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A Guide to New Religious Movements - Book Review by Rev. Dr. Richard Dowhower
Churches That Abuse - Book Review by Maxine Pinson
Cults and Personality - Book Review by Lita L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives - Book Review by Rev. Walter Debold
Dangerous Persuaders - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Le Phenomene des Sectes. L'Etude du Fonctionnement des Groupes - Book Review by J. Vaillancourt
Les Sectes - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time - book review by Arthur A. Dole, Ph.D.
The Cult Experience: An Overview of Cults, Their Traditions and Why People Join Them - Book Review by L. J. West, M.D.
The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.

2009s Miss Indonesia Admits to Being Raised in 'Sex Cult'

5 Million Have Belonged to Cults

600-800,000 people in Russia are members of religious sects

A Conflict Between Religious Liberty and Involuntary Servitude? (Part I)

A SERENE BOOM? Yoga stretches beyond old limits to new fans

A spiritual journey: Connecticut Christian embraces Bahai

A time to go with our heads as well as our hearts

Africa: Polygamy Not to Blame for South Africa HIV

Alamo defense asks for mercy, cites evangelist’s ‘good works’

Alamo, 75, gets 175 years

ANALYSIS-Saudi speeds up education reform, clerics resist

Ancient Sect Navigates Iraq’s New Voting Process

Are we all capable of violence?

Asin’s assistant in Baba’s abode

At 75, Charles Manson still has power to influence others

At a Botanica, New Year Means Renewal, and Jinx Removal

Attorneys: CPS overruled efforts to end rights for some FLDS parents

Aum cult member's death sentence upheld over Tokyo subway gas attacks

Australia: “Cult” Controls Advised

Austrian Murder Sparks Protests in India

Ava clearly showed grave illness, pediatrician testifies

Baroud proposes amending law for 'Jewish Lebanese'

Beauty in India

Behind the closed doors on C Street

Being photographed, video taped is un-Islamic: TNSM chief

'Big Love' in big trouble with Mormons

Blaming gay men for abuse gets us nowhere

Blood miracle protects Naples

Blood, money and injustice

Book Review: Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Boston 'white power' conference scrubbed

Boy George rejected to be part of Hare Krishna

Bozek’s authority, the Reformed Catholic Church, dissolves

Brazil Supreme Court: Extradite head of child abusing sect

British Make Poking Fun at Stupid Scientologists A Crime

Calif. High Court Justices Push Past Krishnas' Airport Appeal

Caution Required In Labeling 'Cults'

Charitable Front

Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back

Christian cult stole our kids, say parents

Church disunity, recession worry Moon followers and operations

Clergyman helping to rescue cult followers

Climbing The Bridge: A journey to "Operating Thetan''

Co-accused in 'cult' abduction pleads guilty

Colleges consider stressing danger of pressure groups

Commentary: But Reaction to “Destructive” Cults Justified Says Episcopal Leader

Commentary: Danger in Overreacting to Cults

Commentary: Playing God

Commentary: Religious Conversion vs. Social Coercion

Cult Awareness Growing Overseas

Cult healer ‘raped pretty followers’

Cult leaders, in religion and politics, demand fealty

Cult program in NYC schools

Cult watch

Cult watch

Cultbusters

Cultic Groups: 25 Years of Challenge and Response

Cultic Groups’ Drive to the East Continues

Cultism Gains Momentum

Cults and Cops

Cults and Death

Cults and Families

Cults in America and Public Policy

Cults Not Gone, Just Mainstreaming

Cults on Upswing in Canada

Cults pose danger to society

CULTS, CONSPIRACIES, AND SECRET SOCIETIES

Cults, Violence, and the Millennium

Cults/Counseling: Education and Assistance Changing

Cults: Adapting to "The Market”

D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christ

Death sparks calls for self-help regulation

Deaths at Sweat Lodge Bring Soul-Searching

Delgado Ties Cults to Slavery Amendment

Dentist in the chair

Destructive Cultism

Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

Different health care reform: doctors trained to deal with patients about faith

Dr. Evil

Dr. Joyce Brothers on Cults

Dr. Margaret Singer presents seminar

Drinking the Kool Aid

Elizabeth Clare Prophet dies at 70; former leader of religious sect

Episcopals Declare Cult Concerns

EU urges Obama to support terror cult

Evangelical group takes aim at other faiths

Exclusive: James Ray breaks silence after AZ jail release

Expert paid $500,000 for report on Elizabeth Smart kidnapper

Faiths meet to build ties across religious divides

Falun Gong finds followers in Vietnam

Familiar story of infidelity

Film Star "Wages Crusade" Against Cults

Fit to be tried: Shirodhara

For secular and Catholic France, a shock to the system: the rise of the evangelicals

