religious movement
Spiritual collective awakening
A religious movement is a collective effort to promote, reform, or establish spiritual beliefs and practices.
The term covers everything from new religions emerging around charismatic founders to reform efforts within established traditions: The Great Awakening was a religious movement that swept colonial America.
Movements may seek converts, social change, or internal renewal of faith.
- ScientologySpirit-improvement belief system
- cult followingPassionate niche audience
- new ageCurrent era or period
- WiccaModern pagan witchcraft religion
- RastafarianismAfrocentric messianic religion
Protestant Reformation · Counter-Reformation · Puritanism · Falun Gong · true believer · Anabaptism · Theosophy · Unification Church · Great Awakening · spiritual awakening · born again · Calvinism · Hare Krishna · Methodism · Mormonism · Crusades · Vatican II · Jehovah's Witnesses
- nonstate actorsmilitia, insurgent, rebel group, guerrilla, paramilitary
religious movementpersonal faith
Individual religious belief
personal devotion · private worship · spiritual but not religious
religious movementsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
political movement · social movement · civil rights movement · labor movement · revolutionary movement
religious movementestablished church
Officially recognized national religion
state religion · religious establishment · orthodoxy · religious institution · organized religion
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