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Spiritomb

Cults And Undue Influence

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#2
When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails
  • Leon Festinger
  • Henry W. Riecken
  • Stanley Schachter
00 reads
#3
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women
  • Lisa Sugiura
51 read
#4
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom
  • Erich Fromm
4.1321 reads
#5
Doomsday Cult: A Study Of Conversion, Proselytization, And Maintenance Of Faith
Doomsday Cult: A Study Of Conversion, Proselytization, And Maintenance Of Faith
  • John Lofland
00 reads
#6
Dropping The Habit
Dropping The Habit
  • Marion Dante
00 reads
#7
Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace
Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace
  • Margaret Thaler Singer
00 reads
#8
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Bounded Choice

Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults
  • Janja Lalich
00 reads
#9
Culture of Fear
Culture of Fear
  • Barry Glassner
3.254 reads
#10
The Project
The Project
  • Courtney Summers
3.4951 reads
#11
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Captive Hearts, Captive Minds

Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships
  • Madeleine Landau Tobias
  • Janja Lalich
00 reads
#12
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Influence, New and Expanded

Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
  • Robert B. Cialdini
2.53 reads
#13
I Choose: Subtlety in Cults
I Choose: Subtlety in Cults
  • Isabelle Renaud
00 reads
#14
Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control
Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control
  • Luna (Lindsey) Corbden
00 reads
#15
Agnes at the End of the World
Agnes at the End of the World
  • Kelly McWilliams
3.24 reads
#16
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Broken Faith

Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
  • Mitch Weiss
  • Holbrook Mohr
41 read
#17
Jesus and John Wayne
Jesus and John Wayne
  • Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.4113 reads
#18
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
  • Kyria Abrahams
3.674 reads
#19
#ChurchToo
#ChurchToo
  • Emily Joy Allison
00 reads
#20
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
  • Anne Applebaum
3.7240 reads
#21
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Let's sell these people A Piece of Blue Sky

Let's sell these people A Piece of Blue Sky
  • Jon Atack
31 read
#22
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
  • Laura Bates
4.3946 reads
#23
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
  • Yochai Benkler
  • Robert Faris
  • Hal Roberts
01 read
#24
Extremism
Extremism
  • J.M. Berger
00 reads
#25
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The Delusions Of Crowds

The Delusions Of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
  • William J. Bernstein
01 read
#26
Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon
Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon
  • Mia Bloom
  • Sophia Moskalenko
2.333 reads
#27
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
  • Kate Bornstein
01 read
#28
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
  • Kate Bowler
3.6449 reads
#29
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
  • David Brock
  • Ari Rabin-Havt
  • MediaMatters.org
00 reads
#30
Suspicious Minds
Suspicious Minds
  • Rob Brotherton
31 read
#31
Necessary Illusions
Necessary Illusions
  • Noam Chomsky
3.336 reads
#32
How to Fake a Moon Landing
How to Fake a Moon Landing
  • Darryl Cunningham
3.52 reads
#33
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
  • Max Cutler
  • Kevin Conley
3.137 reads
#34
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
  • Frank Dikötter
4.334 reads
#35
Banished
Banished
  • Lauren Drain
3.334 reads
#36
A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life
  • Jaycee Dugard
3.8469 reads
#37
Breaking Point
Breaking Point
  • Alex Flinn
32 reads
#38
An Ugly Truth
An Ugly Truth
  • Sheera Frenkel
  • Cecilia Kang
3.7428 reads
#39
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo History
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo History
  • Ronald H. Fritze
00 reads
#40
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Digital Demagogue

Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter
  • Christian Fuchs
00 reads
#41
Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics
Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics
    00 reads
    #42
    Fathermothergod
    Fathermothergod
    • Lucia Greenhouse
    32 reads
    #43
    The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation
    The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation
      00 reads
      #44
      The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
      The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
      • Jeff Guinn
      4.0924 reads
      #45
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      Freedom of Mind

      Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs
      • Steven Hassan
      41 read
      #46
      The Cult of Trump
      The Cult of Trump
      • Steven Hassan
      45 reads
      #47
      Godless
      Godless
      • Pete Hautman
      3.25 reads
      #48
      Just Like Mother
      Just Like Mother
      • Anne Heltzel
      3.4444 reads
      #49
      Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
      Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
      • Lauren Hough
      3.1813 reads
      #50
      Escape
      Escape
      • Carolyn Jessop
      • Laura Palmer
      4.0429 reads
      #51
      Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
      Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
      • Kathryn Joyce
      3.673 reads
      #52
      Among the truthers
      Among the truthers
      • Jonathan Kay
      33 reads
      #53
      Pure
      Pure
      • Linda Kay Klein
      4.5710 reads
      #54
      Under the Banner of Heaven
      Under the Banner of Heaven
      • Jon Krakauer
      3.93244 reads
      #55
      Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
      Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
      • Deborah Layton
      4.756 reads
      #56
      Perfectly Clear
      Perfectly Clear
      • Michelle LeClair
      • Robin Gaby Fisher
      01 read
      #57
      Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
      Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
      • Ron Miscavige
      2.53 reads
      #58
      Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
      Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
      • Jenna Miscavige Hill
      • Lisa Pulitzer
      3.8537 reads
      #59
      The Program
      The Program
      • Toni Natalie
      • Chet Hardin
      2.52 reads
      #60
      Red Pill Blue Pill
      Red Pill Blue Pill
      • David Neiwert
      00 reads
      #61
      The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
      The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
      • Stephanie Oakes
      4.1229 reads
      #62
      Beyond belief
      Beyond belief
      • Cami Ostman
      • Susan Tive
      31 read
      #63
      Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm
      Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm
      • Catherine Oxenberg
      33 reads
      #64
      Kidnapped by the Cult!
      Kidnapped by the Cult!
        00 reads
        #65
        The Liar's Daughter
        The Liar's Daughter
        • Megan Cooley Peterson
        3.4410 reads
        #66
        Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
        Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
        • Libby Phelps
        • Sara Stewart
        41 read
        #67
        Unfollow
        Unfollow
        • Megan Phelps-Roper
        4.1132 reads
        #68
        This Is Not Propaganda Adventures in the War Against Reality
        This Is Not Propaganda Adventures in the War Against Reality
        • Peter Pomerantsev
        4.1515 reads
        #69
        Devil in Ohio
        Devil in Ohio
        • Daria Polatin
        2.710 reads
        #70
        The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
        The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
        • Gideon Rachman
        33 reads
        #71
        Thinking Straight
        Thinking Straight
        • Robin Reardon
        51 read
        #72
        Inside scientology
        Inside scientology
        • Janet Reitman
        4.2222 reads
        #73
        Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
        Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
        • Leah Remini
        3.8667 reads
        #74
        The Storm Is Upon Us
        The Storm Is Upon Us
        • Mike Rothschild
        43 reads
        #75
        Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
        Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
        • Elizabeth Sandifer
        42 reads
        #76
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        Worlds of Their Own

        Worlds of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair
        • Robert J. Schadewald
        00 reads
        #78
        Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet
        Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet
        • Kima Cargill
        00 reads
        #79
        Rage Inside the Machine
        Rage Inside the Machine
        • Robert Elliott Smith
        02 reads
        #80
        Sorrowland
        Sorrowland
        • Rivers Solomon
        3.8263 reads
        #81
        How Propaganda Works
        How Propaganda Works
        • Jason F. Stanley
        42 reads
        #82
        Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
        Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
        • Alexandra Stein
        00 reads
        #83
        Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
        Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
        • Alexandra Minna Stern
        41 read
        #84
        The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
        The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
        • John Sweeney
        3.55 reads
        #85
        A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story
        A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story
        • David Thibodeau
        • Leon Whiteson
        3.255 reads
        #86
        Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
        Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
        • Siva Vaidhyanathan
        44 reads
        #87
        The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
        The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
        • Jesse Walker
        2.52 reads
        #88
        Off the Edge
        Off the Edge
        • Kelly Weill
        3.6415 reads
        #89
        Black Mirror
        Black Mirror
        • Nancy Werlin
        00 reads
        #90
        The Chosen One
        The Chosen One
        • Carol Lynch Williams
        3.5512 reads
        #91
        Blind Faith
        Blind Faith
        • Ellen Wittlinger
        41 read
        #92
        Cover 3

        Food Isn’t Medicine

        Food Isn’t Medicine
        • Joshua Wolrich
        01 read
        #93
        Going Clear
        Going Clear
        • Lawrence Wright
        3.973 reads
        #94
        Heaven's Gate
        Heaven's Gate
        • Benjamin E. Zeller
        41 read
        #95
        Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation
        Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation
        • Vincent F. Hendricks
        • Mads Vestergaard
        00 reads
        #96
        Hell Followed with Us
        Hell Followed with Us
        • Andrew Joseph White
        4.08109 reads
        #97
        The Gospel of Wellness
        The Gospel of Wellness
        • Rina Raphael
        3.439 reads
        #98
        Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
        Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
        • Symeon Brown
        4.52 reads
        #99
        Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
        Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
        • Michael Shermer
        43 reads
        #100
        Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
        Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
        • Amanda Montell
        3.88274 reads
        #101
        A Billion Years
        A Billion Years
        • Mike Rinder
        3.888 reads
        #102
        Unspeakable
        Unspeakable
        • Jessica Willis Fisher
        01 read