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
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

The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland MerulloFamily by Micol Ostow
(Literal) Cult Classics
2 books — 1 voter

TaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Victory Perspective by E.J. KellettThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAstronomicon minorem - DMT, Cthulhu and You by Khurt KhaveCreatures of the Dark by Stella Purple
Sinister Literature
47 books — 34 voters


Christopher Hitchens
Much of the attraction of the cult has to do with the grace of an early and romantic death. George Orwell once observed that if Napoleon Bonaparte had been cut down by a musket ball as he entered Moscow, he would have been remembered as the greatest general since Alexander. And not only did Guevara die before his ideals did, he died in such a manner as to inspire something akin to superstition. He rode among the poor of the altiplano on a donkey. He repeatedly foresaw and predicted the circumsta ...more
Christopher Hitchens

Francine Pascal
A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that’s impossible! ...more
Francine Pascal, Kidnapped by the Cult!

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