This week, Vivian Asimos and Aled Thomas talk about Klaus’s cult in season two of the Umbrella Academy on Netflix. We use it as a fun basis to then jump around sociological analyses of new religious movements, including Max Weber’s typology of charisma. We talk about the charisma of political leaders and religious leaders, how charisma changes, and what may have altered in the world between Max Weber’s ideas and our podcast. We also talk about nineties lyrics and the differences - or lack thereof - between structural anthropology and post-structural anthropology.

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