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On the Web
- Religious Movements - Jeffrey K. Hadden's extensive collection of resources covering cults, sects, and new and established religions. Includes profiles and links for over 200 religious movements, discussion of cult group controversies, and teaching course materials.
- Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) - Established in 1988 and recognized in Italy as a public cultural institution in 1996, CESNUR is an international research center in the field of religious studies and new religious movements.
- Cults and New Religious Movements: A Bibliography - Extensive reference list of scholarly literature pertaining to cults and NRMs.
- AFF's Cult Information Service - Resources concerning psychological manipulation, cult groups, sects, and new religious movements. Includes conferences, full text essays, study guides, and details of periodicals.
- The Church of Scientology as a movement of a new age in the world - Josef Wolf looks into various Scientology beliefs, and how Scientology compares with other new and mainstream religions.
- Online Texts About Cults and New Religious Movements - Extensive listing of links to complete text articles.
- Religious Movements Homepage: Swedenborgian (New Church of Jerusalem) - Your gateway to accessing comprehensive web based as well as print resources about the New Church of Jerusalem. As part of the New Religious Movements Homepage, it includes a profile of the Swedenborgians, comprehensive links with abstracts, a print bibliography.
- The Reliability of Apostate Testimony About New Religious Movements - Study by Dr. Kliever of Southern Methodist University.
- Raelians - Profile of the Raelian Movement, links with abstracts, and a print bibliography. From the New Religious Movements Homepage.
- UFO Cults - General discussion of religious movements related to UFOs, with short profiles of several groups. From the New Religious Movements Homepage.
Wikipedia Articles
- List of new religious movements - This List of new religious movements (NRMs), lists groups that either identify themselves as religious, ethical or spiritual organizations or are generally seen as such by religious scholars, which are independent of older denominations, churches, or religious bodies. This list reflects the fact that there is no generally agreed upon scholarly definition ...
- The Politics of Religious Apostasy - The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements , edited by David G. Bromley, presents studies by several sociologists of new religious movements on the role played by apostates (described as individuals that leave new religious movements to pursue opposition against their former group.
- 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.
- Cults and new religious movements in literature and popular culture - New religious movements and cults have been used as a theme or subject in literature and popular culture, while notable representatives of such groups and their followers have produced on their own a large body of literary works.
- List of cult and new religious movement researchers - This list includes researchers that have conducted empirical studies on cults and/or new religious movements. Researchers are listed below according to their academic background, area of research, or profession.