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"

Little One
Nowhere Burning
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
Paper Cut
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
The Unworthy
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Little One
So Far Gone
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
The Scammer
The Last Housewife
The Mirror House Girls
Nowhere Burning
The Colony
Mary
Paper Cut
If You Lie
Black Sheep
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Girls
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Breaking Free
Educated
Uncultured: A Memoir
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
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
39 books — 39 voters
Cult Girls by Natalie GrandEscape by Carolyn JessopAll Who Believed by Tamara MathieuThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnUnderground by Haruki Murakami
Cults
16 books — 17 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
532 books — 386 voters
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Small Town Cults
9 books — 9 voters

Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCult Child by Vennie KocsisCultish by Amanda MontellTake Back Your Life by Janja LalichPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Extremism and cults
237 books — 24 voters


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

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

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