Educational tool only. All groups exist on a spectrum of control. Individual experiences vary. Based on publicly available reports, ex-member accounts, court records, and expert analyses — not medical or legal advice.

BITE axis: Emotional

Excommunication

Catholic Church formal censure removing access to sacraments. Less severe in everyday Catholic life than shunning practices in some other groups.

Related terms

Shunning

Groups in the dataset that reference Excommunication

Auto-derived from body, summary, and red-flag text. Showing top 6 by CLCI score.

Salafist Islam (high-control sub-branches)
Bobov Hasidic
Ayn Rand / Objectivist 'Collective' inner circle (1960s NBI)
Evangelical Megachurches (high-control variants)
Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
Nichiren Shoshu (parent of Soka Gakkai split)