A–Z index of all groups
802 group profiles, alphabetical. Use the letter strip to jump to a section, or browse by CLCI score.
A 67 groups
- 'Anchor' new online sects (umbrella, 2025+)
- A Course in Miracles high-control circles
- Aboriginal Australian Indigenous spirituality (mainstream)
- Abraham-Hicks (Esther Hicks)
- Academic cult-recovery research community (mainstream)
- Access Consciousness (Gary Douglas / Dain Heer)
- Active Club Network (white nationalist combat sports)
- Acts 29 Network (church planting)
- Adi Da Samraj / Daism (Franklin Jones, Adidam)
- Aetherius Society
- African Initiated Churches (AICs, broader)
- African syncretic religions (umbrella)
- Agapemonites / Abode of Love (historical)
- Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps (Jim & Lila Reidhead)
- Aglipayan Church (Iglesia Filipina Independiente)
- Agon Shū (Agonshū / Agon Shu)
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- AI-companion / chatbot cult communities (umbrella)
- Al-Muhajiroun / Anjem Choudary network
- Aladura Churches (West African Spirit-prayer movement)
- Alawite Islam (Syria)
- Aleph (Aum Shinrikyo successor)
- Alevi Islam (Turkey, mainstream)
- Alexandrian Wicca (traditional initiatory)
- Amana Society / Community of True Inspiration
- American Ethical Union / Ethical Culture Society
- American Fourierists / Phalanx communities (historical)
- Amish (Old Order)
- Amrit Desai / Kripalu (1994 leadership crisis)
- Amway (MLM)
- Amway / Quixtar successor branding
- Ananda Marga (P.R. Sarkar)
- Ananda Sangha (Swami Kriyananda)
- Ananda Village (Kriyananda's California intentional community)
- Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC)
- Andrew Huberman / Huberman Lab
- Andrew Tate / Hustlers University / The Real World
- Anglican / Episcopal Communion
- Answers in Genesis / Creation Museum (Ken Ham)
- Ant Hill Kids (Roch Thériault community)
- Antares de la Luz (Ramon Castillo Gaete doomsday sect)
- Anthroposophy / Waldorf Schools (Rudolf Steiner mainstream)
- Anti-mask / anti-vax online movement (continuing 2026)
- Antifa (umbrella decentralised antifascist movement)
- Antrovis (Poland)
- Apostolic Faith / fundamentalist-Pentecostal isolate communities
- Apostolic United Brethren (AUB)
- Arbonne International (skincare/health MLM)
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- AROPL / Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq)
- Art of Living Foundation (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
- Art of Living Foundation / Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Asaram Bapu organisation
- Asatru Folk Assembly (Folkish heathenry)
- Assemblies of God Brazil (Assembleias de Deus)
- Assyrian Church of the East
- Atheist / Freethought organisations (mainstream)
- Atman Foundation / Heide Fittkau-Garthe (historical)
- Atomwaffen Division
- Aubrey Marcus / Onnit / Fit For Service
- Aum Shinrikyo (Shoko Asahara)
- Auroville (Indian intentional community, mainstream)
- Avatar Course / Star's Edge International (Harry Palmer)
- Avon Products (mainstream direct sales)
- Ayahuasca retreat high-control facilitator circles
- Ayn Rand / Objectivist 'Collective' inner circle (1960s NBI)
- Azali Bahá'í (historical Babi remnant)
B 33 groups
- Bahá'í Faith (mainstream)
- Barelvi movement (South Asian Sunni)
- Beachbody Coach Network (defunct as MLM 2024)
- Bektashi Sufi Order
- Belz Hasidic
- Benedictines (Order of Saint Benedict)
- Bentinho Massaro (Trinfinity Academy)
- Bethel Church Redding (Bill Johnson)
- Bhole Baba (Narayan Saakar Hari) satsang
- Bikram Yoga (Bikram Choudhury)
- BitConnect (Carlos Matos meme + community)
- Black Hebrew Israelites (extreme variants)
- Bobo Shanti / Bobo Ashanti (Rastafari Mansion)
- Bobov Hasidic
- Bodu Bala Sena (Sri Lanka Buddhist nationalist)
- Boko Haram / Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihad
