Preferably religious cults. I’ve read most of xenu.net and a little about various other cults, but I don’t know a lot about the various religious cults. I need to create a religious cult from scratch, and I’m going for the commune type with the leader having multiple wives. I guess that would be a David Koresh style cult.
Thanks.
(No, I’m not becoming the next Hubbard.)
Anything but the Cult Awareness Network, which was bought by the Scientologists,
Yeah, I knew about that. Another one I’ve also read about that’s interesting is Fred Phelp’s family history, which bears a lot of resemblance to cults. I’m hoping someone will have some with interesting inside information, especially into the day-to-day living of some of them. I’d almost forgotten I read Under The Banner Of Heaven, which is about those breakaway LDS sects that still engage in polygamy. I’ll have to dig that out for some, but it’s more historical than what life is like within those cults.
For an overview, I think this is probably the best one. The writeup on the Children of God is particularly interesting.
Thanks, kelly5078! Even if I wasn’t looking for research material, I still find them fascinating to read about, and this should give me something to chew on for a while.