Exam 12: New Religious Movements

__________ is the religious movement combines some of the deities of African religions with Catholic saints.

All the major religions were once new and resisted by more entrenched institutions.

A new religious movement that is a splinter or subgroup associated with a larger tradition is a __________.

__________ describes the production of a new religion from the combination or mixture of beliefs from diverse traditions.

Radhasoami is an outgrowth of __________.

A new religious movement that arises outside other religious traditions is a __________.

How do new religious movements last? What characteristics allow some religious movements to become recognized world religions while others remain sects or cults?

Madame Helena Blavatsky established __________.

A dramatic end of the present world is called a/an __________.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon founded the __________.

The Rastafari movement started with Alexander Bedward's prophesy of a coming holocaust in which all white people would be killed.

Sathya Sai Baba claimed to be the reincarnation of a saint as well as an avatar of the divine.

Mormons believe that in 1922, under angelic guidance, Joseph Smith found the Book of Mormon in Utah State, inscribed on silver tablets.