- Bolivian / Andean curanderismo high-control variants (umbrella)
- Boogaloo movement
- Boston Church of Christ (1979–2003 Crossroads/ICOC era)
- Brahma Kumaris (BKWSU)
- Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU)
- Branch Davidians (Mount Carmel, David Koresh)
- Brazilian Eastern-religion imports (broader umbrella)
- Breslov Na Nach street-evangelism variants
- British Israelism / Christian Identity high-control groups
- Broader Brazilian neopentecostal boom (umbrella)
- Broader religious-exit online communities (umbrella)
- Broader South Korean high-control Christian movements (umbrella)
- Builders of the Adytum (BOTA)
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church
- Burmese 969 / Ma Ba Tha movement (U Wirathu)
- BurnLounge (historical MLM)
- Byron Katie 'The Work' organisation
C 45 groups
- Calvary Chapel network (high-control variants)
- Calvary Temple (Sterling, Virginia, Star Scott)
- Camphill Communities (Anthroposophy intentional communities)
- Candomblé (Brazilian Yoruba diaspora)
- Cao Đài (Vietnamese new religion)
- Cargo Cults (historical Melanesian)
- Caribbean syncretic spiritualities (umbrella)
- Carl Lentz / Hillsong NYC (2010–2020)
- Carnivore-diet influencer cult communities
- Carthusians (Order of Saint Bruno)
- Casitas del Sur / Iglesia Cristiana Restaurada
- Catholic-charismatic high-control cells (Latin America)
- Celebrity-led wellness cult communities (umbrella)
- Celestial Church of Christ
- Centennial Park group (Second Ward, Mormon fundamentalist)
- Center for Feeling Therapy
- Centrepoint Community (Bert Potter, New Zealand, historical)
- Chabad-Lubavitch
- Chen Tao (God's Salvation Church)
- Children of God / The Family International
- Chinese folk religion (mainstream)
- Chinese House Church Movement (mainstream)
- Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (state-registered)
- Chishti Sufi Order (South Asian)
- Christ Embassy / Believers' LoveWorld (Chris Oyakhilome)
- Christian Identity (extreme variants)
- Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist)
- Church of Bible Understanding (Stewart Traill)
- Church of Satan (Anton LaVey)
- Church of Scientology
- Church of the Highlands / Chris Hodges / Association of Related Churches (ARC)
- Church of the Lamb of God (Ervil LeBaron)
- Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
- Colonia Dignidad (Paul Schäfer)
- Color Street (nail polish MLM, defunct 2024)
- Communist Platform (USA broader, mainstream parties)
- Concerned Christians (Monte Kim Miller, Y2K Denver apocalyptic group)
- Conservative Judaism (Masorti)
- Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch) high-control circles
- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Cornelia Connelly Society / Society of the Holy Child Jesus
- Corporate workplace cult umbrella (mainstream)
- Covenant of the Goddess (Wiccan federation)
- CrossFit-adjacent extreme-fitness cult communities (umbrella)
- Cult-aware therapy network (mainstream)
D 25 groups
- 'Deconstruction' / ex-evangelical online communities (umbrella, mainstream)
- Daesoon Jinrihoe (Korean new religion)
- Dahn Yoga / Body & Brain (Ilchi Lee)
- Damanhur (Italy)
- Dami Mission / Lee Jang-rim (historical)
- Dawoodi Bohra (Mustaali Ismaili)
- Deepak Chopra organisations (Chopra Center / Global)
- Deeper Life Bible Church (W.F. Kumuyi, Nigeria)
- Deobandi (high-control sub-currents)
- Dera Sacha Sauda (Gurmeet Ram Rahim)
- Dera Sacha Sauda / Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
- Dera Sant Sarwan Dass / Dera Ballan (Ravidassi)
- Destiny Church / Brian Tamaki
- Deus É Amor (David Miranda, Brazil)
- Diamond Way Buddhism (Ole Nydahl)
- Digambara Jain mainstream
- Discordianism (mainstream)
- Discovery Institute (Intelligent Design)
- Divine Light Mission / Elan Vital / Words of Peace Global / Prem Rawat
- Dominicans (Order of Preachers)
