Rastafarianism is a new religious movement with its origin in 1930s Jamaica (1). According to scholar of religion Sheila Kitzinger, Rastafarianism begun as “a politico-religious protest cult which rejects Jamaican […]
Mormonism is a religion that traces itself back to its founder Joseph Smith. Smith was born on December 23, 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, and grew up near Palmyra, New York. […]
Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) founded the Jehovah Witnesses movement from a Bible study group he later became the pastor of. He held to several beliefs that deviated from orthodox […]
1952 witnessed the emergence of a new religious movement in the form of Scientology under its founder Lafayette Ron Hubbard (1911-1986). Hubbard worked in the navy during the second world […]
