists do not study cults due to their methodological practices and theoretical approach to working with communities.547.40KBPDFenAll Rights Reservedcultsresearch methodsanthropologyUndergraduate Thesishttps://doi.org/10.31542/r.gm:2061