- doTERRA / Young Living essential-oil MLMs
- doTERRA modern operations
- Doug Wilson / Christ Church Moscow Idaho / CrossPolitic
- Druze Faith (mainstream)
- Dwell Community Church (formerly Xenos Christian Fellowship)
E 27 groups
- Eastern Lightning / Church of Almighty God (China)
- Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- Eckankar
- Eckhart Tolle 'Power of Now' community
- Effective Altruism (EA) mainstream movement
- Ekklesia / cell-church high-control networks
- El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners (Mike Velarde, Philippines)
- Elder Ephraim of Arizona — Athonite monastery network (USA)
- Elevation Church (Steven Furtick)
- Elohim City (Oklahoma)
- Elon-Musk-stan online subcultures (high-control adjacent)
- Endeavor Academy (Charles Anderson)
- Endeavor Academy continuation online
- Enlightened Christian Gathering (Shepherd Bushiri)
- Epoch Times / NTD / Shen Yun media empire (Falun Gong-aligned)
- Equinox International (historical MLM)
- Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
- Esalen Institute (mainstream)
- Escuela de Yoga de Buenos Aires / Buenos Aires Yoga School
- Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
- European mainline Christian renewal movements (umbrella)
- European modern occult-revival movements (umbrella)
- Evangelical Megachurches (high-control variants)
- Every Nation (Maranatha Campus Ministries successor)
- Ex-Mormon online community (mainstream support)
- Exegesis (UK large-group awareness training)
- Extreme raw-food / fruitarian online cults
F 21 groups
- Faith Assembly (Hobart Freeman)
- Falun Gong (Falun Dafa)
- Family Radio under Harold Camping (historical era)
- Far-right religious-political movements (umbrella)
- Fellowship of Friends (Robert Burton)
- Fellowship of Isis (Olivia Robertson)
- Feri Tradition (Victor and Cora Anderson Wicca)
- Fifth Monarchists (historical)
- Findhorn Foundation (Scotland)
- Findhorn Foundation modern continuation
- FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
- Fo Guang Shan (Humanistic Buddhism)
- Focolare Movement / Work of Mary / Chiara Lubich
- Followers of Christ (Oregon)
- Footsteps 2024 continuation
- Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (historical MLM)
- Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor)
- Free Will Baptists
- Fuji Taisekiji Kenshōkai
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) / Warren Jeffs
- FWBO/Triratna 2024–2026 reckoning continuation
G 20 groups
- Gabriel Cousens / Tree of Life Center
- Gafatar (Gerakan Fajar Nusantara) / Millah Abraham
- GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference)
- Gardnerian Wicca (traditional initiatory)
- Gateway Church / Robert Morris
- Genesis II Church / MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution)
- Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece (Old Calendar)
- Georgian Orthodox Apostolic Church
- Ger (Gur) Hasidic
- Global Awakening (Randy Clark)
- Global Ikhwan / GISB Holdings
- Gloriavale Christian Community (New Zealand)
- God Worshipping Society / Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (historical)
- Good News International Ministries / Paul Nthenge Mackenzie
- Grace Road Church / Kwon Shin-chan (Fiji)
- Grail Movement (Abd-ru-shin)
- Greek Orthodox Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate)
- Guatemalan evangelical political right (Ríos Montt legacy)
- Gülen Movement / Hizmet / Cemaat (Fethullah Gülen)
- Gurdjieff Foundation (mainstream Fourth Way)
H 34 groups
- 3HO / Yogi Bhajan / Kundalini Yoga lineage
- Haitian Vodou (mainstream)
- Happy Science / Ryuho Okawa
- Harmonists / Rappites (George Rapp, historical)
- Harvest Bible Chapel (James MacDonald)
- Heaven's Gate
- Hebrew Roots Movement (high-control variants)
- Heralds of the Gospel (Arautos do Evangelho)
- Herbalife Nutrition (MLM)
