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A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture.
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
NameFounderFoundedType1969Adidam, previously Free Daist Communion, ...1972Frederick T. Howland1861Adventist CommunalFranz Sättler1925New religious movement, any relatively new religion characterized by innovative responses to modern conditions, perceived counterculturalism, eclecticism and syncretism, and charismatic and sometimes authoritarian leadership. New religious movements are sometimes pejoratively referred to as ‘cults.’.
- Murray Rubinstein
When someone tries to start a new religion, it is often dismissed as a cult. When we recognise a faith, we treat its teachings and traditions as timeless and sacrosanct. And when a religion...
- Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Dec 22, 2021 · Learn about the history, definition, diversity and challenges of new religious movements, also known as minorities or cults. Explore the examples of NRMs from different origins, beliefs and practices, and how they interact with society.
Aug 18, 2022 · As politics has usurped religion, it has borrowed its underlying concepts, sometimes putting them into new words.
Jan 6, 2012 · Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world’s newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish ...
