New religions during the last 300 years
Some think that religion has become past which the spread of religions and religiosity is declining. In the first place, this might be true for a few regions and countries, but the truth is that the numbers of spiritual people are increasing quite others, and therefore the arrangement of spreading new religions will witness a fundamental change in decades.
consistent with the British newspaper, the Guardian, 84% of the world’s population belongs to a spiritual group. Usually, people belonging to the present majority belong to spiritual groups younger than the remainder, and that they reproduce and have children at rates above those that don’t belong to a specific religion. Although, there are many geographical differences, the planet today is becoming more religious.
What does a new religious movement mean?
A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society’s dominant religious culture.
NRMs can be novel in origin or part of a wider religion, in which case they are distinct from pre-existing denominations. Some NRMs deal with the challenges posed by the modernizing world by embracing individualism, whereas others seek tightly knit collective means.
Scholars have estimated that NRMs now number in the tens of thousands worldwide, with most of their members living in Asia and Africa. Most have only a few members, some have thousands, and a few have more than a million members
We will classify new religions consistent with their founding date for straightforward access:
New religions From 1750-1868:
Name | Founder | Year founded | Type |
Shakers. | Ann Lee | 1750s | Communal—Before |
Chabad-Lubavitch. | Shneur Zalman of Liadi. | late 18th century | Chasidic |
Candomblé | 19th century | Syncretistic Neo-African Divination | |
Brahmo Samaj, also known as the religion Adi Dharm | Ram Mohan Roy | 1828 | Neo-Hindu |
Apostolic Christian Church of America | Samuel Heinrich Froehlich | 1830 | European Free-Church |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Joseph Smith | 1830 | Latter-day Saint Movement-Millenarian |
Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism), | Joseph Smith | 1830 | Christian restorationism |
Plymouth Brethren | John Nelson Darby | 1830 | evangelical Millenarian |
Tenrikyo | Miki Nakayama | 1838 | Shinto |
Bábism | Báb (Ali Muhammad Shirazi) | 1844 | Shia Islam-Millenarian |
Christadelphians, also called Thomasites | John Thomas | 1844 | Baptist family Restorationism |
Odinism | Orestes Brownson | 1848 | Neo-pagan |
Spiritualism, Spiritism | Kate and Margaret Fox | 1848 | Psychic-Mediumship Metaphysical |
Brahmoism (Brahmo Dharma) | Debendranath Tagore | 1848/1850 | Neo-Hindu |
Christian Reformed Church in North America | Gijsbert Haan | 1857 | Reformed Presbyterian |
Fraternitas Rosae Crucis | Paschal Beverly Randolph | 1858 | neo-Rosicrucianism |
Konkokyo | Bunjiro Kawate | 1859 | Shinto |
Seventh-day Adventist Church | Ellen G. White | 1860 | Adventist |
Adonai-Shomo | Frederick T. Howland | 1861 | Adventist Communal |
Radha Soami Satsang Beas | Seth Shiv Dayal Singh | 1861 | Sant Mat |
Azali or Azali Babi | Subh-i-Azal | 1863 | Babism |
Bahá’í Faith | Bahá’u’lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí Nuri) | 1863 | Bábism |
New Apostolic Church | Heinrich Geyer | 1863 | Catholic Apostolic Church Unclassified Christian Churches |
Moody Church | Dwight L. Moody | 1864 | Fundamentalist Evangelical |
The Salvation Army, | William Booth | 1865[10]:419 | Holiness movement |
Followers of Christ | Marion Reece (or Riess) | late 19th century | Unclassified Pentecostal |
