Internet Links
NRMs, Religions, Sects, and Cults
General sites
Cults - Quartz Hill School of Theology
Links to New Religious Movements Resources
Christadelphians
Christadelphians
Christadelphians - Philtar site
Eckankar
Eckankar - Religion of the Light and Sound of God
Eckankar - Virginia Commonwealth University
ISKCON
ISKCON site
About ISKCON
ISKCON - Philtar site
ISKCON - Virginia Commonwealth University
New Age
New Age - Philtar site
Scientology
Scientology main website
Scientology - Virginia Commonwealth University
Swedenborgianism
The New Church - Swedenborgian
The Heavenly Doctrines of Swedenborg
Swedenborgianism - Philtar site
Swedenborg Foundation
Theosophy
Ascension Research Center - The Ascension Research Center is an independent student effort to explore some of the teachings released by the Ascended Masters and their Messengers over the last 121 years, through the Theosophical Society, the I AM Activity, the Bridge to Freedom (1952-1961), The Summit Lighthouse and the Church Universal and Triumphant
Theosophy Library Online
Theosophy Library Online
Blavatsky Net- use links at left-hand of Web Page to access parts of the site
Who Was Madame Blavatsky - Blavatsky Net
Theosophy - Eastern Perspective - Philtar site
Theosophy - Western Perspective - Philtar site
Theosophy - Sacred Texts Site
The Theosophical Society - use links at left-hand of Web Page to access parts of the site
The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky - Introduction
Theosophy - Theosophy site - Page of Links to articles on Theosophy
Theosophical Publications - Theosophy site - Page of Links
Theosophical Manuals - Theosophy site - Page of Links
The Secret Doctrine - Theosophy site - Page of Links
Theosophical perspectives on world spiritual traditions - Theosophy site - Page of Links
Unification Church
The Family Federation - official site
Unification Church - Virginia Commonwealth University
Smaller Groups
There are many smaller religious groups. Some of them are quite difficult to classify, as they tend to be eclectic (taking ideas and practices from several religions). Some of the main influences tend to be : Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, paganism, magic, UFO cults, science fiction
At one time the University of Virginia had a great "Religious Movements" site with information on several hundred groups. However, the organizer of the site died, and the site was hacked. It is still available in an archived form at
http://web.archive.org/web/20061006222536/http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/
That url will get one into the directory of files for the site, and from there one just has to troll through the site and pick out whatever files one wants.
The faculty of the Virginia Commonwealth University are building a new site, and putting up other pages, at
http://www.wrs.vcu.edu/profiles.htm
Group pages on the Virginia Commonwealth University site :
Adidam ::
Aetherius Society ::
Ammachi ::
Ananda Marga ::
Anthroposophy (Rudolph Steiner) ::
The Army of Mary ::
Association for Research and Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce) ::
Aum Shinriko ::
Branch Davidians part 1 ::
Branch Davidians part 2 ::
Caodaism ::
Chen Tao ::
Chondogyo ::
Church Universal and Triumphant ::
Discordianism ::
Elan Vital ::
Falun Gong ::
The Family International (Children of God) ::
Father Divine ::
Feng Shui ::
General Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgianism) ::
Growing in Grace ::
Gurdjieff ::
Happy, Healthy, Holy - 3HO ::
Heaven's Gate ::
Holy Apostolic Catholic Palmarian Church ::
Holy Order of MANS ::
Integral Yoga ::
International Raelian Movement ::
John of God ::
King of Salem ::
League for Spiritual Discovery ::
Lifespring ::
Mexican-US Catholic Apostolic Traditional Church - Iglesia Apostolica Catolica Tradicional-Estados Unidos ::
Missionary Church of Kopimism ::
Moorish Science Temple of America ::
Movement for the Restoration of the Twelve Commandments of God ::
MSIA - Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness ::
Nation of Islam ::
Nation of Yaweh ::
Osho ::
Peoples' Temple ::
Phoenix Goddess Temple ::
The Process Church of the Final Judgment ::
Santa Muerte ::
Sathya Sai Baba ::
Self-Realizarion Fellowship ::
Silva Method ::
Sri Chinmoy ::
Sukyo Mahikari ::
Suma Ching Hai ::
Transcendental Meditation ::
The Twelve Tribes ::
Unarius ::
UDV - Uniao do Vegetal ::
Universal Life Church - this one "ordains" anyone over the InterNet. They used to do it for free - now they charge money ::
Urantia Brotherhood ::
Be careful when trolling the InterNet - there are some very strange sites out there. There are also many very good informative ones.
I hope that my students will develop the ability to distinguish a good factual presentation from one which is merely someone's opinion and personal agenda.
When writing, be very careful to cite your sources, and try to put things into your own words, rather than just copy and paste from a web page.
Copyright © 1999 Shirley J. Rollinson, all Rights Reserved
