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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New Releases Tagged "Cults"

The Scammer
Crafting for Sinners
Herculine
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Julie Chan Is Dead
The Unworthy
So Far Gone
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
The Scammer
The Colony
Our Last Resort
Mary
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Firestorm (The Divine Affinity #1)
How Bad Things Can Get
If You Lie
Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake, #4)
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
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Uncultured: A Memoir
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
Haunted Tree by Scott Robert SchellerThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Voice in My Ear by Ken NewmanKing Cage and the Worth Street Djinni by Mike Stop ContinuesThe Blood Maker and the Witch's Curse by Jaromy Henry
Urban Fantasy Outside the Box
13 books — 8 voters
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsWhite Boy in Watts by Karl WigginsAn Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris HadfieldBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterAnxiety by Danny Winter
Biographies of the Weird
103 books — 17 voters

The Girls by Emma ClineThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCult Girls by Natalie GrandThe Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie OakesThe Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Cults and Communes in Fiction
359 books — 157 voters
Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCult Child by Vennie KocsisBreaking Free by Rachel JeffsWhere's Jimmy? by Kathy JeffordTo Go Beneath the Water by K.L. Miller
Cult Survivors
36 books — 36 voters

Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
530 books — 377 voters
No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. BrodieWho Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? by Wayne L. CowdreyStanding For Something More by Lyndon LambornOut of Mormonism by Judy RobertsonSecret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake
Ex-MORmON
45 books — 23 voters


John Scalzi
The Scooby gang doesn’t travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they’re one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred’s got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.
John Scalzi, Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

More often than not, leaving a cult environment requires an adjustment period, not only to reintegrate into “normal” society but also to put the pieces of yourself back together in a way that makes sense to you. When you first leave a cultic situation, you may not recognize yourself. You may not know how to identify the problems you are about to face. You may not have the slightest idea who you want to be. The question we often ask children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” suddenly ta ...more
Madeleine Landau Tobias, Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships

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