Yiguandao | Wang Jueyi; Chang Thien Ran | late 19th century | Chinese salvationist-Millenarian |
Namdhari | Balak Singh | mid-19th century | Sikh |
New Thought | Phineas Parkhurst Quimby | mid-19th century | Metaphysical Faith healing |
New Religion From 1870-1910:
Name | Founder | Year founded | Type |
Jehovah’s Witnesses | Charles Taze Russell | 1870 | Adventist Bible Students |
Arya Samaj | Mul Shankara | 1875 | Neo-Hindu |
Theosophical Society, also known since as Theosophical Society Adyar | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge | 1875 | Occult Eastern and Western esotericism–– |
Christian Science | Mary Baker Eddy | 1876 | Christian Faith healing New Thought |
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj | Anandamohan Bose, enSivanath Sastri, Umesh Chandra Dutta | 1878 | Brahmoism |
Oahspe Faithists | John Ballou Newbrough | 1882 | UFO religion |
Conservative Judaism | Sabato Morais Marcus Jastrow H. Pereira Mendes | 1887 | Mainline Judaism |
Church of Divine Science | Malinda Cramer | 1888 | New Thought Faith healing |
Ahmadiyya | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad | 1889 | Indian Islam |
Saminism Movement, Samin movement– | Samin Surosentiko | 1889 | Abrahamic religions Nativist |
Unity Church | Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Fillmore | 1889/1903 | New Thought-Christian |
General Church of the New Jerusalem | schism | 1890 | Swedenborgianism |
Church of Daniel’s Band | 1893 | Non-Episcopal Methodism | |
National Spiritualist Association of Churches | Harrison D Barrett, James M. Peebles, Cora L. Richmond | 1893 | Spiritualism |
Altruria | Edward Biron Payne | 1894 | Christian Communal |
Theosophical Society Pasadena–blz. | William Quan Judge | 1895 | Theosophical |
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) | Carl Kellner;Theodor Reuss | 1895; 1906 | Western esotericism neo-Hermetism Thelema |
Volunteers of America | Ballington Booth Maud Booth | 1896 | Holiness movement |
Ramakrishna Mission, also known as Ramakrishna movement or Vedanta Society | Swami Vivekananda | 1897 | Neo-Hindu Neo-Vedanta |
Two by Twos, also known as Cooneyites, Christian Conventions, the Workers and Friends, the Truth, etc. | William Irvine | 1897 | Independent fundamentalist family |
Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas | W.E. Fuller | 1898 | Black Trinitarian Pentecostal |
Oomoto | Mrs. Nao Deguchi | 1899 | Shinto-Millenarian |
Shengdao, also Tongshanshe | Peng Tairong (Ruzun) | early 20th century | Chinese salvationist |
United Holy Church of America | Isaac Cheshier | 1900 | Black Trinitarian Pentecostal |
Universal White Brotherhood | Peter Deunov | 1900 | Other Theosophical Groups Esoteric Christianity |
The African Church | Jacob Kehinde Coker | 1901 | Anglican |
Tolstoyan primitivism | Leo Tolstoy | 1901 | Christian anarchism Pacifism |
Mazdaznan | Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish | 1902 | Zoroastrianism |
Church of God of Prophecy | Ambrose Tomlinson | 1903 | White Trinitarian Holiness Pentecostal |
The Word Foundation | Harold W. Percival | c. 1904 | Theosophical |
Brunstad Christian Church | Johan Oscar Smith | 1905 | evangelical non-denominational Christian |
Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarean) | Samuel Heinrich Froehlich | 1906 | European Free-Church |
Church of God Mountain Assembly | J.H. Parks, Steve N. Bryant, Tom Moses, and William O. Douglas | 1906 | White Trinitarian Holiness Pentecostal |
