Books on Cults, Sects & New Age Groups

Cults - General

Rachel Andres & James R Lane, Cults and Consequences: The Definitive Handbook. Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0962147877.

Ron & Vicki Burks, Damaged Disciples. Casualities of Authoritarian Churches and the Shepherding Movement. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0310576113. pp.176.

Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman, Snapping. America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 2nd edn. New York: Stillport Press, Inc., 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0964765004. pp.401.

Cults: What Parents Should Know. A Practical Guide to Help Parents with children in destructive groups. Weston, Mass.: American Family Foundation, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0818405112. pp.130.

Carol Giambalvo, Exit Counselling: A Family Intervention: How To Respond to Cult-Affected Loved Ones. AFF, 1995. Pbk. pp.75.

Steven Hassan, Combatting Cult Mind Control. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0892813113. pp.237. £10.99.

H. Wayne House, Charts of Cults, Sects, and Religious Movements. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0310385512. pp.160. [Compare CBD's price]

H. Wayne House, Doctrine Twisting: How the Cults Distort Major Christian Beliefs. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP. Pbk. ISBN: 0830813691.

David Johnson & Jeff VanVonderen, The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse. Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 1556611609. pp.235.

Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0807842532. pp.510.

Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults. Bethany House Publishers, 1982. Hbk. ISBN: 1556617143. [Compare CBD's price]

George Mather & Larry Nichols, Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions, and the Occult. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993. Hbk. ISBN: 0310531004. pp.384. [Compare CBD's price]

Ron Rhodes, Challenge of Cults and New Religions. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001. Hbk. ISBN: 0310232171. pp.432. [Compare CBD's price]

Jean Ritchie, The Secret World of Cults. Inside the Sects Take Over Lives. London: Angus & Robertson (UK), 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 020716990X. pp.241.

Joan Carol Ross & Michael D. Langone, Cults: What Parents Should Know. New York: Carol Group Publishing, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0818405112. pp.130.

Marcia R. Rudin, editor. Cults on Campus: Continuing Challenge, revised edn. AFF.

Louise Samways, Dangerous Persuaders. An Expose of gurus, personal development courses and cults and how they operate. Australia: Penguin Books, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0140235531. pp.148.

James Sire, Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0877846111. [Compare CBD's price]

Anson Shupe, editor. Wolves Within the Fold. Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power. London: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0813524903. pp.245.

Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich, Crazy Therapies. What Are They? Do They Work? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 0787902780. pp.263.

Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich, Cults in Our Midst. The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0787902667. pp.381.

Steven Starker, Oracle at the Supermarket. The American Preoccupation With Self-Help Books. Oxford: Transaction Publishers, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 0887382339. pp.204.

Stephen Wookey, When a Church Becomes a Cult. London: Hodder & Stouhgton, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0340656220. pp.168.

Specific Groups

Cult Recovery

Wendy Ford, Recovery From Abusive Groups. AFF, 1993. Pbk. pp.106.

Michael D. Langone, editor. Recovery From Cults. Help For Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse. New York & London: W.W. Norton, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0393313212. pp.410.

Carroll Stoner & Cynthia Kisser, Touchstones. Reconnecting After a Cult Experience. Chicago, Il.: Cult Awareness Network, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0963457209. pp.66.

Madeleine Landau Tobias and Janja Lalich, Captive Hearts, Captive Minds. Alameda, California: Hunter House Inc., 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0897931440. pp.304.

Boston Movement

Carol Giambalvo & Herbert Rosedale, eds. The Boston Movement. American Family Foundation, 1996. Pbk. pp.243.

Branch Davidians

Kenneth Samples, Erwin de Casiro, Richard Abanes & Robert Lyle, Prophets of the Apocalypse. David Koresh & Other American Messiahs. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0801083672. pp.234.

Children of God

Deborah (Linda Berg) Davis with Bill Davis, The Children of God: The Inside Story. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984. Hbk. ISBN: 0310278406. pp.244.

Miriam Williams, Heaven's Harlots; My 15 Years in a Sex Cult. Eagle Brook, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0688170129. pp.304.

Deliverance / Spiritual Warfare

Chuck Lowe, Territorial Spirits and World Evangelisation. Mentor/OMF, 1998. ISBN: 1857923995. A Biblical examination of the teachings of C. Peter Wagner. [Compare CBD's price]

Sydney H.T. Page, The Powers of Evil. A Biblical Study of Satan and Demons. Leicester: Apollos, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0851114377. [Compare CBD's price]

Findhorn

Stephen J. Castro, Hypocrisy and Dissent Within the Findhorn Foundation. New Media Books, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0952688107.

Health & Wealth

Robert M. Bowman, The Word-Faith Controversy: Understanding the Health and Wealth Gospel. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0801063442. pp.254. [Compare CBD's price]

D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel: Biblical and Historical Insights into the Word of Faith Movement, 2nd edn. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 1565631323. [Compare CBD's price]

ISKCON (Hare Krishas)

Nori J. Muster, Betrayal of the Spirit. My Life Behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 0252022637. pp.213.

