Here is an incomplete list of cults, the cult world, taken from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purported_cults
Aesthetic Realism </wiki/Aesthetic_Realism>
(Jewish Times, 2003) <http://www.jewishtimes.com/scripts/edition.pl?now=5/25/1999&SubSectionID=48&ID=2161>
Al-Qaeda </wiki/Al-Qaeda>
(AsianWeek, 2001) <http://www.asianweek.com/2001_11_16/opinion_voices.html>(USA Today) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/alqaeda/alqaeda22.html>(Le Monde Diplomatique) <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2002/01/CONESA/15984>(Le Nouvel Observateur) <http://www.nouvelobs.com/dossier/dossier16.html>
Aquarian Concepts </w/index.php?title=Aquarian_Concepts&action=edit>
(San Diego Union Tribune) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/acc/acc1.html>
Aum Shinrikyo </wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Enc) <http://encarta.msn.com/text_761580494___0/Cult.html>(Insight) <http://www.insightmag.com/news/1998/01/26/Nation/Military.Terrorisms.New.Theater-213831.shtml>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/837000.stm>
Beasts of Satan </w/index.php?title=Beasts_of_Satan&action=edit>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4287995.stm>(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1420295,00.html>
The Body of Christ </wiki/The_Body_of_Christ>
(a.k.a. Attleboro Cult)
(Boston Herald)(NEIRR) <http://www.neirr.org/AttleboroHistoryNew.htm>
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University </wiki/Brahma_Kumaris_World_Spiritual_University>
(Eloy Rodríguez-Valdés) <http://galeon.hispavista.com/investigacionsectas/productos1092285.html>
Branch Davidians </wiki/Branch_Davidians>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Salon) <http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2000/07/06/waco/index.html?sid=879233>(Enc) <http://encarta.msn.com/text_761580494___0/Cult.html>(SF Chronicle) <http://cultinfobooks.com/pub_affnb/obit/obit_singer_margaret.htm>(Insight) <http://www.insightmag.com/news/2001/06/18/FairComment/Renos.Halfway.House-256571.shtml>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
Chen Tao </wiki/Chen_Tao>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/42267.stm>(ABCnews) <http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dbromley/god'ssalvationchurchLink.htm>
Children of God </wiki/Children_of_God>
(a.k.a. "The Family")
(60 Minutes) <http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_10_16/story_1533.asp>(ABC) <http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/ABC_News:_Tale_of_the_Tape>(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/688317.stm>(CNN) <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/18/acd.01.html>(Enc) <http://encarta.msn.com/text_761580494___0/Cult.html>(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/homeentertainment/story/0,,1241128,00.html>(LA Times) <http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Los_Angeles_Times:_Tragic_Legacies_of_a_Sex-Based_Religion:_Murder_and_Suicide>(London Times) <http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/London_Times:_Revenge_of_a_son_on_cult_of_free_love>(NY Times) <http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/New_York_Times:_Murder_
and_Suicide_Reviving_Claims_of_Child_Abuse_in_Cult>(SF Chronicle) <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/06/CULT.TMP>(WP, 1993) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/children_of_god/main.htm>
Church of God with Signs Following </wiki/Church_of_God_with_Signs_Following>
-One of the larger
Snake handling </wiki/Snake_handling> groups.
