New religious movement

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or an alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and which occupies a peripheral place within its society's dominant religious culture. ^[1]

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"I AM" Activity

The "I AM" Movement is the original Ascended Master Teachings religious movement founded in the early 1930s by Guy Ballard (1878–1939) and his wife Edna (1886–1971) in Chicago, Illinois.

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A Community of Witches

A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States is a sociological study of the Wiccan and wider Pagan community in the Northeastern United States.

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A Guru Comes

A Guru comes is a 1980 German television film and is also Bruce Willis' film debut as an uncredited extra.

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Abkhazia

Abkhazia (Аҧсны́; აფხაზეთი; p) is a territory on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, south of the Greater Caucasus mountains, in northwestern Georgia.

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Abrahamic religions

The Abrahamic religions, also referred to collectively as Abrahamism, are a group of Semitic-originated religious communities of faith that claim descent from the practices of the ancient Israelites and the worship of the God of Abraham.

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Academic study of new religious movements

The academic study of new religious movements is known as new religions studies' (NRS).

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Adam Possamai

Adam Possamai is a sociologist and novelist born in Belgium and living in Australia.

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Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya

The Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya (Hindi, translates as "Spiritual Godly University". Devanagari: आध्यात्मिक ईश्वरीय विश्वविद्यालय) claims itself to be a reformative splinter group within the Brahma Kumaris religious movement.

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Adi Da

Adi Da Samraj, born Franklin Albert Jones (November 3, 1939 – November 27, 2008), was an American spiritual teacher, writer and artist.

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Adidam Mummery Sacred Theatre

Adidam Mummery Sacred Theatre is a contemporary sacred use of the mummery theatre concept that has arisen within a small New Religious Movement named Adidam.

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Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त, IAST:, literally, "not-two"), originally known as Puruṣavāda, is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice, and one of the classic Indian paths to spiritual realization.

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Aetherius Society

The Aetherius Society is a new religious movement founded by George King in the mid-1950s, also in the "Marburg Journal of Religion": as the result of what King claimed were contacts with extraterrestrial intelligences, whom he referred to as "Cosmic Masters".

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African American–Jewish relations

African Americans and Jewish Americans have interacted throughout much of the history of the United States.

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Akram Vignan Movement

The Akram Vignan movement, also spelled Akram Vijnan, is a new religious movement originated in 1960s in Gujarat, India.

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Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

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Alejandro Agostinelli

Alejandro César Agostinelli (born April 29, 1963) is an Argentine writer, journalist, screenwriter and TV producer.

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Alexander Dvorkin

Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin (Александр Леонидович Дворкин; born 20 August 1955 in Moscow) is a Russian Jewish member of the Russian Orthodox Church and an anti-cult activist.

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Amica Temple of Radiance

The Amica Temple of Radiance is a new religious movement begun in 1959 in Los Angeles by Roland Hunt and Dorothy Bailey based on the teachings of Ivah Bergh Whitten.

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Amursana

Amursana (Mongolian; 172321September 1757) was an 18th-century taishi or prince of the Khoit-Oirat tribe that ruled over parts of Dzungaria and Altishahr in present-day northwest China.

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Ancient astronauts

"Ancient astronauts" (or "ancient aliens") refers to the pseudoscientific idea that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times.

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Ancient Mesopotamian religion

Mesopotamian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 3500 BC and 400 AD, after which they largely gave way to Syriac Christianity.

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Andreas Grünschloß

Andreas Grunschloss (German: Grünschloß) (born 1957) is German scholar and the current Professor of Religious Studies at Göttingen University.

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Anglo-Saxon paganism

Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, or Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, during the initial period of Early Medieval England.

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Another Gospel

Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement is a non-fiction book discussing new religious movements and the New Age movement, written by Ruth A. Tucker.

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Anson D. Shupe

Anson D. Shupe, Jr. (21 January 1948 – 6 May 2015) was an American sociologist noted for his studies of religious groups and their countermovements, family violence and clergy misconduct.

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Anti-cult movement

The anti-cult movement (abbreviated ACM; sometimes called the countercult movement) is a social group which opposes any new religious movement (NRM) that they characterize as a cult.

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Antoinism

Antoinism is a healing and Christian-oriented new religious movement founded in 1910 by the Walloon Louis-Joseph Antoine (1846–1912) in Jemeppe-sur-Meuse, Seraing.

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Antonianism

Antonianism, or Antonine sect (Portuguese: Antonianismo), was a syncretic Christian new religious movement formed in the Kingdom of Kongo between 1704 and 1706 as a development within the Roman Catholic Church in Kongo.

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Apostasy

Apostasy (ἀποστασία apostasia, "a defection or revolt") is the formal disaffiliation from, or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person.

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Armenian Native Faith

The Armenian Native Faith, also termed Armenian Neopaganism or Hetanism (Armenian: Հեթանոսութիւն Hetanosutiwn; a cognate word of "Heathenism"), is a modern Pagan new religious movement that harkens back to the historical, pre-Christian belief systems and ethnic religions of the Armenians.

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Arthur J. Deikman

Arthur J. Deikman (September 27, 1929 – September 2, 2013) was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Human Givens.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Atheism in the United States

According to the Pew Research Center in a 2014 survey, self-identified "atheists" make up 3.1% of the US population, even though 9% of Americans agreed with the statement "Do not believe in God" while 2% agreed with the statement "Do not know if they believe in God".

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Atrocity story

The term atrocity story (also referred to as atrocity tale) as defined by the American sociologists David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe refers to the symbolic presentation of action or events (real or imaginary) in such a context that they are made flagrantly to violate the (presumably) shared premises upon which a given set of social relationships should be conducted.

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Aum Shinrikyo

, formerly, is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984.

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Æsir

In Old Norse, ǫ́ss (or áss, ás, plural æsir; feminine ásynja, plural ásynjur) is a member of the principal pantheon in Norse religion.

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B. B. Warfield

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (November 5, 1851 – February 16, 1921) was professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921.

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B. O. Flower

Benjamin Orange Flower (October 19, 1858 – December 24, 1918), known most commonly by his initials "B.O.", was an American muckraking journalist of the Progressive era.

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Bare-faced Messiah

Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard is a posthumous biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by British journalist Russell Miller.

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Beasts of Satan

The Beasts of Satan (Bestie di Satana) were a satanic group, members of which were tried and convicted of a series of satanic ritual murders between 1998 and 2004.

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Belief

Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.

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Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (בנימין בית-הלחמי) (born June 12, 1943) is an Israeli professor of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

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Bethel Church, Mansfield Woodhouse

Bethel Church, also called Bethel Interdenominational Church, is a Christian religious organisation based in Mansfield Woodhouse, England, founded by John Hibbert and Jean Spademan.

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Black Sun (Goodrick-Clarke book)

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity is a book by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.

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Bnei Baruch

Bnei Baruch (also known as Kabbalah Laam, קבלה לעם) is an universalist kabbalah association founded by Michael Laitman in the early 1990s.

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Bocheonism

Bocheonism (Korean: 보천교 Bocheongyo or Pochonkyo, "religion of the vault of heaven/firmament") was one among more than 100 new religious movements of Korea of the family of religions called Jeungsanism, rooted in Korean shamanism and recognizing Gang Il-sun (Kang Jeungsan) as the incarnation of Sangje, the Supreme God.

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Bodo Brahma Dharma

Bodo Brahma Dharma was a new religious movement agitated by Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma in the early 20th century in Dhubri District of Assam among the Bodo people after initiation in the Brahmo faith and the teachings of the Adi Brahmo Parambrahma in 1906 at Calcutta and assisted by Rupnath Brahma.

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Brahma Kumaris

The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya or BKWSU) is a new religious movement that originated in Hyderabad, Sindh, during the 1930s.

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Brainwashing

Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques.

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Branch Davidians

The Branch Davidians (also known as The Branch) are a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism among the Shepherd's Rod/Davidians.

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Brigitte Boisselier

Brigitte Boisselier (born 1956), also known as Brigitte Roehr, is a French chemist and Raëlian religious leader best known for her claim to have overseen the creation of the first human clone.

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Bryan R. Wilson

Bryan Ronald Wilson, (25 June 1926 – 9 October 2004), was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (1971–75).

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Buddha's Light International Association

The Buddha's Light International Association (commonly known as BLIA, is a monastic and lay organization. BLIA was established by Hsing Yun in 1992. The organization is associated with the new religious movement Fo Guang Shan, the largest Buddhist organization in Taiwan. In 2003, BLIA was granted the NGO association status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Department of Public Information (DPI). Wu Po-hsiung, former chairman of the Kuomintang, is an active member and served as the BLIA's second president. The world headquarters is located on the Hsi Lai Temple grounds in Hacienda Heights, California.

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Buddhism and sexual orientation

The relationship between Buddhism and sexual orientation varies by tradition and teacher.

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Buddhism in Scotland

The arrival of Buddhism in Scotland is relatively recent.

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Buddhism in the United Kingdom

Buddhism in the United Kingdom has a small but growing number of supporters which, according to a Buddhist organisation, is mainly because of the result of conversion.

