List of religious movements that began in the United States
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Several religions and religious movements and traditions were first established in the United States.
- Adventist/Millerites
- Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)
- Church of the SubGenius
- Eckankar
- Endeavor Academy (Course in Miracles)
- Ethical Culture
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Kemetic Orthodoxy
- Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930
- New religious movements ("Cults")
- New Thought Movement
- Rosicrucian Fellowship
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Shakers - formed in 1772 by Ann Lee in Manchester, England, but relocated to Watervliet, New York a few years later
- Spiritualism
- Theosophy
- Unitarian Universalism