Former Oregon juvenile officer faces ethics fine

Former plural wife discusses religious teachings in Texas FLDS trial

Four days after patient’s death, no FIR against Ayurvedic doctor

Fr. Berg leaves Legion of Christ to join Archdiocese of New York

Freedom Foundation leader leaves city questioning his motives, calls Baptist doctrine ‘crappy’

Freethought San Marcos: When city promotes religion, many are left out

From mantras to lucky charms, anxious students do it all

Growing up J.W.

Guidelines for Child's Cult Involvement

Hard-line Israelis have secularism under siege

Hearings Held on PA House Resolution

Helping others avoid cultists

Hindu sect's temple request causes a stir in Chesco

How English Heritage snubbed the Scientologist founder L Ron Hubbard

How Many Jonestowns Will it Take?

How Scientology got to Bob Minton

How wicked cool stuff works: Hypnosis

I am Annoyed and Disappointed

Illinois House Sets Commission on Cult Inquiry

In the Courts: No "Brainwashing" Testimony

INTERNATIONAL: Myths About Cults by Ursula MacKenzie

Iranian Raelian leader blackmailed by Iranian government

Iraq’s most ancient sect in need of protection to escape extinction

Ireland's Christian Brothers in U-turn on compensation

Is congressional boardinghouse a cult?

Is Scientology a Cult? Is Paul Haggis the Next Martin Luther?

ITALY: POLICE SET UP ANTI-SECT TASK FORCE

Jewish Agency Responses to Cult Involvements

Jonestown Revisited: Evolving play looks at how Modestan turned to cult, suicide

Judge hits Morris County UFO hoaxers with fines, community service

Justice Department on Cult Investigations

Keeper of Lighthouse cult cried wolf too often

Lakota Nation files lawsuit against parties in sweat lodge incident

LaRouche presence around campus agitates community

LaRouche supporter threatened for linking Obama to Hitler

Lasher to Propose Bills for Protection Against Cults

Latest news from The French Scientology Trial

Lawsuit calls yoga chain a cult

Legionaries' future in the balance

Legislature Wants Cult Activity Studies

Legislature Wants Cult Activity Studies

Legislature Wants Cult Activity Studies

Letters: Scholars Must Not Ignore Evidence for Cult Harms

Lord Krishna is still all-time favourite on TV, movies

Lutheran Resolution on Cults

Malawi: Madonna, Mercy And Neocolonialism

Manson cult member dies in jail from cancer

Many Women Targeted by Faith Leaders, Survey Says

Many Women Targeted by Faith Leaders, Survey Says

Masons build on long history of service, fraternity

Massachusetts Senate Holds Hearings

Mayor Calls For Removal Of For-Profit Clothing Donation Bins

Mayor’s Campaign to Woo Independence Party Is Close to Paying Off

Medjugorje - a shrine to the Virgin Mary or a sham?

Medjugorje bishop emphasizes: don’t view alleged apparitions as 'worthy of faith'

Mexican court orders Bolivian preacher kept in jail pending investigation into plane hijacking

Michigan Raid Reveals a Mysterious Islamic Sect

Middle-aged and Elderly Most Vulnerable, Says Ladies' Home Journal Story on Cults

Minnesota Legislators Propose Study of Groups Harmful to Youth

Mission From Africa

Mormon myths: From hero fantasies to cautionary tales

Most members of Dalit sect don't follow Sikh tenets

My year in the life of The Beatles - Hunter Davies

New Branch of Churches of Scientology for Europe Opens in Brussels

New Kazakh Centre Said to Help Victims of Destructive Religious Sects

New moons are rising

Nigerian Forces Raid Militant Compound

Nigerian Troops Storm Sect Compound

No sects please, we’re French

Ohio's Amish a throwback to an earlier era

Onward Christian Zionists

Opinion: Dealing With Cults: A Question of Balance

Opinion: Extrapolation, Exaggeration, or Exculpation?

Oprah and the Sweat Lodge Guru

Other Wacos?

