These shows explore the psychology of cult leaders and their victims, as well as how cultish thinking can bleed into our everyday lives. By Emma Dibdin Cults are ideal podcast fodder: psychologically ...

Call it a sign of the strange times in which we live, when disinformation and conspiracy theories run rampant on social media, but a decade after TV's true crime renaissance began, the cult ...

The problem of bias in Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) has been the focus of numerous 'radical cataloging' studies. This study examines the use of the term sect as it is applied to the Shīʿī (or ...

Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in ...

The violent confrontation in Texas between federal agents and Branch Davidians is tragic and deplorable. The calamity might have been avoided by an understanding of religious sects. The "cult" ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Frank W. spent five years working for the Twelve Tribes religious sect and never took home a paycheck. The 65-year-old Tennessean worked many 12-hour days in ...

Bodies of more than 400 members of the Jim Jones' sect "Temple of people" lie down, on 19 November 1978, in Jonestown, where the Cult leader Jim Jones had established the Peoples Temple. More than 900 ...

On a fall day in 1999, 19-year-old John I. Post packed up his birth certificate, Social Security card, state identification, favorite blanket and pictures of his family and prepared to leave the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the ...