Reddit reviews Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader
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Blackwell Publishers
http://www.amazon.com/Cults-New-Religious-Movements-Blackwell/dp/1405101814/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331569856&sr=1-4
If you're looking for more information try searching under "new religious movements." I took a class on the topic in university but I don't have my course work available while at work.
I searched on Google scholar, which might give you a good start for academic sources.
This was the book used in my class and I believe Dawson is one of the leading researchers on the topic.
I found the "who joins them" section particularly interesting, gives a good rundown of the sociological factors that leads one to join an NRM.
I'll get back with the course work that I may have available.
We generally only touched on short essays an excerpts (It was a 200 level soc class in undergrad), but I remember reading something from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cults-New-Religious-Movements-Reader/dp/1405101814/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409856696&sr=1-4&keywords=new+religious+movements
sorry I'm zero help