Native American Church, also known as Peyotism | 1906 | Native American religion Entheogen Groups | |
Church of God in Christ | Charles H. Mason | 1908 | Pentecostal |
The Rosicrucian Fellowship | Carl Louis von Grasshof | 1909 | neo-Rosicrucianism |
United Lodge of Theosophists | Robert Crosbie | 1909 | Theosophical |
Antoinism | Louis-Joseph Antoine | 1910 | Christian Healing |
Thelema, also known as the A∴A∴ order | Aleister Crowley | early 1900s | Occult neo-Hermetism Western esotericism– |
New Religion From 1912-1952:
Name | Founder | Year founded | Type |
Anthroposophy (Anthroposophical Society) | Rudolf Steiner | 1912 | Western esotericism |
Fourth Way | George Gurdjieff | c. 1913 | Esoteric Sufism Western esotericism |
Assemblies of God | merger | 1914 | Pentecostal |
Iglesia Ni Cristo | Felix Y. Manalo | 1914 | Restorationism Unitarianism |
Modekngei (Ngara Modekngei) | Tamadad from Chol | c. 1915 | Syncretistic Christian-Indigenous |
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis | H. Spencer Lewis | 1915 | neo-Rosicrucianism |
Apostolic Church | Daniel Powell Williams | 1916 | Pentecostal |
Cao Dai, also known as Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do | Ngô Văn Chiêu | 1919 | Syncretistic Vietnamese Millenarian |
Pentecostal Church of God | 1919 | Pantecostal | |
Slavic Native Faith, also known as Rodnovery | Władysław Kołodziej, Jan Stachniuk | 1920–30s | Neo-pagan Polytheistic reconstructionism |
Church of God with Signs Following | George Went Hensley | 1920s | Holiness Pentecostal |
Elan Vital (formerly Divine Light Mission) | Shri Hans Ji Maharaj | 1920s | Sant Mat |
Local Church movement | Ni Shu-tsu (Watchman Nee)– | 1920s | Independent Fundamentalist Other Bible Students– |
Bruderhof, also known as the Hutterian Brethren and Hutterian Society of Brothers | Eberhard Arnold | c. 1920 | Communal |
Laymen’s Home Missionary Movement | Paul S. L. Johnson | c. 1920 | Adventist Bible Students |
Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God | William Thomas Phillips | 1920 | Apostolic Pentecostal |
Umbanda | Zélio Fernandino de Moraes | 1920 | Spiritism |
Meher Baba followers | Merwan Sheriar Irani | 1921 | Hindu-inspired |
Moral Re-Armament | Frank N. D. Buchman | 1921 | |
The Blackburn Cult, also known as the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven | May Otis Blackburn | 1922 | Neo-pagan New Thought |
Builders of the Adytum | Paul Foster Case | 1922 | Ritual magic |
The Christian Community, also known as the Christian Community Church and Christengemeinschaft | Rudolf Steiner Friedrich Rittelmeyer | 1922 | Anthroposophy |
Independent Fundamental Churches of America | R. Lee Kirkland | 1922 | Unaffiliated Fundamentalist |
Reiki, also Usui Shiko Ryoho System of Healing | Mikao Usui | 1922 | Energy medicine Japanese Buddhism |
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel | Aimee Semple McPherson | 1923 | White Trinitarian Pentecostal |
Lucis Trust | Alice A. Bailey | 1923 | Neo-Theosophical |
Commandment Keepers Holy Church of the Living God | Arnold Josiah Ford | 1924 | Black Judaism |
Fraternity of the Inner Light | Dion Fortune | 1924 | neo-Hermeticism Esoteric Christianity |
Grail Movement | Oskar Ernst Bernhardt | 1924 | Syncretistic Christian New Age Channeling |
Lectorium Rosicrucianum | Jan van Rijckenborgh; Zwier Willem Leene; Catharose de Petri– | 1924 | neo-Rosicrucianism |
Cherubim and Seraphim, also known as Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Society and Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim | Moses Orimolade Tunolase | c. 1925 | African Pentecostal |
