List of new religious movements

A new [religious movement] is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations. Academics identify a variety of characteristics which they employ in categorizing groups as new religious movements. The term is broad and inclusive, rather than sharply defined. New religious movements are generally seen as syncretic, employing human and material assets to disseminate their ideas and worldviews, deviating in some degree from a society's traditional forms or doctrines, focused especially upon the self, and having a peripheral relationship that exists in a state of tension with established societal conventions.
A NRM may be one of a wide range of movements ranging from those with loose affiliations based on novel approaches to spirituality or religion to communitarian enterprises that demand a considerable amount of group conformity and a social identity that separates their adherents from mainstream society. Use of the term NRM is not universally accepted among the groups to which it is applied. Scholars have estimated that NRMs now number in the tens of thousands worldwide. Most have only a few members, some have thousands, and very few have more than a million. Academics occasionally propose amendments to technical definitions and continue to add new groups.

List

Name	Founder	Founded	Type	References
3HO	Harbhajan Singh Khalsa	1969	Sikh
Adidam, previously the Free Daist Communion, Dawn Horse Fellowship, etc.	Adi Da	1972	Neo-Hindu-inspired
Adonai-Shomo	Frederick T. Howland	1861	Adventist Communalist
Adonism	Franz Sättler	1925	Modern Pagan
Adventures in Enlightenment, A Foundation	Terry Cole-Whittaker	1985	Religious Science
Aetherius Society	George King	1954	UFO-Christian
The African Church	Jacob Kehinde Coker	1901	Anglican
African initiated churches	Multiple	1800s	Syncretic Christian-Indigenous
African Theological Archministry, previously the Order of Damballah Hwedo Ancestor Priests, Shango Temple, and Yoruba Temple	Walter Eugene King	1973	Afro-American West African Vodun
Agasha Temple of Wisdom	Richard Zenor	1943	Spiritualism
Agni Yoga	Helena Roerich & Nicholas Roerich	1920	Neo-Theosophical
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light	Abdullah Hashem	2015	Shia Islam Millenarianism
Ahmadiyya	Mirza Ghulam Ahmad	1889	Messianic Islam
Aiyy Faith, previously Kut-Siur	Lazar Afanasyev	1990	Modern Pagan Neo-Tengrist
Aladura	Josiah Ositelu	1930	Pentecostal
Alamo [Christian Foundation], Alamo Christian Church, Consecrated, Alamo Christian Ministries, and Music Square Church	Tony Alamo & Susan Alamo	1969	Fundamentalist Christianity Communalist
Altruria	Edward Biron Payne	1894	Christian Communal
American Buddhist Movement		1980	Western Buddhism
American Buddhist Society and Fellowship, Inc.	Robert Ernest Dickhoff	1945	Tibetan Buddhism
American World Patriarchs	Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski	1972	Eastern Orthodox
Amica Temple of Radiance	Ivah Berg Whitten	1932	Neo-Theosophical
Ananda Ashrama	Paramananda	1923	Neo-Hindu Neo-Vedanta
Ananda Marga	Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar	1955	Neo-Hindu Tantric
Ananda movement, including Ananda World Brotherhood Colonies and Ananda Church of Self-Realization	Kriyananda	1968	Neo-Hindu Self-Realization Fellowship
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha	Anandamayi Ma	1920s	Neo-Hindu
Ancient British Church in North America	Jonathan V. Zotique	1976	LGBTQ-oriented Christianity Progressive Christianity
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis	H. Spencer Lewis	1915	Rosicrucianism
Ancient Teachings of the Masters	Darwin Gross	1983	Sant Mat movements\|Sant Mat] Eckankar
Anglo-Saxon Federation of America	Howard B. Rand	1928	British Israelism
Ansaaru Allah Community	Dwight York	late 1960s	Black Islam
Ant Hill Kids, Holy Moses Mountain Family	Roch Thériault	1977	Adventist Church\|Seventh-day Adventist]
Anthroposophy	Rudolf Steiner	1912	Western esotericism