(George Dearborn Spindler) <http://books.google.ca/books?vid=ISBN185000773X&id=dW3MS88NZR0C&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=american+baptist+cult&sig=U0uxTJGK3q1LoGnocQNWm6VnrHA>
Church of Scientology </wiki/Church_of_Scientology>
/
Church of Spiritual Technology </wiki/Church_of_Spiritual_Technology>(Salon) <http://archive.salon.com/feb97/news/news970225.html>(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(TIME) <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html>(Buffalo News) <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/Articles/buffalo-news-2005-01-30.html>(Boston Herald) <http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04a01.html>(Boston Herald) <http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/results.html?num=25&st=basic&QryTxt=inside+church+scientology&sortby=REVERSE_CHRON&datetype=0>(xenu TV) <http://xenutv.bogie.nl/us/60min-can.htm>(Skeptictank) <http://www.skeptictank.org/nl/nutl194.htm>
Church Universal and Triumphant </wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/427215.stm>(RM) <http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/NRMS_unedit/cut.html>(USCR) <http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040830103758-73537.pdf>
Colonia Dignidad </wiki/Colonia_Dignidad>
or Villa Baviera of Paul Schäfer
(NY Times) <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/international/americas/16chile.html?oref=login&oref=login>(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370607.stm>(TVNZ) <http://www.tvnz.co.nz/view/page/506420/478847>
Concerned Christians </wiki/Concerned_Christians>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/251815.stm>(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>(NY Post) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/cc/cc34.html>(AP) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/cc/cc11.html>
Creativity Movement </wiki/Creativity_Movement>
(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1434137,00.html>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
D-F
Deer Tribe Metis </wiki/Deer_Tribe_Metis>
(Phoenix New Times) <http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2002-06-13/news/feature.html>
est </wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training>
(Forbes) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/est/estpt13.html>
Falun Gong </wiki/Falun_Gong>
(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/tvradio/story/0,,1429570,00.html>(Massey News) <http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2005/Press_Releases/08-18-05.html>
Fiat Lux </wiki/Fiat_Lux>
(cult/sect)
(London Times) <http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13604/the-end-is-nigh-says-cult-leader>
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order </wiki/Friends_of_the_Western_Buddhist_Order>
(Guardian) <http://www.fwbo-files.com/guardian_article_v2.htm>
G-I
Green Dragon Temple </w/index.php?title=Green_Dragon_Temple&action=edit>
(TVNZ) <http://www.tvnz.co.nz/view/page/506420/248838>
Heaven's Gate </wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28cult%29>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Enc) <http://encarta.msn.com/text_761580494___0/Cult.html>(TIME) <http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,920573,00.html>(Insight) <http://www.insightmag.com/news/1998/01/12/Culture/Millennium.Schmillennium-211956.shtml>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>(Patrick J Carnes) <http://books.google.ca/books?vid=ISBN1558745262&id=pEdMu4JVsc8C&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=cult&sig=i8KgX5-TKlOCrTOODRjZ6RFtfy0>
Ho No Hana </wiki/Ho_No_Hana>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1087178.stm>,
(Salon) <http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/05/09/toes/>(CESNUR) <http://www.cesnur.org/2001/hono_march01.htm>House of Yahweh </wiki/House_of_Yahweh>
(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
Iglesia ni Cristo </wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo>
(Chicago Tribune)[4]
J-L
Jeffrey Lundgren </wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren>
(AP) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/lundgren/lundgren1.html>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
Jesus Army </wiki/Jesus_Army>
(Northampton Citizen) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/jesus_army/jesus_army1.html>(Chronicle and Echo) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/jesus_army/jesus_army6.html>Kenja Communication; Kenneth Dyers; Jan Hamilton [[1] <http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3
Key/LC19930422020>][[2] <http://www.rickross.com/reference/kenja/kenja14.html>]
LaRouche Movement </wiki/LaRouche_Movement>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Guardian) <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1340301,00.html>
M-O
Manson Family </wiki/Charles_Manson>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>Ma Tsu cult (Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1988 (vol.30-n.4), pp 674-697) <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4175%28198810%2930%3A4%3C674%3AHATROL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A&size=LARGE>
Mary Kay </wiki/Mary_Kay>
(Asian Pacific Post) <http://brandnoise.typepad.com/brand_noise/2005/12/the_cult_of_mar.html>
MOVE </wiki/MOVE>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God </wiki/Movement_for_the_Restoration_of_the_Ten_Commandments_of_God>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/695268.stm>(ABCnews) <http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81484&page=1>(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,182210,00.html>(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,182132,00.html>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
Mungiki </wiki/Mungiki>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2745421.stm>(Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board) <http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/ndp/ref/?action=view&doc=ken43322fe>
Nation of Islam </wiki/Nation_of_Islam>
(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,657611,00.html>(Scotland on Sunday) <http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=10032004>
