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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 402 times as cults)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,528 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 251,948 ratings — published 2016
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,003 ratings — published 2003
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,781 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 236 times as cults)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,909 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,668 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,277 ratings — published 2007
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 78,739 ratings — published 2015
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,721 ratings — published 1974
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,472 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as cults)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,977,278 ratings — published 2018
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,040 ratings — published 2021
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,120 ratings — published 2022
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as cults)
avg rating 3.96 — 32,479 ratings — published 2008
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as cults)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,937 ratings — published 2021
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cults)
avg rating 3.57 — 42,241 ratings — published 2023
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,158 ratings — published 1997
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,681 ratings — published 2013
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cults)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,450 ratings — published 2021
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,565 ratings — published 2012
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 109 times as cults)
avg rating 4.23 — 112,918 ratings — published 2024
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 16,532 ratings — published 2022
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,272 ratings — published 2011
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 75,196 ratings — published 2016
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,203 ratings — published 2015
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,649 ratings — published 2022
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 70,835 ratings — published 2022
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,157 ratings — published 2020
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 17,249 ratings — published 2020
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,626 ratings — published 2011
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,629 ratings — published 2018
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 162,966 ratings — published 2023
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 4.26 — 225,321 ratings — published 2025
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,231 ratings — published 2011
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cults)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,306 ratings — published 2022
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,461 ratings — published 2019
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 11,959 ratings — published 2018
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,752 ratings — published 1982
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 4.27 — 41,008 ratings — published 2024
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,752 ratings — published 2009
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 3.38 — 6,809 ratings — published 2020
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,192 ratings — published 2017
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,032 ratings — published 2017
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 23,399 ratings — published 1997
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,768 ratings — published 2009
Little Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cults)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,904 ratings — published 2017
Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,697 ratings — published 1988
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 3.92 — 125,987 ratings — published 1999
“The literature on ritualistic abuse suggests that ritualistic sexual practices with young children are a characteristic of particularly abusive groups, and that such practices typically occur alongside a diverse range of other abusive practices, such as child prostitution and the manufacture of child abuse images. One of the shortcomings of the available literature, however, is the general presumption (implicit or explicit) that abusive groups are motivated by a religious or spiritual conviction. In clinical and research literature, abusive groups are generally referred to as 'cults', and 'cult abuse' is a term that has been used interchangeably with 'ritual abuse'." p38”
― Organised Sexual Abuse
― Organised Sexual Abuse
“Much of the attraction of the cult has to do with the grace of an early and romantic death. George Orwell once observed that if Napoleon Bonaparte had been cut down by a musket ball as he entered Moscow, he would have been remembered as the greatest general since Alexander. And not only did Guevara die before his ideals did, he died in such a manner as to inspire something akin to superstition. He rode among the poor of the altiplano on a donkey. He repeatedly foresaw and predicted the circumstances of his own death. He was spurned and betrayed by those he claimed to set free. He was by calling a healer of the sick. The photographs of his corpse, bearded and half-naked and lacerated, make an irresistible comparison with paintings of the deposition from Calvary. There is a mystery about his last resting place. Alleged relics are in circulation. There have even been sightings….”
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