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Recovering from Religion - You Are Not Alone

2018

Recovering from Religion community members and volunteers discuss the highs and lows of walking away from their faith and discovering a new way to live as well as the role Recovering from Religion played in their journey. See more...

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The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since Jonestown?

I do not deny that positive experiences occur in a cult context, but what is of interest for me is the interactional dynamic found in cults that brings moral human beings to occasionally engage in insidious or demeaning behaviors, or sometimes just the plain incomprehensible.

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Janja Lalich
2013
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Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults

Heaven’s Gate, a secretive group of celibate “monks” awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide.

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Janja Lalich
2025
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Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace.

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Karla McLaren, Janja Lalich
2017
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Leaving a Religion