Antiochian [Catholic Church in America]	Gordon Mar Peter	1980s	Independent Catholicism Monophysitism
Antoinism	Louis-Joseph Antoine	1910	Christianity Faith healing
Apostles of Infinite Love, the Order of Magnificat of the Mother of God	Michel Collin & Jean-Gaston Tremblay	1961	Catholic
Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarean)	Samuel Heinrich Froehlich	1906	European Free church
Apostolic Christian Church of America	Samuel Heinrich Froehlich	1830	European Free church
Apostolic Church	Daniel Powell Williams	1916	Pentecostal
Apostolic Church of Christ (Pentecostal)	Johnnie Draft & Wallace Snow	1969	Oneness Pentecostalism
Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God	William Thomas Phillips	1920	Oneness Pentecostalism
Arcane School, a.k.a. Lucis Trust	Foster & Alice Bailey	1923 or 1937	Neo-Theosophical
Arica School	Oscar Ichazo	1968	Sufism
Art of Living Foundation, a.k.a. the Association for Inner Growth and "Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Preeth"	Ravi Shankar	1981/1982	Neo-Hindu
Arya Samaj	Dayananda Saraswati	1875	Neo-Hindu
Aryan Nations, the Church of Jesus Christ–Christian	Wesley Swift	late 1940s	British Israelism Christian Identity
Asatru Folk Assembly	Stephen McNallen	1970s	Modern Pagan Polytheistic reconstructionism Heathenry
Assemblies of God	merger	1914	Pentecostalism
Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ	merger	1952	Oneness Pentecostalism
Assembly of Christian Soldiers	Jessie L. Thrift	1971	Christian Identity Ku Klux Klan
Assembly of Man	Franklin Merrell-Wolff	1928	Eastern and Western esotericism
Association for Research and Enlightenment	Edgar Cayce	1931	Occult
Association of Vineyard Churches, the Vineyard Movement	John Wimber	1982	Neo-charismatic Trinitarian Pentecostal
Aumism	Gilbert Bourdin	1969	Syncretic esotericism-Hinduism
Aum Shinrikyo, Aleph	Shoko Asahara	1987	Japanese Japanese Buddhism
Ausar Auset Society	R.A. Straughn	mid-1970s	Rosicrucianism
Azalism, a.k.a. Azali Babism	Subh-i-Azal	1863	Babism
Bábism	Ali Muhammad Shirazi	1844	Shia Islam Millenarianism
Baháʼí Faith	Bahá'u'lláh	1863	Millenarian Babism
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship	Bawa Muhaiyaddeen	1971	Sufism
Bethel Ministerial Association	Albert Franklin Varnell	1934	Oneness Pentecostalism
Presbyterian Church">Presbyterianism">Presbyterian Church	Carl McIntire	1938	Reformed Presbyterian
Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ	schism	1957	Oneness Pentecostalism
Biosophy	Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler, F. W. J. Schelling	1806
Blackburn Cult, the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven	May Otis Blackburn	1922	Modern Pagan New Thought
Brahma Kumaris	Dada Lekhraj	1936/1937	Neo-Hindu
Brahmo Samaj, Adi Dharm	Ram Mohan Roy	1828	Neo-Hindu Unitarian Universalism
Brahmoism	Debendranath Tagore	1848 or 1850	Neo-Hindu Unitarian Universalism
Branch Davidians	Benjamin Roden	1930	Seventh-day Adventist Shepherd's Rod
Branhamism	William M. Branham	1951	Oneness Pentecostalism
Inedia, Breatharianism	Wiley Brooks	1970s	Hinduism-influenced
The Brethren (Jim Roberts group), a.k.a. The Body of Christ and The Garbage Eaters	Jimmie T. Roberts		Unclassified Christianity
British Israelism, a.k.a. Anglo-Israelism		1870s
Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow	Maria de Naglowska	1932	Occult Western esotericism Satanism
Bruderhof, a.k.a. the Hutterian Brethren and Hutterian Society of Brothers	Eberhard Arnold		Communalist
Brunstad Christian Church	Johan Oscar Smith	1905	Evangelical nondenominational Christianity
Builders of the Adytum	Paul Foster Case	1922	Ritual magic
Burkhanism or Ak Jang	Chet Chelpan; Chugul Sarok Chandyk	1904	Altaian Millenarian-Indigenist Tengrist
Cao Dai, a.k.a. Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do	Ngô Văn Chiêu & Lê Văn Trung	1919	Syncretistic Vietnamese millenarianism
Cargo cults		1885	Syncretistic Millenarian-Indigenist
