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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The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Julie Chan Is Dead
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
The Unworthy
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
So Far Gone
The Scammer
The Colony
Black Sheep
Mary
The Last Housewife
Our Last Resort
Mister Magic
Firestorm (The Divine Affinity #1)
If You Lie
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
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Breaking Free
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
Cult Girls by Natalie GrandEscape by Carolyn JessopAll Who Believed by Tamara MathieuThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnUnderground by Haruki Murakami
Cults
16 books — 17 voters

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsWhite Boy in Watts by Karl WigginsAn Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris HadfieldBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterAnxiety by Danny Winter
Biographies of the Weird
104 books — 18 voters
The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland MerulloFamily by Micol Ostow
(Literal) Cult Classics
2 books — 1 voter


Alison   Miller
Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more therapists have learnt about it. Survivors have spoken out and written their stories, and therapists have learnt a great deal from those brave survivors who have discovered what was done to them. There is a large special interest group on Ritual Abuse and Mind Control within the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. Those therapists who have learnt in isolation or in ...more
Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Thomas Wolfe
Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.
Thomas Wolfe

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