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Buddhism in the United States

Buddhism, once thought of as a mysterious religion from the East, has now become very popular in the West, and is one of the largest religions in the United States.

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Burkhanism

Burkhanism or Ak Jang is a new religious movement that flourished among the indigenous people of Russia's Gorno Altai region (okrug) between 1904 and the 1930s.

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Captive Hearts, Captive Minds

Captive Hearts, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships is a study of cults and abusive relationships, by Madeleine Landau Tobias, Janja Lalich, Ph.D., and Michael Langone.

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Captivity narrative

Captivity narratives are usually stories of people captured by enemies whom they consider uncivilized, or whose beliefs and customs they oppose.

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Catherine Wessinger

Catherine Wessinger is the Rev.

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Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery

The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the Native Americans and other indigenous people.

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CESNUR

CESNUR (English: Center for Studies on New Religions, Italian: Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni), is an organization based in Turin, Italy.

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Chan Buddhism

Chan (of), from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Charismatic authority

Charismatic authority is a concept about leadership that was developed in 1922 (he died in 1920) by the German sociologist Max Weber.

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Charles S. Braden

Charles Samuel Braden (19 September 1887 – 1970) was Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Literature of Religions at Northwestern University.

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Chen Tao (True Way Cult)

Chen Tao (真道, or "True Way") was a UFO religion that originated in Taiwan.

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Christ Heart Church

The Christ Heart Church (Japanese: 基督心宗教団) is a new religious movement that was formed in 1927.

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Christian countercult movement

The Christian countercult movement or Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement of certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries") and individual activists who oppose religious sects they consider "cults".

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Christian Science

Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.

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Christian terrorism

Christian terrorism comprises terrorist acts by groups or individuals who profess Christian motivations or goals.

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Christian views on magic

Christian views on magic vary widely among denominations and among individuals.

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Christianity in Europe

Christianity is the largest religion in Europe.

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Christianity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Christianity is the majority religion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is professed by a majority of the population.

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Chuluaqui-Quodoushka

Chuluaqui Quodoushka (CHOO-la-kway Kwuh-DOE-shka) is a collection of sexual techniques and theories developed and promoted by the Deer Tribe Medicine Society, a New Age new religious movement and business co-founded by Harley Reagan and Diane Reagan in 1986.

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Church and School of Wicca

The Church and School of Wicca was founded by Gavin Frost and Yvonne Frost in 1968.

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Church of Body Modification

The Church of Body Modification is a non-theistic religion with approximately 3,500 members in the United States.

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Church of Christ, Scientist

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science.

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Church of Hakeem

The Church of Hakeem is a new religion of Christian inspiration, based in California, that was founded by the preacher Hakeem Abdul Rasheed.

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Church of Satan

The Church of Satan is a religious organization dedicated to Satanism as codified in The Satanic Bible.

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Church of Scientology

The Church of Scientology is a multinational network and hierarchy of numerous ostensibly independent but interconnected corporate entities and other organizations devoted to the practice, administration and dissemination of Scientology, a new religious movement.

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Church Universal and Triumphant

Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) is an international New Age religious organization founded in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

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Circle Sanctuary

Circle Sanctuary is a non-profit organization and legally recognized Neo-Pagan Church based in southwestern Wisconsin, US.

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City of Ten Thousand Buddhas

The City Of Ten Thousand Buddhas is an international Buddhist community and monastery founded by Hsuan Hua, an important figure in Western Buddhism.

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Combatting Cult Mind Control

Combatting Cult Mind Control is a non-fiction work by Steven Hassan described as a "Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults." The author discusses theories of mind control and cults based on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger.

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Creativity (religion)

Creativity (formerly known as The Church of the Creator and World Church of the Creator) is a pantheistic white separatist, white supremacist, antisemitic, anti-Christian religion which has been classified as a Neo-Nazi hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Creator

Creator is something or someone who brings something into being.

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Cult

The term cult usually refers to a social group defined by its religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal.

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Cult (disambiguation)

A cult is a religious or social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices.

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Cult (religious practice)

Cult is literally the "care" (Latin cultus) owed to deities and to temples, shrines, or churches.

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Cult Awareness Network

The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) was an organization created by deprogrammer Ted Patrick that provided information on groups that it considered to be cults, as well as support and referrals to deprogrammers.

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Cult image

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.

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Cults of Unreason

Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, Ph.D., who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental psychologist.

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Culture of Abkhazia

Abkhazia (Аҧсны Apsny, Apkhazeti or Abkhazeti, Abkhazia) is a de facto independent, partially recognised country lying on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, its southern border.

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Cunning folk in Britain

The cunning folk in Britain were professional or semi-professional practitioners of magic in Britain, active from the Medieval period through the early twentieth century.

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Cybersectarianism

Cybersectarianism is the phenomenon of new religious movements and other groups using the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information sharing.

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Cynthia Ann Humes

Cynthia Ann Humes is a professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California.

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Daesun Jinrihoe

Daesun Jinrihoe (대순진리회), which in its English-language publications has recently used the transliteration Daesoonjinrihoe and, from 2017, Daesoon Jinrihoe, is a Korean new religious movement, founded in April 1969 by Park Han-gyeong, known to his followers as Park Wudang (박한경) (1917–96, or 1917-95 according to the lunar calendar used by the movement).

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Dan Fefferman

Daniel G. Fefferman (known as Dan Fefferman) is a church leader and activist for the freedom of religion.

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Danny Jorgensen

Danny Lynn Jorgensen (born 1951) is an American professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of South Florida, for which he also served as chair from 1999 to 2006.

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Daoism–Taoism romanization issue

The English words Daoism and Taoism are alternative romanizations for the same-named Chinese philosophy and religion.

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Dark culture

Dark culture (German Schwarze Szene, Portuguese cultura obscura, Spanish escena oscura, Italian scena Dark or scena gotica), also called dark alternative scene includes goth and dark wave culture, electro subculture (with genres like electro-industrial, aggrotech and dark electro) and parts of the neofolk and post-industrial subcultures.

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David Berg

David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919October 1, 1994), frequently known by the pseudonym Moses David, was the founder and leader of the new religious movement initially called Teens for Christ (1968), then later The Children of God (1969), now called The Family International.

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David C. Lane

David Christopher Lane (born April 29, 1956 in Burbank, California) is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California.

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David G. Bromley

David G. Bromley (born 1941) is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

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David V. Barrett

Dr.

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Demographics of the world

Demographics of the world include population density, ethnicity, education level, health measures, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the human population of the planet Earth.

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Deprogramming

Deprogramming refers to measures that claim to assist a person who holds a controversial belief system in changing those beliefs and abandoning allegiance to the religious, political, economic, or social group associated with the belief system.

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Deviancy amplification spiral

A deviancy amplification spiral (also called deviance amplification) is a media hype phenomenon defined by media critics as a cycle of increasing numbers of reports on a category of antisocial behaviour or some other 'undesirable' event, leading to a moral panic.

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Dhammakaya Movement

The Dhammakaya Movement or Dhammakaya tradition is a Thai Buddhist tradition which was started by Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro in the early 20th century.

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Dialog Center International

The Dialog Center International (DCI) is a Christian counter-cult organization founded in 1973 by a Danish professor of missiology and ecumenical theology, Dr.

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Dick Anthony

Dick Anthony is a forensic psychologist noted for his writings on the validity of brainwashing as a determiner of behavior, a prolific researcher of the social and psychological aspects of involvement in new religious movements.

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Dilbert (TV series)

Dilbert was an animated television series adaptation of the comic strip of the same name, produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox, and United Media and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television.

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Divine Light Mission

The Divine Light Mission (Divya Sandesh Parishad; DLM) was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India.

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Divine Truth

Divine Truth is a spiritual, metaphysical or new religious movement based in Queensland, Australia.

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Dmitri Borgmann

Dmitri A. Borgmann (October 22, 1927 – December 7, 1985) was a German-American author best known for his work in recreational linguistics.

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Dominica

Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.

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Doomsday cult

Doomsday cult is an expression used to describe groups who believe in apocalypticism and millenarianism, and can refer both to groups that predict disaster, and to those that attempt to bring it about.

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Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith

Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith is a sociological book based on field study of a group of Unification Church members in California and Oregon.

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Drawing Down the Moon (book)

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today is a sociological study of contemporary Paganism in the United States written by the American Wiccan and journalist Margot Adler.

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Druidry (modern)

Druidry, sometimes termed Druidism, is a modern spiritual or religious movement that generally promotes harmony, connection, and reverence for the natural world.

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Dude

Dude is American English slang for an individual, typically male.

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Eastern Lightning

Eastern Lightning, which prefers to use the name The Church of Almighty God, is a new religious movement established in China in 1991, to which Chinese governmental sources attribute from three to four million members, although scholars regard these figures as somewhat inflated.

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Eckankar

Eckankar (meaning Co-worker with God), called "the Path of Spiritual Freedom", is a new religious movement founded by Paul Twitchell in 1965.

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Eileen Barker

Eileen Vartan Barker OBE, (born 21 April 1938, Edinburgh, UK) is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights.

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Elohim

Elohim (Hebrew: ’ĕlōhîm) is one of the many names or titles for God in the Hebrew Bible; the term is also used in the Hebrew Bible to refer to other gods.

