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376 profiled groups with documented operations in United States — 56 Extreme-band, 156 High-band, 164 Moderate or below. Presence here describes documented operations, not a judgement about United States or its communities; many listed groups also operate elsewhere.

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Christian

Peoples Temple (Jim Jones / Jonestown)

Originally an integrationist Disciples of Christ congregation in Indianapolis, the Peoples Temple under Jim Jones evolved into a totalitarian movement that culminated in the 1978 mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, killing 918 people.

New Religious Movement

Heaven's Gate

UFO-religion led by Marshall Applewhite ('Do') and Bonnie Nettles ('Ti'). On 26 March 1997, 39 members were found dead by coordinated suicide near San Diego, believing they would board a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.

Christian

Church of the Lamb of God (Ervil LeBaron)

Defunct Mormon-fundamentalist violent splinter founded in 1972 by Ervil Morrell LeBaron after a fratricidal split from the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. The movement is one of the most extensively documented violent religious-splinter cases in the US public record, with multiple criminal convictions of Ervil LeBaron, members of the LeBaron family, and adherents for murders carried out under a 'blood atonement' / 'hit list' doctrine across the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 2000s.

Christian

FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

Polygamist sect that broke from the LDS Church after the 1890 Manifesto. Under Warren Jeffs (Prophet 2002–present, imprisoned 2011) the FLDS practised forced underage marriages, expulsion of teen 'lost boys', and total community control. Heavily documented in court records and federal raids.

Christian

Branch Davidians (Mount Carmel, David Koresh)

Adventist offshoot led by Vernon Howell (David Koresh) at Mount Carmel near Waco, Texas, where Koresh claimed exclusive sexual access to all female members including minors. The 1993 ATF/FBI siege ended in fire killing 76 inside the compound.

Christian

Children of God / The Family International

Founded by David 'Moses' Berg in 1968. From 1976 to 1987 practised 'Flirty Fishing' (using sex for evangelism and recruitment) and published 'Mo Letters' explicitly endorsing sexual contact between adults and children. Reorganised as 'The Family International' in 2004.

Judaism

Lev Tahor

Extreme isolationist Haredi-fringe sect founded by Shlomo Helbrans (1980s, d. 2017). Practises full-body covering for women, child marriages, and total community control. Leadership convicted in multiple jurisdictions; community has fled across borders to evade child-welfare investigations.

New Religious Movement

Church of Scientology

One of the most heavily documented high-control religious organisations in the modern era, with court records and ex-member testimony spanning five decades. Practices include Disconnection from family, billion-year Sea Org contracts, the 'Suppressive Person' designation, and the auditing-confessional system used as organisational leverage. Substantially more publicity in 2022–2026 driven by the Danny Masterson 2023 conviction, Leah Remini's August 2023 lawsuit against Scientology and David Miscavige, and Mike Rinder's *A Billion Years* memoir.

New Religious Movement

Synanon (defunct, 1958–1991)

Founded as a drug-rehabilitation programme by Charles Dederich (1958) in Santa Monica. Evolved into the 'Synanon Religion' practising 'The Game' (mass attack therapy), forced head-shavings, abortions, marriages, and the 1978 attempted-murder rattlesnake-in-the-mailbox attack on attorney Paul Morantz.

New Religious Movement

The Family / Santiniketan Park Association (Anne Hamilton-Byrne)

Australian sect led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne (1921–2019), centred on properties near Lake Eildon, Victoria. Acquired ≈14 children illegally in the 1970s, dyed their hair identical blonde, dressed them identically, and dosed them with LSD. Subject of the 2016 documentary 'The Family'.

Christian

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) / Warren Jeffs

Polygamist Mormon-fundamentalist breakaway centred in the twin towns of Hildale UT and Colorado City AZ (formerly Short Creek) plus the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado TX. Founded 1929–1935 as a polygamy-continuing breakaway from mainstream LDS Church (which had formally ended plural marriage in 1890). Warren Jeffs assumed leadership 2002 after his father Rulon Jeffs's death; convicted 2011 in Texas of two counts of child sexual assault (life+20). FLDS continues under Jeffs's smuggled-from-prison directives; estimated 6,000–10,000 members remain.

