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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The Scammer
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The Unworthy
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
So Far Gone
The Scammer
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
Mary
The Colony
Firestorm (The Divine Affinity #1)
How Bad Things Can Get
Our Last Resort
Camp Damascus
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
The Last Housewife
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Girls
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
Escape
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Breaking Free
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Educated
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Uncultured: A Memoir
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Christopher Hitchens
Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.
Christopher Hitchens

Valerie Sinason
Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at understanding the dynamic of why the messenger is always shot and broadcast the Bionic insight of why the visionary is not bearable to the group. However, when it comes to military mind control, abuse within religious belief groups or cults, and del ...more
Valerie Sinason, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

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