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Else Christensen

Else Christensen (1913–2005) was a Danish proponent of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Heathenry.

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Embassy of Heaven

The Embassy of Heaven is a Christian-based new religious movement based in Stayton, Oregon, that seeks to separate from secular government.

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Enchanted Feminism

Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco is an anthropological study of the Reclaiming Wiccan community of San Francisco.

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Energo-Chromo-Kinese

Energo-Chromo-Kinese, also named ECK, is a pseudo-scientific and esoteric-oriented new religious movement founded in October 1987 in Villefranche-sur-Mer by Patrick Véret, a former acupuncturist and homeopath, and his wife Danielle Drouant, now Danielle Didier.

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Enlightenment (spiritual)

Enlightenment is the "full comprehension of a situation".

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Epistle to Yemen

The Epistle to Yemen or Yemen Letter (Hebrew: אגרת תימן Iggeret Teman) was an important communication written by Maimonides and sent to the Yemenite Jews.

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Eric J. Sharpe

Eric John Sharpe (19 September 1933 – 19 October 2000) was the founding Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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Etymology of Wicca

In Modern English, the term Wicca refers to Wicca, the religion of contemporary Pagan Witchcraft.

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Eugene V. Gallagher

Eugene V. Gallagher (born June 23, 1950) is an American professor of religious studies at Connecticut College.

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European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism

FECRIS (Fédération Européenne des Centres de Recherche et d'Information sur le Sectarisme) – European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism, a French non-profit association and anti-cult organization, serves as an umbrella organization for groups which investigate the activities of groups considered cults in Europe.

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Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea

Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea or simply Evangelical Baptist Church (officially Korean Evangelical Baptist Church) is a South Korean new religious movement founded in 1962 by Yoo Byung-eun with his father-in-law, Pastor Kwon Shin-chan (권신찬; 192396).

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Evangelical Ministries to New Religions

Evangelical Ministries to New Religions, often abbreviated as EMNR, is a coalition of Christian countercult organizations.

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Evangelical Missionary Church of Besançon

The Evangelical Missionary Church of Besançon (French: Église évangélique missionnaire de Besançon), formerly known as the Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Besançon and The Mission, is a Christian movement established in Besançon, France, in December 1963.

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Evangelii gaudium

Evangelii gaudium (English: The Joy of the Gospel) is a 2013 apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis on "the church's primary mission of evangelization in the modern world." In its opening paragraph, Pope Francis urged the entire Church "to embark on a new chapter of evangelism".

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Family Federation for World Peace and Unification

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) is a religious organization created in 1994 by Sun Myung Moon, a Korean spiritual leader, entrepreneur, activist, and peace advocate.

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Fatima Movement of Priests

The Fátima Movement of Priests is a Roman Catholic movement organized by priests who follow the Marian devotion to Our Lady of Fátima, and was founded under the auspices of the Fatima Center.

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Federation of Damanhur

The Federation of Damanhur, often called simply Damanhur, is a commune, ecovillage, and spiritual community situated in the Piedmont region of northern Italy about north of the city of Turin.

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Feraferia

Feraferia is a Neopagan religion with a community that began in Southern California and now spans the United States and parts of Europe.

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Ferdinando Sardella

Ferdinando Sardella is a Swedish scholar of the history of religions, Hinduism, and religious studies, the former director and coordinator of the Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University.

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First Church of Cannabis

The First Church of Cannabis is a cannabis-based registered church in the U.S. state of Indiana founded in March 2015 by Bill Levin.

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First Satanic Church

The First Satanic Church is an organization founded by Karla LaVey on October 31, 1999, in San Francisco, California, that is dedicated to LaVeyan Satanism as codified by Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible.

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Flee (album)

Flee is an album by British blues rock musician Jeremy Spencer credited as "The Jeremy Spencer Band" (composed of members of the Children of God new religious movement), with particularly strong input from Michael Fogarty.

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Flirty Fishing

Flirty Fishing (FFing) is a form of evangelistic religious prostitution practiced by female members of the Children of God, currently known as Family International (TFI), from around 1974 to 1987.

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Fo Guang Shan

Fo Guang Shan is an international Chinese Buddhist monastic order and new religious movement based in Taiwan.

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Freedom of religion in Germany

Freedom of religion in Germany is guaranteed by article 4 of the Basic Law (constitution).

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Fuhuodao

Fuhuodao (复活道 Resurrection Way) is a new religious movement in the People's Republic of China.

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Full Circle (1993 film)

Full Circle is a 1993 Canadian documentary, third and last of the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, focusing on women's spirituality in the Western World at the end of the 20th century, the Goddess movement and feminist Wicca new religious movements, as the preceding Goddess Remembered and The Burning Times featuring neopagan activist Starhawk.

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Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary

Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary (G-ETS) is a graduate school of theology of The United Methodist Church.

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Günther Thomann

Günther H. Thomann M.Th.

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Gedatsukai

, or Nirwana Association, is a Japanese new religious movement founded in 1929.

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George Chryssides

George D. Chryssides (born 1945), has taught at several British universities, becoming head of religious studies at the University of Wolverhampton in 2001.

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Ghost Dance

The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems.

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Gifts of Deceit

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean Scandal is a 1980 non-fiction book on Koreagate and the Fraser Committee, a congressional subcommittee which investigated South Korean influence in the United States by the KCIA and the Unification Church, written by Robert Boettcher, with Gordon L. Freedman.

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Giulio Prisco

Giulio Prisco, born in Naples (Italy) in 1957, is an Italian information technology virtual reality consultant; as well as a writer, futurist, and transhumanist.

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Glenn Shuck

Glenn W. Shuck was an Assistant Professor in the Religion Department at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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Glossary of spirituality terms

This is a glossary of spirituality-related terms.

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Good News Mission

Good News Mission is a South Korean Christian-based new religious movement founded in 1971 by Pastor.

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Governmental lists of cults and sects

The application of the labels "cults" or "sects" to (for example) religious movements in government documents usually signifies the popular and negative use of the term "cult" in English and a functionally similar use of words translated as "sect" in several European languages.

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Grail Movement

The Grail Movement is an organization which originated in Germany in the late 1940s, inspired by the work of the self-proclaimed Messiah Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (also known by his pen name Abd-ru-shin), principally In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message.

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Great Awakening

The Great Awakening refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American Christian history.

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Growth of religion

Growth of religion is the spread of religions and the increase of religious adherents around the world.

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Guanyin

Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion and venerated by Mahayana Buddhists and followers of Chinese folk religions, also known as the "Goddess of Mercy" in English.

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Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List (5 October 1848 – 17 May 1919), was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist.

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Guru

Guru (गुरु, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.

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Haizidao

Haizidao is a new religious movement in Taiwan, based on Taoism.

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Hank Hanegraaff

Hendrik "Hank" Hanegraaff (born 1950), also known as the "Bible Answer Man", is an American Christian author and radio talk-show host.

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Happy Science

, formerly known as The Institute for Research in Human Happiness, is a controversial new religious and spiritual movement, founded in Japan on 6 October 1986 by Ryuho Okawa, that is widely criticized as a cult.

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Heathen holidays

In the modern Pagan new religious movement of Heathenry, various publications identify a number of holidays, to some extent based on medieval references to sacrifices observed in historical Norse paganism or reconstructions of an early Germanic calendar, but frequently also inspired by the "Wheel of the Year" popular in Wicca, and sometimes also based on ad hoc innovation, e.g. the various "Days of Remembrance" introduced by The Troth.

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Heathenry (new religious movement)

Heathenry, also termed Heathenism or Germanic Neopaganism, is a modern Pagan religion.

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Heathenry in the United States

Heathenry is a modern Pagan new religious movement that has been active in the United States since at least the early 1970s.

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Heaven's Gate (religious group)

Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985).

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Henry Steel Olcott

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.

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Hindu reform movements

Several contemporary groups, collectively termed Hindu reform movements or Hindu revivalism, strive to introduce regeneration and reform to Hinduism, both in a religious or spiritual and in a societal sense.

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Hinduism in the West

The reception of Hinduism in the western world begins in the 19th century, at first at an academic level of religious studies and antiquarian interest in Sanskrit.

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Hippie

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.

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Historical Vedic religion

The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedism, Brahmanism, Vedic Brahmanism, and ancient Hinduism) was the religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period.

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History of calendars

The history of calendars, that is, of people creating and using methods for keeping track of days and larger divisions of time, covers a practice with very ancient roots.

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History of Hinduism

History of Hinduism denotes a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent notably in modern-day Nepal and India.

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History of religion

The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious experiences and ideas.

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History of Taoism

The history of Taoism stretches throughout Chinese history.

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History of terrorism

The history of terrorism is a history of well-known and historically significant individuals, entities, and incidents associated, whether rightly or wrongly, with terrorism.

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Ho No Hana

The Japanese sect Ho No Hana Sanpogyo (法の華三法行 Hō No Hana Sanpōgyō) was a new religious movement founded by "His Holiness" Hogen Fukunaga.

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Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC), commonly called the Unification Church, was a spiritual organization founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon to unify Christianity around a broad and inclusive vision of a messianic mission.