Christian

Word of Faith Fellowship (Jane Whaley)

Spindale, North Carolina-based Christian sect led by Jane Whaley. The 2017–18 Associated Press investigation documented corporal punishment of children, forced labour at member-owned businesses, and 'blasting' prayer sessions to expel demons.

Christian

Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (Apollo Quiboloy)

Philippines-based restorationist Christian movement founded in 1985 by Apollo Quiboloy, who identifies himself in the organisation's own publications as 'the Appointed Son of God'. Subject of an active US Department of Justice federal indictment including sex-trafficking charges, an FBI Most Wanted listing, a Philippine Senate inquiry, and a September 2024 Philippine criminal arrest. All charges remain pending.

New Religious Movement

Larry Ray (Sarah Lawrence sex-trafficking case)

Lawrence Ray ('Larry Ray', 1959–) — convicted federal sex-trafficker who, beginning 2010, lived among his daughter's college roommates at Sarah Lawrence College and over a decade subjected several to coercive psychiatric 'confessions', forced labour, sex trafficking, and extortion. Convicted April 2022 on 15 federal counts; sentenced January 2023 to 60 years; $20M restitution. The S2 'Stolen Youth' Hulu docuseries (2023) is the canonical record.

Other

Nation of Yahweh (Yahweh ben Yahweh, defunct)

Black Hebrew Israelite organisation founded by Yahweh ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr.) in Miami (1979). Mitchell convicted in 1992 of federal racketeering including conspiracy in 14 murders. Functionally defunct.

Political / Ideological

The Order / Brüder Schweigen (Robert Mathews, 1983–84)

White-supremacist Christian Identity terror group founded by Robert Mathews (1983). Conducted multiple armoured-car robberies and the 1984 Alan Berg murder. Mathews killed in FBI siege December 1984. Subject of Steve Earle's song and many academic studies.

Christian

Tony Alamo Christian Ministries (defunct, founder convicted)

Founded by Tony Alamo (Bernie Lazar Hoffman) and his wife Susan in 1969. Tony Alamo was convicted in 2009 of multiple federal counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sexual purposes; sentenced to 175 years.

New Religious Movement

NXIVM-style Wellness Cults

NXIVM (1998–2018) and its imitators dressed coercive control as 'executive success programmes' or 'women's empowerment'. Founder Keith Raniere was convicted in 2019 of racketeering, sex trafficking, and forced labour.

New Religious Movement

The Sullivanians (Sullivan Institute / Fourth Wall)

Manhattan psychotherapy collective and theatre group (1957–1991) led by Saul Newton. Required members to break with their families of origin, assigned sexual partners, and removed children from biological parents to communal apartments.

Christian

Kingston Order / Davis County Cooperative (Latter-Day Church of Christ)

Polygamist sect of fundamentalist Mormons headquartered in Davis County, Utah. Distinctive teaching of 'pure blood' that has produced documented systematic incest. Multiple federal and state investigations including the 2020 federal $511M tax-fraud sentence of leader Jacob Kingston for biofuel tax-credit fraud.

Christian

Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps (Jim & Lila Reidhead)

New Mexico-based para-church group founded by James (Jim) and Deborah (Lila) Green-Reidhead in the 1980s with quasi-military uniforms, ranks ('Generals'), and a Sacramento-then-Berino fortified residential compound. Multiple 2018 New Mexico convictions for child abuse, sexual servitude, and human trafficking; founder Deborah Green sentenced to 72 years; multiple co-defendants serving sentences. Active in residual form post-prosecution.

Christian

Shincheonji Church of Jesus / Lee Man-hee

South Korean apocalyptic Christian movement founded 1984 in Anyang by Lee Man-hee (born 1931). Approximately 300,000 baptised members and millions of associated 'Bible students' globally. Centred on Lee's claim to be the 'promised pastor' who uniquely interprets the Book of Revelation. Globally notorious after the February 2020 Daegu COVID-19 super-spreader event that produced South Korea's first major outbreak. Lee convicted 2020 of obstruction of disease-control investigations; acquitted of embezzlement charges on appeal 2021.

