Organizations: Difference between revisions

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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.

Organization	Status	Current name	Current leader
Aum Shinrikyo	Active, split successors	Aleph / other successor groups	No single leader
Branch Davidians	Active, fragmented	Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists and related claimant groups	Trent Wilde (one continuing group)
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	Active	FLDS Church	Warren Jeffs
Heaven's Gate	Defunct	Heaven's Gate	None
Order of the Solar Temple	Defunct	Order of the Solar Temple	None
Peoples Temple	Defunct	Peoples Temple	None
Rajneesh movement	Active	Osho movement / Osho International Foundation	No single leader
Scientology	Active	Church of Scientology	David Miscavige
The Family International	Active	The Family International	Karen Zerby
Unification Church	Active	Family Federation for World Peace and Unification	Hak Ja Han

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-'''Organizations''' is a curated index of the groups Cultopedia is currently tracking.
+'''Organizations''' is a curated index of groups that Cultopedia currently tracks.
-This list is intentionally narrower than Wikipedia. It focuses on organizations that are themselves central to the study of cults, sects, coercive systems, and related abusive structures. It does '''not''' aim to include every adjacent member, affiliate, celebrity connection, or tangential subtopic.
+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.
-This page is part of Cultopedia's curation layer. Over time, monthly rebuilds can refresh the underlying Wikipedia-based content while keeping this scoped list stable and intentional.
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+! Organization
-== Current focus ==
+! Status
-* [[Scientology]]
+! Current name
-* [[Aum Shinrikyo]]
+! Current leader
-* [[Branch Davidians]]
+|-
-* [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]]
+| [[Aum Shinrikyo]]
-* [[Order of the Solar Temple]]
+| Active, split successors
-* [[Peoples Temple]]
+| Aleph / other successor groups
-* [[Rajneesh movement]]
+| No single leader
-* [[Unification Church]]
+|-
-* [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]]
+| [[Branch Davidians]]
-* [[The Family International]]
+| Active, fragmented
+| Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists and related claimant groups
-== Scope notes ==
+| [[Trent Wilde]] ''(one continuing group)''
-* Include organizations that are themselves major target topics for Cultopedia.
+|-
-* Exclude peripheral people, general pop-culture overlap, and broad fan-out branches unless they become central to the project.
+| [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]]
-* Use this page as a starting list for future monthly review and expansion.
+| Active
+| FLDS Church
+| [[Warren Jeffs]]
+|-
+| [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]]
+| Defunct
+| Heaven's Gate
+| None
+|-
+| [[Order of the Solar Temple]]
+| Defunct
+| Order of the Solar Temple
+| None
+|-
+| [[Peoples Temple]]
+| Defunct
+| Peoples Temple
+| None
+|-
+| [[Rajneesh movement]]
+| Active
+| Osho movement / Osho International Foundation
+| No single leader
+|-
+| [[Scientology]]
+| Active
+| [[Church of Scientology]]
+| [[David Miscavige]]
+|-
+| [[The Family International]]
+| Active
+| The Family International
+| [[Karen Zerby]]
+|-
+| [[Unification Church]]
+| Active
+| Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
+| [[Hak Ja Han]]
+|}
 == Related pages ==
 * [[Leaders]]
 * [[Main Page]]