Ep. 36 - Victorian CULTS - New Messiahs & Manipulation

On today’s episode, Genevieve is talking about Victorian era cults: the bonkers beliefs, the scandals, manipulation, devil children, corpses in bath tubs, custom tea blends, and what inspired these cults to come about in the first place.

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References for today’s episode:

https://medium.com/@pau1morgan/the-lampeter-brethren-a-victorian-sex-cult-e318213d7b7f

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemonites

https://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/abode%20of%20love.htm

https://headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/henry-james-prince-john-hugh-smyth-pigott-agapemonite-messiahs/

https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/acsq/article/1490/&path_info=ACSQ_2021.02_130.pdf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshan_Unity

https://floridatraveler.com/koreshan-state-park/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/917741876/?match=1&terms=Agapemonite

https://medium.com/illumination/blurred-lines-how-our-culture-echoes-cult-like-patterns-181bcb9b600a

https://conflicttransformation.substack.com/p/responding-to-cults-as-a-social-conflict