Editing Organizations

'''Organizations''' is a curated index of groups that Cultopedia currently tracks.

Cultopedia imports Wikipedia entries of organizations which, at least by some, have been indicated to be a cult or a sect. This page is intentionally selective and is meant to give a quick overview of the organizations currently included in the project.

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! Organization
! Founded
! Status
! Founder
! Current leader
! Current name
|-
| [["I AM" Activity]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[3HO]]
| 1969
| Active
| [[Yogi Bhajan]]
| 
| 
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| [[Adidam]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Aetherius Society]]
| 1955
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[African Theological Archministry]]
| 1970
| Active
| 
| [[Oba Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II]]
| 
|-
| [[Agapemonites]]
| 1846
| Closed 1956
| Henry Prince
| 
| 
|-
| [[Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light]]
| 
| Active
| [[Abdullah Hashem]]
| [[Abdullah Hashem]]
| The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light
|-
| [[Alamo Christian Foundation]]
| 
| Active
| Tony Alamo, Susan Alamo
| 
| 
|-
| [[All Ranges Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[AllatRa]]
| 2014
| Active
| AllatRa LLC
| [[Igor Danilov]]
| 
|-
| [[Amica Temple of Radiance]]
| 1959
| Unknown
| Roland T. Hunt, Dorothy Bailey
| 
| 
|-
| [[Amnesty International]]
| 
| Active
| [[Peter Benenson]], [[Eric Baker (activist)]], [[Seán MacBride]]
| [[Agnès Callamard]]
| 
|-
| [[Ananda Marga]]
| 
| Active
| [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]]
| [[Purodhā Pramukha]]
| Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Saḿgha
|-
| [[Ancient British Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Ancient Teachings of the Masters]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
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| [[Ant Hill Kids]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Antoinism]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Louis Antoine]]
| 
|-
| [[Antrovis]]
| 
| Closed 1994
| Edward Mielnik
| 
| 
|-
| [[Apostles of Infinite Love]]
| 
| Active
| Michel Collin
| [[Michel Collin]]
| 
|-
| [[Ashram Shambala]]
| 
| Unknown
| Konstantin Rudnev
| 
| 
|-
| [[Ashtar Galactic Command]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Assembly of God Bethlehem Ministry]]
| 2018
| Active
| Honório Pinto
| [[Honório Pinto]]
| Assembly of God of Belém Pará, Brazil
|-
| [[Atman Foundation]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Heide Fittkau-Garthe]]
| 
|-
| [[Aum Shinrikyo]]
| 
| Active, split successors
| [[Shoko Asahara]]
| No single leader
| 
|-
| [[Ausar Auset Society]]
| 1973
| Active
| 
| [[Ra Un Nefer Amen]]
| 
|-
| [[Bana'im]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Bethel Church, Mansfield Woodhouse]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
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|-
| [[Brahma Kumaris]]
| 
| Active
| [[Lekhraj Kripalani]]
| [[Lekhraj Kripalani]]
| 
|-
| [[Branch Davidians]]
| 
| Active, fragmented
| [[Benjamin Roden]]
| [[Trent Wilde]] ''(one continuing group)''
| 
|-
| [[British New Church Movement]]
| 
| Active
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| 
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| [[Brother Stair]]
| 
| Active
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| 
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| [[Brotherhood of the Cross and Star]]
| 
| Active
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| 
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| [[Bruderhof Communities]]
| 
| Active
| [[Eberhard Arnold]]
| 
| Bruderhof
|-
| [[Buddhafield (religious movement)]]
| 
| Active
| Jaime Gomez (also known as Michel Rostan)
| [[Jaime Gomez (also known as Michel Rostan)]]
| Buddhafield
|-
| [[California Institute of Integral Studies]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Brock Blomberg]]
| 
|-
| [[Camisards]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[CEIRUS]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Celestial Church of Christ]]
| 1947
| Unknown
| [[Samuel Oshoffa]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Chapel of Russia's Resurrection]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Charismatic movement]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Chen Tao (UFO religion)]]
| 1996
| Active
| Hon-Ming Chen (陳恆明)
| [[Hon-Ming Chen (陳恆明)]]
| Chen Tao
|-
| [[Cherubim and Seraphim Society]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Christ Apostolic Church]]
| 1918
| Active
| Pastor Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Pastor David O. Odubanjo, Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola
| [[Pastor S.O Oladele]]
| 
|-
| [[Christ Brotherhood]]
| 1956
| Active
| Wallace C. Halsey
| [[Wallace C. Halsey]]
| 
|-
| [[Christ Heart Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
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| [[Christian fundamentalism]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Christian Science]]
| 
| Active