Islam

AROPL / Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq)

Small Mahdi-claimant Islamic-derived new religious movement founded ~2015 by Egyptian-American Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq (b. 1983). Hashem teaches he is the awaited Mahdi (Islamic eschatological end-times figure), Christ returned, and 'Riser of the House of Muhammad'. Distinct from — and rejected by — the mainstream Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Multi-jurisdiction asylum-claim trail (Egypt → Turkey → UK → Switzerland → US Texas) and documented coercive-control patterns including group-marriage rituals, communal child-rearing, surrendered passports, and shunning of departing members.

Christian

La Luz del Mundo (Naasón Joaquín García)

Mexico-based Christian Restorationist movement founded by Eusebio Joaquín González (1926). Current leader Naasón Joaquín García was convicted in California in 2022 on multiple counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to 16 years.

Christian

LeBaron clan polygamist groups

Network of fundamentalist Mormon polygamist groups descended from the LeBaron family. Notable for the 1972 Joel LeBaron assassination ordered by his brother Ervil; the 1977 'Lambs of God' assassinations across the US; and the 2019 Mexico cartel-related massacre of nine LeBaron family members.

Christian

Maranatha Campus Ministries (defunct, 1972–89)

Authoritarian campus ministry founded by Bob Weiner (1972). Distinctive shepherding/discipling, dating control, and aggressive recruitment. Dissolved in 1989 under pressure from the broader evangelical community after extensive abuse allegations.

New Religious Movement

Love Has Won (Amy Carlson)

Online new-age movement led by Amy Carlson ('Mother God'), who claimed to be the reincarnation of multiple historical and pop-cultural figures. Carlson died in 2021; members continued to display her mummified body. Subject of HBO's 'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God' (2023).

Christian

7M Films / Shekinah Church (Robert Shinn)

Los Angeles-based Shekinah Church and its 7M Films talent management business, led by Robert Shinn. Subject of Netflix's 'Dancing for the Devil' (2024) documenting how TikTok dancers under 7M contracts were severed from family.

Christian

Followers of Christ (Oregon)

Pentecostal-derived faith-healing church concentrated in Oregon City, OR. Multiple parents convicted of homicide or criminal mistreatment after children died of treatable conditions because the family refused medical care.

Pagan / Wiccan

Order of Nine Angles (O9A)

Esoteric occult-political network associated with David Myatt. Texts explicitly endorse human sacrifice ('culling'), terrorism, and infiltration of mainstream institutions. Multiple O9A-associated members have been convicted of terrorism and violent crimes.

Christian

The Brethren / Jim Roberts Group

Itinerant Christian movement led by Jim Roberts ('Brother Evangelist', d. 2015). Members live communally, dress identically (modest 1800s-style), travel by foot and bicycle, and are completely severed from family of origin. Subject of multiple disappeared-college-student investigations.

Christian

World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) / Heavenly Mother Zhang Gil-jah

South Korean apocalyptic Christian organisation founded 1964 by Ahn Sahng-hong (1918–1985). Identified Ahn as the 'Second Coming Christ' after his death. From 1985 led by Zhang Gil-jah (born 1943), identified as 'Heavenly Mother God'. Approximately 3 million claimed members across 175 countries. Multiple deceptive-recruitment lawsuits in the US and South Korea 2014–2024.

Christian

Twelve Tribes Communities / Messianic Communities / Yellow Deli (Gene Spriggs)

International communal Messianic Christian high-control group founded 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Elbert Eugene 'Gene' Spriggs (1937-2021) and Marsha Spriggs. Operates approximately 50 communities in 9 countries; estimated 2,500-3,000 members. Recognisable public face is the Yellow Deli / Common Sense Market cafe network. Documented forced child labour, corporal-punishment doctrine, multiple government raids (Vermont 1984 Island Pond raid, Bavaria 2013 Wörnitz / Klosterzimmern raids, France 2015), and the full set of severance, total residential control, and arranged marriage patterns.

