List of religious movements that began in the United States
- List of religious movements that began in the United States
Several religions and religious movements and traditions were first established in the United States.
*Adventist/Millerites
*Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)
*Church of the SubGenius
*Eckankar
*Endeavor Academy (Course in Miracles)
*Ethical Culture
*Jehovah's Witnesses
*Kemetic Orthodoxy
*Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism
*Moorish Science Temple of America
*Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930
*New religious movements ("Cults")
**Peoples Temple
**Heaven's Gate
**Branch Davidians
**Scientology
*New Thought Movement
**Religious Science
**Unity Church
**Divine Science
*Rosicrucian Fellowship
*Seventh-day Adventist Church
*Shakers - formed in 1772 by Ann Lee in Manchester, England, but relocated to Watervliet, New York a few years later
*Spiritualism
*Theosophy
*Unitarian Universalism
ee also
*Burned-over district
*Great Awakening
*Religion in the United States
*Religious history of the United States
*Utopian movements
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