New Religious Movements

Question 1

Sect

Answer 1

• A group breaking away from existing institutionalized religion, often with intent to restore the practice to its original purity

Question 2

Cult

Answer 2

• Original meant worship or religion

Question 3

Features of a cult

Answer 3

• Claims of special knowledge
• new interpretation of old scripture, revelation from contact with spirits or aliens
• ## Leader who demands extreme loyalty

Question 4

Millenarianism

Answer 4

Belief that the current world order is coming to an end.

Question 5

Soka Gakkai

Answer 5

• fascist
• 12 million people
• Nichiren Buddhist movement
• founded in 1930
• goals: peace, justice, social harmony, nuclear disarmament

Question 6

International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Answer 6

• Est. 1966.
• Reverance of Krishna Gopala as Supreme Godhead
• ## core beliefs are on select Indian scriptures (Bhagavad-gita)

Question 7

Latter-day Saints (Mormons)

Answer 7

• 1830
• Joseph Smith
• Pearl of Great Price
• Doctrine and Covenants (epistles)
• Schism : Traditionalists and Reorganized Church of Latter day saints

Question 8

Baha’i

Answer 8

Developed out of Islam

Question 9

Wicca

Answer 9

post world ward

Question 10

The New Age

Answer 10

• Consciousness revolution of the 1960s
• claim that God is in all things and evil is a fabrication of the mind
• Awakening to this reality cures illness and unleashes full potential