Christian

Concerned Christians (Monte Kim Miller, Y2K Denver apocalyptic group)

Y2K-era apocalyptic Christian splinter founded by Monte Kim Miller in Denver, Colorado, in the late 1980s. Miller predicted that Denver would be destroyed on 10 October 1998 and that an apocalyptic event would follow in Jerusalem before the Y2K turn-of-millennium. The group relocated to Jerusalem; in January 1999 Israeli police detained 14 members on grounds of suspected planned apocalyptic-violence activity and deported them. The group is treated by Denver Post coverage, by US press, by academic accounts (David Bromley, Catherine Wessinger), and by FBI public statements during the Y2K period as defunct as an organised entity by the early 2000s.

New Religious Movement

MSIA / Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (John-Roger Hinkins)

MSIA — Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness — is a 1971 Los Angeles-founded NRM derived from the Sant Mat / Eckankar tradition by John-Roger Hinkins (born Roger Delano Hinkins, 1934–2014), who claimed to be the embodied 'Mystical Traveler Consciousness' (a Sant-Mat eschatological figure). Affiliated front organisations include Insight Seminars (a personal-growth-training subsidiary) and Prana Theological Seminary. Documented sexual coercion of teenage and young-adult male staff (NYT 1988, LA Times 1994); Peter McWilliams memoir *Life 102* (2000) is the canonical insider account. John-Roger died in 2014; current leadership under designated successor John Morton.

Christian

The House of Yahweh (Yisrayl Hawkins)

Texas-based Sacred Name movement founded by Yisrayl Hawkins (1980). Multiple Texas legal cases regarding bigamy, child-bigamy, and child abuse in the 2000s. Apocalyptic separatist theology.

New Religious Movement

Nuwaubian Nation / Dwight York

Esoteric movement founded by Dwight 'Malachi Z.' York, cycling through Islamic, Hebrew, and ancient-Egyptian identities before settling followers at the 'Tama-Re' compound in Putnam County, Georgia. York was convicted in 2004 of child molestation and racketeering — one of the largest prosecutions of its kind — and sentenced to 135 years; the compound was seized and demolished.

Christian

Lord Our Righteousness Church / Strong City (Wayne Bent)

A small Seventh-day-Adventist-derived commune at 'Strong City', New Mexico, whose leader Wayne Bent ('Michael Travesser') declared himself Messiah in 2000. Bent was convicted in 2008 of criminal sexual contact with a minor and related counts involving teenage members' 'consecration' rituals, drawing national attention via documentary coverage. He was paroled in 2016; the remnant community persists quietly.

Judaism

Satmar Hasidic

Hungarian-origin Hasidic sect, the largest in the USA. Centred in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) and Kiryas Joel (NY). Strongly anti-Zionist, intensely insular, and operates extensive yeshiva network with documented secular-education failures (NYT 2022).

Christian

Remnant Fellowship Church (Gwen Shamblin Lara)

Tennessee-based high-control church founded by Weigh Down Workshop creator Gwen Shamblin Lara. Combined a low-calorie 'Christian' diet ministry with severe patriarchal discipline; the 2003 conviction of Joseph and Sonya Smith for the beating death of their 8-year-old son Josef applied the church's discipline teaching directly. Shamblin and most senior leaders died in a May 2021 chartered plane crash; the church continues at reduced scale under successor leadership.

Christian

Oneida Community Perfectionists (1848–81, historical)

Historical American communal Christianity (1848–81) founded by John Humphrey Noyes. Distinctive 'complex marriage' (every adult member married to every other), 'stirpiculture' eugenic-breeding programme, mutual criticism sessions.

Christian

The Way International / Victor Paul Wierwille

Power for Abundant Living (PFAL) movement and biblical research organisation founded 1942 in New Knoxville, Ohio by Victor Paul Wierwille (1916–1985). Distinctive doctrines include rejection of Trinitarianism, charismatic speaking-in-tongues, and Wierwille as the 'man of God' uniquely commissioned to restore first-century Christianity. Documented Wierwille sexual abuse, mass 1989 'Fog' exit after leadership purge, and continuing operations under successor L Craig Martindale (until 2000 leadership-removal) and current leader Rosalie Rivenbark. ~10,000 active members.

Judaism

Skver (Skverer) Hasidic / New Square

Ukrainian-origin Hasidic dynasty (Skvyra, Kyiv Oblast) centred in the village of New Square, Rockland County, NY. ~8,000 residents on a single hereditary-Rebbe campus. Among the most insular Hasidic communities in North America.

