New Religious Movements are those traditions, either independent religions or movements within existing religious frameworks, established from roughly 1800 C.E. forward. Some famous examples include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Pentecostalism, Scientology, Wicca, the Baha'i Faith, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and Messianic Judaism.

Objectives

The current priorities for the project are:

• Gathering all related profiles currently on Geni
• Creating basic profiles for founders not yet on Geni

Founders in Project

• Michael Aquino, founder of the Temple of Set
• Bahá'u'lláh, Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri, founder of the Baha'i Faith
• Joseph Bates, founder of Sabbatarian Adventism
• Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army
• William Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army
• Frank Buchman, founder of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament
• Aleister Crowley, founder of Thelema
• Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science
• Finis Ewing, co-founder of the Cumberland Presbyterian movement
• Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church
• Charles Grandison Finney, co-founder of the Revivalist movement
• Samuel King, co-founder of the Cumberland Presbyterian movement
• Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church
• Ernest Holmes, founder of the Religious Science movement
• Reb Nachman Horodenker, of Breslav founder of Breslav Hasidic Judaism
• L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology
• Lars Levi Læstadius, founder of Læstadianism
• Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and the LaVeyian Satanism movement
• Felix Y. Manalo, founder of the Iglesia ni Cristo
• Samuel McAdow, co-founder of the Cumberland Presbyterian movement
• Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Foursquare Gospel movement
• William Miller, founder of the Adventist/Millerite movement
• Rabbi Alfred G. Moses, founder of the Jewish Science movement
• Charles Fox Parham, co-founder of Pentecostalism
• Phineas Quimby, founder of the New Thought movement
• Isabelo de los Reyes, founder of the Philippine Independent Church
• Benjamin Roden, founder of the Branch Davidians
• Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Students movement and the Jehovah's Witnesses
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, founder of Ananda Marga
• Gene Savoy, founder of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent
• Johan Oscar Smith, founder of Brunstad Christian Church
• Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Barton W. Stone, co-founder of the Restoration movement
• Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church
• Ellen G. White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventists
• James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventists
• George Wigram, co-founder of the Plymouth Brethren movement
• Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism

Founders to Add

This list is incomplete. Please help by adding to it.

• Frederick Adams, founder of Feraferia
• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
• Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
• J. N. Andrews, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventists
• Shoko Asahara, founder of Aum Shinrikyo
• Joseph Bates, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventists
• Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, founder of Ásatrúarfélagið/Ásatrú Fellowship
• David Berg, founder of The Family International
• Gleb Botkin, founder of the Church of Aphrodite
• Alexander Campbell, co-founder of the Restoration movement
• Thomas Campbell, co-founder of the Restoration movement
• Choe Je-u (Choi Jae-Woo), founder of Donghak/Cheondoism
• James Hal Cone, co-founder of the Black liberation theology movement
• Malinda Cramer, founder of the Church of Divine Science
• Josemaria Escriva, founder of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei
• Gerald Gardner, founder of the modern Wicca movement
• Michael Harner, founder of Core Shamanism
• Max Heindel, founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship
• Samuel E. Hill, co-founder of the Gideons International
• Franciszek Hodur, founder of the Polish National Catholic Church
• Victor Houteff, founder of Shepherd's Rod
• William Irvine, founder of the Two-by-Twos/Testimony movement
• Allan Kardec (born Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail), founder of the organized Spiritism movement
• George King, founder of the Aetherius Society
• Alice Lakwena, founder of the Holy Spirit Movement
• Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong
• Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam
• Benjamin Wills Newton, co-founder of the Plymouth Brethren movement
• John H. Nicholson, co-founder of the Gideons International
• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
• George Rapp (born Johann Georg Rapp), founder of the Harmonist movement and the Harmony Society
• Moishe Rosen, founder of Jews for Jesus
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, founder of the Liberal Christianity movement
• Francis Schuckardt, co-founder of the Sedevacantist movement
• William J. Seymour, co-founder of Pentecostalism
• Isaiah Shembe, founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church
• Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, founder of the Subud movement
• John Robert Stevens, founder of the Living Word Fellowship
• Nathaniel William Taylor, founder of the New Haven Theology movement
• Dr. John Thomas, founder of the Christadelphian movement
• Stewart Traill, founder of the Church of Bible Understanding
• Paul Twitchell, founder of Eckankar
• Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raëlism