Jehovah's Witnesses

Robert M. Bowman, Jr., Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Christ, & The Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0801009553. pp.171.

Robert M. Bowman, Jr., Jehovah's Witnesses. Why They Read The Bible The Way They Do. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0801009952. pp.165.

Robert M. Bowman, Jr., Why You Should Believe The Trinity. Answer to Jehovah's Witnesses. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0801009812. pp.157.

Marley Cole, Jehovah's Witnesses. The New World Society. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Hbk. pp.232.

Robert Bowman, Jehovah's Witnesses. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0310704111.

Raymond Franz, Crisis of Conscience. The Struggle between loyalty to God and loyalty to one's religion. Atlanta: Commentary Press, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 0914675044. pp.375.

Raymond Franz, In Search of Christian Freedom. Atlanta: Commentary Press, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0914675168. pp.732.

Edmond C. Gruss, We Left Jehovah's Witnesses - A Non-Prophet Organisation. Nutley, New Jersey: Presbyrterian & Reformed Publishing Co., 1974. Pbk. pp.169.

Edmond Charles Gruss, Apostles of Denial. An Examination and exposé of the history, doctrines and claims of the Jehovah's Witnesses, 1970. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976. Pbk. pp.324.

Doug Harris, Awake to the Watch Tower. Inside the World of Jehovah's Witnesses, revised. S.P. Trust, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0951363220. pp.378.

Elizabeth G.K. Hewat, Meeting Jehovah's Witnesses. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1967. Pbk. pp.93.

Carl Olof Jonsson, The Gentile Times Reconsidered. Chronology and Christ's Return, 3rd revised & expanded edn. Atlanta: Commentary Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0914675060. pp.360.

Lorri MacGregor, What You Need to Know about Jehovah's Witnesses. Harvest House Publishers, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0890819440. pp.136. {CBD}

David R. Manwaring, Render Under Caesar. The Flag-Salute Controversy. A Study of the Jehovah's Witnesses' Legal Struggle against Constitutional Flag Salute in Public Schools. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Hbk. pp.321.

Kevin R. Quick, Pilgrimage Through the Watchtower. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0801075513. pp.103.

David A. Reed, editor. Index of Watch Tower Errors 1879 to 1989. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0801077567. pp.138.

David A. Reed, Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse By Verse. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0801077397. pp.139. {CBD}

David Reed, Answering Jehovah's Witnesses Subject by Subject. Baker / Revell, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 080105317X. pp.256. {CBD}

David A. Reed, Worse Than Waco. Jehovah's Witnesses Hide a Tragedy. Stoughton, Massachusetts: Comments From Friends, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0963744801. pp.144.

Ron Rhodes, Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses. Harvest House Publishers, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 1565071069. {CBD}

Ron Rhodes, Jehovah's Witnesses: What You Need To Know. Harvest House Publishers, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 1565075102. {CBD}

Ron Rhodes, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a Jehovah's Witness (The 10 Most Important Things Series). Harvest House Publishers, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 0736905359. pp.128.

Alan Rogerson, Millions Now Living Will Never Die. A Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. London: Constable,1969. Hbk. ISBN: 094559406. pp.216.

Anne Sanderson, Fearless Love: Understanding Today's Jehovah's Witnesses. Christian Focus Publications, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 1857925068. pp.272. { CBD}

William J. Schnell, Jehovah's Witnesses' Errors Exposed. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1959. Pbk. ISBN: 0801080746. pp.211.

Valerie Tomsett, Released From The Watchtower. London: Lakeland, 1971. Pbk. ISBN: 055100049X. pp.128.

Valerie Tomsett, Watchtower Chaos. London: Lakeland, 1974. Pbk. ISBN: 0551004770. pp.112.

Mormonism

John Ahmanson, Secret History. An Eyewitness Account of the Rise of Mormonism, Gleason L. Archer, translator. Chicago: Moody Press, 1984. Hbk. ISBN: 0802402771. pp.180.

Einar Anderson, History and Beliefs of Mormonism, revised 1981. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0825421225. pp.167.

Einar Anderson, I Was A Mormon, 1964. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966. Hbk. pp.186.

Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. Davis & Donald R. Scales, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? Santa Ana, California: Vision House Publishers, 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0884490688. pp.257.

Pete Earley, Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood-Atonement Killings. Replica Books, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0735100454. pp.422.

Gordon H. Fraser, Is Mormonism Christian? Mormon Doctrine Compared With Biblical Christianity, revised. Chicago: Moody Press, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0802441696. pp.122.

Gordon H. Fraser, What Does The Book of Mormon Teach? An Examination of the Historical and Scientific Statements of the Book of Mormon., revised. Chicago: Moody Press, 1964. Pbk. pp.128.