- Hikari no Wa (Aum Shinrikyo successor splinter)
- Hillsong Australia post-2023 continuation
- Hillsong Church
- Hillsong United (broader Hillsong network)
- Historical 19th-century American religious-communal cults (umbrella)
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Ho No Hana Sanpogyo (foot-reading cult)
- Hòa Hảo Buddhism (Vietnam)
- Holiday Magic / Leadership Dynamics (historical)
- Holosync (Bill Harris / Centerpointe Research Institute)
- Holotropic Breathwork high-control facilitator circles
- Holy Order of MANS (HOOM) / Father Paul Blighton
- Holy Spirit Movement (Alice Lakwena)
- Honbushin (Tenrikyo offshoot, Onishi Tama)
- Hong Kong Christian denominations (umbrella, post-2020)
- Honmichi (Tenrikyo offshoot, Onishi Aijirō)
- House of Israel (Guyana)
- House of Prayer Christian Church (HOPCC)
- Human Design online community (umbrella)
- Humanist organisations (American Humanist Association, Humanists UK, mainstream)
- Humanitarian-disaster opportunist online cult figures (2024–26)
- Hutaree militia (historical)
- Hutterites (communal Anabaptists)
- HyperFund / HyperVerse
- Hyung Jin 'Sean' Moon / Sanctuary Church / Rod of Iron Ministries
I 31 groups
- I AM Activity (Saint Germain Foundation)
- Icarian Movement / Cabet (historical)
- Iemoto-system Japanese-arts high-control cases (umbrella)
- Iglesia de Cristo (Mexican high-control variants)
- Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ)
- Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus (Apóstolo Valdemiro Santiago)
- Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus / IURD (Edir Macedo, Brazil)
- Il Forteto community (Tuscany)
- IM Academy (formerly iMarketsLive / IML)
- Incel online community (umbrella)
- Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB)
- Independent Network Charismatic (INC) Christianity
- Indian online spirituality influencer cults 2025 (umbrella)
- Indigenous-syncretic spiritual movements (umbrella)
- Insight Meditation Society / Spirit Rock (mainstream Western Vipassana)
- Instagram spirituality influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) mainstream therapy network
- International Bolshevik Tendency
- International Churches of Christ (ICOC / 'Boston Movement')
- International House of Prayer KC (IHOPKC)
- Iranian Bahá'í community (state-persecuted, mainstream)
- Isagenix International
- Isha Foundation (Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev)
- Isha Foundation / Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
- ISIS / 'Islamic State' ideology (recruitment networks)
- ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
- ISKCON 2024 modern continuation
- Ismaili Shia (Nizari, Aga Khani)
- Israelite House of David (historical)
- It Works! Global
- Iyanla Vanzant Inner Visions / OWN community
J 13 groups
- Japan 2024 post-Abe religious-policy reform (umbrella)
- Japanese Unification Church successor branches (post-2022 Abe)
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Jesus Army / Jesus Fellowship Church
- Jesus Christians (Dave McKay)
- Jesus People USA (JPUSA)
- Jewish Defense League (Meir Kahane lineage)
- Jewish Renewal Movement / Romemu (mainstream)
- Joe Dispenza meditation network
- Johane Marange Apostolic Church
- John MacArthur / Grace Community Church (Sun Valley, California)
- John of God (João Teixeira de Faria)
- JW Kingdom Hall elders / judicial committee system
K 15 groups
- Kabbalah Centre (Berg family)
- Kanye West / Donda Academy / YZY (Sunday Service / brand cult-of-personality)
- Kashi Ashram (Ma Jaya)
- Kenja Communication
- Kenyan Christian doomsday cults (umbrella, Mackenzie tragedy)
- Kenyan high-control church umbrella (beyond Mackenzie)
- Khlysty (Khristovshchina, historical Russian flagellants)
- Kimbanguist Church (DR Congo)
- Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (Apollo Quiboloy)