| [[Mary Baker Eddy]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Church Body of Christ – Filipinista]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
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| [[Church of Almighty God]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Church of Bible Understanding]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Church of Body Modification]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Church of Cognizance]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Church of Euthanasia]]
| 1992
| Active
| [[Chris Korda]]
| [[Chris Korda]]
| 
|-
| [[Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International]]
| 1972
| Active
| [[Luis Eduardo Moreno]], [[María Luisa Piraquive]]
| [[María Luisa Piraquive]]
| Church of God, Ministry of Jesus Christ International
|-
| [[Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Church of Hakeem]]
| 1977
| Active
| 
| [[Hakeem Abdul Rasheed]]
| 
|-
| [[Church of Satan]]
| 1966
| Active
| [[Anton Szandor LaVey]]
| [[Peter H. Gilmore]]
| 
|-
| [[Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Church of the Firstborn (Morrisite)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Church of the Guanche People]]
| 2001
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Church of the Living Word]]
| 1951
| Active
| 
| [[John Robert Stevens]]
| The Living Word Fellowship
|-
| [[Church of the Lord (Aladura)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
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| [[Church of the Universe]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
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|-
| [[Church of Wells]]
| 2011
| Active
| 
| [[Ryan Ringnald]]
| 
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| [[Church Universal and Triumphant]]
| 1975
| Unknown
| 
| 
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| [[Colonia Dignidad]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Community of the Lady of All Nations]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
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| [[Concerned Christians]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Cosmic Circle of Fellowship]]
| 1954
| Unknown
| [[William R. Ferguson]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Cosmon Research Foundation]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Cultural Office of Cluny]]
| 1963
| Active
| Olivier Fenoy
| [[Olivier Fenoy]]
| 
|-
| [[Dami Mission]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Destiny Church (New Zealand)]]
| 
| Active
| [[Brian Tamaki]], [[Hannah Tamaki]]
| 
| Destiny Church
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| [[Divine Immortality Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Divine Light Mission]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Divine Truth]]
| 2007
| Active
| Alan John Miller (known as "AJ" and "Jesus")
| [[Alan John Miller (known as "AJ")]]
| 
|-
| [[Dulcinians]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Dwell Community Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Dōkai]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Eckankar]]
| 1965
| Active
| [[Paul Twitchell]]
| [[Doug Kunin]]
| 
|-
| [[Edelweiss (organization)]]
| 1970
| Closed 1984
| Eduardo González Arenas
| 
| 
|-
| [[Eden Community]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Educo]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Elan Vital (organization)]]
| 1971
| Active
| 
| [[Prem Rawat]]
| Elan Vital
|-
| [[Emin (esoteric movement)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Energo-Chromo-Kinese]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
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| [[Eranos Foundation]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Erhard Seminars Training]]
| 1971
| Closed 1984
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Esalen Institute]]
| 1962
| Active
| [[Michael Murphy (author)]], [[Dick Price]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Eschatology (religious movement)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant]]
| 1968
| Active
| [[Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal]]
| [[Jonás Ataucusi Molina]]
| 
|-
| [[Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Evangelical Orthodox Church]]
| 1979
| Active
| [[Peter E. Gillquist]]
| [[Jerold Gliege]]
| 
|-
| [[Exegesis (group)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Falun Buddha Society (Singapore)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Falun Gong]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Family Radio]]
| 1959
| Active
| [[Richard H. Palmquist]], [[Harold Camping]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Federation of Damanhur]]
| 1975
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Fellowship of Friends]]
| 1970
| Active
| Robert Earl Burton
| [[Robert Earl Burton]]
| 
|-
| [[Fellowship of Isis]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Fiat Lux (UFO religion)]]
| 1980
| Active
| Erika Bertschinger-Eicke
| [[Erika Bertschinger-Eicke]]
| 
|-
| [[Findhorn Foundation]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| Findhorn Foundation and Community
|-
| [[Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas]]
| 1908
| Active
| Benjamin Hardin Irwin and Bishop William Edward Fuller Sr.
