A cult is a religious or social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices.

Cult or cults may also refer to:

Geography

  • Cult, Haute-Saône, France
  • Cults, Aberdeen, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Cults Academy, a school in Cults, Aberdeenshire
  • Cults railway station, a former station near Aberdeen
  • Cults, Fife, a parish in the Fife area, Scotland

Sociology and religion

  • Cult (religious practice), literally the "care" owed to God or gods and to temples, shrines, or churches
  • New religious movement, cult in a common modern sense
  • Cult following, a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific work of culture
  • Cargo cult, a religious practice ritually mimicking another culture, popular in Melanesia in the late 1900s
  • Cult of personality, when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and at times, worshipful image
  • Imperial cult, a form of state religion in which a ruler is worshipped as a demigod or deity
  • Roman imperial cult, identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State
  • Greek hero cult, one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion

Film and television

  • Cult film
  • Cult (2013 film), a Japanese film
  • Cult (2026 film), an Indian Kannada-language action-drama film
  • Cult (TV channel), an Italian TV Channel
  • The Cult (TV series), a 2009 New Zealand television drama series
  • Cult (TV series), a 2013 U.S. television series
  • American Horror Story: Cult, the seventh season of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story

Music

  • The Cult (band), an English rock band
  • Cult (Apocalyptica album), a 2000 album by cello metal band Apocalyptica
  • Cult (Bayside album), 2014
  • Cults (band), a New York-based indie pop band
  • Cults (album), their 2011 debut album

Other uses

  • Cults (3D printing marketplace)
  • Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), a committee of the European Parliament
  • Cult (book), a management book by Arindam Chaudhuri
  • Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion, a book by Marc Galanter

See also

  • The Cult (disambiguation)
  • Kult (disambiguation)
  • Confraternities in Nigeria, also known as "campus cults"
  • :Category:Cults