Harper Wave

9780062993151

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Cultish

Amanda Montell demonstrates that we are all more susceptible to joining cultish groups than we may realize.

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Review of ‘Cultish’

It may not seem like CrossFit (a popular high-intensity interval training workout) and Heaven’s Gate (a cult that believed UFOs were headed to Earth on the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet) have any similarities. But as linguist Amanda Montell argues in Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, these are just two of many groups that bind…

Interview with Amanda Montell

Amanda Montell peels back the linguistic layers of these groups and demonstrates that even mainstream brands and organizations use “cultish language” to draw people in.

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