| [[Bishop Patrick L. Frazier Jr]]
| 
|-
| [[First Cannabis Church of Logic and Reason]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[First Church of Cannabis]]
| 2015
| Active
| Bill "Grand Poobah" Levin
| [[Bill Levin]]
| 
|-
| [[Five-Percent Nation]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Fort Hill Community]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Fourth Great Awakening]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Friends of Man]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Warren Jeffs]]
| FLDS Church
|-
| [[George Adamski Foundation]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Global Harvest Ministries]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Gloriavale Christian Community]]
| 
| Active
| Neville Cooper
| [[Neville Cooper]]
| 
|-
| [[God Light Association]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Good News International Ministries]]
| 2003
| Closed 2019
| Paul Nthenge Mackenzie
| 
| 
|-
| [[Good News Mission]]
| 1972
| Active
| [[Ock Soo Park]]
| [[Ock Soo Park]]
| 
|-
| [[Gospel Assembly Churches]]
| 1914
| Active
| William Sowders
| [[William Sowders]]
| 
|-
| [[Grace Road Church]]
| 2002
| Active
| Shin Ok-ju
| [[Shin Ok-ju]]
| 
|-
| [[Greater Grace World Outreach]]
| 1973
| Active
| [[Carl H. Stevens Jr.]]
| [[Thomas Schaller (Chair, Board of Elders)]]
| 
|-
| [[Greenpeace]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Ground Crew Project]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Gruppo del Rosario]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Guanyin Famen]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Haizidao]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Hanau sect]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Happy Science]]
| 1986
| Active
| [[Ryuho Okawa]]
| 
| Happy Science 幸福の科学
|-
| [[Harmony Society]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]]
| 1974
| Defunct
| [[Marshall Applewhite]], [[Bonnie Nettles]]
| None
| 
|-
| [[Ho No Hana]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Holy Ecclesia of Jesus]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Holy Ghost Church of East Africa]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Holy Order of MANS]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Holy Spirit Movement]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[House of Israel (Guyana)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[House of Prayer Christian Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[House of Yahweh]]
| 1980
| Active
| Yisrayl Hawkins
| 
| 
|-
| [[Hutaree]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[David Brian Stone Sr]]
| 
|-
| [[IFCA International]]
| 1930
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Iglesia Watawat ng Lahi]]
| 1936
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Inochentism]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Insight Seminars]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[International Center of Parapsychology and Scientific Research of the New Age]]
| 1989
| Active
| 
| [[Marie-Thérèse Castano]]
| International Center of Parapsychology and the Scientific Research of the New Age
|-
| [[International Church of Cannabis]]
| 2017
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[International Churches of Christ]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[International Committee of the Red Cross]]
| 1863
| Active
| [[Henry Dunant]]
| [[Mirjana Spoljaric Egger]]
| 
|-
| [[International Community of Christ]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]]
| 1966
| Active
| [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]]
| [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]]
| 
|-
| [[Invitation to Life]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Yvonne Trubert]]
| 
|-
| [[Iriadamant]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Japan Ecclesia of Christ]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
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| [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]
| 
| Active
| [[Charles Taze Russell]], [[Joseph Franklin Rutherford]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Jesus Army]]
| 1969
| Active
| [[Noel Stanton]]
| 
| Jesus Fellowship Church
|-
