Word: cultus
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...Atlantic. I think the English establishment was slightly suspicious of him." In fact, Tolkien found all the fuss distasteful. "Many young Americans are involved in the stories in a way that I'm not," he once remarked about his fans--or as he called them, "my deplorable cultus." He wondered what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord. The burgeoning environmental movement saw in his wasteland of Mordor a strip-mined industrial dystopia. On a deeper level, a country drowning in the moral quicksand of Vietnam...
...took over 375 organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus, meaning "worship...
...related to the Judaism of his time. This will not be easy, partly because the churches tend to look toward the past rather than the future. "Their organization (residential parishes) is based on the sociological patterns of 1885 (before automobiles, commuter trains and industrial parks). Their Sunday-at-11 cultus is timed to fall between the two milking hours in the agricultural society. Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. The first Christian church was one that looked forward in strained and eager anticipation to the end days...
...meet the lions; voices raised in praise and gladness have always been part of the Christian faith. But the sound is sometimes unholy. In modern times, Pope St. Pius X warned against the infiltration of profane music in his Motu Proprio (1903), followed by Pius XI in his Divini Cultus (1928). Last fall Chicago's Cardinal Stritch blacklisted such sentimental standbys as Schubert's Ave Maria and the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches (TIME...
...Skookum: powerful, strong; siwash: savage, uncivilized; tilikum: common people; cultus: of little worth...