Many mistake Zen as a modern cult and do not understand that it is a 2,500-year-old religious tradition.

Native Americans anticipated the modern cult of the gun by treating it as a magic instrument, despite the fact that they had perfected their own technology.

He decries "the modern cult of papal veneration" perpetuated by the Vatican's publicity machine and the pope's own writings.

He was the first important figure in the modern cult of revolt against spectacles and the reliance on eye exercises for the treatment of visual defects.

A lively fashionable modern cult of angels, devotion thriving everywhere.

It can be seen as a grassroots rebellion against the modern cult of reason.

No, you're an 'expert on modern cults.'

The new saints reflect the worldwide presence of the church and stand in contrast to the modern cult of the self.

The origins of the modern cult and its rituals are not definitively understood.