| [[Jesus Christians]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Joshua Media Ministries]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Jurisdavidism]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Kabbalah Centre]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[Philip Berg]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Kalki Avatar Foundation]]
| 2000
| Active
| 
| [[Younus AlGohar]]
| 
|-
| [[Kartanoism]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Kashi Ashram]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Kashi Church Foundation]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Kerista]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Kimbanguism]]
| 1921
| Active
| [[Simon Kimbangu]]
| [[Simon Kimbangu Kiangani]]
| 
|-
| [[Kingdom of Jesus Christ (church)]]
| 1985
| Active
| [[Apollo Quiboloy]]
| 
| Kingdom of Jesus Christ,, The Name Above Every Name
|-
| [[La Luz del Mundo]]
| 1926
| Active
| Aarón Joaquín González
| [[Naasón Joaquín García]]
| Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, The Light of the World
|-
| [[Landmark Worldwide]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Michael Leavitt]]
| Landmark Worldwide LLC
|-
| [[Latter Day Saint movement]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Laymen's Home Missionary Movement]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Legio Maria]]
| 1961
| Active
| 
| [[Baba Simeo Lodvikus Melkio Ondetto]]
| 
|-
| [[Licht-Oase]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Life Word Mission]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Lifespring]]
| 1974
| Closed
| John Hanley Sr.
| 
| 
|-
| [[Lily Dale Spiritualist Assembly]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Lindisfarne Association]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Living Church of God]]
| 1998
| Active
| Roderick C. Meredith
| [[Gerald E. Weston]]
| 
|-
| [[Living Enrichment Center]]
| 
| Unknown
| Mary Manin Boggs (Morrissey), and Haven Boggs
| 
| 
|-
| [[Living Word Fellowship]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Lokhimon]]
| 1959
| Active
| Kurusar Lokhon Engti Hensek
| [[Kurusar Lokhon Engti Hensek]]
| 
|-
| [[Lord Our Righteousness Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Love Family]]
| 
| Active
| Paul Erdmann aka Love Israel
| [[Paul Erdmann aka Love Israel]]
| 
|-
| [[Love Has Won]]
| 
| Active
| [[Amy Carlson (religious leader)]]
| [[Amy Carlson (religious leader)]]
| 
|-
| [[Lumpa Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Magarites]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Maharishi International University]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Makuya]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Mama Tata]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Manson Family]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Maná Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Maranatha Campus Ministries]]
| 1971
| Active
| 
| [[Bob Weiner]]
| 
|-
| [[Mark-Age]]
| 1962
| Unknown
| Pauline Sharpe and Charles Boyd Gentzel
| 
| 
|-
| [[Mentuhui]]
| 1989
| Active
| Ji Sanbao
| [[Ji Sanbao]]
| Three-Redemptive Christ
|-
| [[Messiah Foundation International]]
| 2002
| Active
| 
| [[Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi]]
| 
|-
| [[Messianic Judaism]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Methernitha]]
| 1960
| Active
| Paul Baumann
| [[Paul Baumann]]
| 
|-
| [[Metropolitan Community Church]]
| 1968
| Active
| [[Troy Perry]]
| [[Cecilia Eggleston]]
| 
|-
| [[Mind Dynamics]]
| 1968
| Closed 1973
| [[Alexander Everett]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Miracle of Love]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Mission of the Holy Spirit]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Missionary Church of Kopimism]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Modekngei]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Monastic Order of Avallon]]
| 1970
| Active
| Henri Hillion
| [[Henri Hillion]]
| 
|-
| [[Moorish Orthodox Church of America]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Mormonism]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God]]
| 1989
| Closed 2000
| [[Credonia Mwerinde]], [[Joseph Kibweteere]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness]]
| 1968
| Active
| [[John-Roger Hinkins]]
| [[John Morton]]
| 
|-
| [[Nation of Islam]]
| 1930
| Active
| [[Wallace Fard Muhammad]]
| [[Louis Farrakhan]]
| 
|-
