cults

noun

1. 1.A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
2. 2.Devotion to a saint.
3. 3.The veneration and religious rites given to a deity, esp. in a historical polytheistic context.
4. 4.A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.
5. 5.A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.