National Labor Federation </wiki/National_Labor_Federation>
(NY Times) <http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/n/natlfed/kifner.htm>(East Hampton Star) <http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/n/natlfed/bestberliner.htm>
New Christian Church of the Full Endeavor in Byron Bay (The Courier Mail (Australia)) <http://www.countercult.com/news1/an010519-15.html> - a branch of Endeavor Academy </wiki/Endeavor_Academy>
New Kadampa Tradition </wiki/New_Kadampa_Tradition>
(Guardian) <http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1996/7/6_3.html>
Order of the Solar Temple </wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Enc) <http://encarta.msn.com/text_761580494___0/Cult.html>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
P-R
Pana Wave </wiki/Pana_Wave>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3029183.stm>(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2991439.stm>(The Straits Times) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/pana_wave/pana_wave2.html>(Reuters) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/pana_wave/pana_wave3.html>(Sydney Morning Herald) <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/02/1051382076637.html>
Peoples Temple </wiki/Peoples_Temple>
(Enc) <http://encarta.msn.com/text_761580494___0/Cult.html>(Wpost) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/overview70s.htm>(SF Chronicle) <http://cultinfobooks.com/pub_affnb/obit/obit_singer_margaret.htm>(OCRT) <http://www.religioustolerance.org/destruct.htm>
Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association </w/index.php?title=Philippine_Benevolent_Missionaries_Association&action=edit>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2052994.stm>
Posse Comitatus </wiki/Posse_Comitatus_%28U.S._movement%29>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>
Quillabamba Pentecostal </w/index.php?title=Quillabamba_Pentecostal&action=edit>
(BBC) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/693347.stm>
Rae Chorze-Fwaz </wiki/Rae_Chorze-Fwaz>
aka
Rama computer cult </wiki/Rama_computer_cult>(Wired 2.01) <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/lenz.html>(Wired 7.09) <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.09/lenz.html>
Raelism </wiki/Raelism>
(Salon) <http://archive.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/03/08/raelians/>(Guardian) <http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,,848936,00.html>
Rajneesh </wiki/Rajneesh>
/
OSHO </wiki/OSHO>(Salon) <http://archive.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/03/08/raelians/index1.html>(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Court TV) <http://courttv.com/onair/shows/forensicfiles/episodes/109.html>
Randian Objectivist movement </wiki/Objectivist_movement>
(NY Times) <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFD81E3AF936A15755C0A96F948260>(Murray N. Rothbard) <http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html>
Rastafarianism </wiki/Rastafarianism>
(Leonard E. Barrett, The Rastafarians, p.104, ISBN 0807010391) <http://books.google.ca/books?vid=ISBN0807010391&pg=PA104&vq=cult&dq=cult&id=swdaI6DfDkEC&start=10&sig=GZxN1W3t0W8RfjRLmPcqM1URJ5o>
Roch Theriault </wiki/Roch_Theriault>
(Salon) <http://archive.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/03/08/raelians/index.html>
S-U
Sathya Sai Baba </wiki/Sathya_Sai_Baba>
(Salon) <http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2001/07/25/baba/index.html?pn=3>for Scientology, see Church of Scientology </wiki/Church_of_Scientology> in this list
Soka-Gakkai </wiki/Soka-Gakkai>
(San Francisco Chronicle) <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1995/12/27/MN62956.DTL>
Sukyo Mahikari </wiki/Sukyo_Mahikari>
(Sunday Times) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/mahikari/mahikari1.html>(ABCNews.com) <http://www.gsreport.com/articles/art000016.html>(New York Press) <http://nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=2611>(The Australia/Israel Review) <http://www.aijac.org.au/review/1997/224/sukyo.html>
Symbionese Liberation Army </wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Guardian) <http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1494776,00.html>(SF Chronicle) <http://cultinfobooks.com/pub_affnb/obit/obit_singer_margaret.htm>
Synanon </wiki/Synanon>
(Salon) <http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/03/29feature.html>(Point Reyes Light) <http://www.ptreyeslight.com/light.html>
Transcendental Meditation </wiki/Transcendental_Meditation>
(Martin Gardner, Skeptical Inquirer) <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n3_v19/ai_16836643/print>(FR) <http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/rap-enq/r2468.asp>
Unification Church </wiki/Unification_Church>
(Salon) <http://www.salon.com/march97/news/news4970328.html>(WP, 1978) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/lovebmb.htm>(Guardian) <http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,555137,00.html>(SF Chronicle) <http://cultinfobooks.com/pub_affnb/obit/obit_singer_margaret.htm>(FR) <http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/rap-enq/r2468.asp>
United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors </wiki/United_Nuwaubian_Nation_of_Moors>
/
Malachi York </wiki/Malachi_York>(AP) <http://www.rickross.com/reference/nuwaubians/nuwaubians119.html>
V-Z
The Way International </wiki/The_Way_International>
(WP) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/chronology.htm>(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) <http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/way/11.html>
Westboro Baptist Church </wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church>
of
Fred Phelps </wiki/Fred_Phelps>(Salon) <http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/02/19/gays/index_np.html?pn=2>
Wikipedia </wiki/Wikipedia>
(Guardian) <http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,16541,1667346,00.html>
William Kamm </wiki/William_Kamm>
(Sydney Morning Herald) <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/21/1023864503334.html>(ABC.Net) <http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1167600.htm>S