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 religious groups whose adherents recognize special teachings or practices which fall within the normative bounds of the major world religions are entered under Sects.
Works on the major world religions are entered under Religions.
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:- Cults -- Egypt
- Cults -- Fiction
- Cults -- Greece
- Cults -- Haiti
- Cults -- Iran
- Cults -- Periodicals
- Cults -- Psychology
- Cults -- Rome
- Cults -- Russia (Federation)
- Cults -- Southern States
- Cults -- Syria
- Cults -- United States
- Cults -- West Indies
- Ancestor worship
- Anti-cult movements
- Arab cults
- Assyro-Babylonian cults
- Children of God (Movement)
- Christian martyrs -- Cult
- Christian saints -- Cult
- Emperor worship
- Faithists
- Foot washing (Rite)
- Gnosticism
- I AM Religious Activity
- Martyrs -- Cult
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to
- Nativistic movements
- New Age movement
- Saints -- Cult
- Santeria
- Satanism
- Scientology
- Semitic cults
- Unidentified flying object cults
- Alternative religious movements
- Cultus
- Marginal religious movements
- New religions
- New religious movements
- NRMs (Religion)
- Religious movements, Alternative
- Religious movements, Marginal
- Religious movements, New
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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 University of Calgary)
- Strange Sects and Curious Cults (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), by Marcus Bach (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Rituel du Culte Divin Journalier en Égypte; d'Après les Papyrus de Berlin et les Textes du Temple de Séti 1er, à Abydos (Annales du Musée Guimet Bibliothèque d'Études #14, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1902), by Alexandre Moret
- Solomon's Vineyard, by Jonathan Latimer (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Griechischen Kultusaltertümer (third edition, in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1920), by Paul Stengel (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kantharos: Studies in Dionysiac and Kindred Cult (Princeton: Princeton University Press; et al., 1924), by G. W. Elderkin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lakonische Kulte (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1893), by Sam Wide (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opferbräuche der Griechen (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner, 1910), by Paul Stengel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer (in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1890), by Paul Stengel and Frank Oehmichen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons, by Florence Bennett Anderson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Greek Altars, Origins and Typology, Including the Minoan-Mycenaean Offertory Apparatus: An Archaeological Study in the History of Religion (St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University Press, 1949), by Constantine G. Yavis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Éphèse et Claros: Recherches sur les Sanctuaires et les Cultes de l'Ionie du Nord (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1922), by Charles Picard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, by Jane Ellen Harrison (page images at Chicago)
- International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (2020-) (full serial archives)
- International Journal of Cultic Studies (2010-2019) (full serial archives)
- Recovery From Abusive Groups (Bonita, FL: International Cultic Studies Association, c1993), by Wendy Ford (PDF at Google Drive)
- The Divinity of the Roman Emperor (Philological monographs #1; Middletown, CT: American Philological Association, 1931), by Lily Ross Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 Religious Experience of the Roman People, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus (London: Macmillan, 1922), by W. Warde Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult, by Mark E. Laxer (Gutenberg text)
- Something About Obeah (Kingston: M. C. DeSouza, 1891), by Herbert T. Thomas
- Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
- The Religion of the Chinese (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1910), by J. J. M. de Groot
- Coping With Cult Involvement: A Handbook for Families and Friends (second edition, c2000), by Livia Bardin (PDF at Google Drive)
- The Book of Idols, by -819? Ibn al-Kalbi, ed. by Nabih Amin Faris (HTML at answering-islam.org)
- Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1916), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Evelyn Paul (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- The Philosophic Basis of Ordinances, by C. H. Forney (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Last Word (Shawneetown, IL: The author, c1935), by Thomas Sawyer Spivey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1900), by G. R. S. Mead (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (second edition; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), by G. R. S. Mead (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Frammenti di una Fede Dimenticata: Brevi Studi Sugli Gnostici, Principalment dei Primi due Secoli, Contributo allo Studio delle Origini Cristiane, Basato su Materiali più Recentemente Ricuperati (Italian translation of the second edition of "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten"; 1909), by G. R. S. Mead, trans. by M. L. Kirby and B. Fantoni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Gnostic and Historic Christianity, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
- The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediaeval (second edition; London: David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany (London: J. M. Watkins, 1921), ed. by G. R. S. Mead (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Pistis Sophia: Literally Translated From the Coptic (London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge; New York and Toronto: Macmillan, 1924), trans. by G. Horner, contrib. by Francis Legge
- Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis (attributed, probably spuriously, to Hermes Trismegistus; 3 volumes; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), ed. by G. R. S. Mead, contrib. by Hermes Trismegistus
- Libros Quinque Adversus Haereses (2 volumes in Greek and Latin with English commentary; Cambridge, UK: Typis Academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus, ed. by W. Wigan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paul the Gnostic Opponent of Peter, Not an Apostle of Historic Christianity, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
- Perfect Matrimony (English translation), by Samael Aun Weor (HTML with commentary at glorian.org)
- Unveiled Mysteries (1934), by G. W. Ballard (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Psychic Dictatorship in America (1940), by Gerald Barbee Bryan
- Mary in Our Life, by William G. Most (HTML at catholicculture.org)
- Understanding the New Age (1993), by Russell Chandler (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
- 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 (page images at wholeearth.com)
- The Peace of God is My One Goal: Living the Teachings of A Course in Miracles (online edition, with some Course in Miracles quotes trimmed; originally published 1989), by Barbara Varley and Robert Varley (HTML at awakening-mind.org)
- Transmission: A Meditation for the New Age (fifth edition, c2006), by Benjamin Creme (PDF with commentary at share-international.org)
More items available under narrower terms.