Cults

"Cult" may refer to the original and typically ancient sense of "religious practice" or to a newly established religious movement. It is also a pejorative term for a group whose religious beliefs are considered fanatical and unacceptable. (See also cult classics.)

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Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
I Fired God: My Life Inside---and Escape from---the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Kraken
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
The Kings of Clonmel (Ranger's Apprentice, #8)
The Chosen One
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
The 19th Wife
Eight Days To Live (Eve Duncan, #10)
Lost Boy
Stories from Jonestown
Split Image (Jesse Stone, #9)
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Survivor
Escape
Kraken
One Door Away from Heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
The Chosen One
Stranger in a Strange Land
Split Image (Jesse Stone, #9)
Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult
Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy
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Small. Offbeat Religion Memoirs
42 books — 23 voters
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Polygamist Cults
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Ex-MORmON
27 books — 10 voters
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Large Group Awareness Training
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Dan Brown
Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?' 'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.' 'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." ' 'Freaky, you say?' 'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candlelight...more
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

Christopher Hitchens
I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the fo...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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