Political / Ideological

LaRouche PAC successor network (Schiller Institute / EIR)

US-founded political cadre organisation founded as the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) by Lyndon LaRouche in 1973 and continuing through the Schiller Institute, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), and LaRouche PAC under successor leadership after Lyndon LaRouche's death in 2019. Subject of a 1988 US federal mail-fraud / conspiracy conviction of its founder (imprisoned 1989–1994), of a major book-length investigative account by Dennis King, of sustained mainstream press coverage, and of significant ex-member testimony documenting cadre control practices including sleep deprivation, communal living arrangements, financial control, and isolation from family.

Political / Ideological

Atomwaffen Division

Neo-Nazi accelerationist terror organisation founded 2015. Multiple US members convicted of murder; UK proscribed as terrorist organisation 2021. Heavily entwined with Order of Nine Angles esoteric materials.

Political / Ideological

Zizians (rationalist splinter)

A small, decentralised network that splintered from Bay Area rationalist circles around the pseudonymous blogger 'Ziz', combining radical animal-rights ethics, unorthodox decision-theory doctrines, and total commitment demands. Members have been charged in connection with a series of violent deaths in California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, including the 2025 killing of a US Border Patrol agent. Prosecutions are ongoing; all defendants are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

New Religious Movement

Twin Flames Universe (Jeff and Shaleia Divine)

Online 'spiritual coaching' organisation run by Jeff and Shaleia Divine teaching that everyone has one 'twin flame' romantic partner. Documented patterns of pressuring members to pursue uninterested 'twins', gender-identity coercion, and total community life consumed by Divine couple's livestreams.

Political / Ideological

LaRouche Movement (Lyndon LaRouche organisations)

Political-ideological organisation that evolved from the late Lyndon LaRouche's Marxist origins through a series of name changes (US Labor Party, NCLC, LaRouche PAC). Documented decades of intense internal control, financial demands, and legal trouble. Founder died 2019; offshoots continue under his widow Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Schiller Institute).

Christian

Doug Wilson / Christ Church Moscow Idaho / CrossPolitic

Doug Wilson (b. 1953) and Christ Church (Moscow, Idaho) are the centre of a Reformed-confessional Christian-nationalist megachurch network including Christ Church Evangelical Fellowship, Christ Church Affiliate Network (50+ churches), New Saint Andrews College, Logos School, Greyfriars Hall ministerial training, Canon Press publishing, and the CrossPolitic media network. Documented sexual-abuse cover-up chain (Sitler 2005, Wight 2005), 'Federal Vision' theological-control architecture, 'Christian patriarchy' household doctrine, and slave-South apologetics (the 1996 'Southern Slavery as it Was' pamphlet co-authored with Steve Wilkins). Subject of the 2023 *Christianity Today* 'The Rise of Christ Church Moscow' investigation and ongoing 2024 Greenfield civil litigation.

Christian

Unification Church / Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) / Moonies

Korean-origin global new religious movement founded in 1954 in Seoul by Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012). Distinctive doctrines include Moon as 'True Father' completing Jesus's incomplete mission, mass arranged 'Blessing' weddings of strangers (4,000+ at first big event in 1982 at Madison Square Garden), and intensive 'Heavenly Tribute' financial extraction. Approximately 1–3 million members at peak (1980s); ~100,000–300,000 today. Daughter Hak Ja Han leads since Moon's 2012 death; son Hyung Jin 'Sean' Moon leads breakaway Rod of Iron Sanctuary Church. Massively scrutinised in Japan post-2022 after Abe assassin attributed motivation to family's UC financial ruin.

Christian

Philadelphia Church of God / Gerald Flurry

Edmond, Oklahoma-headquartered Armstrongite Sabbatarian Christian organisation founded 1989 by Gerald Flurry after his break from Worldwide Church of God (WCG) doctrinal reforms. Flurry identifies himself as 'That Prophet' of John 1:21 and the 'fourth horseman' of Revelation. Doctrines include strict Saturday-Sabbath observance, three-tithe system, ban on members consuming non-PCG media, and formal shunning of disfellowshipped members. Multiple 2010s-2020s child-abuse-cover-up civil suits. Approximately 6,000-7,000 members.