Agni Yoga (Roerichism) | Helena Roerich, Nicholas Roerich | mid-1920s | Neo-Theosophical |
Adonism | Franz Sättler | 1925 | Neo-pagan |
Moorish Science Temple of America | Timothy Drew | 1925 | Black Islam |
Seventh-day Adventist Reform Movement | schism– | 1925 | Seventh Day Adventists– |
United House of Prayer for All People | Marcelino Manoel de Graca | 1925 | African American Pentecostal |
Anglo-Saxon Federation of America | Howard B. Rand | 1928 | British Israelism |
Krishnamurti Foundations | Jiddu Krishnamurti | 1928 | Neo-Theosophical Universalism |
Opus Dei | Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer– | 1928 | Roman Catholic– |
Sant Nirankari Mission | Baba Buta Singh Ji | 1929 | Sikh |
I AM Activity | Guy Ballard, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard | early 1930s | Neo-Theosophical |
Sacred Name Movement | Clarence Orvil Dodd | 1930s | Adventist Church of God (Seventh-Day) |
Aladura | Josiah Ositelu | 1930 | Pentecostal |
Branch Davidians | Victor T. Houteff | 1930 | Seventh Day Adventist |
Church of the Lord (Aladura) | Josiah Ositelu | 1930 | Pentecostal Family |
Seicho-no-Ie | Masaharu Taniguchi, Fenwicke Holmes | 1930 | Religious Science-Shinto |
Soka Gakkai International | Tsunesaburo Makiguchi | 1930 | Nichiren Buddhism |
Association for Research and Enlightenment– | Edgar Cayce | 1931 | Occult |
Amica Temple of Radiance | Ivah Berg Whitten | 1932 | Neo-Theosophical |
The Church of Light | C.C. Zain–– | 1932 | neo-Hermetism–– |
Ivanovism (the Ivanovites) | Porfiry Ivanov | 1933 | Neo-pagan Slavic Native Faith |
Subud (Susila Budhi Dharma) | Muhammed Subuh | 1933 | Kejawèn Sufism |
Bethel Ministerial Association | Albert Franklin Varnell | 1934 | Apostolic Pentecostal |
Church of World Messianity | Mokichi Okada | 1934 | Shinto Health healing |
Philosophical Research Society | Manly Palmer Hall | 1934 | Occult |
Urantia Foundation | William S. Sadler– | 1934 | UFO religion– Psychic New Age Christian occultist |
Open Bible Standard Churches | merger | 1935 | White Trinitarian Pentecostal |
Rastafari | Leonard Howell, Joseph Hibbert, Archibald Dunkley, Robert Hinds | 1935 | Black Judaism |
Self-Realization Fellowship | Paramahansa Yogananda | 1935 | Neo-Hindu |
Shepherd’s Rod, also known as the Davidians, officially, the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association | Victor T. Houteff | 1935 | Seventh Day Adventists |
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres | Kuppuswami Iyer | 1935 | Neo-Hindu |
Nation of Islam | Elijah Muhammad | mid-1930s | Black Islam UFO religion |
Brahma Kumaris | Dada Lekhraj | 1936 | Neo-Hindu |
Huna | Max Freedom Long | 1936 | New Thought Hawaiian religion |
John Frum | 1936 | Syncretistic Millenarian | |
Shinnyo-en | Shinjo Ito Tomoji Ito | 1936 | Japanese Buddhism |
Arcane School | Alice and Foster Bailey | 1937 | Neo-Theosophical |
Bible Presbyterian Church | Carl McIntire | 1938 | Reformed Presbyterian |
Risshō Kōsei Kai | Nikkyo Niwano Myoko Naganuma | 1938 | Nichiren Buddhist |
Church of Aphrodite | Gleb Botkin | 1939 | Witchcraft Neo-pagan |
Mita Congregation | Juanita García Peraza | 1940 | Deliverance Pentecostal |
Christ Apostolic Church | Joseph Ayo Babalola | 1941 | Pentecostal |
The Way International | Victor Paul Wierwille | 1942 | Independent fundamentalist family |
Agasha Temple of Wisdom | Richard Zenor | 1943 | Spiritualism |
White Eagle Lodge | Lady Elizabeth Carey | 1943 | Other Theosophical Groups |
United Israel World Union | David Horowitz | 1944 | Other Jewish Groups |
