• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

    Daniel Bell: When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
    Daniel Bell (2008). “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Basic Books