Press & Media
Interviews, conferences and publications about controlling groups and how people leave them.
Research and articles
Research on the concept of “sekta”
A sociolinguistic study of how people understand the word “sekta” and why it matters.
“Beware: Cult!”
How the word “sekta” was portrayed in the print media after the collapse of the USSR, 1990–2000.
Cults Can’t Hide!
How to tell a harmless religious organisation from a totalitarian one, and what is being done about it in Latvia.
A series of articles about cults
A selection of publications, and why the media sometimes take words out of context.
Conferences
FECRIS 2017, Brussels
The annual international conference of the European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sects.
FECRIS 2018, Riga
The FECRIS conference in Latvia, organised with the Latvian Committee for Combating Totalitarian Sects.
Europe United Against Cults!
The largest European conference on cults will be held in Latvia, 1 June 2017.