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- Understanding the Religious CULT Phenomenon - A former cult member's insights into the evolution of cults and the needs of cult members and leaders.
- AFF: Cult Information Service - AFF resources about, cults, cult groups, abuse, manipulation. Practical assistance services for families; cult members recover support; cultic studies research for educators and professionals.
- SSPX Cult: Is the Society of St. Pius X a Cult? - Draws on the criteria of several reputable cult experts. Does the SSPX have the characteristics of a manipulative, spiritually unhealthy religious cult? This site says yes.
- The Edmonton Society Against Mind Abuse - The Edmonton Society Against Mind Abuse was founded in 1985. Our main objectives are: - To help families of cult members and ex-members of cults. - To inform the public about the cult phenomenon. - To promote the study of the cult phenomenon.
- 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 - The anti-cult movement is responsible for abuses often worse than cult abuses themselves.
- The Kick Ass, Post Apocalyptic Doomsday Cult of Love - This cult is described humorously as an attempt at establishing an Extremist Revolutionary Religious Cult. All new cult members receive a packet of virtual Kool-Aid for joining.
- Weekend America - Cult Status - Bill Radke talks with Dr. J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion at the University of California, and Steve Hassan, licensed Mental Health Counselor and ex-cult member, about cults and the nature of psychological control. [11:12 streaming audio broadcast]
- Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center - The US's only residential treatment facility for recovering cult victims. Offers counseling and personal care for recovering cult victims, support for loved ones, and educational programs regarding the cult problem.
- Sex, Drugs, and Cults - An evolutionary perspective on sex, drugs, cults, religions, and ideologies by H. Keith Henson, including a hair-raising account of the author's encounters with the scientiology cult.
Wikipedia Articles
- Cults and governments - Some countries, expressing concern with possible abuses by groups they regard as cults, have for a variety of reasons implemented restrictive measures against some of the activities of organizations which they see as cults. Against a background of suspicion of, and generally low regard for, identified cults (in French: sectes, in German: Sekten), such measures sometimes intensified in the wake of various crimes committed in connection with certain so-called "cults", especially following a string of murderous incidents involving doomsday cults ...
- Opposition to cults and new religious movements - Opposition to cults and to new religious movements (NRMs) comes from several sources with diverse concerns. Some members of the opposition have associations with cult-watching groups which collect and publish critical information about one or several groups they consider cults.
- Black religious cults - Black Religious Cults were religious cults which usually abandoned the conventional beliefs about god and about black people.
- Cthulhu Mythos cults - A number of fictional cults appear in the Cthulhu Mythos. Many of these cults serve the Outer God Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, a protean deity that appears in a myriad of guises.
- Cults of Unreason - Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on Scientology, pseudoscience, and cults, written by Christopher Riche Evans, Ph.D.