Carlebach movement	Shlomo Carlebach	late 1960s	Neo-Hasidic Rabbinic Judaism
Celestial Church of Christ	Samuel Oshoffa	1947	Indigenist Pentecostal
The Centers Network		1981
Chabad, a.k.a. Chabad-Lubavitch	Shneur Zalman of Liadi	1775	Hasidic Rabbinic Judaism
Charismatic Movement, neo-Pentecostalism		1950s–1960s	Charismatic Christianity
Chen Tao, a.k.a. God's Salvation Church and God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation	Hon-Ming Chen	1955	UFO religion
Cheondoism, a.k.a. Chendogyo	Choe Je-u	1905
Cherubim and Seraphim, a.k.a. the Sacred [Cherubim and Seraphim Society] and Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim	Moses Orimolade Tunolase		African Pentecostal
Children of Thunder	Glenn Helzer	2000	Latter-day Saint Movement
Apostolic Church">Oneness Pentecostalism">Apostolic Church	Joseph Ayo Babalola	1941	Pentecostal
Christadelphians, a.k.a. Thomasites	John Thomas	1844	Baptist Restorationism
The Christian Community, a.k.a. the Christian Community Church and Christengemeinschaft	Rudolf Steiner Friedrich Rittelmeyer	1922	Anthroposophy
Christian Identity, a.k.a. the Identity Movement	1870s	1940s	British Israelism
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Gijsbert Haan	1857	Reformed Presbyterian
Christian Science, a.k.a. Church of Christ, Scientist	Mary Baker Eddy	1876	Christianity Faith healing New Thought
Christian World Liberation Front, a.k.a. the Spiritual Counterfeits Project	Jack Sparks, Fred Dyson, & Pat Matrisciana	1969	Fundamentalist Christianity Millenarianism
Church of All Worlds	Tim Zell & Lance Christie	1962	Witchcraft Modern Pagan
Church of Aphrodite	Gleb Botkin	1938	Modern Pagan Goddess movement
Church of Bible Understanding	Stewart Traill	1971	Adventism Fundamentalist Christianity
Church of Euthanasia	Chris Korda & Robert Kimberk	1992	Parody religion
Church of Daniel's Band		1893	Non-Episcopal Methodism
Church of Divine Science	Malinda Cramer	1888	New Thought Faith healing
Church of God in Christ	Charles Harrison Mason	1908	Pentecostal
The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres)	Grady R. Kent	1957	White Trinitarian Holiness movement Pentecostal
Church of God Mountain Assembly	J.H. Parks, Steve N. Bryant, Tom Moses and William O. Douglas	1906	White Trinitarian Holiness movement Pentecostal
Church of God of Prophecy	Ambrose Tomlinson	1903	White Trinitarian Holiness movement Pentecostal
Church of God with Signs Following	George Went Hensley	1920s	Holiness-Pentecostal
Church of Israel	Dan Gayman	1974	British Israelism
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	Joseph Smith	1830	Latter-day Saint movement-Millenarian
Church of [Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)]	Joseph Smith James Strang	1844	Latter-day Saint movement
The Church of Light	C.C. Zain	1932	neo-Hermetism
Church of Satan	Anton LaVey	1966	Satanic
Church of the SubGenius	J.R. "Bob" Dobbs	1979	Parody
Church of the Creator	Grace Marama URI	1969	Liberal family
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism	Bobby Henderson	2005	Parody
Church of the Living Word, a.k.a. The Walk	John Robert Stevens	1954	Fundamentalist Occult
Church of the Lord (Aladura)	Josiah Ositelu	1930	Pentecostal Family
Church of World Messianity	Mokichi Okada	1934	Shinto Faith healing
Church Universal and Triumphant	Mark Prophet, Elizabeth Clare (Wolf) Prophet	1958	Theosophical Occult
Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, also known as CARP	Sun Myung Moon	1955	Unification Church
Commandment Keepers: Holy Church of the Living God	Arnold Josiah Ford	1924	Black Judaism
Community Chapel and Bible Training Center	Donald Lee Barnett	1967	Latter Rain Pentecostal
Concerned Christians	Monte Kim Miller	1980s
Conservative Judaism	Sabato Morais, Marcus Jastrow, H. Pereira Mendes	1887	Rabbinic Judaism
Core Shamanism, The Foundation for Shamanic Studies	Michael Harner	1980	Neoshamanism
Covenant of the Goddess	merger	1975	Goddess Neopagan witchcraft Modern Pagan Wiccan
Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans	Margot Adler	1987	Neopagan witchcraft Modern Pagan
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord	James D. Ellison	1970s, mid	British Israelism
Creativity	Ben Klassen	1970s, early	Pantheism, Agnostic Atheism, White Racialism
Crossroads Movement		1970s
Cyberchurches		2000s, early	Non-denominational Christian
Dalit Buddhist Movement, a.k.a. Navayana Buddhism	B.R. Ambedkar	1956	Neo-Buddhism
Dances of Universal Peace	Samuel L. Lewis	1968
Diamond Way	Ole Nydahl	1972	Tibetan Buddhism, New Age,
Dianic Wicca	merger	1971	Neopagan witchcraft Modern Pagan Goddess Wiccan
Discordianism	Greg Hill, Kerry Wendell Thornley	1963	Absurdism Greek Mythology
Eastern Lightning, a.k.a. the Church of Almighty God	Yang Xiangbin, Zhao Weishan	1991	Chinese house churches
Eckankar or ECK	Paul Twitchell	1965/1971	Derived from Radha Soami, but denies connection
Efficacious Spirit Teachings, a.k.a. Spirit Church and The Lingling Sect	Hua Xuehe	1986	Pentecostalism
Elan Vital, formerly Divine Light Mission	Hans Ji Maharaj	1920s	Derived from Sant Mat, but denies connection
Emin	Raymond Armin	1971	New Age
End Time Survivors Jesus Christians	David McKay	1981	Fundamentalist Millennialism
Esoteric Nazism		1940s, late	Occult Western esotericism
Est	Werner Erhard	1981	Human Potential Movement Self religions
Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant	Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal	1968	Syncretistic Messianic Judaism-Indigenist
Methodist Church">Methodism">Methodist Church	J.H. Hamblen	1946	Non-Episcopal Methodist
Falun Gong	Li Hongzhi	1992	Qigong movement
The Family (Australian [New Age group)\|The Family], a.k.a. Santiniketan Park Association & Great White Brotherhood	Anne Hamilton-Byrne	1963	New Age
Family International, previously the Children of God, the Family of Love and the Family	David Berg	1968	Fundamentalist, Jesus movement, countercultural evangelical
Fellowship of Isis	Olivia Robertson	1976	Modern Pagan Goddess
Fellowships of the Remnant	Denver Snuffer Jr.	2013	Latter-day Saint Movement
Feraferia	Frederick Adams	1967	Modern Pagan Goddess
Feri Tradition	Victor Henry Anderson, Cora Anderson	1960, circa	Goddess Neopagan witchcraft Modern Pagan Wiccan
Findhorn Foundation	Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy, Alexis Edwards, Roger Benson	1963	Christian-Anthroposophistical-Rosicrucian
Holiness Church of God of the Americas">Holiness movement">Holiness Church of God of the Americas	W.E. Fuller	1898	Black Trinitarian Pentecostal
Satanic Church">Satanism">Satanic Church	Karla LaVey	1997	Satanic
Followers of Christ	Marion Reece	1800s, late	Unclassified Pentecostal
Fourth Way	George Gurdjieff	1913–1916	Esoteric Esoteric Sufism
Fraternitas Rosae Crucis	Paschal Beverly Randolph	1858	Rosicrucianism
Fraternity of the Inner Light	Dion Fortune	1924	neo-Hermeticism Esoteric Christianity
Freedomites		1902
Fundamentalist Christianity		1800s, late	Christian
Fundamentalist [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]	Lorin C. Woolley	1929	Latter-day Saint Movement
General Church of the New Jerusalem	schism	1890	Swedenborgianism
The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing	Jim Humble	2009/2010	UFO-New Age inspired Pseudoscience
Gentle Wind Project	John "Tubby" Miller and Mary "Moe" Miller	1980	Spiritualism
Ghost Dance	Wovoka	1889	Native American Indigenist Fundamentalist
Global Peace Foundation	Hyun Jin Moon	2007	Unification Church
Goddess movement		1960s,late	Modern Pagan
Godianism, a.k.a. Chiism	K.O.K. Onyioha	1949	African Indigenist Modern Pagan
Grail Movement	Oskar Ernst Bernhardt	1924	Syncretistic Christian New Age Channeling
Hanuman Foundation	Richard Alpert	1974/1980	Neo-Hindu
Happy Science	Ryuho Okawa	1986	Japanese
Heaven's Gate formerly Human Individual Metamorphosis and Total Overcomers Anonymous	Marshall Herff Applewhite, Bonnie Lu Nettles	1973	Syncretistic Christian New Age UFO religion
Hikari no Wa	Fumihiro Joyu	2007	Aum Shinrikyo
Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy	Swami Rama	1971	Hindu
House of Israel	David Hill a.k.a. Rabbi Edward Washington	1972	Black Hebrew Israelites
Humanistic Judaism	Sherwin Wine	1965	Nontheistic Rabbinic Judaism
Human Sacrifices Sect of Nacozari	Silvia Meraz	2009	Santa Muerte
Huna	Max Freedom Long	1936	New Thought New Age Hawaiian religion
I AM Activity	Guy Ballard, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard	1930s, early	Neo-Theosophical
Iglesia ni Cristo	Felix Manalo	1913, formally 1914	Restorationism Nontrinitarian Fundamentalist
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	R. Lee Kirkland	1922	Unaffiliated Fundamentalist
Indian Shaker Church	John and Marry Slocum	1881	Native American and Christian
Insight Meditation Society	Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein	1976	Theravada
International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Hare Krishna movement	A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada	1966	Hindu
International House of Prayer, a.k.a. IHOP or IHOPKC	Mike Bickle	1999	Charismatic Movement Post-tribulational Historic premillennialism
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Aimee Semple McPherson	1923	White Trinitarian Pentecostal
International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent and Jamilians	Eugene Douglas Savoy	1972	New Age
Iriadamant	Pierre Doris Maltais	1973	Animism Native American Spiritual ecology
Isha Foundation	Jaggi Vasudev	1992	Hindu
ISKCON Revival Movement	?	2000	Neo-Hindu ISKCON
Ivanovism	Porfiry Ivanov	1933	Syncretistic Modern Pagan Slavic Native Faith
Jediism		2000s	Star Wars-inspired New Age
Jehovah's Witnesses	Charles Taze Russell	1870	Adventist Bible Students Nontrinitarian
Jesus Army, "Jesus Fellowship Church" and "Bugbrooke Jesus Fellowship"	Noel Stanton	1977	Fundamentalist Communal
Jesus Movement		1960s, late	Fundamentalist
Jewish Renewal	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi	1970s, mid	Neo-Hasidic Rabbinic Judaism Syncretistic
Jews for Jesus	Moishe Rosen	1970	Fundamentalist Messianic Judaism
John Frum		1936	Syncretistic Millenarian
Kabbalah Centre	Philip Berg	1970s	Kabbalist New Age
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra	the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa	1976	Tibetan Buddhism
Keetoowah Society	Redbird Smith	1858	Native American Indigenist
Kemetic Orthodoxy	Tamara Siuda	1988	Modern Pagan Polytheistic reconstructionism Kemetic
Kerista	John Presmont	1956	Communal—After 1960
Kopimism	Isak Gerson	2012	Internet religion
Konkokyo	Bunjirō Kawate	1859	Japanese Shinto
Krishnamurti Foundations	Jiddu Krishnamurti	1928	Neo-Theosophical Universalism
Kripalu Center	Amrit Desai	1966	Hindu
Lama Foundation	Steve Durkee	1967	Communal
Latter Day Saint movement	Joseph Smith	1830	Christian restorationism
Latter Rain Movement	George Hawtin, Percy Hunt	1946	Millenarian Pentecostal
Laymen's Home Missionary Movement	Paul S.L. Johnson	1920, circa	Adventist Bible Students
Lectorium Rosicrucianum	Jan van Rijckenborgh; Zwier Willem Leene; Catharose de Petri	1924	Rosicrucianism
The Living Word Fellowship	John Robert Stevens	1951	Latter Rain Pentecostal
Local Church movement	Ni Shu-tsu	1920s	Independent Fundamentalist
Longhouse Religion	Handsome Lake alias Sganyodaiyoˀ	1797	Native American Indigenist
Love Family, a.k.a. the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon and Love Israel	Paul Erdman	1969	Communal
Love Has Won	Amy Carlson	2005, circa	New Age
Lumpa Church	Alice Lenshina	1953	African initiated church
Mahikari	Kotama Okada	1959	Shinto
Makasol, a.k.a. Paliau movement	Paliau Maloat	1970s, circa	Papuan Indigenist Millenarian countercultural
Manson Family	Charles Manson	1967	Millenarianism
Maranatha Campus Ministries	Bob Weiner	1972	Pentecostal
Martinus' Spiritual Science	Martinus Thomsen	1932	Esoteric
Mata Amritanandamayi Math	Mata Amritanandamayi	1981	Neo-Hindu