New Religious Movement

Kanye West / Donda Academy / YZY (Sunday Service / brand cult-of-personality)

Kanye West (b. 1977, legally renamed Ye 2021) operates a multi-component personal brand that includes Donda Academy (a Christian K-12 school founded 2022 in Simi Valley California, subject of multiple ex-staff and ex-parent lawsuits documenting coercive-control patterns), the YZY fashion brand (Yeezy footwear and apparel), and the Sunday Service performances (a touring worship-music-and-fashion event 2019–2022 that drew millions of attendees and viewers). The 2022–2025 period included substantial public anti-Semitic statements; Donda Academy is the primary BITE-relevant component because it has documented institutional structure with student-and-staff members.

Political / Ideological

National Labor Federation / NATLFED (Gino Perente)

US-founded political cadre organisation founded by Gerald Doeden ('Gino Perente') in 1972. NATLFED operates as a closed-cell front-organisation network in which named labour, immigrant-services, and community-organising front groups present a public-facing service face while functioning as recruitment-and-funnelling structures into the unnamed central cadre. Documented in Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth's 'On the Edge' (M.E. Sharpe 2000), in Village Voice and other US press coverage, and in long-running ex-member testimony archives.

Christian

Calvary Temple (Sterling, Virginia, Star Scott)

Independent church in Sterling VA led by Star Scott. Subject of Washington Post 2008 'Lost Souls' investigation documenting severance of family members from those who leave.

New Religious Movement

Love Has Won-derived 2025 splinter groups

Splinter groups continuing in modified form after Amy Carlson's April 2021 death. Multiple online communities continue to recruit using modified Carlson-derived teaching and QAnon-adjacent themes.

New Religious Movement

Your Black Muslim Bakery / Bey organization (historical)

Yusuf Bey's Oakland bakery empire fused Black-Muslim-derived teaching, community businesses, and patriarchal absolutism: 'spiritual wives', dozens of children, and — as prosecutions later established — systematic rape of underage girls in his care. Under successor Yusuf Bey IV the organisation murdered journalist Chauncey Bailey in 2007 to stop his reporting; the convictions that followed, and the Chauncey Bailey Project's journalism, closed the organisation and documented its history exhaustively.

Christian

Westboro Baptist Church

Tiny Topeka, Kansas congregation founded by Fred Phelps, almost entirely composed of his extended family. Notorious for picketing military funerals with anti-LGBT signs. Documented severe shunning of departing members by remaining family.

Christian

Restored Hope Network (US Christian conversion-therapy ministries)

Coalition of conservative US Christian conversion-therapy ministries that re-formed in 2012 after Exodus International dissolved and apologised. Continues 'sexual-orientation change' counselling in jurisdictions where it is still legal.

Christian

The Bible Speaks / Carl Stevens / Greater Grace World Outreach

Carl H. Stevens Jr. (1929–2008) founded The Bible Speaks (TBS) in Bath, Maine in 1972 and built it into a major high-control evangelical-charismatic organisation centred at the Lenox, Massachusetts compound by the mid-1980s. The 1987 Dovydenas v. Bible Speaks $6.5M federal civil judgement — at the time the largest cult-recovery civil judgement in US history — found that Stevens had exercised 'undue influence' over Elizabeth Dovydenas. The organisation rebranded as Greater Grace World Outreach (GGWO), relocated to Baltimore in 1989, and continues operating with affiliated churches and Bible colleges in 75+ countries.

Hindu

Oneness University / Ekam (Kalki Bhagavan / Sri Bhagavan)

Indian guru-led devotional movement founded in 1989 by Vijaykumar Naidu (known within the movement as 'Kalki Bhagavan' and 'Sri Bhagavan') and his wife Padmavathi ('Sri Amma'). The movement operates internationally as 'Oneness University' and more recently 'Ekam', offering 'deeksha' transmission practices and 'awakening' programmes from an ashram complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. Subject of 2019 Indian Income Tax Department raids on properties and documented in academic work on contemporary Indian gurus and in sustained Indian press coverage.

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