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Native American Church, 1800 (19th century) [5] Reformed Mennonites, 1812; Restoration Movement, 1800s; various subgroups of Amish, throughout 19th and 20th centuries; American Unitarian Association, 1825 Unitarian Universalism, 1961 (consolidation of the Universalist Church and the AUA) Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism, 1830
Hellfire Club was a term used to describe several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Great Britain and Ireland in the 18th Century. The name most commonly refers to Francis Dashwood 's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe . [ 1 ]
Kondratii Selivanov [], founder of Skoptsy-movement.Drawing from early 19th century. The Skoptsy movement emerged in the 1760s from the flagellant sect of the Khlysty.Its founder was a runaway peasant, later known as Kondratiy Ivanovich Selivanov, a former adherent of a Khlysty sect of Akulina Ivanovna in the Oryol Governorate. [12]
David Koresh (1959–1993), leader of religious cult Branch Davidians [63] Marina Tsvigun (b. 1960), or Maria Devi Christos, is the leader of the "Great White Brotherhood". [ 64 ] In 1990 she met Yuri Krivonogov, the Great White Brotherhood founder, who recognized Marina as a new messiah and later married her, assuming in the sect the role of ...
History of Christian theology#Revivalism (1720–1906) History of Oriental Orthodoxy; Restoration Movement; Timeline of the English Reformation; Timeline of Christianity#18th century; Timeline of Christian missions#1700 to 1799; Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church#1600–1800; Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 18th century
The Shakers were one of a few religious groups which were formed during the 18th century in the northwest of England; [4]: 1–8 originating out of the Wardley Society. James and Jane Wardley and others broke off from the Quakers in 1747 [ 5 ] : 20 [ 6 ] : 105 at a time when the Quakers were weaning themselves away from frenetic spiritual ...
6th century BC: Possible start of Zoroastrianism; [34] Zoroastrianism flourished under the Persian emperors known as the Achaemenids. The emperors Darius (ruled 522–486 BC) and Xerxes (ruled 486–465 BC) made it the official religion of their empire.
The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison) [note 1] was France's first established state-sponsored atheistic religion, intended as a replacement for Roman Catholicism during the French Revolution.