Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Cults"

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
Mister Magic
Our Last Resort
How Bad Things Can Get
Camp Damascus
The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
An Honest Lie
Hidden in Shadows  (The Åre Murders #2)
See How They Hide (Quinn & Costa #6)
Memorials
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Invisible Hour
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
Ruth
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
Sleep Tight
Rytual
A History of Wild Places
Badlands (Nora Kelly, #5)
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Sorrowland
Kult (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #2)
The Goldens
The Last Session
The Hive
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
Black Widows
A Scandal in Königsberg
Three Missing Days (Pelican Harbor #3)
Crafting for Sinners
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
Black River Orchard
I'll Be You
The October Film Haunt
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith
Simplicity
Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
Just Like Mother
Hagstone
Death in the Downline
Lay Your Body Down
They're Watching You
House of Idyll
O Sinners!
Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That
A Deadly Influence (Abby Mullen Thrillers, #1)
The Wrong Way Home
We Are Watching
This Might Hurt
The Church of Frendo (Clown in a Cornfield, #3)
Moonflow
Together We Rot
Spoilt Creatures
Puzzle House
Revelator
Herculine
Cult of the Lamb Vol. 1: The First Verse (Cult of the Lamb, #1)
Houses of the Unholy
The Project
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
No Place To Run
Lute
After We Were Stolen
The Vicious Circle
An Unforgiving Place (National Parks Mystery #2)
Nowhere Like Home
The Glow
Ecstasy
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
That Time I Took Down A Cult (Cozy Cult Cuties, #1)
Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
The Swarm
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives
The Goddess Effect
Doomsday Match (The Dresden Codex, #1)
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness
Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
Gay the Pray Away
Normal Women

Dan    Brown
Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?' 'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.' 'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." ' 'Freaky, you say?' 'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candleli ...more
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

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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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