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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Little One
Nowhere Burning
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Paper Cut
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The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Little One
The Unworthy
So Far Gone
The Scammer
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
The Last Housewife
The Mirror House Girls
Mary
Black Sheep
Paper Cut
If You Lie
How Bad Things Can Get
The Colony
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
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

Steven Hassan
[Cult] members learn a new vocabulary that is designed to constrict their thinking into absolute, black-and-white, thought-stopping clichés that conform to group ideology. (“Lock her up” and “Build the Wall” are Trumpian examples. Even his put-downs and nicknames—Crooked Hillary, Pocahontas for Elizabeth Warren—function to block other thoughts. Terms like “deep state” and “globalist” also act as triggers. They rouse emotion and direct attention.)
Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

Satanic ritual abuse (SRA) or ritual abuse may be defined as a method of control over people of all ages consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological mistreatment through the use of rituals, with or without satanic meaning or overtones. Perpetrators of SRA may utilize satanic rituals as part of their belief system and/or to facilitate the control and mistreatment of their victims.
Irving B. Weiner, The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 4

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