This project investigates the criteria through which particular objects, groups, and practices come to be considered "cults," comparing the semantic structures that emerge from scholarly literature, interviews with participants, and institutional material on sectarian drift.
26
Interviews
12002
Total words
462
Avg words / interview
5
Translated
Separate from the bibliographic corpus above: 85 source documents have been run through extraction, annotation, and embedding, producing 44,325 embedded chunks and concepts, pooled into one 394-d shared space capturing 95.0% of variance.
85
Documents processed
44,325
Embedded points
3,000
Concept backbone
394-d
Shared space (95% variance)