Cults : inside the world's most notorious groups and understanding the people who joined them /

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Author / Creator:	Cutler, Max, author.
Edition:	First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Imprint:	New York : Gallery Books, [2022] ©2022
Description:	406 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Cult members. Cults.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13440966

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Other authors / contributors:	Conley, Kevin, 1960- author.
ISBN:	9781982133542 1982133546
Notes:	"Based on the acclaimed podcast." Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-406).
Summary:	"Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan."--Amazon. What really goes on inside cults? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Cutler and Conley examine the lives of some of the most disreputable cult figures and tell the stories of their rise to power-- and fall from grace, sanity, and decency. The result is an unflinching look at what happens when the most vulnerable recesses of the mind are manipulated and how the things we hold most sacred can be twisted into extreme acts of malevolence. -- adapted from jacket

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Shame: Charles Manson and the Family
Shame: Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo and the Narcosatanists
Exploitation: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Exploitation: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
Pathological Lying: Claude Vorilhon and Raëlism
Sadism: Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids
Megalomania: David Koresh and the Branch Davidians
Sadism: Keith Raniere and NXIVM
Escape: Credonia Mwerinde and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Denial of Reality: Marshall Applewhite and Heaven's Gate
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

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