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Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin Madison, author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture "The essays in Cults, Religion, and Violence are marked by a degree of ...

Until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, these deaths were the largest deliberate loss of civilian lives in American history. The world was shocked ... Recent psychological research on cults ...

Thousands of groups known as cults have arisen over history. But most cults claim not to be cults, and many people involved might not even be aware they are in one. So how do cults lure people in?

These societies, also referred to as confraternities and campus cults, have names like Vikings, Black Axe, Eiye (a word in the local Yoruba language for bird), and the Buccaneers. They have a ...

We often think of cults as preying on the vulnerable, but a whole host of intelligent women have joined them in the past. Here, one writer shares the story of how her mother ended up leaving ...

These docu-series depict how two of the world’s most nefarious cults managed to amass such ... According to a 2003 report by the American Psychological Association, Jones employed psychological ...