American Buddhist Society and Fellowship, Inc. | Robert Ernest Dickhoff | 1945 | Tibetan Buddhism |
Shri Ram Chandra Mission | Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj | 1945 | Hindu |
United Pentecostal Church International | merger | 1945 | Apostolic Pentecostals |
Shinreikyo | Kanichi Otsuka | post–World War II | Shinto Syncretistic |
Evangelical Methodist Church | J.H. Hamblen | 1946 | Non-Episcopal Methodist |
Latter Rain Movement | George Hawtin Percy Hunt | 1946 | Millenarian Pentecostal |
Celestial Church of Christ | Samuel Oshoffa | 1947 | Nativist Pentecostal |
Religious Science | Ernest Holmes | 1948 | New Thought |
Wicca– | Gerald Gardner | c. 1949 | Neo-pagan Witchcraft– Occult |
Aryan Nations, also known as Church of Jesus Christ Christian, Aryan Nations | Wesley Swift | late 1940s | British Israelism |
Universal Great Brotherhood | Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere | late 1940s | Other Theosophical Groups |
Charismatic Movement | 1950s | Pentecostal | |
Branhamism | William M. Branham– | 1951 | Pentecostal– |
The Living Word Fellowship | John Robert Stevens | 1951 | Latter Rain Pentecostal |
Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ | merger | 1952 | Apostolic Pentecostal |
New Religion From 1954-1979:
Name | Founder | Year founded | Type |
Aetherius Society | George King | 1954 | UFO-Christian |
Church of the Living Word, also known as The Walk | John Robert Stevens | 1954 | Fundamentalist Occult |
Unarius Academy of Science, – | Ernest Norman, Ruth Norman | 1954 | UFO Religion |
Unification Church, also known as the Moonies | Sun Myung Moon | 1954 | Syncretistic Christian |
Ananda Marga | Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar | 1955 | Neo-Hindu Tantric |
Chen Tao, also called God’s Salvation Church and God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation | Hon-Ming Chen | 1955 | UFO religion |
Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, also known as CARP | Sun Myung Moon | 1955 | Unification Church |
Peoples Temple | Jim Jones | 1955 | Psychic-New Age |
Scientology | L. Ron Hubbard | 1955 | UFO-Psychic New Age |
Dalit Buddhist Movement, also known as the Neo-Buddhist movement or Navayana Buddhist movement | B. R. Ambedkar | 1956 | Neo-Buddhism (Navayana) |
Kerista | John Presmont | 1956 | Communal—After |
Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ | schism | 1957 | Apostolic Pentecostal |
The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres) | Grady R. Kent | 1957 | White Trinitarian Holiness Pentecostal |
New Acropolis (Nouvelle Acropole) | Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi | 1957 | Neo-Theosophical Western esotericism |
Saiva Siddhanta Church | Subramuniy | 1957 | Hindu |
Church Universal and Triumphant | Mark Prophet Elizabeth Clare (Wolf) Prophet | 1958 | Theosophical Occult |
Transcendental Meditation (TM) | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | 1958 | Neo-Hindu |
Mahikari | Kotama Okada | 1959 | Shinto |
Vale do Amanhecer | Tia Neiva | 1959 | Spiritualism |
Reformed Druids of North America | 1960s | Neo-pagan | |
Semitic Neopaganism | Raphael Patai | 1960s | Neo-pagan Feminism |
Unitarian Universalism | consolidation– | 1961 | Unitarian Universalism– |
Church of All Worlds | Tim Zell Lance Christie | 1962 | Witchcraft Neo-pagan |
Universal Life Church | Kirby Hensley | 1962 | Liberal Family |
Discordianism | Greg Hill, Kerry Wendell Thornley | 1963 | Absurdism |
Findhorn Foundation | Eileen Caddy Peter Caddy Alexis Edwards Roger Benson | 1963 | Christian-Anthroposophistical-neo-Rosicrucian |