Pagan veterans coming out of the 'broom closet'

Police report gives first details of Arizona sweat lodge deaths

Polygamist Sect Leader Convicted of Sexual Assault

Polygamous fundamentalists baptized by proxy into LDS Church, researcher says

Portland pastor faces three years in tax case

Portrait of infamous cult's rise and fall

Predators on campus: An inside look at cults in New Jersey

Prevalence of Cults in the USA

Prof. Singer Predicts Cult Recruiting Growth in “Middle America”

Professor warns that cults may target students

Professor Zimbardo: Cult Members Not "Kooks"

Proselytizing Hindered by Internet

Psychiatric Association Report on Cults

Psychiatrists cannot undo Taliban brainwashing

Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died

Religion Dictionary Soft on Cults

Religions Rooted In Delusions

Renowned rabbi advises students

Report: Another Death as Result of James Ray Healing Exercise

Restoration Of Lost Scientology Materials Complete

Roundup: Tories prepared to stand ground on polygamy: documents

Russia's Educational Perspective on Religion is Very Different from that of the United States or Europe

Scientology chiefs make €270,000 from Irish wing

Scientology: Religious sect, or money-making cult?

Scientology's response

Second chances

Second Thoughts on Cultic Involvement and Addictive Relationships

Secret mission to expose L. Ron Hubbard as a fake

Sect evacuates former resort in Spring Glen

Seeking Entry-Level Prophet: Burning Bush and Tablets Not Required

Self-Help Doesn't Help—And Often Hurts

Sex, Shoes, and California Zen

Shifting Boundaries:The Establishment Clause and Government Funding of Religious Schools and Other Faith-Based Organizations

Should ‘Freedom of Thought’ Take Precedence Over Freedom of Religion?

SIFF: Children of the Revolution: Two New Docs Wrestle With the Old Hippie Idealism

Sign of the Cult-Buster

Singapore’s Lee warns on religion

South Africa bans Dalai Lama trip

Sparsely, Sage and Timely

Spotlight: “New Cult Target”: Older People and Cults

Spurned by Hub hall, supremacist group holds rally in N.H.

Statistics Suggest Cult Recruitment Heavy

Stream of consciousness

Strict and strong, or why rigorous religion works

Students face religious dilemmas

Survey reveals Muslim attitudes

Survey sees a drift away from religion in America

TAHOE BOY: Nevadan recounts his life as wandering son

Take Cults Seriously

The 12 Tribes at a glance

The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology

The Collegiate Advisor: Cults on Campus “Still Extend Their Tentacles”

THE COLLEGIATE ADVISOR: Cults’ Recruiting Tactics Not Beyond Reproach

The debate on sects continues in France

The healing powers of Mutume

The Island Pond Raid: 25 Years Later, Part 1

The Perils of "Past Life Regression"

The Royal Family's support for quackery is a national joke

The Scary Yoga Obsession

The shocking truth about ethics

The Taboo of Cults

The Terrorist Mind: An Update

The truth rundown

The Virgin Mary is very angry...

Thin Line Between Religions and Cults

Three top executives ousted by Washington Times

Traditional Anglicans Want To Join Catholic Church

Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Tvind supported by authorities

Two members in Alamo case released from jail

Uhurus campaign against city's plan to bolster BayWalk, privatize sidewalks

Unification church passes to a new generation as sun sets on Moon

Unproven Remedies: Billions spent, no cures found

Unproven, perilous alternative cures are embraced

Up from Secularism

USAir MAGAZINE WARNS ON CULTS.

USDA suspicious of Danish aid organisation

Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven’s Gate

VALLEY CENTER: Followers find fulfillment without possessions at Twelve Tribes

Vedic Center Pujari part of folk festival

Victoria Park residents beg City Hall for help with Jewish sect

Villager’s fear after cult brainwashes relative

West Germany: Ministry Reviews “Youth Sects” – Warns Against Involvement

Whatever Happened to Cults?

White Sikhs – foreigners who found faith in Sikhism

White supremacist set to be executed for 1994 murder

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

Who Are the Ahmadiyya Muslims?

Why David Lynch Should Learn German

Why is the Mormon church a viable religion and not a cult?

Why Jews Join Cults

With affiliation, Catholic college to yield some power

Yoga guru Pattabhi Jois dies at 93

Zablocki Calls For Further Cult Study

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