Mazdaznan	Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish	1902	Zoroastrianism
Meher Baba followers	Merwan Sheriar Irani	1921	Hindu-inspired
Mespilism		2000s	Buddhism, Paganism, New Age, Syncretism, Humanism
Messianic Judaism		1960s	Judeo-Christian
Mita Congregation	Juanita García Peraza	1940	Deliverance Pentecostal
Modekngei	Tamadad from Chol	1915, circa	Syncretistic Christian-Indigenous
Monastic Order of Avallon	Henri Hillion de Coatmoc'han	1972	Modern Pagan
Moody Church	Dwight L. Moody	1864	Fundamentalist Evangelical
Moorish Science Temple of America	Timothy Drew	1925	Black Islam
Moral Re-Armament	Frank N.D. Buchman	1921
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God	Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere	1989	Catholicism
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness	John-Roger Hinkins	1971	Syncretistic Sant Mat and Eckankar-influenced
Namdhari	Balak Singh	1800s, mid	Sikh
Narcosatánicos	Adolfo Constanzo	1985	Palo
Nation of Islam	Elijah Muhammad	1930s, mid	Black Islam UFO religion
Nation of Yahweh	Hulon Mitchell, Jr.	1970s	Black Judaism
National Spiritualist Association of Churches	Harrison D. Barrett, James M. Peebles, Cora L. Richmond	1893	Spiritualism
Native American Church, a.k.a. Peyotism	Quanah Parker	1800–19th century	Native American Indigenist Entheogen groups
Native Ukrainian National Faith, a.k.a. RUNVira or Sylenkoism	Lev Sylenko	1960s, mid	Modern Pagan Slavic Native Faith
Neo-charismatic movement		1980s, early	Charismatic Christian Nondenominational Christian
Neo-Hinduism or Reform Hinduism		1830, circa	Hindu
Néo-Phare	Arnaud Mussy	2001	Esoteric, apocalyptic
New Acropolis	Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi	1957	Neo-Theosophical Western esotericism
New Apostolic Church	Heinrich Geyer	1863	Catholic Apostolic Church Unclassified Christian Churches
New Kadampa Tradition	Geshe Kelsang Gyatso	1970s, mid	Tibetan Buddhism
The New Message from God	Marshall Vian Summers	1992	UFO religion
New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn		1969	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Witchcraft Modern Pagan
New Thought	Phineas Parkhurst Quimby	1800s, mid	Metaphysical Faith healing
Noahidism		1990s	Orthodox Judaism-inspired
Nuwaubian Nation or United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors	Dwight York	1967	UFO religion, New Age, Christian, Jewish, Black supremacist
Oahspe Faithists	John Ballou Newbrough	1882	UFO religion
Odinism	Orestes Brownson	1848	Modern Pagan
Oneida Community	John Humphrey Noyes	1848	Perfectionism
Oneness Movement a.k.a. Oneness University	Kalki Bhagawan	1989	Indian religions-inspired New Age Neo-Hindu 2012 phenomenon-inspired
Oomoto	Nao Deguchi	1899	Japanese Shinto-Millenarian
Open Bible Standard Churches	merger	1935	White Trinitarian Pentecostal
Opus Dei	Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer	1928	Roman Catholic
Order of the Solar Temple	Joseph Di Mambro, Luc Jouret	1984	Rosicrucian
Ordo Templi Orientis	Carl Kellner; Theodor Reuss	1895/1906	Western esotericism Neo-Hermetism Thelema
Pentecostal Church of God		1919	Pentecostal
Pentecostalism		1900s	Charismatic Christian
People Unlimited, also known as Eternal Flame Foundation, People Forever, and CBJ	Charles Paul Brown, Bernadeane Brown, James Russell Strole	1982	Immortalism, Christianity
Peoples Temple	Jim Jones	1955	Christian socialism
Philosophical Research Society	Manly Palmer Hall	1934	Occult
Pilgrims of Arès	Michel Potay	1974
Plymouth Brethren	John Nelson Darby	1830	evangelical Millenarian
Potter's House also known as: Christian Fellowship Ministries, The Door, Victory Chapel, Christian Center, Crossroads Chapel, etc.	Wayman Mitchell	1970	Pentecostal
The Process Church of the Final Judgment	Mary Ann MacLean and Robert de Grimston	1963	Satanism
Quiverfull	Mary Pride	1985	Christian Natalism
Radha Soami, also Radhasoami Movement or Sant Mat movement	Shiv Dayal Singh	1861	Sikh-derived or Syncretistic Sikh-Hindu or Sant Mat-inspired