Native Ukrainian National Faith, also known as RUNVira or Sylenkoism | Lev Sylenko | mid-1960s | Neo-pagan Slavic Native Faith |
Church of Satan | Anton LaVey– | 1966 | Satanism– |
Kripalu Center (Kirpalu) | Amrit Desai | 1966 | Hindu |
Rajneesh movement, also Osho movement | Rajneesh Chandra Mohan | 1966 | Indian religions |
Community Chapel and Bible Training Center | Donald Lee Barnett | 1967 | Latter RainPentecostal |
Feraferia | Frederick Adams | 1967 | Neo-pagan Goddess |
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) now known as Triratna Buddhist Community | Sangharakshita (Dennis Lingwood) | 1967 | Neo-Buddhism |
Lama Foundation | Steve Durkee | 1967 | Communal |
Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly FWBO) | Sangharakshita (Dennis Lingwood) | 1967 | Neo-Buddhism |
Arica School | Oscar Ichazo | 1968 | Sufism |
Family International, previously known as the Children of God, the Family of Love and the Family | David Berg | 1968 | Fundamentalist, Jesus movement countercultural evangelical |
Sufi Ruhaniat International | Samuel L. Lewis | 1968 | neo-Sufism |
HO | Harbhajan Singh Khalsa | 1969 | Sikh |
Alamo Christian Foundation, also known as Alamo Christian Church, Consecrated, Alamo Christian Ministries, and Music Square Church | Tony Alamo; Susan Alamo | 1969 | Fundamentalist Communal |
Apostolic Church of Christ (Pentecostal) | Johnnie Draft; Wallace Snow | 1969 | Apostolic Pentecostal |
Christian World Liberation Front, also known as the Spiritual Counterfeits Project | Jack Sparks Fred Dyson Pat Matrisciana | 1969 | Christian Fundamentalist-Millenarian |
Church of the Creator | Rev. Dr. Grace Marama URI | 1969 | Liberal family |
Love Family, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon and Love Israel | Paul Erdman | 1969 | Communalism |
New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn | 1969 | Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Witchcraft Neo-pagan | |
Shiloh Youth Revival Centers | John J. Higgins, Jr. | 1969 | Communal—After |
Jesus Movement | late 1960s | Fundamentalist | |
Ansaaru Allah Community | As Siddid Al Imaan Al Haahi Al Mahdi– | late 1960s[10]:986–987″ | Black Islam– |
Rainbow Family, | Barry Adams | late-1960s | Communal |
Creativity | Ben Klassen | early-1970’s | Pantheism Agnostic Atheism White Racialism. |
Ásatrú | Stephen McNallen | 1970s | Neo-pagan Polytheistic reconstructionism |
Breatharians also known as Inedia | Wiley Brooks | 1970s | Hinduism-influenced |
Crossroads Movement | 1970s | ||
Kabbalah Centre | Philip Berg– | 1970s | New Age– |
Nation of Yahweh | Hulon Mitchell, Jr.– | 1970s | Black Judaism– |
The Brethren (Jim Roberts group), also known as The Body of Christ and The Garbage Eaters | Jimmie T. Roberts– | c. 1970 | Unclassified Christian Churches– |
CAUSA International | Sun Myung Moon– | 1970 | Unification Church– |
Jews for Jesus | Moishe Rosen | 1970 | Fundamentalist |
Potter’s House also known as Christian Fellowship Ministries (CFM), The Door, Victory Chapel, Christian Center, Crossroads Chapel, etc. | Wayman Mitchell– | 1970 | Pentecostal– |
Sahaja Yoga | Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi | 1970 | Neo-Hindu |
Shinji Shumeikai, also Shumei | Mihoko Koyama | 1970 | Church of World Messianity Faith healing |
Assembly of Christian Soldiers | Jessie L. Thrift | 1971 | Ku Klux Klan |
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen | 1971 | Sufism |
Church of Bible Understanding | Stewart Traill | 1971 | Adventist Fundamentalist |
Dianic Wicca | merger | 1971 | Witchcraft Neo-pagan |
