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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity - Book Review by Joseph Szimhart
Centner, Christopher: "The Cult that is North Korea" - abstract
Darkness at Noon - A. Koestler
Dennis King - link
Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cults - book review by Dennis Tourish, Ph.D.
Lalich, Janja: "The Cadre Ideal: origins and Development of a Political Cult" - abstract
Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism - Book Review by A. Bloomgarden, Ph.D.
Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism - D. King
Mutch, Stephen, Ph.D., L.L.B. (UNSW): "Cultish Religious Sects and Politics: The Brethren v. Green Contest and Other Controversies Involving Minor Religious Sects Down Under" - Abstract
On the Edge and Tabernacle of Hate - Book Review by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Stein, Alexandra: "Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children" - abstract
The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
The Sullivan Institute / Fourth Wall Community
TheocracyWatch
Tourish, Dennis & Wohlforth, Tim: "Prophets of the Apocalypse: White Supremacy and the Theology of Christian Identity" - abstract
Tourish, Dennis, Ph.D.: "Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism, and Cultism: A Case Study from the Political Left" - abstract
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics - book review by Joseph Szimhart

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2 senators join forces to seek answers from 'prosperity' preachers

A dissident ‘disappears’

A Sect’s Unholy Views on Jews

A Spry Farrakhan Sings Obama's Praises

Africa: Polygamy Not to Blame for South Africa HIV

Ancient Sect Navigates Iraq’s New Voting Process

Are we all capable of violence?

Australian PM spreads the word: no help from Exclusive Brethren

Bloomberg's Loyal Cult: The Independence Party

Book Review: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Book review: Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult

Boston 'white power' conference scrubbed

Brethren paid for Australian campaign

Brethren's boss in NZ - Nats keep distance

Charitable Front

Children of Moon church's mass-wedding age face a crossroads

City Puts the Drop on Clothing Boxes

Congress member represents Buddhist sect

Cultish Religious Sects and Politics: The Brethren v. Green Contest and Other Controversies Involving Minor Religious Sects Down Under

Cultish Religious Sects and Politics: The Brethren v. Green Contest and Other Controversies Involving Minor Religious Sects Down Under - abstract

Cult-like chant does not translate into real change

Cummings had violent history

D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christ

Davidson County sheriff spoke at white supremacist dinner

Dentist in the chair

Destiny's controversial covenant slammed

EU urges Obama to support terror cult

Exclusive Brethren sect disavows New Zealand political activity

Falun Gong fails to gain cash or apology

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

Forgotten terror threats—American racists and neo-Nazis

Former Canadian KKK leader renounces his past

Frank Blasts Nazi Comparisons From LaRouche Backers

Gilchrist speech canceled by Claremont restaurant

Going home, 1970s terror gang activist paroled after just 7 years

Hagee Endorsement of McCain Has Risks

Hillary's $30,000 fans are her 'cult' following

How Scientology got to Bob Minton

How the Church of Scientology found its way into British politics

Humanitarian fraudster convicted

In favour of faith

Indian police turn to terrorist rehabilitation

Irishman wants to kill for Islam

Is congressional boardinghouse a cult?

KKK recruits in Pampa with yard fliers

Ku Klux Klan calling cards dropped off at Davie restaurant

Labour given thousands by Scientology charity

LaRouche presence around campus agitates community

LaRouche supporter threatened for linking Obama to Hitler

LaRouchites on Parade

'Lost Boys,' other FLDS teens lobby lawmakers

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

McCain Gets Hell For Embracing Armageddon Sect

Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon

Muslim allowed to revert

Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult

Neo-Nazi convicted of terror plan

New details in white supremacist indictment

New details in white supremacist indictment

Obama Fever Is Breaking On the Web

Obama-mania sparking widespread excitement, but also derision

Outspoken Minister Out Of Obama Campaign

Pastor Defends His Predecessor at Obama’s Chicago Church

Pastors fret Christian group might be a threat

Plateau bargaining

Police monitor supremacist group in Perth Hills

Political Cults/”O”: Former Member’s Analytical Exposé

Publish and Perish

San Antonio televangelist responds to criticism of his McCain endorsement

Scientology affiliate trained MPs

Scientology: Accused of Packing Polls

Sect member funded anti-Greens campaign

Sect to China: Free brother

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

Shooter In Pittsburgh Cop Killings Held Strongly Anti-Semitic And Racist Beliefs

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

TAHOE BOY: Nevadan recounts his life as wandering son

That Girl: The Captivity and Restoration of Patty Hearst

That’s cosmic - Blair gives lift to Scientology

The Anti-War Movement Suffered from the Dominance of the SWP

The battle for a religion's heart

The Charisma Mandate

The Obama Cult: Not for Everyone

The PM's wife, the Druid priestess and the no-sex guru

The roots of religious extremism in Mexico

The Year in Hate

They don’t want to leave a trace of anything Baha’i

Top officials quizzed over sect dealings

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

Unification Church: Ex-Follower on Bush Team

Unification Church: Influence on North Korea Policy

Unification Church: Moon Inspired Group Urges New UN Council

Unification Church: Unification Church Forms Korean Political Party

Up from Secularism

USDA suspicious of Danish aid organisation

Views Of Obama's Pastor Reflect Black U.S. Tradition

Violent white supremacist to be released from jail

Western Massachusetts Labor Action: New Office Set up

What the neo-Nazi fanatic did next: switched to Islam

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

Youth for Western Civilization group at Vanderbilt stirs furor

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