List of religious movements that began in the United States

17th century

• Baptists in the United States
• *First Baptist Church in America, 1638
• *First Baptist Church in Newport, 1644

  18th century

• Shakers - formed in 1772 by Ann Lee in Manchester, England, but relocated to Watervliet, New York a few years later
• Neo-Druidism - Late 18th century
• Methodist Episcopal Church 1783
• Universalist Church of America, 1793

  19th century

• Black church, 1790s-onward
• *African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, 1813
• *African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1816
• *Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870
• *National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., 1880
• *Original Church of God or Sanctified Church, 1890s
• *Church of Christ U.S.A., 1896
• *Church of God in Christ, 1897
• *African Orthodox Church, 1921
• *Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, 1924
• *Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, 1944
• *Black theology, 1966
• American Unitarian Association, 1825
• *Unitarian Universalism, 1961
• Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism, 1830
• New Thought Movement, 1830s-onward
• *Divine Science, 1888
• *Unity Church, 1889
• *Science of Mind, 1927
• Adventist/Millerites, 1840s
• *Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1863
• Spiritualism, 1840s
• Christadelphians 1848
• Jehovah's Witnesses, 1870
• The Theosophical Society, 1875
• Ethical Culture, 1877 onward
• Church of Christ, Scientist, 1879
• Polish National Catholic Church, 1897

  20th century

• Pentecostalism
• *Azusa Street Revival, 1906
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• The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1909
• Moorish Science Temple of America, 1913
• Reconstructionist Judaism, 1920s
• Jewish Renewal, 1960s
• Nation of Islam, founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930
• New religious movements and cults:
• *Spiritual Christian Dukh-i-zhizniki,1928
• *Huna,1936
• *Scientology, 1954
• *Peoples Temple, 1955
• *Branch Davidians, 1955
• *Westboro Baptist Church, 1955 Radical American unaffiliated Baptist
• *Noble Order of Moorish Sufis, 1957
• *Universal Life Church, 1959
• *Discordianism, 1963
• *Moorish Orthodox Church of America, 1964
• *Eckankar, 1965
• *Church of Satan, 1966
• *Church of the SubGenius, 1970s
• *Heaven's Gate, 1970s
• *The Creativity Movement, 1973
• *Jews for Jesus, 1973
• *Kemetic Orthodoxy, 1988
• *Endeavor Academy, 1992
• *Dudeism, 1998

  21st Century

• Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, 2005
• The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, either 2009 or 2010
• Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, 2015