Eckankar | Paul Twitchell | 1971 | Derived from Sant Mat but denies connection |
Emin | Raymond Armin | 1971 | New Age |
est (Erhard Seminars Training) | Werner Erhard | 1971 | Human Potential Movement– Self religions |
Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy | Swami Rama | 1971 | Hindu |
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness | John-Roger Hinkins | 1971 | Sant Mat |
Adidam, previously Free Daist Communion, Dawn Horse Fellowship, etc. | Adi Da | 1972 | Neo-Hindu-inspired |
American World Patriarchs | Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski | 1972 | Eastern Orthodox |
International Community of Christ also known as Church of the Second Advent (CSA) and Jamilians | Eugene Douglas Savoy | 1972 | New Age |
Maranatha Campus Ministries | Bob Weiner | 1972 | Pentecosrtal |
Monastic Order of Avallon | Henri Hillion de Coatmoc’han | 1972 | Neo-pagan |
Twelve Tribes | Gene and Marsha Spriggs | 1972 | Messianic Jewish Communal—After |
African Theological Archministry, previously Order of Damballah Hwedo Ancestor Priests, Shango Temple, and Yoruba Temple | Walter Eugene King | 1973 | Voodoo |
Heaven’s Gate | Marshall Herff Applewhite Bonnie Lu Nettles | 1973 | New Age UFO religion |
Raëlism | Claude Vorilhon (Rael) | 1973 | UFO religion |
Vajradhatu | Chögyam Trungpa | 1973 | Tibetan Buddhism |
Church of Israel | Dan Gayman | 1974 | British Israelism |
Pilgrims of Arès | Michel Potay | 1974 | |
Covenant of the Goddess | merger | 1975 | Goddess Witchcraft Neo-pagan |
Summum | Claude Rex Nowell | 1975 | Unclassified Christian Churches |
Ausar Auset Society | R.A. Straughn | mid-1970s | neo-Rosicrucianism |
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord | James D. Ellison | mid-1970s | British Israelism |
New Kadampa Tradition | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso | mid-1970s | Tibetan Buddhism |
Fellowship of Isis | Olivia Robertson | 1976 | Neo-pagan Goddess |
Insight Meditation Society | Jack Kornfield Sharon Salzberg Joseph Goldstein | 1976 | Theravada Buddhism |
Jesus Army, also known as “Jesus Fellowship Church” and “Bugbrooke Jesus Fellowship” | Noel Stanton– | 1977 | Fundamentalist Communal |
Ramtha | J. Z. Knight | 1977 | New Age |
Sukyo Mahikari | Sekiguchi Sakae | 1978 | Mahikari Syncretistic |
Church of the SubGenius | J.R. “Bob” Dobbs | 1979 | UFO religion Apocalypticism |
True Gnostic Church | Azrael Ondi-Ahman (Archie D. Wood) | 1979 |
New Religion From 1980 till now:
Name | Founder | Year founded | Type |
Antiochian Catholic Church in America | Gordon Mar Peter | 1980s | Independent Catholic Monophysite |
Core Shamanism, The Foundation for Shamanic Studies | Michael Harner | 1980th | Neoshamanism |
American Buddhist Movement | 1980 | Western Buddhism | |
Hanuman Foundation | Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) | 1980 | Neo-Hindu |
Art of Living Foundation, also known as Association for Inner Growth and Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Preeth | Ravi Shankar | 1981 | Neo-Hindu |
Association of Vineyard Churches | John Wimber | 1982 | Trinitarian Pentecostal |
Christian Identity | 1982 | British Israelism | |
Ancient Teachings of the Masters, also known as ATOM | Darwin Gross | 1983 | Sant Mat |
Adventures in Enlightenment, A Foundation | Terry Cole-Whittaker | 1985 | Religious Science |
Kofuku-no-Kagaku (The Institute for Research in Human Happiness) | Ryuho Okawa | 1986 | Japanese |
Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aleph | Shoko Asahara | 1987 | Japanese Buddhism |
Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans | Margot Adler | 1987 | Witchcraft Neo-pagan |
Kemetic Orthodoxy | Tamara Siuda | 1988 | Kemetic |
True Buddha School | Lu Sheng-yen | Late 1980s | Tibetan Buddhism Taoism |
Madkhalism | Rabee Al-Madkhali | early 1990s | Islam |
Wotansvolk | David Lane | 1990s | neo-völkisch paganism |
Falun Gong | Li Hongzhi | 1992 | Qigong movement |
Isha Foundation | Jaggi Vasudev | 1992 | Hindu |
The New Message from God | Marshall Vian Summers | 1992 | UFO religion |
Women’s Federation for World Peace | Hak Ja Han– | 1992 | Unification Church– |
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification | Sun Myung Moon | 1994 | Unification Church |
Toronto Blessing | Randy Clark– | 1994 | Pentecostal– |
Million Man March | Louis Farrakhan | 1995 | Nation of Islam |
Tensegrity | Carlos Castaneda | 1995 | Neoshamanism New Age |
First Satanic Church | Karla LaVey | 1997 | Satanism |
Ringing Cedars’ Anastasianism | Vladimir Megre | 1997 | Neo-pagan Slavic Native Faith |
Arkeon | Vito Carlo Moccia | 1999 | Reiki Roman Catholicism |
International House of Prayer also known as (IHOP or IHOPKC) | Mike Bickle | 1999 | Charismatic Movement Post-tribulational Historic premillennialism |
The Way of the Livingness (Universal Medicine) | Serge Benhayon | 1999 | Neo-Theosophical and/or “Socially harmful cult”. |
Jediism | 2000s | Star Wars-inspired New Age | |
Santa Muerte Cult | 2000s | Syncretic Folk Catholic | |
Terasem | Martine Rothblatt | 2004 | Transhumanism |
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism | Bobby Henderson | 2005 | |
Global Peace Foundation | Hyun Jin Moon | 2007 | Unification Church |
The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing | Jim Humble | 2009 or 2010 | UFO-New Age inspired Pseudoscience |
Kopimism | Isak Gerson | 2012 | Internet religion |
Syntheism | Alexander Bard | 2012 | Pantheist Humanist Netocratic |
The Satanic Temple | Lucien Greaves Malcolm Jarry | 2012 | Satanism Nontheistic |
World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church | Hyung Jin Moon Yeon Ah Lee Moon | 2015 | Unification Church-based ultra-Orthodox/Fundamentalism |
Establishment date not specified:
Name | Founder | Type |
African initiated churches | Multiple | Syncretistic Christian-Indigenous |
Ancient British Church in North America | Jonathan V. Zotique | Homosexually Oriented |
British Israelism also called Anglo-Israelism | ||
Cargo cults | Syncretistic Nativist | |
The Centers Network | ||
Cheondoism also called Chendogyo | Choe Je-u | |
Concerned Christians | Monte Kim Miller | |
Cyberchurches | non-denominational Christian | |
Dances of Universal Peace | Samuel L. Lewis | |
End Time Survivors Jesus Christians | David McKay | Fundamentalist Millennialism |
Esoteric Nazism | Occult Western esotericism | |
Freedomites | ||
Fundamentalist Christianity | Christian | |
Ghost Dance | Neo-pagan Native American religion | |
Messianic Judaism | Christianity | |
Pentecostalism | Holiness movement |
So we find that there are several religions in the world, each of which includes a group of sects, which may, in turn, include additional sub-sects, adherents of the three monotheistic religions, they are the most prevalent in the world, while the non-celestial religions are countless, some of them are known and spread as Buddhism and the Church of Scientology and Satanists and others, Others are not widely known.
These religions or beliefs have their followers who may be in the hundreds, tens, even millions.
World Religions
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