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The Anti-Cult Movement - The anti-cult movement is responsible for abuses often worse than cult abuses themselves.
The Religious Movements Page: Cult Group Controversies - Information on counter-cult and anti-cult groups and on the concept of brainwashing. Features a detailed report on the Maryland Cult Task Force.
The Anti-Cult Movement (a.k.a. ACM) - Most ACM groups seem to take the legitimate public fear of destructive doomsday cults, raise it to a fever pitch, and then direct it against benign new religious groups.
Project Bluelight - An anti-cult investigative agency specializing in the recovery of children and the elderly.
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' - Transcript from show about Opus Dei, including observations from an anti-cult expert and Catholics who have been severely harmed but the cult. From msnbc.com.
Poulter, Martin - A philosophy research student and anti-cult activist gives a variety of information from the silly to the deadly serious.
The Oracle of Ifa and the Verdict of the Court - English version of an article by Wim Haan, examining a court case in Holland around a failed attempt to deprogram practitioners from the African Ifa religion.
The Crisis of the French Anticult Mission - Information on the French Anticult Mission (MILS) and why it has been criticized by the US for religious intolerance.
The French Anti-Cult Law - Describes French law that criminalises mental manipulation and outlines arguments for and against it. Includes links to press articles and related documents.
Falun Gong protests HK anti-cult exhibit - [CNN]

Wikipedia Articles

Anti-cult movement - The term "anti-cult movement" (ACM) is used by academics - and others - to refer to a collectivity of groups and individuals that pursue an opposition to cults and new religious movements. Sociologists David G.
Post-cult trauma - Post-cult trauma or post-cult syndrome is a disputed term related to the consequences of leaving a cult. Some scholars in the field, including those critical of the anti-cult movement, acknowledge that abandoning a cult can be traumatic for some former members.
Trip Marz - * Children Of Marz the Children of Marz is a cult known for its very secerative gatherings and very public anti-athoratarian, anti-establishment and anti-religous veiws. Some of the propaganda includes vandalism of public places, pamphlets and propaganda being handed out exclusively to the homeless, missions as they refer to their beliefs in reincarnation and avatarism hence the children of Marz sermons preach to ingdingnent people ...
Révolution nationale - The Révolution nationale (National Revolution) was the official ideological name under which the Vichy regime ("the French state") established by Marshal Pétain in July 1940 presented its program. Pétain's regime was characterized by its anti-parliamentarism and rejection of the constitutional separation of powers, personality cult, xenophoby and state anti-Semitism, apology of traditional values and rejection of Modernity, and finally corporatism and opposition to class conflict.
Snapping - Snapping is a term coined by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman in their 1978 anti-cult book Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change to describe the mental process by which a recruit is converted by a "mind control cult" and other religious movements. It is also used to describe the process of "snapping out of it" during deprogramming or exit counselling, ...