Charisma, Control, and Getting Out
Investigations and survivor memoirs on how charismatic spiritual movements recruit, exploit, and finally lose the people they ensnare, including the famous ones.
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Inside ScientologyJanet ReitmanJanet Reitman’s investigative history of Scientology provides institutional analysis of a modern American cult and how...Shelf signal: Cults & New Religions
ChaosTom O'NeillTom O Neill’s deep true-crime investigation shows how long reporting can unravel charismatic networks and official...Shelf signal: Mass Murder Cases
Cave MountainBenjamin HaleCave Mountain is a literary true-crime memoir about life inside a cult-like community and leaving, offering a personal...Shelf signal: Abductions & Missing Persons
When the World Didn't EndGuinevere TurnerGuinevere Turner’s memoir of growing up in a cult gives a vivid survivor perspective on indoctrination and recovery...Shelf signal: Personal Memoirs
Cults Like USJane Borden, Simon & Schuster AudioCults Like Us supplies broad historical and cultural explanation for American doomsday and eccentric spiritual...Shelf signal: Cults & New Religions
Empire of the EliteMichael M. Grynbaum, Jacques RoyEmpire of the Elite illuminates fashion and media ecosystems that help explain how a supermodel could be coopted by a...Shelf signal: Media & Communications