Radha Soami Satsang Beas	Baba Jaimal Singh	1891	Sant Mat Radha Soami
Radha Soami Satsang Dayalbagh	Kamta Prasad Sinha	1907	Radha Soami
Raëlism, Raëlian Church	Claude Vorilhon	1973/1974	UFO religion
Rainbow Family, Rainbow Coalition	Barry Adams or Jesse Jackson	1960s, late	Communal Afro-American
Rajneesh movement, Osho movement	Rajneesh Chandra Mohan	1966	Indian religions-inspired Syncretistic
Ramakrishna Mission, Ramakrishna movement or Vedanta Society	Swami Vivekananda	1897	Neo-Hindu Neo-Vedanta
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment	J.Z. Knight	1977	New Age
Rastafari	Leonard Howell, Joseph Hibbert, Archibald Dunkley, Robert Hinds	1920s/1935	Jewish and Christian-influenced Afro-centric
Reconstructionist Judaism	Mordecai Kaplan	1922	Rabbinic Judaism
Reform Judaism, Progressive or Liberal Judaism	Isaac Harby; Isaac M. Wise; others	1820s	Rabbinic Judaism
Reformed Druids of North America		1960s	Modern Pagan
Reiki, also Usui Shiko Ryoho System of Healing	Mikao Usui	1922	Energy medicine Japanese Buddhism
Religious Science	Ernest Holmes	1948	New Thought
Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism	Vladimir Megre	1997	Syncretistic Modern Pagan Slavic Native Faith
Risshō Kōsei Kai	Nikkyo Niwano, Myoko Naganuma	1938	Nichiren Buddhist
The Rosicrucian Fellowship	Carl Louis von Grasshof	1909	Rosicrucianism
Ruhani Satsang, Kirpal Light Satsang	Kirpal Singh	1948	Radha Soami
Sacred Name Movement	Clarence Orvil Dodd	1930s	Judeo-Christian Nontrinitarian Church of God (Seventh-Day)
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj	Anandamohan Bose, Sivanath Sastri, Umesh Chandra Dutta	1878	Brahmoism
Sahaja Yoga	Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi	1970	Neo-Hindu
Saiva Siddhanta Church	Subramuniy	1957	Hindu
The Salvation Army	William Booth	1865	Holiness movement
Saminism, Samin movement	Samin Surosentiko	1889	Abrahamic religions Indigenist
Sant [Nirankari Mission]	Baba Buta Singh Ji	1929, formally 1947	Sikh Nirankari
Santa Muerte Cult		1940s, late	Syncretic Folk Catholic
Sathya Sai Baba movement or Sai Baba movement	Sathya Sai Baba	1950	Neo-Hindu
Santo Daime	Mestre Irineu	1930s	Folk Catholic Spiritism Neoshamanic Entheogen groups
The Satanic Temple	Lucien Greaves, Malcolm Jarry	2012	Satanic Nontheistic
Science of Identity Foundation	Chris Butler alias Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda	1977	Neo-Hindu ISKCON
Scientology	L. Ron Hubbard	1955	UFO-Psychic New Age
Sekta Niebo	Bogdan Kacmajor	1990	Christian
Seicho-no-Ie	Masaharu Taniguchi, Fenwicke Holmes	1930	Japanese Religious Science-Shinto
Self-Realization Fellowship	Paramahansa Yogananda	1935	Neo-Hindu
Semitic Neopaganism	Raphael Patai	1960s	Modern Pagan Polytheistic reconstructionism Feminism
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Ellen G. White; Joseph Bates	1860	Adventist Millerite Seventh-day Sabbatarian
Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement	schism	1925	Seventh-day Adventist
Shakers	Ann Lee	1750s	Communal—Before 1960
Shengdao, a.k.a. Tongshanshe	Peng Tairong	1900s, early	Chinese salvationist
Shepherd's Rod, a.k.a. the Davidians, officially, the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association	Victor T. Houteff	1935	Seventh-day Adventist
Shiloh Youth Revival Centers	John J. Higgins, Jr.	1969	Communal—After 1960
Shincheonji Church of Jesus	Lee Man-hee	1984	Christian
Shinji Shumeikai, Shumei	Mihoko Koyama	1970	Church of World Messianity Faith healing
Shinnyo-en	Shinjo Ito, Tomoji Ito	1936	Japanese Japanese Buddhism
Shinreikyo	Kanichi Otsuka	1950, circa	Japanese Shinto Syncretistic
Shouters	Li Changshou	1965	Christianity
Shri Ram Chandra Mission	Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj	1945	Hindu
Slavic Native Faith, a.k.a. Rodnovery or Slavic Neopaganism	Władysław Kołodziej, Jan Stachniuk	1920–30s	Modern Pagan Polytheistic reconstructionism
Slavic-Hill Rodnovery	Aleksandr Belov	1980s	Modern Pagan Slavic Native Faith
