Palayon, Raymund

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Palayon, Raymund
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Palayon, Raymund T.
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    Determining the stage of development of a suspicious religious group through corpus analyses
    (2025-01-01)
    Palayon, Raymund T.
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    Todd, Richard Watson
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    Vungthong, Sompatu
    Religious groups differ in the types of impact they have on society with most groups being beneficial, but some having detrimental effects, most noticeably destructive cults such as Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. Social concerns about cults make it important to identify the stage of development of a suspicious religious group on a continuum from mainstream religion through sect and cult to destructive cult. In this paper, we applied the methods and findings of Palayon et al. (2021, 2022a) from a corpus linguistics perspective to the sermons of Apollo Quiboloy, the leader of the Kingdom Jesus Christ, as a suspicious religious group to identify its stage of religious development. From the findings, Apollo Quiboloy’s sermons display a philosophy and discourse characteristics being elaborative and persuasive associated with sects and some communication styles possibly associated with cults. This study may allow the stages of development of suspicious religious groups to be determined.
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    LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS ILLUSTRATING MASS SUICIDE IN THE DESTRUCTIVE CULT SERMONS
    (2024-09-01)
    Palayon, Raymund T.
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    Todd, Richard Watson
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    Vungthong, Sompatu
    Destructive cults remain a significant focus in religious research due to their extreme behaviours and tragic outcomes. Among the most notorious were Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and Heaven’s Gate led by Marshall Applewhite. They shocked the world by committing mass suicide. Previous studies have mainly focused on the psychological and behavioural aspects of these groups, particularly in the context of these tragic events. This paper examined the meaningful linguistic features in Jim Jones’ sermons and Marshall Applewhite’s sermons in the period leading up to the mass suicide. By comparing them to the mainstream sermons and sect sermons using keyword and collocation analysis, distinct patterns emerged. Jim Jones’ sermons contain words associated with negative sociopolitical views (such as socialism, communism, war, violence, and killed), which allowed Peoples Temple to express mass suicide literally. In contrast, Marshall Applewhite’s sermons contain implicative words associated with distance and movements (such as heavenly, planet, vehicle, overcoming, and separate), enabling Heaven’s Gate to express mass suicide in a figurative manner. Both sermons apply communication styles where three styles: othering (we, they), intensification (very, really), and negation (can’t) are common in the two datasets, allowing each leader to convey mass suicide. The findings guide us to characterize the behavioural effects of mass suicide and these provide communication signs to identify the dangerous characteristics of suspicious religious groups before their destructive activities happen.