{"id":6604,"date":"2025-10-15T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:03:47","slug":"is-there-a-cult-for-that-facts-and-activities-for-fanatical-fun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/is-there-a-cult-for-that-facts-and-activities-for-fanatical-fun-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Cult for That?: Facts and Activities for Fanatical Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As this ride called life starts to feel\u00a0more like a perilously rickety rollercoaster, people are seeking any kind of stability they can grab onto, and\u2014whoops!\u2014suddenly they’re in a cult.\u00a0In this tongue-in-cheek yet refreshingly generous\u00a0dive into the contemporary cult craze, Mary Beth Chapman explores what defines a cult and why Americans (and the media)\u00a0are so fascinated with them. Rather than focus on the foolishness of cult members, Chapman explores the\u00a0contributing factors like capitalism, isolation, and overwhelm that lead people to seek firmer spiritual footing in the first place. Served up with humor, self-awareness, and fun charts, the book also includes tips for starting your own cult, including how to choose your idol and how to hire the just the right charismatic cult leader, plus activities like word salad mad libs, red flag bingo, and your very own cult leader paper dolls. Perfect for cult questioners, kool-aid critics, and zealots for fun facts, the quest for the one true path just got a fresh dose of snarky good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As this ride called life starts to feel\u00a0more like a perilously rickety rollercoaster, people are seeking any kind of stability they can grab onto, and\u2014whoops!\u2014suddenly they’re in a cult.\u00a0In this tongue-in-cheek yet refreshingly generous\u00a0dive into the contemporary cult craze, Mary Beth Chapman explores what defines a cult and why Americans (and the media)\u00a0are so fascinated… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-now"],"my_excerpt":"\n

As this ride called life starts to feel\u00a0more like a perilously rickety rollercoaster, people are seeking any kind of stability they can grab onto, and\u2014whoops!\u2014suddenly they're in a cult.\u00a0In this tongue-in-cheek yet refreshingly generous\u00a0dive into the contemporary cult craze, Mary Beth Chapman explores what defines a cult and why Americans (and the media)\u00a0are so fascinated with them. Rather than focus on the foolishness of cult members, Chapman explores the\u00a0contributing factors like capitalism, isolation, and overwhelm that lead people to seek firmer spiritual footing in the first place. Served up with humor, self-awareness, and fun charts, the book also includes tips for starting your own cult, including how to choose your idol and how to hire the just the right charismatic cult leader, plus activities like word salad mad libs, red flag bingo, and your very own cult leader paper dolls. Perfect for cult questioners, kool-aid critics, and zealots for fun facts, the quest for the one true path just got a fresh dose of snarky good times.<\/p>\n","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n

As this ride called life starts to feel\u00a0more like a perilously rickety rollercoaster, people are seeking any kind of stability they can grab onto, and\u2014whoops!\u2014suddenly they’re in a cult.\u00a0In this tongue-in-cheek yet refreshingly generous\u00a0dive into the contemporary cult craze, Mary Beth Chapman explores what defines a cult and why Americans (and the media)\u00a0are so fascinated with them. Rather than focus on the foolishness of cult members, Chapman explores the\u00a0contributing factors like capitalism, isolation, and overwhelm that lead people to seek firmer spiritual footing in the first place. Served up with humor, self-awareness, and fun charts, the book also includes tips for starting your own cult, including how to choose your idol and how to hire the just the right charismatic cult leader, plus activities like word salad mad libs, red flag bingo, and your very own cult leader paper dolls. Perfect for cult questioners, kool-aid critics, and zealots for fun facts, the quest for the one true path just got a fresh dose of snarky good times.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}