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unusual facts about new religious movement


Interior locution

Interior locutions sometimes lead to major new religious movements.


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.

Red Rock State Park

In 1976 the property was transferred to Eckankar, a new religious movement that Helen Frye belonged to, who planned a private retreat for their members.

Sakamoto family murder

On November 4, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本 堤 Sakamoto Tsutsumi April 8, 1956 - November 4, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a controversial and destructive "new religious movement" in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife and child, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment.

Stephen A. Kent

He stated that Kent analyzed groups that have been referred to as both cults and new religious movements, including the Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, the Unification Church, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, and others.

Will Black

He is best known for his book Beyond the End of the World – 2012 and Apocalypse, which gives a broad overview of apocalyptic ideologies through the ages, including those underpinning Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and smaller new religious movements.


see also

Chandrika Prasad Srivastava

C.P. Srivastava was married to Nirmala Srivastava, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement, based on an experience called self-realization.

Family of Love

Children of God, a new religious movement, which later used the names Family of Love and as of 2006, Family International

MSIA

Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, an American new religious movement, sometimes pronounced as acronym—"messiah".