You are welcome to add to this list any articles related to new religious movements which some people consider spurious.

Polemics[edit]

There are multiple contradictions within the deprogramming movement:

Cults brainwash with coercive persuasion, amounting to mind control, so we brainwash your children out of cults, using one-sided arguments and coercive persuasion, but this isn't mind control: we're freeing their minds; we believe steadfastly in "freedom of mind"
Call or write, and we'll tell you all the terrible things we know (or have heard, or want you to believe) about the cult your son just joined, and we'll help you get him out vs. "We don't maintain a list of cults, these are just groups of concern" and "We feel no need to prepare a balanced evaluation of any particular group, because you can get positive information directly from them";
the major effect of deprogramming and charges of mind control and maintaining "cult info" clearinghouses, is that people are extremely wary of contacting the NRMs directly for any info, especially after hearing from the anti-cultists that NRMs are "cults" which "use deception" and can "zap" nearly anybody into snapping.

Redirects[edit]

Anti-cult movement
- from Debunking of the anti-cult movement myths 04:48, Mar 18, 2005 Willmcw (changed to redirect to anti-cult movement)

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Eileen Barker proposed 5 categories of these:

NRM - general, scholarly anti-cult and counter-cult movements - POV of "cult opponents" destructive cult - indisputably bad groups

Thanks to anonymous, who provided this list:

Guru Maharaj Ji, the "perfect spiritual master" who was so famous in the 1970s.

Someone asked Damian Anderson for the definitions of the following terms:

It's a long list, so I can see why Damian might have felt justified in saying, "do your own homework".