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.

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Cults Books

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

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Lists

Yellowjackets Book Club (Showtime TV Show)

80 books — 25 voters

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield

Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny Winter

Biographies of the Weird

103 books — 17 voters

How to Leave the Mormon Church by Alyssa Grenfell

Novonexus' Book List For Religious Deconstruction

79 books — 1 voter

King Cage and the Worth Street Djinni by Mike Stop Continues

The Blood Maker and the Witch's Curse by Jaromy Henry

Urban Fantasy Outside the Box

13 books — 8 voters

Massacre at Waco, Texas by Clifford L. Linedecker

Waco Siege/Branch Davidians/David Koresh

16 books — 8 voters

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

YA Cults

59 books — 13 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Cults”

“ 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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