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.
17th century
- Baptists in the United States
- First Baptist Church in America, 1638
- First Baptist Church in Newport, 1644
18th century
- Shakers - formed in 1772 by Ann Lee in Manchester, England, but relocated to Watervliet, New York a few years later
- Neo-Druidism - Late 18th century
- Methodist Episcopal Church 1783[1]
- Universalist Church of America, 1793
19th century
- Black church, 1790s-onward
- African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, 1813
- African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1816
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870
- National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., 1880
- Original Church of God or Sanctified Church, 1890s
- Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A., 1896
- Church of God in Christ, 1897
- African Orthodox Church, 1921
- Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, 1924
- Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, 1944
- Black theology, 1966
- American Unitarian Association, 1825
- Unitarian Universalism, 1961 (consolidation of the Universalist Church and the AUA)
- Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism, 1830
- New Thought Movement, 1830s-onward
- Divine Science, 1888
- Unity Church, 1889
- Science of Mind, 1927
- Adventist/Millerites, 1840s
- Spiritualism, 1840s
- Christadelphians 1848
- Jehovah's Witnesses, 1870 (1931)
- The Theosophical Society (Eastern Theosophy), 1875
- Ethical Culture, 1877 onward
- Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science), 1879
- Polish National Catholic Church, 1897
20th century
- Pentecostalism
- Azusa Street Revival, 1906
- Pentecostal denominations in North America
- The Rosicrucian Fellowship (Esoteric Christianity, Western Theosophy, Western mystery tradition), 1909 (1313)
- Moorish Science Temple of America, 1913
- Reconstructionist Judaism, 1920s
- Jewish Renewal, 1960s
- Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930
- New religious movements and cults:
- Spiritual Christian Dukh-i-zhizniki,1928
- Huna (New Age),1936
- Scientology, 1954
- Peoples Temple, 1955
- Branch Davidians, 1955
- Westboro Baptist Church, 1955 Radical American unaffiliated Baptist
- Noble Order of Moorish Sufis, 1957
- Universal Life Church, 1959
- Discordianism, 1963
- Moorish Orthodox Church of America, 1964
- Eckankar, 1965
- Church of Satan (LaVeyan Satanism), 1966
- Church of the SubGenius, 1970s
- Heaven's Gate, 1970s
- The Creativity Movement, 1973
- Jews for Jesus, 1973
- Kemetic Orthodoxy, 1988
- Endeavor Academy (Course in Miracles), 1992
- Dudeism, 1998
21st Century
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, 2005
- The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, either 2009 or 2010
- Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, 2015
See also
- Burned-over district
- Great Awakening
- Religion in the United States
- Religious history of the United States
- Utopian movements
References
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