Cults

Here are entered works on groups or movements whose system of religious beliefs or practices differs significantly from the major world religions and which are often gathered around a specific deity or person.

Works on the major world religions are entered under Religions.

Works on religious groups whose adherents recognize special teachings or practices which fall within the normative bounds of the major world religions are entered under Sects.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Religions

• Sects

• Cults -- Fiction
• Cults -- Greece
• Cults -- Rome
• Cults -- Syria
• Cults -- United States
• Ancestor worship
• Arab cults
• Christian martyrs -- Cult
• Christian saints -- Cult
• Faithists
• I AM Religious Activity
• Martyrs -- Cult
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to
• New Age movement
• Saints -- Cult
• Santeria
• Satanism
• Scientology
• Semitic cults
• Unidentified flying object cults

• Alternative religious movements
• Cult
• Cultus
• Marginal religious movements
• New religions
• New religious movements
• NRMs (Religion)
• Religious movements, Alternative
• Religious movements, Marginal
• Religious movements, New

• Stripping the Gurus: Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment, by Geoffrey D. Falk (HTML and PDF with commentary at strippingthegurus.com)
• Understanding Cults and New Religions, by Irving Hexham and Karla O. Poewe (HTML at Calgary)

• Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solomon's Vineyard, by Jonathan Latimer (HTML at munseys.com)

• Là-Bas (Down There), by J.-K. Huysmans, trans. by Keene Wallis (Gutenberg text)
• The Mystery Mind (film serial novelization; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Arthur B. Reeve, John W. Grey, and Marc Edmund Jones (page images at Google; US access only)

• Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, by Deborah Lyons (HTML at Princeton)
• Lakonische Kulte (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1893), by Sam Wide (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons, by Florence Bennett Anderson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, by Jane Ellen Harrison (page images at Chicago)

• Bacchae, by Euripides, trans. by Theodore Alois Buckley (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Bacchae, by Euripides, trans. by Ian C. Johnston (PDF with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Bacchae, by Euripides, trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Bacchantes, by Euripides (HTML at Adelaide)

• The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (4th edition; New York: J.W. Bouton, [1891]), by Thomas Taylor, ed. by Alexander Wilder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Hymns of Orpheus, Translated from the Original Greek, With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus, by Thomas Taylor (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (4th edition; New York: J.W. Bouton, [1891]), by Thomas Taylor, ed. by Alexander Wilder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• On the Mysteries, by Andocides (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• The Sibylline Oracles, Books III-V, trans. by Herbert Newell Bate (DjVu at Georgia)
• The Sibylline Oracles, Translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse, trans. by Milton Spenser Terry (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Taboo, Magic, Spirits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Eli Edward Burriss (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Syrian Goddess: Being a Translation of Lucian's "De Dea Syria", With a Life of Lucian (London: Constable, 1913), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by John Garstang, trans. by Herbert A. Strong (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult, by Mark E. Laxer (Gutenberg text)

• The Church of Satan (6th edition; c2009), by Michael A. Aquino (PDF at xeper.org)
• The Temple of Set (draft 11 edition, c2010), by Michael A. Aquino (PDF at xeper.org)

• The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Lesley Alexandra Sharp (HTML at UC Press)

• The Religious System of the Amazulu (English only), by Henry Callaway (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Book of Idols, by -819? Ibn al-Kalbi, ed. by Nabih Amin Faris (HTML at answering-islam.org)

• Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (1988), by Kenneth Baxter Wolf (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)

• Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible in the Words of Jehovih and his Angel Embassadors (some text missing from this transcription can be found in the online second edition; this text is the third edition; London: The Kosmon Press, 1912), by John Ballou Newbrough (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Oahspe: A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and his Angel Embassadors (second edition; Boston and London: Oahspe Publishing Association, 1891), by John Ballou Newbrough (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• Psychic Dictatorship in America (1940), by Gerald Barbee Bryan (PDF and partial HTML in Australia)
• Unveiled Mysteries (1934), by G. W. Ballard (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Mary in Our Life, by William G. Most (HTML at catholicculture.org)

• Lourdes, by Robert Hugh Benson
  • illustrated HTML at Notre Dame
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Our Lady of Lourdes (Kamloops, BC: St. Louis Mission, 1893), by Jean-Marie J. Le Jacq and Jean Marie Raphael Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Immaculate Heart: The True Story of Our Lady of Fatima, by John de Marchi (HTML at EWTN)
• World Enslavement or Peace: It's Up to the Pope, by Nicholas Gruner (HTML at fatima.org)

• The Ageless Wisdom Teaching: An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (c2006), by Benjamin Creme (PDF with commentary at share-international.org)
• The Fringes of Reason: A Whole Earth Catalog (c1989), ed. by Ted Schultz, contrib. by Stewart Brand (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at wholeearth.com)
• Transmission: A Meditation for the New Age (fifth edition, c2006), by Benjamin Creme (PDF with commentary at share-international.org)
• Understanding the New Age (1993), by Russell Chandler (HTML with commentary at Evangelical Christian Library)

• Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz (1919), by Isya Joseph (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Inside Scientology (revised edition, 1995), by Robert Kaufman (HTML at clambake.org)
• The Mind Benders, by Cyril Vosper (illustrated HTML at suburbia.net)
• Scientology: Theology and Practice of a Contemporary Religion, by Church of Scientology (HTML and PDF files at scientology.org)
• What is Scientology? (electronic edition, based on the 1998 edition), by Church of Scientology (illustrated HTML at whatisscientology.org)

• Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institutions (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), by W. Robertson Smith (PDF at ETANA)

• The Great Flying Saucer Myth, by Kelly L. Segraves (HTML at parentcompany.com)

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