Thelma Geer, Mormonism, Mama & Me! Moody Press, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0802456332. pp.216.

Norman Geisler, Ron Rhodes & Phil Roberts, The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism. Harvest House Publishers, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 1565078454. pp.220.

Kurt Van Gorden, Mormonism. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0310704014.

A.A. Hoekema, Mormonism, 1973. Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0853641544. pp.101.

Deborah Laake, Secret Ceremonies. A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond. Warner, 1994. Pbk. ISBN: 0285631918. pp.240.

Robert Lindsey, A Gathering of Saints. A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit. London: Corgi Books, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0552136263. pp.431.

Bill McKeever & Eric Johnson, Mormonism 101. Baker / Revell, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0801063353. pp.304.

Walter R. Martin, The Maze of Mormonism. London & Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1963. Hbk. pp.168.

Robert A. Morey, How to Answer a Mormon. Practical Guidelines For What to Expect and What to Reply When the Mormons Come to Your Door. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 087123260X. pp.119.

Robert Mullen, The Mormons. London: W.H. Allen, 1967. Hbk. pp.316.

Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith, The Mormon Murders. A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit and Death. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0747405581. pp.458.

Thomas F. O'Dea, The Mormons. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1957. Pbk. ISBN: 0226617432. pp.289.

J. Roy H. Paterson, Meeting the Mormons. A Study of the Mormon Church in Scotland and Elsewhere. Edinburgh: The Home Board of the Church of Scotland, 1965. Pbk. pp.88.

David A. Reed & John R. Farkas, Mormons : Answered Verse by Verse. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0801077613. pp.154.

R. Philip Roberts, Mormonism Unmasked. Broadman / Holman, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0805416528. pp.160.

Judy Robertson, Out of Mormonism. Bethany House Publishers, 2001. Pbk. pp.224.

Harry L. Ropp, Are The Mormon Scriptures Reliable? Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 0877844690. pp.138.

Harry Ropp, Is Mormonism Christian: A Look at the Teachings of the Mormon Religion. College Press. Pbk. ISBN: 0899007422.

Jack Roundhill, Meeting the Mormons. Guildford & London: Lutterworth Educational, 1974. Pbk. ISBN: 0718820258. pp.51.

Latayne Colvett Scott, Ex-Mormons. Why We Left. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0801083060. pp.166.

Latayne Colvett Scott, The Mormon Mirage. A Former Member Tells Why She Left the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982. Pbk. ISBN: 0310389119. pp.276.

Jerald & Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism. A Behind the Scenes Look At Changes in Mormon Doctrine and Practice, 1980. Chicago: Moody Press, 1981. Pbk. ISBN: 0802412343. pp.592.

James R. White, Is the Mormon My Brother? Bethany House Publishers, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 0764220470. pp.192.

New Age

Henry Gordon, Channeling IntoThe New Age. The “Teachings” of Shirley MacLaine and Other Such Gurus. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1988. Hbk. ISBN: 0879755032. pp.198.

James Watt, editor. The Church, Medicine and The New Age. London: The Churches’ Council For Health and Healing, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0950699020. pp.148.

People’s Temple (Jim Jones)

Deborah Layton, Seductive Poison. A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple. London: Aurum Press, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 1854106007. pp.309.

Mary McCormick Maaga, Hearing the Voices of Jonestown. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0815605153. pp.188.

Scientology

Jon Atack, The Total Freedom Trap. Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard. East Grinstead: Theta Communications, Ltd., 1992. Pbk.

Jon Atack, A Piece of the Blue Sky. Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. New York: Lyle Smart Books, 1990. Hbk. ISBN: 081840499X. pp.428.

Bent Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman? revised. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books Inc., 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0942637577. pp.459.

Stewart Lamont, Religion Inc. The Church of Scientology. London: Harrap, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 0245543341. pp.192.

Transcendental Meditation

James Bjornstad, The Transcendental Mirage. Discover what Transcendental Meditiation really is and where it came from. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany Fellowship, Inc., 1976. Pbk. ISBN: 0871235560. pp.94.

Michael A. Persinger with Normund J. Carrey & Lynn A. Suess, TM and Cult Mania. North Quiny, Massachusetts: The Christopher Publishing House, 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0815803923. pp.198.

Unification Church (Moonies)

Steve Kemperman, Lord of the Second Advent. A Rare Look Inside the Terrifying World of the Moonies. Ventura, Calif.: Regal Books, 1981. Hbk. ISBN: 0830707808. pp.178.

World Wide Church of God

Joseph Tkach, Transformed by Truth. The Worldwide Church of God Rejects the Teachings of Its Founder Herbert W. Armstrong and Embraces Historic Christianity. This is the Inside Story. Sister, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 1576731812. pp.207.