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Hotep

Hotep (ḥtp) is an Egyptian word that roughly translates as "to be at peace".

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Hsin Pei

Hsin Pei (born March 13, 1970) was the seventh and eighth term abbot and director of the Fo Guang Shan, a new religious movement from Taiwan.

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Hugh Urban

Hugh Urban is a professor of religious studies at Ohio State Universities Department of Comparative Studies and author of eight books and several academic articles, including a history of the Church of Scientology, published by Princeton University Press in 2012.

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Humanistic Buddhism

"Humanistic" (human-realm) Buddhism is a modern philosophy practiced by new religious movements originating from Chinese Buddhism.

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Hun Yuan

Chang Yi-Jui, later known as Grand Master Hun Yuan (born 2 February 1944 in Zhongliao, Nantou, Taiwan), is the founder of Weixinism, also known as Weixin Shengjiao, one of the largest Taiwanese new religious movements.

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Hungarian Native Faith

The Hungarian Native Faith (Hungarian: Ősmagyar Vallás), also termed Hungarian Neopaganism, is a modern Pagan new religious movement aimed at representing an ethnic religion of the Hungarians, inspired by taltosism (Hungarian shamanism), ancient mythology and later folklore.

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Iglesia Maradoniana

The Iglesia Maradoniana (Church of Maradona; literally Maradonian Church) is a religion, created by fans of the retired Argentine football player Diego Maradona, whom they believe to be the best player of all time.

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Index of philosophy articles (I–Q)

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Index of philosophy of religion articles

This is a list of articles in philosophy of religion.

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Index of religious honorifics and titles

This is an index of religious honorifics from various religions.

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Indomania

Indomania or Indophilia refer to the special interest India, Indians and Indian culture have generated in the Western world, more specifically the culture and civilisation of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Germany.

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INFORM

INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) is an independent registered charity located at the London School of Economics.

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International Center of Parapsychology and Scientific Research of the New Age

The International Center of Parapsychology and Scientific Research of the New Age, generally known under the name of Horus (in reference to falcon-god Horus which was the emblem of the group), was a New Age-oriented new religious movement founded in France in 1989 by Marie-Thérèse Castano, and ended in April 1997.

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International Church of Cannabis

The International Church of Cannabis is a religious organization in Denver that uses cannabis as a sacrament and adheres to no specific dogma.

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Invitation to Life

Invitation to Life (often known as IVI) is a new religious movement with Catholic background, founded in Paris in 1983 by Yvonne Trubert.

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Irving Hexham

Irving Hexham (born 14 April 1943) is a Canadian academic and writer who has published twenty-three books and numerous articles, chapters, and book reviews in respected academic journals.

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Ivanovism

Ivanovism (Russian: Ивановизм), also known by the name of the followers, the Ivanovites (Ивановцы), is a religious movement in Russia based on the teachings of the mystic Porfiry Ivanov and his "natural healing system".

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J. Gordon Melton

John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he resides.

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Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)

John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.

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James A. Beckford

James Arthur Beckford, FBA (born 1 December 1942) is a British sociologist of religion.

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James R. Lewis (scholar)

James R. Lewis (born November 3, 1959) is a writer and academic specializing in new religious movements, astrology and New Age.

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James T. Richardson

James T. Richardson (born c. 1943) is a Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies, and the Director of the Master of Judicial Studies Degree Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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James V. Downton

James Victor Downton, Jr. (born December 11, 1938, Glendale, California, also known as Jim Downton) is a sociologist known for his research on charismatic leadership, activism, and new religious movements.

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Jan van der Lans

Johannes (Jan) Maria van der Lans (10 July 1933 – 6 July 2002) was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now called Radboud University Nijmegen).

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Japanese new religions

Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan.

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Jason Scott case

The Jason Scott case was a United States civil suit, brought against deprogrammer Rick Ross, two of his associates, and the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), for the abduction and failed deprogramming of Jason Scott, a member of a Pentecostalist church.

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Jean Vernette

Fr.

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Jean-Michel and his team

The Jean-Michel and his team association was a controversial Evangelical-oriented new religious movement founded in 1975 in the Vaud canton, in Switzerland, by Jean-Michel Cravanzola.

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Jean-Pierre Chantin

Jean-Pierre Chantin is a French historian, born in 1961, associated with the University of Lyon.

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Jedi

The Jedi are the main protagonists in the Star Wars universe.

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Jedi census phenomenon

The Jedi census phenomenon is a grassroots movement that was initiated in 2001 for residents of a number of English-speaking countries, urging them to record their religion as "Jedi" or "Jedi Knight" (after the quasi-religious order of Jedi Knights in the fictional Star Wars universe) on the national census.

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Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Jesus Christians

The Jesus Christians were a small Christian millennialist group which practice communal living, voluntary work, activism and distribute Christian comics and books written by the founder, David Mckay.

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Jeung San Do

Jeung San Do (증산도), occasionally called Jeungsanism (증산교 Jeungsangyo), meaning "The Dao/Tao of Jeung-san", although this term is better reserved for a larger family of movements, is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1974.

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Jeungsanism

Jeungsanism (증산교 Jeungsangyo) is occasionally used as a synonym of Jeung San Do, a Korean new religious movement, but most Korean and Western scholars use it to designate a family of more than 100 Korean new religious movements that recognize Kang Jeungsan (Gang Il-Sun) as the incarnation of the Supreme God of the Universe, Sangje.

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Jewish Science

Jewish Science is a Judaic spiritual movement comparable with the New Thought Movement.

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Johannes Aagaard

Johannes Monrad Aagaard (29 April 1928 – 23 March 2007) was a Danish theologian and evangelist.

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John A. Saliba

John A. Saliba is a Maltese-born Jesuit priest, a professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and a noted writer and researcher in the field of new religious movements.

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John Lofland (sociologist)

John Lofland (born 1936) is an American sociologist, professor, and author best known for his studies of the peace movement and for his first book, Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith which was based on field work among a group of Unification Church members in California in the 1960s.

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John-Roger Hinkins

John-Roger Hinkins (born Roger Delano Hinkins) (September 24, 1934 – October 22, 2014) was an American author, public speaker, and founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), as well as several other New Age, spiritual, and self-help organizations.

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Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality

Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is a free, online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open access journal about men's studies.

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Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)

The Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism was founded by Dromtön (1005–1064), a Tibetan lay master and the foremost disciple of the great Bengali master Atiśa (982-1054).

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Karel Dobbelaere

Karel Dobbelaere (born 16 September 1933) is a Belgian educator and noted sociologist of religion.

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Kimbanguism

Kimbanguism is a new religious movement professed by the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by His special envoy Simon Kimbangu (Église de Jésus Christ sur la Terre par son envoyé spécial Simon Kimbangu) founded by Simon Kimbangu in the Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1921.

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Korean nationalist historiography

Korean nationalist historiography is a way of writing Korean history that centers on the Korean minjok, an ethnically or racially defined Korean nation.

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Krishna

Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Kundalini

Kundalini (Sanskrit: कुण्डलिनी,, "coiled one"), in Hinduism refers to a form of primal energy (or shakti) said to be located at the base of the spine.

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L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), often referred to by his initials LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology.

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Landmark Worldwide

Landmark Worldwide (formerly Landmark Education), or simply Landmark, is a company offering personal development programs, headquartered in San Francisco.

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LaVeyan Satanism

LaVeyan Satanism is a religion founded in 1966 by the American occultist and author Anton Szandor LaVey.

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Lectorium Rosicrucianum

The Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a new religious movement which considered itself a worldwide school of Esoteric Christianity.

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Legio Maria

Legio Maria (Latin, “Legion of Mary”) — also known as Legio Maria of African Church Mission, and Maria Legio — is an African initiated church or new religious movement initiating among the Luo people of western Kenya, which is an extension of an interpretation of the Three Secrets of Fátima to a new, albeit African, context.

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Legion of Mary (disambiguation)

Legion of Mary can refer to several things;.

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Leo Martello

Leo Martello (September 26, 1931 – June 29, 2000) was an American Wiccan priest, gay rights activist, and author.

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Life Word Mission

Life Word Mission is a South Korean Christian-based new religious movement founded in 1982 by Lee Yo-han (aka: Lee Bok-chil).

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List of academic fields

The following outline is provided as an overview of an topical guide to academic disciplines: An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge.

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List of Antoinist temples

This is a list of temples built by Antoinism, a new religious movement founded in the early 20th century in Belgium, presented by country and in chronological order.

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List of bodhisattvas

In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist thought, a bodhisattva is a being who is dedicated to achieving complete Buddhahood.

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List of Columbia College people

The following list contains only notable graduates and former students of Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of Columbia University, and its predecessor, from 1754 to 1776, King's College.

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List of New Age topics

This article contains a list of New Age topics that are too extensive to include in its main article New Age; further information may be found at:Category:New Age.

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List of new religious movements

A new religious movement (NRM) is a comprehensive term used to identify religious, ethical, and spiritual groups, communities and practices of relatively modern origins.

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List of Peep Show episodes

Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

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List of political parties in Japan

This article lists political parties in Japan.

