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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.

News and Opinion

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

Recent Additions

• Mormon church rocked by child sexual abuse allegations in California
• Experts warn that recent school shootings show growth in new radicalization pattern
• Aleph Aum Supreme Truth Cults Successor Fails to Report Â¥700 Million Group Apparently Sought to Hide Assets
• Ex Oxford University student charged with murder after cult stabbing
• CHAOS The Manson Murders Review Errol Morris Manson Documentary Gets Lost in the Fog of Conspiracy
• Datelines Keith Morrison shares experience interviewing Lori Vallow Daybell
• Prosecutors indict 13 suspects in Taipei Buddhist cult murder case
• 30 Years After Sarin Attack Colleague of Lawyer Killed by Aum Supreme Truth Cult Worked Hard to Find Him Says Lessons to Be Learned From Cults Illegal Acts
• Second Circuit asked if Canadian con mans failure to provide magic is a crime
• How our personal records ended up in a Mormon mountain vault in Utah

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