| [[Nation of Yahweh]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Nemenhah]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Neo-American Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Neo-Luciferian Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Neu-Salems-Gesellschaft]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[New Acropolis]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[New Forest Shakers]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[New Israelites]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[New Kadampa Tradition]]
| 1991
| Active
| [[Kelsang Gyatso]]
| [[Gen-la Kelsang Dekyong]]
| New Kadampa Tradition, International Kadampa Buddhist Union
|-
| [[New Message from God]]
| 1992
| Active
| [[Marshall Vian Summers]]
| [[Marshall Vian Summers]]
| The New Message from God
|-
| [[New Testament Church (Hong Kong)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Elijah Hong]]
| 
|-
| [[New World Alliance]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Niscience]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Nova Religio]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Nuwaubian Nation]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[NXIVM]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| NXIVM Corporation
|-
| [[Néo-Phare]]
| 
| Active
| Arnaud Mussy
| [[Arnaud Mussy]]
| 
|-
| [[Okinawa Christian Gospel]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Olive Tree (religious movement)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[One World Family Commune]]
| 1967
| Active
| Allen Noonan
| [[Allen Noonan]]
| 
|-
| [[Oneness Movement]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Open Brethren]]
| 1848
| Active
| [[George Müller]]
| 
| Open Brethren, (Christian Brethren)
|-
| [[Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Order of Nine Angles]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Order of the Solar Temple]]
| 1984
| Defunct
| [[Joseph Di Mambro]], [[Luc Jouret]]
| None
| 
|-
| [[Palmarian Catholic Church]]
| 1978
| Active
| [[Jesus Christ]], [[Clemente Domínguez y Gómez]]
| [[Joseph Odermatt]]
| 
|-
| [[Pana Wave]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[People Unlimited]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Peoples Temple]]
| 1955
| Defunct
| Jim Jones
| None
| 
|-
| [[Phare-Ouest]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association]]
| 
| Active
| [[Ruben Ecleo Sr.]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Pilgrims of Arès]]
| 1974
| Active
| Michel Potay
| [[Michel Potay]]
| 
|-
| [[Plymouth Brethren Christian Church]]
| 1848
| Active
| [[John Nelson Darby]]
| [[Bruce Hales]]
| 
|-
| [[Potter's House Christian Fellowship]]
| 1970
| Active
| Wayman O. Mitchell
| [[Wayman O. Mitchell]]
| 
|-
| [[Process Church of the Final Judgement]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Providence (religious movement)]]
| 1980
| Active
| [[Jung Myung-seok]]
| [[Jung Myung-seok]]
| Christian Gospel Mission, , Providence
|-
| [[Pró-Vida]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Puissance spirituelle du verbe]]
| 
| Active
| Bavua Ntinu Decantor Andrew
| [[Bavua Ntinu Decantor Andrew]]
| 
|-
| [[Radio Church of God]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Raelian movement]]
| 
| Active
| [[Raël]]
| [[Raël]]
| Raëlism
|-
| [[Rajneesh movement]]
| 
| Active
| [[Rajneesh]]
| No single leader
| Osho movement / Osho International Foundation
|-
| [[Ramtha's School of Enlightenment]]
| 1988
| Active
| [[J. Z. Knight]]
| [[J. Z. Knight]]
| 
|-
| [[Rational Culture]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Reborn in Christ Church]]
| 1986
| Active
| Estevam Hernandes and Sonia Hernandes
| [[Estevam Hernandes]]
| 
|-
| [[Remnant Fellowship]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Renewed Order of the Temple]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[Raymond Bernard (esotericist)]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Restored Church of God]]
| 1999
| Active
| David C. Pack
| [[David C. Pack]]
| 
|-
| [[River Road Fellowship]]
| 
| Closed 2014
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Rod of Iron Ministries]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Rosicrucian Fellowship]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Rotary International]]
| 1905
| Active
| [[Paul P. Harris]]
| [[Paul P. Harris]]
| 
|-