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List of Prem Rawat-related topics

This list is of topics related to Prem Rawat (Maharaji).

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List of religions and spiritual traditions

Religion is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs and world views that establishes symbols relating humanity to spirituality and, often, to moral values.

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List of religious movements that began in the United States

United States has been a religious hotbed, resulting in the emergence of multiple religious movements.

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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

This is a list of topics that have, at one point or another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.

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Living Witchcraft

Living Witchcraft: A Contemporary American Coven is a sociological study of an American coven of Wiccans who operated in Atlanta, Georgia during the early 1990s.

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Lorne L. Dawson

Lorne L. Dawson is a Canadian scholar of the sociology of religion who has written about new religious movements, the brainwashing controversy, and religion and the Internet.

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Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीक सूत्र, literally "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma") is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which the Tiantai, Tendai, Cheontae, and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.

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Lou de Palingboer

Lou de Palingboer (19 February 1898 - 23 March 1968) was the founder and figurehead of a new religious movement in the Netherlands.

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Lu Sheng-yen

Lu Sheng-Yen (born 27 June 1945), commonly referred to by followers as Grand Master Lu (師尊) is the founder and spiritual leader of the True Buddha School, a New religious movement with teachings taken from Buddhism, as well as Taoism.

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Mage Parab

Mage Parab is the principal festival celebrated among the Ho people of eastern India, and is also celebrated by the Munda people, though followers of Birsa Dharam, a new religion based on traditional Munda spirituality and religion, do not celebrate Mage Parab, despite the fact that they celebrate other traditional Munda festivals.

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 1918 – 5 February 2008) was an Indian guru, known for developing the Transcendental Meditation technique and for being the leader and guru of a worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.

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Mahikari

Mahikari is a Japanese new religious movement (shinshūkyō), with a number of variants or offshoots.

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Maitreya

Maitreya (Sanskrit), Metteyya (Pali), is regarded as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology.

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Major religious groups

The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, although this is by no means a uniform practice.

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Mantak Chia

Mantak Chia (Chinese: 謝明德, Pinyin: Xiè Míngdé, born April 24, 1944 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Taoist Master.

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Marat Shterin

Marat Shterin is an author, doctor and researcher of cults and new religious movements.

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.

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Margaret Singer

Margaret Thaler Singer (July 29, 1921 – November 23, 2003) was a clinical psychologist and researcher with her colleague Lyman Wynne of family communication.

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Marian Movement of Priests

The Marian Movement of Priests (MMP) is a private association of Catholic clergy and lay associate members founded by Italian priest Fr.

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Marjorie Cameron

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel (April 23, 1922 – June 24, 1995), who professionally used the mononym Cameron, was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist.

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Mark Felt

William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent and the Bureau's Associate Director, the FBI's second-highest-ranking post, from May 1972 until his retirement from the FBI in June 1973.

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Mark Silk

Mark Silk is a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), where he directs the and serves as editor of Religion in the News. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1950 and graduated from Harvard College in 1972.

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Marshall Vian Summers

Marshall Vian Summers (born January 28, 1949) is the central figure within a new religious movement with an emphasis on the implications of exotheology for human evolution.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Massimo Introvigne

Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist and intellectual property consultant.

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Matriarchal religion

A matriarchal religion is a religion that focuses on a goddess or goddesses.

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Matrixism

Matrixism or The Path of the One was a purported religion inspired by the motion picture trilogy The Matrix.

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Matsumura Kaiseki

was the founder of Dokai, the Way, a Pan-Asianist Christian-influenced new religious movement.

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May Otis Blackburn

May Otis Blackburn (born August 2, 1881, Storm Lake, Iowa; died June 17, 1951, Los Angeles, California) was the founder and self-appointed Queen and High Priestess of the 1920s Los Angeles new religious movement, "The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven." The organization was also known as the "Blackburn Cult," the "Cult of the Great Eleven," and the "Great Eleven Club." She is notable as an ultimately successful defendant in an unusual legal case turning on whether her failure to publish and print a promised book was knowingly fraudulent as contended by the complaining witness, Clifford Dabney.

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Meaning of life

The meaning of life, or the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general.

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Meditation

Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

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Michael Langone

Michael D. Langone (born 1947) is an American counseling psychologist who specializes in research about "cultic" groups and the pseudoscience of psychological manipulation.

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Mikael Rothstein

Mikael Rothstein (born 8 May 1961) is a Jewish associate professor of religious history at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Millenarianism

Millenarianism (also millenarism), from Latin ''mīllēnārius'' "containing a thousand", is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed.

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Millennium '73

Millennium '73 was a three-day festival held on November 8–10, 1973 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, United States, by the Divine Light Mission (DLM).

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Mind

The mind is a set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory.

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Minority religion

A minority religion is a religion held by a minority of the population of a country, state, or region.

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Miracle of Love

The Miracle of Love is a new religious movement based in Denver, Colorado.

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Misunderstanding Cults

Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field was edited by Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins.

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Modern Paganism

Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

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Monotheism

Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.

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Moonie (nickname)

Moonie is a pejorative term sometimes used to refer to members of the Unification Church.

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Mumboism

Mumboism, also known as the Mumbo cult, was a new religious movement founded by Onyango Dunde in the early 20th century.

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Neo-Advaita

Neo-Advaita, also called the Satsang-movement and Nondualism, is a New Religious Movement, emphasizing the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego," without the need of preparatory practice.

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Neo-revelationism

Neo-revelationism is a term for the beliefs of religious groups, especially Christian or Christianity-derived who claim direct revelation beyond claims of divine inspiration associated with the Christian Bible proper, but the term is also applicable relative to the Bahá'í Faith, and Ahmadiyya movement relative to mainstream Islam, and to Messiah claimants in a context of Judaism.

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Neo-völkisch movements

Neo-völkisch movements, as defined by the historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, cover a wide variety of mutually influencing groups of a radically ethnocentric character which have emerged, especially in the English-speaking world, since World War II.

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Neotantra

Neotantra, navatantra (Sanskrit: नव, nava 'new') or tantric sex, is the modern, western variation of tantra often associated with new religious movements.

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Network of Buddhist Organisations

The Network of Buddhist Organisations is a British ecumenical body founded in 1993.

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Never Again the Burning Times

Never Again the Burning Times: Paganism Revisited is an anthropological study of the Wiccan and wider Pagan community in the United States.

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New Age

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.

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New Cult Awareness Network

The "New Cult Awareness Network" (NCAN, often referred to as simply the "Cult Awareness Network", though other than inheriting the name, it is unrelated to that older group) is an organization that provides information about cults, and is owned and operated by associates of the Church of Scientology, itself categorized in many countries as a cult.

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New England Institute of Religious Research

New England Institute of Religious Research (NEIRR) is a ministry located in Massachusetts which provides information on groups which it considers to be cultic structures.

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New Forest Shakers

The New Forest Shakers or Walworth Jumpers (also Children of God, Girlingites or Convulsionists) were a new religious movement created by Mary Anne Girling (or Mary Ann Girling) in the 1870s in England.

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New Israel

New Israel (Новый Израиль) was one of the Sektanstvo (sectarian) new religious movements that grew and expanded in the Russian Empire in the late 19th to early 20th century, a branch of the Postniki (fasters).

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New Kadampa Tradition

The New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT—IKBU) is a global Buddhist new religious movement founded by Kelsang Gyatso in England in 1991.

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New religion

New religion may refer to.

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New religious movements and cults in popular culture

New religious movements and cults have appeared as themes or subjects in literature and popular culture, while notable representatives of such groups have themselves produced a large body of literary works.

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New religious movements in the Pacific Northwest

New religious movements in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States have a history going back to the 19th century.

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New Thought

The New Thought movement (also "Higher Thought") is a religious movement which developed in the United States in the 19th century, considered by many to have been derived from the unpublished writings of Phineas Quimby.

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New World Order (conspiracy theory)

The New World Order or NWO is claimed to be an emerging clandestine totalitarian world government by various conspiracy theories.

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Nondualism

In spirituality, nondualism, also called non-duality, means "not two" or "one undivided without a second".

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen,, commonly shortened to NRW) is the most populous state of Germany, with a population of approximately 18 million, and the fourth largest by area.

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Nova Religio

Nova Religio, The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions is a peer-reviewed academic journal of religious studies that focuses on New Religious Movements.

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NRM

NRM may refer to.

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Oberon Zell-Ravenheart

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (born Timothy Zell, November 30, 1942, St. Louis, Missouri; formerly known as Otter G'Zell) is a Neopagan writer, speaker and religious leader.

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Olav Hammer

Olav Hammer (born 1958) is a Swedish professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense working in the field of history of religion.

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Ole Nydahl

Ole Nydahl (born March 19, 1941), also known as Lama Ole, is a Danish Lama in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT) is a group in Kingston, Ontario dedicated to the promotion of religious tolerance through their website, ReligiousTolerance.org.

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Osiris myth

The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology.

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Other Goddess Circle

The Other Goddess Circle (Круг Иной Богини) is a monotheistic branch of Turkic Burkhanism or a close to Goddess movement independent new religious movement.

