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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 both the American Library Association and New Jersey 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

• The Jews of Jonestown Jewish members of Jim Joness Peoples Temple cult
• High priest who ran racist online cult unmasked as delivery driver
• Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
• Jonestown Massacre Humanizing the members of Peoples Temple 45 years later
• Tampa woman recalls saving her kids from cult leader Jim Jones
• Elton Johns musical about Tammy Faye Bakker to land on Broadway next season
• Female sect leader 76 is jailed for life for murdering four year old boy she said was the reincarnation of Hitler Victim choked to death on his vomit while tied up in a sack
• Chad Daybell says he shouldnt receive death penalty because he is less culpable than Lori Vallow Daybell
• Japans Daisaku Ikeda longtime Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist leader dies at 95
• State minister I met five times with Unification Church leader

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