Charisma

Charisma is a personality quality many cult leaders have that attract followers to them. Charisma is a greek word that means "Divine gift of God". Sociologist Max Weber defines charisma as "a certain quality of an individual personality, by virtue of which one is "set apart" from ordinary people and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These as such are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as divine in origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader." Several people have been defined as charismatic including Jesus, Buddha, John F. Kennedy, and Fidel Castro among others.