Religious belief systems founded in the United States

Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices created by the American author L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard initially presented his ideas in 1950 as a form of talk therapy called Dianetics. He later expanded and reframed those ideas as a religion, which he named Scientology. In 1953, he founded the Church of Scientology, which, by one 2014 estimate, had around 30,000 members.

thumb|The Salt Lake Temple, a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]

Pentecostalism, also known as mainline or classical Pentecostalism, is a movement within the evangelical wing of Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, an event that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1–31).

thumb|right|The logo for the Theosophical Society brought together various ancient symbols.

Black nationalist African-American new religious movement

international organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism

American religious movement (1866-)

liberal religion formed in 1961 by the merger of the Unitarians and the Universalists

Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, new religious movement, virtual religion, act of social commentary, or parody religion. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its holy book, Principia Discordia, written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst.

American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997

new religious movement

nontheistic religious group based in the United States

religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing

AMORC (standing for, among others, the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross, Antiquus Mysticusque Ordo Rosae Crucis or the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis) is a Rosicrucian organization founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis in the United States in 1915. It has lodges, chapters and other affiliated bodies in several countries. It operates as a fraternal order in the mystical Western Esoteric Tradition. There are 12 grand lodges that represent the geographical regions and languages in which AMORC operates, including English, French, and German grand lodges. It is the largest Rosicrucian ord

thumb|The Temple of Eck in Chanhassen, Minnesota, U.S.

indigenous religion in the USA

a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites

commune established in California in the late 1960s, led by Charles Manson

occult initiatory order founded in 1975

19th-century intentional community in New York, United States of America

American religion (1964-)

pantheistic white separatist religious movement, founded in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by Ben Klassen in 1973; promotes the veneration of the white race and the safeguarding of its survival

religious organization

spiritual organization

Wotansvolk (English: "'''Odin's Folk'''") promulgates a white nationalist variant of Neo-Paganism—founded in the early 1990s by Ron McVan, Katja Lane and David Lane (1938–2007) while Lane was serving a 190-year prison sentence for his actions in connection with the white supremacist revolutionary domestic terrorist organization The Order. After the founding of 14 Word Press by David Lane and his wife Katja to disseminate her husband's writings, Ron McVan joined the press in 1995 and founded Temple of Wotan (co-writing a book by that name). 14 Word Press – Wotansvolk proceeded to publish severa

Synanon, originally known as Tender Loving Care, was a new religious movement founded in 1958 by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr. in Santa Monica, California, United States. Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, Synanon developed into an alternative community centered on group truth-telling sessions that came to be known as the "Synanon Game", a form of attack therapy.

Alleged extraterrestrial being

US religious movement founded in the early 20th century Noble Drew Ali

non-denominational religious organization

Ascended Master Teachings religious movement

church in Missouri, United States

nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, USA

New Thought denomination established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes

20th- and 21st-century theological movement

American Neopagan religious group

non-governmental organization

New Age religious movement

religious movement

3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization), also known as Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere or Sikh Dharma International, is a controversial American organization founded in 1969 by Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, also called "Yogi Bhajan". Its adherents are called the Sikh Dharma Brotherhood. While referred to as the 3HO movement, "3HO" is strictly speaking the name only of the movement's educational branch. Scholars have defined 3HO as a new religious movement.

Performance art project

organization devoted to American claimed psychic Edgar Cayce

US religious group founded by Dwight York

Neo-Theosophy is a term, originally derogatory, used by the followers of Helena Blavatsky to denominate the system of Theosophical ideas expounded by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater following the death of Madame Blavatsky in 1891. This material differed in major respects from Blavatsky's original presentation, but it is accepted as genuinely Theosophical by many Theosophists around the world.

church affiliated with the informal spiritualist movement that began in the United States in the 1840s

religious organization of Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1975-)