Cult

:This article does not discuss "cult" in its original sense of "religious practice"; for that usage see Cult (religion). See Cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term "cult".

External links

• Apologetics Index: research resources on cults, sects, and related issues Large website published by Anton Hein, who operates from an evangelical Christian point of view, but offers a variety of viewpoints.
• Homepage of CESNUR See CESNUR (a network of scholars working in the field of NRMs)
• Cult Awareness Network website of the Cult Awareness Network affiliated with Scientology
• "Cult Watch" led by J. Gordon Melton.
• Cultic Studies: Information about Cults and Psychological Manipulation Scholarly articles, group descriptions and news by the International Cultic Studies Association
• Info cult
• Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance - an extensive library of articles and essays promoting religious understanding, tolerance and freedom.
• The Rick A. Ross Institute for the study of Destructive Cults, controversial groups and movements Rick Ross' extensive website, contains groups database with media articles
• Dutch Skeptics Society: Online papers, articles and books about Cults, New Religious Movements, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion
• University of Virginia Religious Movements Homepage Extensive website with entries on definitions, controversies and many religious groups, by the late sociologist Jeffrey Hadden now edited by Douglas E. Cowan (some entries on individual religious groups have not been updated since 2001 and sometimes contain factual mistakes)
• "Cult" Defense of the term "cult" to describe the Children of God