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Otherkin

Otherkin are a subculture who socially and spiritually identify as not entirely human.

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Outline of spirituality

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to spirituality: Spirituality may refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality, an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being, or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm.

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Pagan studies

Pagan studies is the multidisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of contemporary Paganism, a broad assortment of modern religious movements, which are typically influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various pagan beliefs of premodern Europe.

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Pagan Theology

Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion is a taxonomical study of various world religions which argues for a new definition of the word "paganism".

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Pantheism

Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god.

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Papal ban of Freemasonry

The Catholic Church first prohibited Catholics from membership in Masonic organizations and other secret societies in 1738.

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Parliament of the World's Religions

There have been several meetings referred to as a Parliament of the World's Religions, the first being the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, which was an attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths.

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Parody religion

A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule).

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Paul Schnabel

Paul Schnabel (born July 17, 1948 in Bergen op Zoom) is a Dutch sociologist and the director of an agency of the Dutch government called Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (Netherlands Institute for Social Research), usually abbreviated as SCP (or SCPB).

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Paulette Cooper

Paulette Marcia Cooper (born July 26, 1942) is an American author whose writing against the Church of Scientology resulted in harassment from Scientologists.

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Peoples Temple

The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was a new religious movement founded in 1955 by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States

Throughout the history of Jehovah's Witnesses, their beliefs, doctrines, policies and practices have engendered controversy and opposition from governments, communities, and religious groups.

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Personal Freedom Outreach

Personal Freedom Outreach (PFO) is an Evangelical organization that serves to "educate Christians about the dangers and heretical doctrines of religious cults, to use the Gospel of Jesus Christ to reach members of those cults and to warn Christians of unbiblical teachings within the church itself."Personal Freedom Outreach (accessed 6/7/06) PFO operates its ministry from three separate post office boxes, with the main office located in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Peter Heehs

Peter Heehs is an American historian living in Puducherry, India who writes on modern Indian history, spirituality and religion.

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Peyman Fattahi

Peyman Fattahi (پیمان فتاحی born 1973 in Kermanshah, Iran), also known as Master Elias M. Ramollah (استاد ایلیا میم), is the founder and leader of the El Yasin Community (جمیعت آل یاسین).

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Pilgrims of Arès

The Pilgrims of Arès is the name of a new religious movement founded in 1974 and whose founder was Michel Potay.

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Pious fraud

Pious fraud is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine.

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Plymouth Brethren

The Plymouth Brethren are a conservative, low church, nonconformist, evangelical Christian movement whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s, originating from Anglicanism.

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Pope

The pope (papa from πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin pontifex maximus "greatest priest"), is the Bishop of Rome and therefore ex officio the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Prem Rawat

Prem Pal Singh Rawat (Hindi: प्रेम पाल सिंह रावत), born 10 December 1957, is an Indian American also known as Maharaji, and formerly as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar.

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Process Church of the Final Judgment

The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known as the Process Church, was a religious group established in London in 1966.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet is an individual regarded as being in contact with a divine being and said to speak on that entity's behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Providence (religious movement)

Providence (officially Christian Gospel Mission) is a Christian new religious movement founded by Jung Myung-seok in 1980; Jung was formerly a member of Unification Church and was strongly influenced by it.

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Psychology of religion

Strictly speaking, psychology of religion consists of the application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to the diverse contents of the religious traditions as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals.

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Psychology of religious conversion

The modern academic study of the psychology of religious conversion can be tracked back to 1881 when a series of lectures was delivered by early psychologist G. Stanley Hall.

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Quiverfull

Quiverfull is a movement of conservative Christian couples.

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Raëlism

Raëlism (also known as Raëlianism or the Raëlian movement) is a UFO religion that was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon (b. 1946), now known as Raël.

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Radical environmentalism

Radical environmentalism is a grassroots branch of the larger environmental movement that emerged from an ecocentrism-based frustration with the co-option of mainstream environmentalism.

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Rajneesh

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho, was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement.

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Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE) is an American spiritual sect near the rural town of Yelm, Washington, U.S. The school was established in 1988 by J. Z. Knight, who claims to channel a 35,000-year-old being called Ramtha the Enlightened One.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Raymond Howard (Wiccan)

Raymond Howard was an English practitioner of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Wicca.

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Régis Dericquebourg

Régis Dericquebourg (born 1947) is a French sociologist of religions.

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Recovery from Cults

Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse a 1995 book edited by Michael Langone, director of the anti-cult group International Cultic Studies Association (formerly the American Family Foundation), published by W. W. Norton & Company, treats the theories of mind control as related to cults.

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Red Rock State Park

Red Rock State Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, featuring a red sandstone canyon outside the city of Sedona.

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Reinhart Hummel

Reinhart Hummel (26 January 1930 – 9 February 2007) was a German theologian and long-term leader of the Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW).

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Religion and the Internet

Religions are represented in the Internet in many ways.

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Religion in Cuba

Cuba's prevailing religion is Christianity, primarily Roman Catholicism, although in some instances it is profoundly modified and influenced through syncretism.

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Religion in Dominica

According to the 2001 population and housing census, approximately 61 percent of Dominica's population is Roman Catholic.

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Religion in East Timor

The majority of the population of East Timor is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is the dominant religious institution.

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Religion in Europe

Religion in Europe has been a major influence on today's society art, culture, philosophy and law.

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Religion in Germany

Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, comprising an estimated ~58.5% of the country's population in 2016.

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Religion in Jamaica

Religion in Jamaica, according to the most recent census (2001), consists of a breakdown of 66% Christian (62% Protestant, 2% Roman Catholic), and 2% Jehovah's Witnesses), 3% unstated, and 10% other.. U.S. Department of State (2008) The category other includes 29,026 Rastas, an estimated 5,000 Muslims, 3,000 Buddhists 1,453 Hindus, and approximately 7 Jews. The census reported 21% who claimed no religious affiliation. The largest religion indigenous to Jamaica is Rastafari.

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Religion in Russia

Religion in Russia is very diversified.

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Religion in South Korea

Religion in South Korea is characterised by the fact that a majority of South Koreans (56.1% as of the 2015 national census) have no formal affiliation with a religion.

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Religion in the Netherlands

Religion in the Netherlands was predominantly Christianity between the 10th and until the late 20th century; in the mid-20th century roughly 60% of the population was still Protestant and 40% was Catholic.

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Religion in the Republic of Ireland

The predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland is Christianity, with the largest church being the Roman Catholic Church.

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Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

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Religious delusion

A religious delusion is any delusion involving religious themes or subject matter.

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Religious disaffiliation

Religious disaffiliation is the act of leaving a faith, or a religious group or community.

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Religious syncretism

Religious syncretism exhibits blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions.

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Responsibility assumption

Responsibility assumption is the doctrine that an individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their personal life, to a considerably greater degree than is normally thought.

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Reuben Swinburne Clymer

Reuben Swinburne Clymer (November 25, 1878 - June 3, 1966) was an American occultist and modern Rosicrucian responsible for either reviving or creating the FRC (Fraternitas Rosae Crucis), perhaps the oldest continuing Rosicrucian organization in the Americas.

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Richard Kaczynski

Richard Kaczynski is an American writer and lecturer in the fields of social psychology, metaphysical beliefs and new religious movements.

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Rick Alan Ross

Rick Alan Ross (born 1952) is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute.

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River Phoenix

River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician, and activist.

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Rizalista religious movements

The Rizalista religious movements refers to the new religious movement and a form of Folk Catholicism adopted by a number of ethnic religious groups in the Philippines that believe in the divinity of Jose Rizal, the Philippines' de facto national hero.

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Robert Balch

Robert William Balch is a sociologist from the University of Montana.

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Ronald Enroth

Ronald M. Enroth (born October 28, 1938) has been a Professor of Sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, prominent evangelical Christian author of books concerning what he defines as "cults" and "new religious movements" and important figure in the Christian countercult movement.

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Ronald Hutton

Ronald Hutton (born 1953) is an English historian who specialises in the study of Early Modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion and contemporary Paganism.

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Sacrament of Transition

Sacrament of Transition is a new religious movement based in Slovenia, based on and promoting the sacramental use of the psychoactive plant Tabernanthe iboga and its psychoactive chemical constituent ibogaine.

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Sacred Journeys

Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission is a sociological book about the adherents of the Divine Light Mission in the 1970s.

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Sahaja Yoga

Sahaja Yoga is a religious movement founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava (1923-2011), more widely known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi or as "Mother" by her followers, who are called Sahaja yogis.

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Samael Aun Weor

Samael Aun Weor (סםאל און ואור) (March 6, 1917 – December 24, 1977), born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez, was a spiritual teacher and author of over sixty books of esoteric spirituality.

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Sandu Tudor

Sandu Tudor (born Alexandru Al. Teodorescu, known in church records as Brother Agathon, later Daniil Teodorescu, Daniil Sandu Tudor, Daniil de la Rarău; December 22 or December 24, 1896 – November 17, 1962) was a Romanian poet, journalist, theologian and Orthodox monk.

