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 Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Julie Chan Is Dead
The Unworthy
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
Obstetrix
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
The Last Housewife
The Scammer
The Mirror House Girls
Our Last Resort
Mary
Little One
The Colony
Mister Magic
Camp Damascus
The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
How Bad Things Can Get
The Invisible Hour
Nowhere Burning
Morsel
The Mean Ones
The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder
If You Lie
Sleep Tight
A Deadly Influence (Abby Mullen, #1)
Paper Cut
Hidden in Shadows  (The Åre Murders #2)
A History of Wild Places
Crafting for Sinners
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Monumental
Blood Oranges
An Honest Lie
Make No Mistake
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
Kult (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #2)
Black River Orchard
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
Sorrowland
Three Missing Days (Pelican Harbor #3)
Herculine
I'll Be You
Make Me Better
The Church of Frendo (Clown in a Cornfield, #3)
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
Where Lost Girls Go
The October Film Haunt
The Goldens
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
Hagstone
Lay Your Body Down
Tenderness
Death in the Downline
Moonflow
Memorials
Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
Lute
No Place To Run
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
The Last Session
Revelator
The Rednexorcist
Ruth
The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That
We Are Watching
The Wrong Way Home
See How They Hide (Quinn & Costa #6)
Under the Surface
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives
They're Watching You
The Odyssey
Cunning Folk
Black Widows
The Cove
Outside
House of Idyll
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
We Burn Daylight
Shadow of Death (Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest #3)
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Just Like Mother
In the Blood
O Sinners!
Edenville
Where You End
Doomsday Match (The Dresden Codex, #1)
The Glow
Together We Rot
The Cult (Cult #1)
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
A Scandal in Königsberg
Ecstasy
The Faceless Thing We Adore

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

Valerie Sinason
How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life? We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason, & Maxted, 2008), in itself a figure unimaginable and hidden twenty years ago. How ...more
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