Soka Gakkai International	Tsunesaburo Makiguchi	1930	Japanese Nichiren Buddhism
Spiritualism	Kate and Margaret Fox	1848	Psychic-Mediumship Metaphysical
Subud	Muhammed Subuh	1933	Kejawèn neo-Sufism
Sufi Ruhaniat International	Samuel L. Lewis	1968	neo-Sufism
Sukyo Mahikari	Keishu Okada	1978	Japanese Mahikari Syncretistic
Summum	Claude Rex Nowell	1975	Unclassified Christian
Sun Dance		1890	Native American Indigenist
Syntheism	Alexander Bard	2012	Pantheist Humanist Netocratic
Temple of Set	Michael A. Aquino		Satanism Polytheism
Temple of Zeus	Andrea Maxine Dietrich		Satanism Polytheism
Tenrikyo	Miki Nakayama	1838	Japanese Shinto
Tensegrity	Carlos Castaneda	1995	Neoshamanism New Age
Terasem	Martine Rothblatt	2004	Transhumanism
Thelema, a.k.a. the A∴A∴ order	Aleister Crowley	1900s, early	Occult neo-Hermetism Western esotericism
Theosophy or Theosophical Society, a.k.a. 1882 as Theosophical Society Adyar	Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge	1875	Occult Eastern and Western esotericism
Theosophical Society Pasadena	William Quan Judge	1895	Theosophical
Tolstoyan primitivism	Leo Tolstoy	1901	Christian anarchism Pacifism
Toronto Blessing	Randy Clark	1994	Neo-charismatic
Transcendental Meditation	Maharishi Mahesh Yogi	1958	Neo-Hindu-inspired
Triratna Buddhist Community	Sangharakshita	1967	Neo-Buddhism
True Buddha School	Lu Sheng-yen	1980s, late	Tibetan Buddhism Taoism
True Russian Orthodox Church	Pyotr Kuznetsov	2007	Russian Orthodoxy Apocalypticism
Twelve Tribes	Gene and Marsha Spriggs	1972	Messianic Jewish Communal—After 1960
Two by Twos, a.k.a. Cooneyites, Christian Conventions, the Workers and Friends, the Truth, etc.	William Irvine	1897	Independent fundamentalist family
Umbanda	Zélio Fernandino de Moraes	1920	Spiritism
Unarius Academy of Science	Ernest Norman, Ruth Norman	1954	UFO Religion
União do Vegetal	Mestre Gabriel	1961	Spiritism Neoshamanic Entheogen groups
Unification Church, a.k.a. the Moonies	Sun Myung Moon	1954	Syncretistic Christian
Unitarian Universalism	consolidation	1961	Unitarian Universalism
United Holy Church of America	Isaac Cheshier	1900	Black Trinitarian Pentecostal
United House of Prayer for All People	Marcelino Manoel de Graca	1925	African American Pentecostal
United Israel World Union	David Horowitz	1944	Other Jewish Groups
United Lodge of Theosophists	Robert Crosbie	1909	Theosophical
United [Pentecostal Church International]	merger	1945	Apostolic Pentecostals
Unity Church	Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Fillmore	1889/1903	New Thought-Christian
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God	Edir Macedo	1977	Neo-charismatic Evangelical
Universal Great Brotherhood	Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere	1940s, late	Other Theosophical Groups
Universal Life Church	Kirby Hensley	1962	Liberal Family
Universal White Brotherhood	Peter Deunov	1900	Other Theosophical Groups Esoteric Christianity
Urantia Foundation	William S. Sadler	1934	UFO religion Psychic New Age Christian occultist
Vajradhatu	Chögyam Trungpa	1973	Tibetan Buddhism
Vale do Amanhecer	Tia Neiva	1959	Spiritualism
Volunteers of America	Ballington Booth, Maud Booth	1896	Holiness
Washat Dreamers Religion	Smohalla	1850	Native American Indigenist
The Way International	Victor Paul Wierwille	1942	Independent fundamentalist family
The Way of the Livingness (Universal Medicine)	Serge Benhayon	1999	Neo-Theosophical and/or "Socially harmful cult".
White Eagle Lodge	Lady Elizabeth Carey	1943	Other Theosophical Groups
Wicca	Gerald Gardner	1949, circa	Pagan-influenced Syncretic New Age
Wotansvolk	David Lane	1990s	neo-völkisch paganism
The Word Foundation	Harold W. Percival	1904, circa	Theosophical
World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church	Hyung Jin Moon, Yeon Ah Lee Moon	2015	Unification Church-based ultra-Orthodox/Fundamentalism
Yiguandao	Wang Jueyi; Chang Thien Ran	1800s, late	Chinese salvationist-Millenarian

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