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Sangha

Sangha (saṅgha; saṃgha; සංඝයා; พระสงฆ์; Tamil: சங்கம்) is a word in Pali and Sanskrit meaning "association", "assembly", "company" or "community" and most commonly refers in Buddhism to the monastic community of bhikkhus (monks) and bhikkhunis (nuns).

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Santa Muerte

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a female deity or folk saint in Mexican and Mexican-American folk Catholicism.

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Sarah Moore (The Family)

Sarah Moore, formerly known as Sarah Hamilton-Byrne (8 July 1969 – May 2016) was an Australian writer who spent her childhood in The Family, a new religious movement run by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, her adoptive mother.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba (born Sathyanarayana Raju; 23 November 192624 April 2011) was an Indian guru, a cult leader, and philanthropist.

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Sathya Sai Baba movement

The Sathya Sai Baba movement is inspired by South Indian Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba who taught the unity of all religions.

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Saul V. Levine

Saul V. Levine (born 1938) is a Canadian psychiatrist and author, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine.

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Sōichi Ōya

was a Japanese journalist noted for his research and commentaries on popular culture.

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School of Economic Science

The School of Economic Science (SES), also known as the School of Philosophy and the School of Practical Philosophy, is a worldwide organisation based in London.

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Scientology (James R. Lewis book)

Scientology is a compilation book about the Church of Scientology and the new religious movement Scientology, edited by James R. Lewis.

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Scientology as a business

The Church of Scientology publicly classifies itself as a religion, and some scholars consider it a new religious movement, but that claim has been challenged for decades on the grounds that the Church operates more like a for-profit business than a church.

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Scientology beliefs and practices

The Church of Scientology says that a human is an immortal, spiritual being (thetan) that is resident in a physical body.

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Scientology in Germany

The Church of Scientology has operated in Germany since 1970.

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Scientology status by country

Scientology status by country describes the status of Scientology and its recognition as a religion or otherwise in different countries.

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Sect

A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger group.

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Seiðr

In Old Norse, seiðr (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith, or seid) was a type of sorcery practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age.

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Self religion

A self religion (or self-religion) is a religious or self-improvement group which has as one of its primary aims the improvement of the self.

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Self-Realization Fellowship

Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) is a worldwide spiritual organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920nytimes.com and legally incorporated as a non-profit religious organization in 1935, to serve as Yogananda’s instrument for the preservation and worldwide dissemination of his writings and teachings, including Kriya Yoga.

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Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough is a 1977 American comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya and Bert Convy.

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Sex, Slander, and Salvation

Sex, Slander, and Salvation (Investigating The Family/Children of God) was a 1994 book edited by J. Gordon Melton and James R. Lewis, on the Family International.

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Shinji Shumeikai

(often abbreviated to Shumei) is a Japanese new religious movement (shinshūkyō).

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Shinmeiaishinkai

is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Komatsu Shin'yō in 1976.

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Shinnyo-en

is a Japanese new religion in the tradition of the Daigo branch of Shingon Buddhism.

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Sindhi workies

Sindhi workies, (alternatively Sindworkis, Sindworkies or Sindwork merchants, (سِنڌُ وَرِڪِي; سندھ ورکی; सिंधवर्की), were wealthy Hindu traders and merchants from the Sindh region of British India. This merchant class rapidly gained prominence during the British rule of India and spread their businesses overseas to places as far as Malta, South Africa and Singapore. Many of the Sindhi workies were from the Bhaiband merchant caste, and to some degree the Amils, who were based and lived in Hyderabad. They established their businesses on the supply of traditional Sindhi arts and crafts, collectively known as Sindhi work or Sindwork, particularly in the British and European markets. The Sindhi workies were amongst the first Indian traders to establish business outside of India, particularly in places where the British had influence.Sindhi Diaspora in Manila, Hong Kong, and Jakarta. Thapan, Anita Raina. Ateneo University Press, 2002. Due to the nature of their business, the men traditionally spent only six months at home in Hyderabad, while up to the following three years abroad. It was the women and children of these Sindhi workies who were left to look after their homes and who later established a new-age Hindu socio-religious movement in Hyderabad known as Om Mandali (now Brahma Kumaris).

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Sky Kingdom

Sky Kingdom (Kerajaan Langit) is the name of the religious commune and sect founded by Ariffin Mohammed in Malaysia.

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Slavic Native Faith

The Slavic Native Faith, also known as Rodnovery, is a modern Pagan religion.

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Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change

Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change is a 1978 book which describes the authors' theory of religious conversion.

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Sociological classifications of religious movements

Various sociological classifications of religious movements have been proposed by scholars.

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Sociology of religion

Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.

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Soka Gakkai

is a Japanese Buddhist religious movement based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese priest Nichiren as taught by its first three presidents Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, Jōsei Toda and Daisaku Ikeda.

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Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary (cult)

The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary (Cœur douloureux et immaculé de Marie) is a new religious movement with Catholic background founded in 2001 by Juliano Verbard in Piton Saint-Leu, Réunion.

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Soul

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, there is a belief in the incorporeal essence of a living being called the soul. Soul or psyche (Greek: "psychē", of "psychein", "to breathe") are the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc.

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Spirit Church (China)

Spirit Church (灵灵教 Linglingjiao) is a new religious movement from China.

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Spirit of Jesus Church

The Spirit of Jesus Church (Iesu no Mitama Kyōkai, イエス之御霊教会), was registered in 1941 in Japan by Murai Jun.

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Spiritual Counterfeits Project

The Spiritual Counterfeits Project (also known as SCP) is a Christian evangelical parachurch organization located in Berkeley, California.

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Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.

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Spiritualism (beliefs)

Spiritualism is a metaphysical belief that the world is made up of at least two fundamental substances, matter and spirit.

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St. Priapus Church

St. Priapus Church (Église S. Priape), also known as Temple of Priapus, is a North American pagan religion founded in the 1980s that centres on the worship of the phallus.

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Stephen A. Kent

Stephen A. Kent, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Stephen J. Hunt

Stephen John Hunt is a British professor of sociology at the University of the West of England.

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Stephen McNallen

Stephen Anthony McNallen (born October 15, 1948) is an American proponent of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Heathenry.

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Susan J. Palmer

Susan Jean Palmer (born April 14, 1946) is a Canadian sociologist and author whose primary research interest is new religious movements.

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Susan Justice

Susan Cagle (born 1981) is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, known by her stage name Susan Justice.

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Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

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Synanon

The Synanon organization, initially a drug rehabilitation program, was founded by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich, Sr., (1913–1997) in 1958 in Santa Monica, California.

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Syntheism

Syntheism is a new religious movement focused on how atheists and pantheists can achieve the same feelings of community and awe experienced in traditional theistic religions.

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Talbot Mundy

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 23 April 1879 – 5 August 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction.

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Temple of Set

The Temple of Set is an occult initiatory order founded in 1975.

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Tenri University

is a Japanese private university in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, an independent part of the secular mission of the new religious movement Tenrikyo.

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Terri Hoffman

Terri Lee Hoffman (March 21, 1938 – October 31, 2015), later known as Terri Lilya Keanely, was an American religious cult leader known for the mysterious deaths of her followers, including two husbands, shortly after they had willed their possessions to her.

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Testem benevolentiae nostrae

Testem benevolentiae nostrae is a letter written by Pope Leo XIII to Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore", dated January 22, 1899.

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The Bridge to Total Freedom

The Bridge to Total Freedom, or simply "The Bridge", is a metaphor used by the Church of Scientology to describe believers' advancement within the religion.

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The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions

The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions: The Essential Guide to Their History, Their Doctrine, and Our Response is a Christian countercult non-fiction book on cults and new religious movements, written by Ron Rhodes, Ph.D. The book was published by Zondervan on September 1, 2001.

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The Church of Scientology (Melton)

The Church of Scientology is a 2000 book about the Church of Scientology by religious scholar J. Gordon Melton. It is the first of a series of books on new religious movements published by the Center for Studies on New Religions.

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The Family International

The Family International (TFI) is a cult that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, USA.

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The Family Survival Trust

The Family Survival Trust (FST) is a charity registered in the UK, established in order to support and offer counselling for members of abusive cults and similar organisations, and their families members.

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The Joy of Sect

"The Joy of Sect" is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season.

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The Kingdom of the Cults

The Kingdom of the Cults, first published in 1965, is a reference book of the Christian countercult movement in the United States, written by Baptist minister and counter-cultist Walter Ralston Martin.

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The Living Word Fellowship

The Living Word Fellowship is a group of nondenominational Christian churches located in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico,, Living Word Fellowship website which stem from the Pentecostal tradition.

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The Making of a Moonie

The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? is a 1984 book written by British sociologist Eileen Barker, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom,.

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The Matrix (franchise)

The Matrix is a science fiction action media franchise created by The Wachowskis, about heroes who fight a desperate war against machine overlords that have enslaved humanity in an extremely sophisticated virtual reality system.

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The Michael Teachings

The Michael Teachings is a body of channeled New Age spiritual doctrine that originated in the early 1970s as a 'conversation' via a Ouija board between members of a spiritual study group in the San Francisco Bay Area and a channeled spiritual entity who became known as 'Michael'.

