cults

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=Database= [|Gale's Student Resource] You should find some good information about your movement here. If you have trouble, try searching the name of the group's founder or the city where it started. Also, once you have search something, look to the top for links to groupings of subject that gale provides. If you haven't chosen a cult, then you might want to browse the [|cult search results]

=Websites= [|Religious Movements Homepage Project] Created by the students a the University of Virginia, This Database of religious movements is an internet resource for teaching and scholarship that is widely acknowledged as among the finest in the world. Included in the list are many cult controversies, which may be helpful to you. BE AWARE that some of these are considered not cults but religions! []

[|The Cult Controversy] "This special report brings together 50 years of [Washington] Post photographs and news clips about some of the religious and other movements whose techniques have drawn criticism. It includes an annotated chronology tracing trends among these groups." []

[|International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) Database] This page might take a while to load, but it is worth it. Select your "cult" from a list, and get an overview or happenings that are relatively up today. ICSA makes a point of not maintaining the list to catergorize certain groups as "bad" or "cults", so LOTS of different groups are represented. []

Specific Movements
[|Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple] This website, created at the San Diego State University Religious Studies Department, attempts to present a balanced view of events. Included are pictures of the people who died and who survived, as well as first person accounts of events on the compound. = [] = = = =A List of Recognized Controversial Movements= It is important to realize with this assignment that one person may call a group a "cult" or "sect" when another may call that same group their religion. That being said, certainly an aspect of what leads to something being a "cult" is that it is recognized by that terminology by the majority of society. Here is a non-comprehensive list of such groups and their founders. Some may call them cults, some may call them movements. It is up to you to decide.

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Church of Scientology, L.Ron Hubbard Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (U.S.) Hare Krishna, Bhaktivedanta Charles Manson and Family Est, Werner Erhard Lifespring, John Hanley Symbionese Liberation Army (Patricia Hearst) Children of God, David Berg The Way International, Victor Paul Wierwille Peopple's Temple, Jim Jones Rajneesh Foundation International, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Posse Comitatus, Gordon Kahl Lyndon LaRouch's Political Network MOVE, Vincent Leapheart Branch Dividians, Vernon Howell a.k.a. David Koresh Order of the Solar Temple, Luc Jouret The Aum Supreme Truth, Shoko Asahara Heaven's Gate, Marshall Applewhite