| [[Sabbateans]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sacrament of Transition]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sahaja Yoga]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Salvation Sect]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sanban Puren Pai]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sanctuary of Thought]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[School of Economic Science]]
| 1938
| Active
| [[Leon MacLaren]]
| [[Leon MacLaren]]
| School of Philosophy and Economic Science
|-
| [[Science of Identity Foundation]]
| 
| Active
| Chris Butler (aka Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa)
| [[Chris Butler (aka Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa)]]
| 
|-
| [[Scientology]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[David Miscavige]]
| [[Church of Scientology]]
|-
| [[Sekta Niebo]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Shakers]]
| 
| Active
| [[Ann Lee]]
| 
| United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
|-
| [[Shambhala Training]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Share International]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Shiloh (Christian movement)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Shincheonji Church of Jesus]]
| 1984
| Active
| [[Lee Man-hee]]
| [[Lee Man-hee]]
| Shincheonji
|-
| [[Siderella]]
| 1966
| Active
| 
| [[Jean-Paul Appel]]
| 
|-
| [[Silver Sisterhood]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sky Kingdom]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[Ayah Pin]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Society of Guardians]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Soka Gakkai]]
| 1930
| Active
| [[Tsunesaburō Makiguchi]], [[Jōsei Toda]], [[Daisaku Ikeda]]
| [[Minoru Harada]]
| Sōka Gakkai
|-
| [[Soldiers of Heaven]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary (cult)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Juliano Verbard]]
| Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary
|-
| [[Spirit Church (China)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Spirit of Jesus Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram]]
| 1926
| Unknown
| [[Sri Aurobindo]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Rewa]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Staroizrail]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sukyo Mahikari]]
| 1978
| Active
| [[:ja:岡田恵珠]]
| [[Kōō Okada]]
| 
|-
| [[Summum]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sunburst (community)]]
| 1969
| Active
| 
| [[Patricia Paulsen]]
| Sunburst
|-
| [[Swedenborgianism]]
| 1787
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Swissindo]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Sword of Christ Good News Ministries]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Synanon]]
| 1958
| Closed 1991
| Charles Dederich Sr.
| 
| 
|-
| [[Tabernacle Temple Church]]
| 1966
| Closed 1980
| [[:ko:%EC%9C%A0%EC%9E%AC%EC%97%B4]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Tadtad]]
| 1972
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Takfir wal-Hijra]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Shukri Mustafa]]
| 
|-
| [[Temple of Set]]
| 1975
| Unknown
| [[Michael A. Aquino]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Temple of the Vampire]]
| 1989
| Unknown
| Anonymous
| 
| 
|-
| [[Temple of Zeus (organization)]]
| 
| Unknown
| Andrea Maxine Dietrich (1962-2020)
| 
| 
|-
| [[Templers (Radical Pietist sect)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[THC Ministry]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The African Church]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Brethren (Jim Roberts group)]]
| 1971
| Active
| [[Jimmie T. Roberts]]
| [[Jerry Williams]]
| Brethren , Body of Christ , Brothers and Sisters
|-
| [[The Bridge to Freedom]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Christian Community]]
| 
| Active
| [[Friedrich Rittelmeyer]]
| [[João Torunsky]]
| 
|-
| [[The Circle (sect)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Circle of Friends]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Family (Australian New Age group)]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Family International]]
| 1968
| Active
| [[David Brandt Berg]]
| [[Karen Zerby]]
| 
|-
| [[The Fellowship (Australia)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Finders (movement)]]
