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Pathfinder: Cults
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Websites
SCOPE: Cults engage in psychological manipulation, which includes coercive persuasion and brainwashing. The driving force behind cults is to gain new followers, power, and wealth. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for students
in locating library resources on the topic of cults. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing,
but as a selective sampling of the many types of
resources available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with cults are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:
Cults
Sects
Psychology. Religious
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (Online Database) hardcopy also available in Reference Section:
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
REF BL 2525.M45 1992 Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America
REF BL2525.M45144 2003 Encyclopedia of American Religions
REF BL72.L48 1999 Peculiar Prophets: A Biographical Dictionary of New Religions
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Deikman, Arthur. The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
Tobias, Madeleine Landau. Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Abusive Relationships. Alameda, CA: Hunter House, 1994.
Weber, Eugene. Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of cults are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text
journals available through our databases in:
WEBSITES
Cult Influence Tactics
http://www.chapman.edu/comm/comm/faculty/thobbs/com401/socialinfluence/cult.html Cult
Studies: Information About Cults and Psychological
Manipulation
http://www.csj.org
Updated
02/08/2007
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