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The Cult Education Institute (CEI) is a nonprofit library with archived information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. CEI is an educational tax-exempted charity and an institutional member of the American Library Association. The CEI online library, which was first launched in 1996, is constantly expanding to include new research and information. The database contains thousands of files including news reports, peer reviewed papers, court documents, book excerpts and personal testimonies, all carefully organized within hundreds of titled subsections . There are also links to additional relevant research resources, a book list and a public message board attached for comments. Due to the size of the CEI library a search feature is available for your convenience. Also see the site map to learn where information and material is located.

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Is cult author Steven Hassan embellishing and/or exaggerating his bio?

Author Steven Hassan, who writes and speaks about groups called "cults," has a personal history of cult involvement. Hassan was in the Unification Church ("Moonies") founded by Sun Myung Moon for two years in the 1970s. And his origin story includes a dramatic "deprogramming" intervention arranged by his parents. However, it... More

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• IHOPKC founder committed sexual abuse misconduct against 17 women investigation finds
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• First woman receives sexually violent predator designation in Texas history as expert compares her to a cult leader
• Laura was born into the Two by Twos cult They dont want you to know they exist
• Secretive Christian sect coerced young mothers to give up babies
• Authorities arrest senior leader of controversial Jewish sect take 148 children into protective custody amid abuse allegations according to reports
• Leader of extremist Lev Tahor group arrested by Guatemalan authorities

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