Founders Of New Religious Movements
30 entries in the Founders Of New Religious Movements compendium.
L. Ron HubbardAmerican author who founded the Church of Scientology.Joseph SmithFounder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.Mary Baker EddyFounder of Christian Science and The Church of Christ, Scientist.Charles Taze RussellFounder of the Bible Student movement and Watch Tower Society.Marshall ApplewhiteFounder of Heaven's Gate who led a mass suicide.Heinrich KramerDominican inquisitor whose Malleus Maleficarum fueled early modern witch hunts.James S. WhiteCo-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and pioneering publisher.Joseph Franklin RutherfordSecond president of the Watch Tower Society and key organizer of Jehovah's Witnesses.John Flynn (minister)Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service.John G. LakeCanadian-American Pentecostal leader and missionary to South Africa.John MottAmerican evangelist and Nobel Peace Prize winner for ecumenical peace work.Leonard HowellEarly Rastafari preacher who proclaimed Haile Selassie divine.Li HongzhiFounder of Falun Gong, a US-based new religious movement.Louis FarrakhanAmerican religious leader and head of the Nation of Islam.Marie LaveauLouisiana Creole Voodoo priestess, herbalist, and midwife.Kimpa VitaKongolese prophetess who led the Antonian Christian movement.Mani (prophet)Iranian prophet who founded the dualistic religion Manichaeism.Marcion of SinopeEarly Christian theologian who proposed a distinct God of the New Testament.Meister EckhartGerman Dominican mystic and theologian accused of heresy.Mother TeresaAlbanian-Indian nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity.Padre PioItalian Capuchin friar known for stigmata and mystical phenomena.Pierre Teilhard de ChardinJesuit priest and paleontologist who integrated evolution with Christian mysticism.Pierre-Jean De SmetFlemish Jesuit missionary who traveled 180,000 miles among Native peoples.Sathya Sai BabaIndian godman who claimed to be Shirdi Sai Baba's reincarnation.Shri RamakrishnaIndian Hindu mystic who taught the unity of all religions.Sri AurobindoIndian philosopher, yogi, and nationalist who formulated Integral Yoga.Swami VivekanandaIndian Hindu monk who introduced Vedanta and Yoga to the West.Teresa of AvilaCarmelite nun, mystic, and reformer of the Carmelite orders.Thomas MertonTrappist monk, writer, and advocate for interfaith understanding.Zhu XiNeo-Confucian philosopher whose works shaped East Asian state ideology.
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