| 
| Active
| Marion Pettie
| [[Marion Pettie]]
| 
|-
| [[The Living Word Fellowship]]
| 1951
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Network (group of churches)]]
| 2006
| Active
| Steve Morgan
| [[Steve Morgan]]
| The Network
|-
| [[The Order of Christ Sophia]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Satanic Temple]]
| 2012
| Active
| [[Lucien Greaves]]
| [[Lucien Greaves]]
| 
|-
| [[The Seekers (rapturists)]]
| 1953
| Active
| Charles Laughead
| [[Dorothy Martin]]
| 
|-
| [[The Shouters]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[The Way International]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| The Way International Victor Paul Wierwille
|-
| [[Theta Noir]]
| 2020
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[True Buddha School]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[True Jesus Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[Paul Wei]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[True Russian Orthodox Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Twelve Tribes communities]]
| 1972
| Active
| Elbert "Gene" Spriggs
| [[Elbert "Gene" Spriggs]]
| Twelve Tribes
|-
| [[Twin Flames Universe]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Two by Twos]]
| 
| Active
| [[William Irvine (Scottish evangelist)]]
| 
| The Truth, Two by Twos
|-
| [[Tyrannus Apostolic Church]]
| 2000
| Active
| Simon Mokoena
| [[Simon Mokoena]]
| 
|-
| [[Unarius Academy of Science]]
| 1954
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Understanding, Inc.]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Unification Church]]
| 1954
| Active
| [[Sun Myung Moon]]
| [[Hak Ja Han]]
| Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
|-
| [[Unitarian Universalist Association]]
| 1961
| Active
| 
| [[Sofía Betancourt]]
| 
|-
| [[Universal Church of the Kingdom of God]]
| 1977
| Active
| Edir Macedo
| [[Edir Macedo]]
| 
|-
| [[Universal Life Church]]
| 1962
| Active
| [[Kirby J. Hensley]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Universal Medicine]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Universe People]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[University Bible Fellowship]]
| 
| Unknown
| Samuel Chang-Woo Lee, Sarah Barry
| 
| 
|-
| [[University of Cosmic Intelligence]]
| 
| Active
| 
| [[Rashad Jamal]]
| 
|-
| [[União do Vegetal]]
| 1961
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Unión Espiritista Cristiana de Filipinas, Inc.]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Urantia Foundation]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Valley of the Dawn]]
| 1969
| Active
| 
| [[Pai Seta Branca]]
| Vale do Amanhecer
|-
| [[Victory Altar]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Vigrid (Norway)]]
| 1998
| Active
| 
| [[Tore Tvedt]]
| Vigrid
|-
| [[Waking Down in Mutuality]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Way of the Future]]
| 2017
| Active
| [[Anthony Levandowski]]
| [[Anthony Levandowski]]
| 
|-
| [[Weixinism]]
| 
| Active
| Grand Master Hun Yuan (1944–2026)
| 
| 
|-
| [[Werner Erhard and Associates]]
| 1981
| Closed 1991
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[White Brotherhood (religious group)]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| 2003
| Active
| [[Jimmy Wales]]
| [[Bernadette Meehan]]
| Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
|-
| [[Word of Faith Fellowship]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Word of Life (Sweden)]]
| 1983
| Active
| 
| [[David Ekerbring]]
| Word of Life
|-
| [[World Divine Light]]
| 1963
| Active
| [[:ja:関口榮]]
| [[Katsutoshi Sekiguchi]]
| 
|-
| [[World Elijah Evangelical Mission]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[World Mission Society Church of God]]
| 
| Active
| [[Ahn Sahng-hong]]
| [[Kim Joo-Cheol]]
| World Mission Society Church of God, 하나님의교회 세계복음선교협회
|-
| [[Worldwide Church of God]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Wotansvolk]]
| 
| Unknown
| [[David Lane (white supremacist)]]
| 
| 
|-
| [[Yehowists]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Zendik Farm]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Zhong Gong]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Zion Christian Church]]
| 
| Unknown
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Zizians]]
| 
| Active
| 
| 
| 
|}

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