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Cult (religious practice)

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meaning "care, cultivation, worship". The meaning "devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829. Starting about 1920, "cult" acquired an additional six or more positive and negative definitions. In French, for example, sections in newspapers giving the schedule of worship for
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would include (but not necessarily be limited to) prayer, sacrifice, votive offerings, competitions, processions and construction of monuments. Some degree of recurrence in place and repetition over time of ritual action is necessary for a cult to be enacted, to be
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was expected to matter to the gods as a demonstration of respect, honor, and reverence; it was an aspect of the contractual nature of Roman religion (see
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identifies a pattern of ritual behavior in connection with specific objects, within a framework of spatial and temporal coordinates.
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is often translated as "cult" without the negative connotations the word may have in English, or with the
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Antonaccio, "Contesting the Past: Hero Cult, Tomb Cult, and Epic in Early Greece",
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This article is about the religious practice. For religious groups, see
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and temples, shrines, or churches. Cult is embodied in
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Index

Cult (religion)
Cult
care
Latin
cultus
deities
ritual
ceremony
temples
shrines
churches
cult images
votive offerings
votive sites
Cicero
religio
past participle
land (ager)
Old English
worship
do ut des
Augustine of Hippo
God
English
worship
Latin
Catholic services
saints
Greek hero cult
Catholic Church

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