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• the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective?
• the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested?
• the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
• the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults, by the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology?
• due to the reputation of its founder, Jan Groenveld, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre of Australia became used as a resource in publications on cults soon after its founding?
• Credonia Mwerinde founded the doomsday cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, with Joseph Kibweteere?
• Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp?
• a cult in Mexico venerates "Santa Muerte" (pictured), who is condemned by the local Catholic Church?
• Powderfinger's "Living Type" was about Charles Manson's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?