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The New Believers

The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, 'Cults', and Alternative Religions, is a book by David V. Barrett covering the origin, history, beliefs, practices and controversies of more than sixty new religious movements, including The Family International (previously known as the Children of God), International Church of Christ, Osho (Rajneesh), Satanism, New Kadampa Tradition, Wicca, Druidry, chaos magic, Scientology, and others.

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The New Church (Swedenborgian)

The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) is the name for several historically related Christian denominations that developed as a new religious movement, informed by the writings of scientist and Swedish Lutheran theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772).

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The Order of Christ Sophia

The Order of Christ Sophia (OCS) is an organization that was founded in 1999 and went through a major reorganization in 2012.

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The Politics of Religious Apostasy

The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements is a 1998 book edited by David G. Bromley.

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The Rebirth of Buddha

is a Japanese animated movie produced by the new religious movement Happy Science.

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The Road to Total Freedom

The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology is a non-fiction book about Scientology by sociologist Roy Wallis.

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The Screwfly Solution

"The Screwfly Solution" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a pen name for psychologist Alice Sheldon, who was better known by her other nom de plume, James Tiptree, Jr. It received the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and has been adapted into a television film.

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The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power

"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is an article, written in 1991 by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar, which is highly critical of Scientology.

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The Triumph of the Moon

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft is a book of religious history by the English historian Ronald Hutton, first published by Oxford University Press in 1999.

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The Truth (The X-Files)

"The Truth" is the collective name for the 201st and 202nd episodes of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.

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Thelema

Thelema is a social or spiritual philosophy derived from Western esotericism.

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Theories about religions

Sociological and anthropological theories about religion (or theories of religion) generally attempt to explain the origin and function of religion.

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Thomas Forsthoefel

Thomas Forsthoefel is a professor of religious studies at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, as well as a poet and author.

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Thomas Robbins (sociologist)

Thomas Robbins (1943 – 2015) is an author and an independent scholar of sociology of religion.

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Timeline of the 20th century

This is a timeline of the 20th century.

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Timeline of the Unification Church

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, or Unificationism, is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon.

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Timothy Miller

Timothy A. Miller (born 1944) is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.

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Training centre for release of the Atma-energy

Training centre for release of the Atma-energy (German: Trainingszentrum zur Freisetzung der Atmaenergie), also known as Atman Foundation, was a new religious movement active mainly on the island of Tenerife and in Germany.

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Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation (TM) refers to a specific form of silent mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique, and less commonly to the organizations that constitute the Transcendental Meditation movement.

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Transcendental Meditation movement

The Transcendental Meditation movement (also referred to as Transcendental Meditation or TM) refers to the programs and organizations connected with the Transcendental Meditation technique founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India in the 1950s.

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Transcendental Meditation technique

The Transcendental Meditation technique or TM is a form of silent mantra meditation, developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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Transformational festival

A transformational festival is a counterculture festival that espouses a community-building ethic, and a value system that celebrates life, personal growth, social responsibility, healthy living, and creative expression.

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Transhumanism

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology.

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Tribes of Jharkhand

The tribes of Jharkhand consist of 32 tribes (8 primitive) inhabiting the Jharkhand state in India.

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Triratna Buddhist Community

The Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO)) is an international fellowship of Buddhists, and others who aspire to its path of mindfulness, under the leadership of the Triratna Buddhist Order (formerly the Western Buddhist Order).

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Twelve Tribes communities

The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, Northeast Kingdom Community Church,Palmer, Susan J. Apostates and Their Role in the Construction of Grievance Claims Against the Northeast Kingdom/Messianic Communities article in the book The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements edited by David G. Bromley Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, (1998).

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Twisted Scriptures

Twisted Scriptures: Breaking Free from Churches That Abuse (first edition Twisted Scriptures: A Path to Freedom from Abusive Churches) is a non-fiction book by Mary Alice Chrnalogar, published by Zondervan.

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União do Vegetal

The Beneficent Spiritist Center União do Vegetal (Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal; or UDV) is a religious society founded on July 22, 1961 by José Gabriel da Costa, known as Mestre Gabriel.

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Unification Church

The Unification Church (UC), also called the Unification movement and sometimes colloquially the "Moonies", is a worldwide new religious movement that was founded by and is inspired by Sun Myung Moon, a Korean religious leader also known for his business ventures and support of social and political causes.

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Unification Church of the United States

The Unification Church of the United States, sometimes colloquially referred to as the "Moonies", is a new religious movement in the United States of America.

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Universal Alliance

The Universal Alliance (French: Alliance universelle), formerly known as Universal Christian Church (Église chrétienne universelle) and followers as Christ's Witnesses (Témoins du Christ), is a Christian-oriented new religious movement founded in France in 1952 by Georges Roux, a former postman in the Vaucluse department.

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Universal Life

Universal Life (Universelles Leben, unofficially abbreviated UL) is the name of a controversialhttp://members.aol.com/bbsaktuell/weristue.htm and http://members.aol.com/bbswerth/weristue.htm new religious movement based in Würzburg, Germany, United States Department of State,, (Austria), released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, The vast majority of groups termed "sects" by the Government were small organizations with fewer than 100 members.

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Universal Medicine

Universal Medicine (UM) is an alternative medicine and self proclaimed religious organisation providing "Esoteric healing" products, music, publications, workshops and courses.

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Universal White Brotherhood

The Universal White Brotherhood is a New Age-oriented new religious movement founded in Bulgaria in the early 20th century by Peter Deunov and established in France in 1937 by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (1900–1986), one of his followers.

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Urreligion

Urreligion (ur- being a Germanic prefix for original, primitive, elder, primeval, or proto-) is a notion of an "original" or "oldest" form of religious tradition.

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Vale do Amanhecer

Vale do Amanhecer (Sunrise Valley) is a religious community originally with 300 believers that today contains around 10,000 people.

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Vegetalismo

Vegetalismo is a term used to refer to a practice of mestizo shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon in which the shamans — known as vegetalistas — are said to gain their knowledge and power to cure from the vegetables, or plants of the region.

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Victor Henry Anderson

Victor Henry Anderson (May 21, 1917 – September 20, 2001) was an American Wiccan priest and poet.

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Victory Altar

The Victory Altar (Korean SeungNiJeDan) is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1981.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism (also called esotericism and esoterism), also known as the Western mystery tradition, is a term under which scholars have categorised a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements which have developed within Western society.

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Western New York

Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York.

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Western religions

Western religions refer to religions that originated within Western culture, and are thus historically, culturally, and theologically distinct from the Eastern religions.

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Western Sufism

Western Sufism, also known as Neo-Sufism, Global Sufism, and Universal Sufism, is a new religious movement with its origins in traditional Sufism, Islam's mystical branch.

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White nationalism

White nationalism is a type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which holds the belief that white people are a raceHeidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks.

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Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?

Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?, published in 1973 by Bantam Books is a non-fiction book about Guru Maharaj Ji, now known as Prem Rawat.

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Wicca

Wicca, also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement.

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Will Black

Will Black is an English writer and journalist with a background in anthropology and mental health care.

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William C. Irvine

William Carleton Irvine (3 June 1871 – 5 September 1946), was a missionary, writer and the founding editor of the Indian Christian magazine.

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Witch-cult hypothesis

The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pre-Christian, pagan religion that had survived the Christianisation of Europe.

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Witching Culture

Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America is a folkloric and anthropological study of the Wiccan and wider Pagan community in the United States.

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Won Buddhism

Wŏn Buddhism (원불교) is a modernized form of Buddhism that seeks to make enlightenment possible for everyone and applicable to regular life.

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World religions

World religions is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate the five—and in some cases six—largest and most internationally widespread religious movements.

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WZCK-LD

WZCK-LD is a low-power digital television station in the Madison, Wisconsin area, and officially twin-licensed to both Madison and Middleton.

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Xavier Minniecon

Xavier Minniecon (born 4 July 1967) is a former Australian television weather presenter.

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Yahweh ben Yahweh

Yahweh ben Yahweh was the adopted name of Hulon Mitchell Jr.

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Yifa

Yifa (born 1959) is a Taiwanese scholar and writer and the founder of the organization, Woodenfish Foundation.

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Yoshikazu Okada

Yoshikazu Okada (岡田良一), born February 27, 1901 in the Aoyama area of Tokyo's Minato Ward, also known as Kōtama Okada, (岡田光玉) was the founder of a new religious movement in Japan (Shinshūkyō) generally referred to as Mahikari.

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Yuko Araki

is a Japanese actress and fashion model represented by Stardust Promotion.

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Zhaoyuan McDonald's Cult Murder

The Zhaoyuan McDonald’s Cult Murder was the murder, on May 28, 2014, of 37-year old salesgirl Wu Shuoyan, in a McDonald’s diner in the city of Zhaoyuan, in the Chinese province of Shandong, by members of a criminal new religious movement or cult.

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Zhushenjiao

Zhushenjiao (主神教 Supreme Spirit) is a new religious movement in China.

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Zuism

Zuism or Sumerian-Mesopotamian Neopaganism define a modern Pagan religious movement based on the Sumerian religion (and later Mesopotamian religions which continued it), and calls itself the "oldest religion, foundation of all major religions".

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