Books about Spiritual Teachers and Groups

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Books about Spiritual Teachers

  • Enlightenment Blues: My Years With an American Guru (Andre Van Der Braak), ISBN 0972635718
  • The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power (Diana Alstad, Joel Kramer), ISBN 1883319005
  • Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen : A Study of Gurus (Anthony Storr), ISBN 0684834952
  • Ramakrishna Revisited: A New Biography (Sil, Narasingha P.) (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc.). ISBN 0761810528
  • The Many Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Peter Heehs), ISBN 0231140983
  • Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East (Gita Mehta), ISBN 0679754334
  • The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments (Eliezer Sobel), ISBN 159580028X
  • The Serpent Rising: A Journey Of Spiritual Seduction (Mary Garden), ISBN 1877059501
  • The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Christopher Hitchens), ISBN 185984054X

Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • Lives in the Shadow With J. Krishnamurti (Radha Rajagopal Sloss), ISBN 0595121314

A book by Radha Sloss, the daughter of Krishnamurti's long-time associate D Rajgopal. The book faults Krishnamurti for living a double life, with many revealing details of his personal life.

The Krishnamurti Foundation of America issued a response to the publication of this book but that has since been lost.

A brief summary of the book is here.

  • The Inner Life of Krishnamurti: Private Passion and Perennial Wisdom (Aryel Sanat), ISBN 083560781X

According to the blurb:

This powerful book explodes several popular myths about Krishnamurti--that he denied the existence of the Theosophical Masters and scorned the esoteric side of the spiritual path.

Limited preview available at Google Books.

Osho

Books about Spiritual Groups

  • Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (Kathleen Norris), ISBN 1573227218
  • By What Authority: The Rise of Personality Cults in American Christianity (Richard Quebedeaux), ISBN 0060667249
  • The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul (Donald B. Cozzens), ISBN 0814625045
  • Charismatic Chaos (John F. MacArthur), ISBN 0310575729
  • Churches That Abuse (Ronald M. Enroth), ISBN 0310532981
  • Cult Proofing Your Kids (Paul R. Martin), ISBN 0310537614
  • Damaged Disciples: Casualties of Authoritarian Churches and the Shepherding Movement (Ron Burks, Vicki Burks), ISBN 0310576113
  • The Drift into Deception: The Eight Characteristics of Abusive Christianity (Agnes C. Lawless, John W. Lawless), ISBN 0825431638
  • Exposing Spiritual Abuse: How to Rediscover God's Love When the Church Has Let You Down (Mike Fehlauer), ISBN 0884197689
  • The Grace Awakening (Charles R. Swindoll), ISBN 0849913233
  • Healing Spiritual Abuse: How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences (Ken Blue), ISBN 0830816607
  • The Jesus People: Old-Time Religion in the Age of Aquarius (), ISBN 0802814433
  • Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Jason Berry, Andrew M. Greeley), ISBN 0252068122
  • Letters to a Devastated Christian (Gene Edwards), ISBN 084232836X
  • More Jesus, Less Religion: Moving from Rules to Relationship (Jack Felton, Stephen Arterburn), ISBN 1578562503
  • Occult: They Didn't Think It Could Happen in Their Church (June Summers), ISBN 0975421484
  • Sex, Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis (A. W. Richard Sipe), ISBN 0876307691
  • The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse (David Johnson, Jeff Vanvonderen), ISBN 1556611609
  • Tithing (Matthew Narramore), ISBN 0974558702
  • Twisted Scriptures: A Path to Freedom from Abusive Churches (Mary Alice Chrnalogar), ISBN 0964958805
  • The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality (Eugene C. Kennedy), ISBN 031228358X
  • Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults (Ronald M. Enroth), ISBN 0310242711
  • The Anatomy of Illusion: Religious Cults and Destructive Persuasion (Thomas W. Keiser, Jacqueline L. Keiser), ISBN 0398052956
  • Blinded by Deceit (Joanne Hansen), ISBN 1931646503
  • Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults (Janja Lalich), ISBN 0520240189
  • Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships (Janja Lalich, Madeleine Landau Tobias), ISBN 0897931440
  • Charismatic Cult Leaders (Thomas Streissguth), ISBN 1881508188
  • Corporate Cults: The Insidious Lure of the All-Consuming Organization (Dave Arnott), ISBN 0814404936
  • Cults and Personality (Frank J. MacHovec), ISBN 0398056072
  • Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion (Marc Galanter), ISBN 0195123700
  • Cults in Our Midst (Janja Lalich, Margaret Thaler Singer), ISBN 0787902667
  • Cults on Campus: Continuing Challenge (Rudin Marshq), ISBN 093133702X
  • Cults (Sarah Stevens), ISBN 0896867234
  • From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era (Stephen A. Kent), ISBN 0815629486
  • The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power (Diana Alstad, Joel Kramer), ISBN 1883319005

Books about Destructive Cults

  • The Heart of a Cult (Lena Phoenix), ISBN 0978548302
  • Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult (Alexandra Stein), ISBN 0878391878
  • Insane Therapy: Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult (Marybeth F. Ayella), ISBN 1566396018
  • Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time: A Psychological Study of Destructive Cult Leaders from Rev. Jim Jones to Osama Bin Laden (Peter, A. Olsson, M. D.), ISBN 141377668X
  • On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left (Dennis Tourish, Tim Wohlforth), ISBN 0765606399
  • The Power of Cult Branding: How 9 Magnetic Brands Turned Customers into Loyal Followers (And Yours Can, Too) (Matthew W. Ragas, Bolivar J. Bueno), ISBN 0761536949
  • Recovery from Abusive Groups (Wendy Ford), ISBN 0931337046
  • Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (Michael D. Langone), ISBN 0393313212
  • Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change (Jim Siegelman, Flo Conway), ISBN 0964765004
  • So Late, So Soon: A Memoir (D\'Arcy Fallon), ISBN 0971691533
  • Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults (Jean-Marie Abgrall), ISBN 189294104X
  • Spiritual Perversion (Steve Sanchez), ISBN 0975480332
  • Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults And Abusive Relationships (Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich), ISBN 0972002154
  • The Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall Community: The Relationship of Radical Individualism and Authoritarianism (Amy B. Siskind), ISBN 0275968782
  • Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat (Doris May Lessing, Arthur J. Deikman, M. D.), ISBN 097200212X
  • Tm and Cult Mania (Michael A. Persinger, Lynn A. Suess, Normand J. Carrey), ISBN 0815803923
  • Under the Influence: The Destructive Effects of Group Dynamics (John D. Goldhammer, Ph. D.), ISBN 1573920061
  • The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society (Arthur J. Deikman, M. D.), ISBN 0807029157


(courtesy the Rick Ross Institute)

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