Home›Sources›New Religions: A Guide, New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative SpiritualitiesSourcesNew Religions: A Guide, New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative SpiritualitiesCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "New Religions: A Guide, New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/new-religions-a-guide-new-religious-movements-sects-and-alternative-spiritualities.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). New Religions: A Guide, New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/new-religions-a-guide-new-religious-movements-sects-and-alternative-spiritualitiesCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-new-religions-a-guide-new-religious-move, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {New Religions: A Guide, New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/new-religions-a-guide-new-religious-movements-sects-and-alternative-spiritualities}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXChristopher Partridge's edited guide surveys new religious movements including Spiritism, Cao Dai, Tenrikyo, Cheondoism and Eckankar, with named contributors addressing each movement from documented scholarly research into that specific movement rather than one editor summarizing all of them secondhand. That direct, movement-by-movement specialist treatment is the guide's real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly disagreement with any specific chapter's claims. Use it for established scholarly facts about a specific new religious movement a chapter directly addresses; a movement not covered in depth by this guide needs a dedicated source of its own.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (275 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Christopher Partridge's edited guide surveying new religious movements, with named contributors addressing each movement, such as Spiritism, Cao Dai, Tenrikyo, Cheondoism and Eckankar, from documented scholarly research into that specific movement rather than one editor summarizing all of them secondhand.NotesWell-attestedScholarly survey of new religious movements; the reference used here for Spiritism, Cao Dai, Tenrikyo, Cheondoism and Eckankar.CitationAuthorWell-attestedChristopher Partridge (ed.)PublisherWell-attestedOxford University PressPublication YearWell-attested2004Source TypeWell-attestedreferenceClaims Backed By This Source (275 claims)This source backs 275 claims across the atlas. As facts: 205 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 21 holds, 2 connected. Plus 46 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicArticles, 92 claims: 88 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.Prayers, 62 claims: 31 well-attested, 3 holds, 28 general references.Religions, 48 claims: 36 well-attested, 5 holds, 7 general references.Historical Figures, 44 claims: 33 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 6 holds, 4 general references.New Religious Movements, 12 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Years, 4 claims: 2 holds, 2 general references.Secret Societies, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.Hymns & Liturgical Texts, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Practices, 1 claims: 1 holds.Well-attested205Articles1894, and What a Peasant War Was AboutA Body on LoanA Book of Shadows Is Not a Published Prayer BookA Chant Meant to Open Inner PerceptionA Codified Prayer Still in Daily UseA Codified Religion, Beyond the Two Prayers Already CataloguedA Doctrine Carried in Questions and AnswersA Founding Text Still Under CopyrightA Korean Faith Born Out of ResistanceA Living Institution with Its Own Published CanonA London Taxi Driver Hears a Voice From SpaceA Modern Name for an Old AmbitionA Modern Religion of Light and SoundA Movement Defined by Its Lack of a Single DefinitionA Movement That Began with Two Sisters and Some Knocking SoundsA Movement That Has Had to Confront Its Own FringeA Movement That Publishes, but Still Directs Practice Through Its Own MaterialsA Movement That Survived Its Own Founders' ConfessionA Movement Without a Central Church or TextA Nineteenth-Century Poem Built from Older SongA Practice Meant to Be Learned in PersonA Practice Now Banned in Its Country of OriginA Prayer Addressed Sideways, Not Straight UpA Prayer for the Group, Not the IndividualA Pre-Christian Religion with Almost No Direct TextsA Rare Glimpse of Norse Religion Centered on BirthA Religion Built as a Joke That Would Not Stay OneA Religion Divided by the BorderA Religion Known Mainly Through Its Enemies and Its ConvertsA Scripture Its Founder Said He ReceivedA Smaller Presence Today, Divided by the Korean BorderA Symbol Read Very Differently Across GroupsA Vietnamese Synthesis Received Through SeanceAffirmative Prayer as a Distinct GenreAn Episode Inside a Larger TragedyAn Institution and Its NumbersBorrowed Widely, Owned IndividuallyBorrowing from a Better Documented NeighborCeremonial Magic as Organized Religious PracticeCéu do Mapiá, a Village Built as a ChurchChaos as Method, Not Just Subject MatterChristianized Later, Remembered LongerConverted Early, Documented BarelyDistinct from, and Often Confused with, SatanismEgyptology as a Resource, Not a Replacement for Living PracticeExercises and Study, Not Conventional PrayerFounded by a Woman the Tradition Calls Living ShrineFrom Oath-Bound Coven Text to Bestselling BooksFrom the Sertão to the Rubber CampsHow Santo Daime Left BrazilShowing 1 to 50 of 123 entities carrying this claim. NextScholarly debate1Historical FiguresSebastião Mota de MeloHolds21Historical FiguresJosé Gabriel da CostaSebastião Mota de MeloNew Religious MovementsThe Aetherius SocietyPracticesAikidoPrayersSpiritist Prayer at the Beginning of a MeetingSpiritist Prayer for a Guardian SpiritReligionsCao ĐàiYears19261965Connected2ArticlesA London Taxi Driver Hears a Voice From SpaceSelf Styled Titles Accompany a Following Built Across DecadesGeneral References46ArticlesA London Taxi Driver Hears a Voice From SpaceSelf Styled Titles Accompany a Following Built Across DecadesHistorical FiguresGeorge KingJosé Gabriel da CostaRaimundo Irineu SerraSebastião Mota de MeloHymns & Liturgical TextsSigrdrifa PrayerNew Religious MovementsThe Aetherius SocietyPrayersAnglo-Saxon Paganism Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeBaltic Paganism (Romuva) Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeCao Đài Prayer and Invocation TraditionCeltic Paganism Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeCheondoism Prayer and Invocation TraditionDiscordianism Prayer and Invocation TraditionDruidry Prayer and Invocation TraditionEckankar Prayer and Invocation TraditionFalun Gong Prayer and Invocation TraditionFinnish Paganism (Suomenusko) Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeHeathenry Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeHellenic Polytheism (Hellenismos) Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeKemeticism Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeLuciferianism Prayer and Invocation TraditionModern Satanism Prayer and Invocation TraditionNew Age Prayer and Invocation TraditionNew Thought Prayer and Invocation TraditionNorse Paganism Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeOddrun's BlessingRastafari Prayer and Invocation TraditionSlavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) Prayer Corpus and Revival PracticeSpiritism Prayer and Invocation TraditionSpiritist Prayer at the Beginning of a MeetingSpiritist Prayer for a Guardian SpiritSpiritualism Prayer and Invocation TraditionTenrikyo Prayer and Invocation TraditionThelema Prayer and Invocation TraditionWicca Prayer and Invocation TraditionReligionsCao ĐàiCheondoismEckankarHoa Hao BuddhismOmotoSpiritismTenrikyoSecret SocietiesTemple of Psychick YouthYears19261965Comments (0)No comments yet. 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