Overview - Cults: An Undergraduate Research Guide - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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This Research Guide focuses on religious cults which are regarded as unorthodox or spurious. It also considers the processes involved in conversion to cults and problems experienced in leaving a cult.

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