CULTS HAVE BEEN a part of American society since the Pilgrims arrived in search of religious freedom. They offer alternatives to traditional religions that some people find more meaningful than the religions in which they were raised. Usually small and...

The 1978 Jonestown Massacre, where 913 of the Reverend Jim Jones' followers were forced to commit suicide, marked the high point in America's condemnation of cults. Spread across newspaper front pages and national magazines from coast to...

Cult, in its original sense, refers to: Cult (religious practice), the totality of external religious practice and observance, the neglect of which is the definition of impiety Cult may also refer to: Cult, a cohesive group of people devoted to beliefs...

EARLY IN APRIL, VICKI, the children, and I spent a weekend in Princeton. Saturday morning Eliza and I watched the Princeton heavyweight crew row Harvard. We stood at the finish line at the north end of Carnegie Lake. Spectators near us wore baseball...

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The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence given to a former cult member for his role in the 1995 nerve gas attack on the city's subway system.Tokyo District Court convicted Seiichi Endo in October 2002 of helping to produce the sarin gas...

Police on Thursday raided the offices of a group that split from a doomsday cult that carried out deadly nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subways in 1995, reflecting the continuing concern by officials about the organization.Intelligence agents swarmed the offices of the new "Ring of...