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"

Where Lost Girls Go
Tenderness
Funerals Are for the Living
Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1)
Headlights
Obstetrix
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
The Unworthy
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Our Last Resort
The Last Housewife
The Scammer
Little One
The Mirror House Girls
Obstetrix
The Colony
Mary
Mister Magic
Camp Damascus
The 19th Wife by David EbershoffThe Chosen One by Carol Lynch WilliamsKeep Sweet by Michele Domínguez GreeneSister Wife by Shelley HrdlitschkaHidden Wives by Claire Avery
Polygamist Cults
27 books — 73 voters

Such Small Hands by Andrés BarbaThe Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio MishimaLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba
Children Forming Cults
5 books — 1 voter

Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCult Child by Vennie KocsisDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaCultish by Amanda MontellTake Back Your Life by Janja Lalich
Extremism and cults
243 books — 28 voters
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige HillUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerEscape by Carolyn JessopUnorthodox by Deborah FeldmanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Small, Offbeat Religion Memoirs
269 books — 309 voters

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
Educated
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
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

Alison   Miller
Some survivors have found small metallic “implants” in their teeth or ears, and believe these were designed to monitor their location or to broadcast their words or thoughts to the abusers. Such technology has been developed recently for keeping task of animals or persons with dementia. But to what extent it was used years ago by mind controllers is unknown at this point. At least some of it may be similar to the “bombs” in the stomach, a trick to convince survivors that their abusers monitor t ...more
Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts.... ...more
David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man: The Crockumentary Dissected―Camera Tricks, Spinning Statistics, and the Truth

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