New Religious Movements (NRMs)
  
An 'NRM' is defined as an organization or group that came into existence during the past 150 years or thereabouts, and which is not universally recognized as a form of a mainstream world religious tradition. The University of Wolverhampton does not use the terms 'cult' or 'sect' in this context, and no value judgements are implied by any organization's inclusion on this list.
  All links are to the official web sites of the organizations, unless otherwise indicated.

3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy)
3HO (Yogi Bhajan's web site)
Adi Da Samraj (Bubba Free John; formerly Laughing Man Institute) (1)
Adi Da Samraj (Bubba Free John; formerly Laughing Man Institute) (2)
Aetherius Society
African Initiated Churches (academic)
African Initiated Churches (Research Institute on Christianity in South Africa)
Ahmadiyya
Alamo
Alevis
AMORC
Amway
Ananda Marga
Anthroposophy
Asatru
Assemblies of Yahweh
Assemblies of Yahweh (unofficial)
Association for Research and Enlightenment
Association of Unity Churches
Aum Shinri Kyo (official police reports on the movement)
Aum Shinri Kyo (a report on the 1995 subway gassing)
Aurobindo (1)
Aurobindo (2)

Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) (unofficial)
Baha'i
Baha'i Academics Resource Library
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship
Black Elk
Brahma Kumaris (1)
Brahma Kumaris (2)
Brahmo Samaj
Brahmo Samaj (unofficial)
Branch Davidians
Branch Davidians
Branch Davidians
Branch Davidians (unofficial)
Branham, William
Breatharians (Jasmuheen) (1)
Breatharians (Jasmuheen) (2)
Brethren
Brethren: Church of the Brethren
Brethren: Plymouth Brethren
Brethren: Exclusive Brethren
Brethren: Mennonite Brethren
British Israel (unofficial)
British Israel Church of God
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star
Bruderhof

Cao Dai
Cayce, Edgar (1)
Cayce, Edgar (2)
Cerullo, Morris
Channelling
Chen Tao
Chinmoy
Chinmoy (Peace Run)
Chinmoy (unofficial/neutral, with good hypertext links)
Christ Maitreya (Benjamin Creme)
Christadelphians (1)
Christadelphians (2)
Christadelphians (UK)
Christian Science (1)
Christian Science (2)
Christian Science (3)
Christian Science (4)
Christian Science (5)
Church of All Worlds
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (3)
Church of Jesus Christ of LDS: traditional and splinter groups
Church of Satan (1)
Church of Satan (2)
Church of Satan (3)
Church of Scientology
    L. Ron Hubbard
    Dianetics
    ABLE (Association for Better Living and Education)
    Applied Scholastics
    Battlefield Earth
    Bridge Publications
    Citizens' Commission on Human Rights
    Crimonon project
    'Freedom' magazine
    Hubbard College of Administration
    Narcanon project
    'The Way to Happiness'
Church Universal and Triumphant
Churches of Christ (1)
Churches of Christ (2)
Cohen, Andrew
Course in Miracles (Inner Peace Foundation)
Covenant of the Goddess
Crowley, Aleister (1)
Crowley, Aleister (2)
Crowley, Aleister (3)
Crowley, Aleister (4)

Davies, Andrew Jr (Poughkeepsie Seer)
Druidism: British Druid Order

Eckankar
Elan Vital
Elan Vital (Maharaji's site)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emissaries of Divine Light (unofficial/neutral)
Engaged Buddhism (1)
Engaged Buddhism (1)
Engaged Buddhism (1)

Falun Gong
Family, The (formerly Children of God)
Findhorn Foundation
Father Divine's Peace Mission
Focolare
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (1)
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (2)

Gaia (academic site)
Gnosticism
Gurdjieff

Heaven's Gate
Holy Order of MANS (Christ the Saviour Brotherhood) (unofficial)
House Church Movement in China. (Watchman Nee)
Inner Light Foundation
International Churches of Christ
Ishvara (Lifewave)
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) (UK)

Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Library)
    Bloodless Resources Network (University of Pisa - of interest to JWs)
Jehovah's Witnesses United (a new unofficial academically-oriented group)
Jesus Army (Jesus Fellowship Church)
Jews for Jesus
Johrei

Korean new religions (general)
Krishnamurti (1)
Krishnamurti (2)
Kundalini Yoga (bibliography)

Landmark Education (formerly est)
Lazaris
Lucis Trust

Mahikari
Meher Baba
Messianic Jews: International Federation of Messianic Jews
Messianic Jews: The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations
Messianic Jews: The Kehilat Ariel Messianic congregation
Metropolitan Community Churches
Moral Rearmament (MRA)
Moral Rearmament (MRA) (unofficial)
Mother Meera
Movement of Inner Spiritual Awareness (MSIA) (academic)
Movement of Inner Spiritual Awareness (MSIA) (critical)

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Last updated: 15 November 2000