* " Destructive Cults ", A text by Panhellenic Parents Union for the Protection of the Greek-Orthodox Culture, the Family and the Individual, Orthodox Research Institute

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

* Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide New York: Routledge, 2007.

* Larson, Jennifer, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide ( 2007 ).

* Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide ( 2007 ).

Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse a 1995 book edited by Michael Langone, director of the International Cultic Studies Association ( formerly the American Family Foundation ), published by W. W. Norton & Company, treats the theories of mind control as related to cults.

* Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse, 1995, Michael D. Langone ( Editor ), 1993, ISBN 0-393-70164-6, W W Norton page

Tibetan Buddhism: With Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in Its Relation to Indian Buddhism.

Tibetan Buddhism: With Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology.

The book first appeared in Robert E. Howard's short stories " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ) and " The Black Stone " ( 1931 ) as Nameless Cults.

Atkins Denied Parole Again Associated Press article republished by the Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements

* Research on Destructive Cults, International Congress on Totalitarian Groups and Sects, Barcelona, Spain, 1993

Stephen A. Kent analyzes and summarizes the use of the brainwashing meme by non-sociologists in the period 2000-2007, finding the term useful not only in the context of " New Religions / Cults ", but equally under the headings of " Teen Behavior Modification Programs ; Terrorist Groups ; Dysfunctional Corporate Culture ; Interpersonal Violence ; and Alleged Chinese Governmental Human Rights Violations Against Falun Gong ".

* Barker, Eileen " Watching for Violence: A Comparative Analysis of the Roles of Five Types of Cult-atching Groups ," in Cults, Religion and Violence, David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton, eds.

* Doomsday Cults / Apocalyptic Groups Morning Edition, April 7, 2000

While acknowledging the issue of multiple definitions of the word, Michael Langone states that: " Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and / or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership's demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders.

* Langone, Michael: Cults: Questions and Answers

* Cults: Questions and answers, Michael D. Langone, 1988

* Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships, by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, Michael Langone, 1994, ISBN 0-89793-144-0, ISBN 978-0-89793-144-1

* Cultic Studies Journal: a Journal on Cults and Manipulative Techniques of Social Influence, Michael Langone ( Editor ), ASIN B000JFOZTS

* LeBar, James J. Cults, Sects, and the New Age, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, 1989.

In 1989 he also published his book, entitled Cults, Sects, and the New Age.

* Larson's New Book of Cults ( Tyndale, 1989 ) ISBN 0-8423-2860-2

* Cults and Isms, by J. Oswald Sanders, pub. 1962, 1969, 1980 ( Arrowsmith ), ISBN 0-551-00458-4.

* Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ( 2001, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 )

* Larry Kahaner, Cults That Kill, ; Warner Books ; 1994, ISBN 978-0-446-35637-4

Republished 1992 as The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890 – 1935 ( New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-3060-4 ) and in 2003 as The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology ( Gardners Books, ISBN 1-86064-973-4 ).

* Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas ( 2001 ), Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity ( New York: New York University Press, ISBN 0-585-43467-0, ISBN 0-8147-3124-4, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 ), 52-71.

* Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults, Jacques Vallee ( 1979 ) ISBN 0-915904-38-1

* Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live, by Bill Ellis ( 2001 ) ISBN 1-57806-325-6

Recovery from Cults, 1993, ISBN 0-393-31321-2

* ( 1987 ) Ancient Mystery Cults, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-03386-8, Based on his Jackson Lectures at Harvard, 1982.

* Cults, Religion, and Violence, David Bromley and Gordon Melton, Eds., Cambridge University Press ( May 13, 2002 ), 272pp, ISBN 0-521-66898-0

* On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, M. E. Sharpe, 2000 ( with Dennis Tourish ), ISBN 0-7656-0639-9

* Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 ( review 1, 2 )

* Larson's Book of Cults ( Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill, 1982 ) ISBN 0-8423-2104-7

* Strange Cults in America ( Tyndale, 1986 ) ISBN 0-8423-6675-X

: Cults, Religion, and Violence, 2002, ISBN 0-521-66898-0

* House, Wayne: Charts of Cults, Sects, and Religious Movements, 2000, ISBN 0-310-38551-2

* Lalich, Janja: Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, 2004, ISBN 0-520-24018-9

: The Kingdom of the Cults, 2003, ISBN 0-7642-2821-8

* Melton, Gordon: Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, 1992 ( Search inside ), ISBN 0-8153-1140-0