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A list of notable religious movements that had their origins in the United States or the colonies which would form the United States.
18th century
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
Reformed Mennonites , 1812
various
subgroups of Amish , throughout 19th and 20th centuries
American Unitarian Association , 1825
Latter Day Saint movement /
Mormonism , 1830
New Thought Movement , 1830s-onward
Adventist /
Millerites , 1840s
Spiritualism , 1840s
Christadelphians 1848
Jehovah's Witnesses , 1870 (1931)
Old Order Mennonites , c.1872
The Theosophical Society (Eastern
Theosophy ), 1875
Ethical Culture , 1877 onward
Church of Christ, Scientist (
Christian Science ), 1879
Indian Shaker Church , 1881
Black Hebrew Israelites , 1886
Ghost Dance , 1889
Native American Church , 1890s
Polish National Catholic Church , 1897
20th century
Pentecostalism
The
Rosicrucian Fellowship (
Esoteric Christianity , Western
Theosophy ,
Western mystery tradition ), 1909 (1313)
Moorish Science Temple of America , 1913
Reconstructionist Judaism , 1920s
Nation of Islam , founded in Detroit, Michigan by
Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930
Spiritual Christian (Dukh-i-zhizniki ), 1928
Huna (New Age) ,1936
Scientology , 1954
Peoples Temple , 1955
Branch Davidians , 1955
Universal Life Church , 1959
Discordianism , 1963
Reformed Druids of North America , 1963
Moorish Orthodox Church of America , 1964
Eckankar , 1965
Church of Satan (
LaVeyan Satanism ), 1966
Universal Eclectic Wicca , 1969
Georgian Wicca , 1970
Church of the SubGenius , 1970s
Dianic Wicca , 1970s
Kemetism , 1970s
Heaven's Gate , 1970s
The Creativity Movement , 1973
Jews for Jesus , 1973
Ausar Auset Society , 1973
Kemetic Orthodoxy , 1988
Endeavor Academy (Course in Miracles), 1992
Dudeism , 1998
21st century
See also
References
Notes
^ The terms Old Light and New Lights have been adopted by a wide variety of movements to describe a change and contrast within a wider community.
References
Bibliography
Hall, D. D. (2019). The Puritans: A transatlantic history. Princeton: Princeton University Press .
Koester, N. (2015). Introduction to the history of Christianity in the United States: Revised and expanded. London: Fortress Press .
Noll, M. (2019). A history of Christianity in the United States and Canada (2nd ed.). New York: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company .
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