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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Morsel
Blood Trail
Monumental
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
The Unworthy
Little One
The Scammer
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
So Far Gone
The Last Housewife
Mister Magic
If You Lie
Mary
The Mirror House Girls
The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)
The Colony
Monumental
Paper Cut
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Girls
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
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
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Decoding the Gurus Podcast
86 books — 2 voters
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Biographies of the Weird
106 books — 20 voters

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Cult Survivors
42 books — 47 voters
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(Literal) Cult Classics
2 books — 1 voter


Natacha Tormey
Cults can hide in many places. They are so adept at blending into society and masking their true colours that often their victims do not realise that they were even in a cult until they have escaped it. Nor do they fully comprehend the severity of the brainwashing that they were subjected to, until they are finally free of it.
Natacha Tormey, Cults: A Bloodstained History

Persons Are Turned against Themselves Evil also turns a person against herself so that self is used against self. The case of the woman who received a dismissal letter from her pastor comes to mind again. The psychological decompensation she suffered was successfully used by her husband to intercede with a psychiatrist of his choosing to commit her to the mental unit of a hospital for an extended involuntary stay, which further worsened her condition. Additional examples abound. Some patients ...more
J. Jeffrey Means, Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul

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