- Kingston Order / Davis County Cooperative (Latter-Day Church of Christ)
- Konkokyo (Japanese new religion)
- Korean Shamanism (Mu, mainstream)
- Krishnamurti Foundations (mainstream)
- Kurozumikyo (Japanese new religion)
- KwaSizabantu Mission
L 33 groups
- L'Arche Communities post-2020 Jean Vanier reckoning
- La Luz del Mundo (Naasón Joaquín García)
- Labadists (historical)
- Lakewood Church (Joel Osteen)
- Landmark Forum (post-2020 trajectory)
- Landmark Forum (Werner Erhard / EST lineage)
- LaRouche Movement (Lyndon LaRouche organisations)
- LaRouche PAC successor network (Schiller Institute / EIR)
- Larry Ray (Sarah Lawrence sex-trafficking case)
- Latin American Catholic Base Communities (umbrella, mainstream)
- Latin American neo-Pentecostal prophetic / healing high-control movements (umbrella)
- Latin American Pentecostal broader (umbrella)
- Latter Rain movement (New Order of the Latter Rain)
- LDS Church (mainstream Mormonism)
- LeBaron clan polygamist groups
- Left-wing influencer parasocial cult communities (umbrella)
- Legio Maria (Legio Maria Church of Africa Mission)
- Legion of Christ (Marcial Maciel)
- Lev Tahor
- Lifespring (large-group awareness training)
- Living Church of God
- Living Faith Church Worldwide / Winners' Chapel (David Oyedepo)
- Local Church (Witness Lee / Living Stream Ministry)
- Logan Paul CryptoZoo (NFT influencer scheme)
- Logos Foundation (Howard Carter, Australia)
- Longtermism philosophical mainstream
- Lord Our Righteousness Church / Strong City (Wayne Bent)
- Louise Hay / Hay House publishing community
- Love Has Won (Amy Carlson)
- Love Has Won-derived 2025 splinter groups
- LuLaRoe (MLM)
- Lumpa Church / Alice Lenshina (historical)
- Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS)
M 58 groups
- 5-MeO-DMT / Bufo Alvarius shaman circles
- 7M Films / Shekinah Church (Robert Shinn)
- Magnificat Meal Movement (Debra Geileskey)
- Mahayana Buddhism (mainstream)
- Mainline Lutheranism (ELCA / Nordic state churches)
- Mainline Methodism
- Mainline Presbyterianism (PCUSA, Church of Scotland)
- Mainstream Catholicism
- Mainstream civic nonprofit volunteering (low-control reference)
- Mainstream electoral conservatism (low-control reference)
- Mainstream electoral progressivism / social democracy (low-control reference)
- Mainstream Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma)
- Mainstream Jainism
- Mainstream Shia Islam (Twelver)
- Mainstream Shinto
- Mainstream Sikhism
- Mainstream Sufi Islam
- Mainstream Sunni Islam
- Mainstream Taoism
- Mainstream Wicca / contemporary Paganism
- Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Kerala)
- Mandaeans (Sabian-Mandaeans)
- Manmin Central Church (Lee Jae-rock)
- Mannatech (glyconutrient MLM)
- Manosphere extreme-figure online cults
- Manson Family / Charles Manson
- Māori Indigenous spirituality (mainstream)
- Mar Mari Emmanuel / Christ the Good Shepherd Church (Sydney)
- Mar Thoma Syrian Church (Kerala)
- Maranatha Campus Ministries (defunct, 1972–89)
- Marianne Williamson lecture / political community
- Maronite Catholic Church
- Mars Hill Church (Mark Driscoll, 1996–2014)
- Mary Kay Cosmetics (mainstream MLM)
- Mata Amritanandamayi Math (Amma)
- Mazu / Tianhou temple network (mainstream)
- Members Church of God International (Eli Soriano / 'Ang Dating Daan')
- Mennonite Church USA (mainstream)
- Messianic Jewish Movement (mainstream)
- Messianic Judaism (high-control fellowships)
- Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes)
- Mexican syncretic folk religion (umbrella)
- Miles Jesu (Vatican-suppressed Catholic ecclesial institute)
- Millerism (historical)
- MindValley high-control online communities
- Modern caliphate-restoration online recruitment networks
- Modern Druidry (OBOD, Druid Network mainstream)
- Modern Orthodox Judaism
- Modern Yoruba Isese movement (mainstream)
- Monat Global (haircare MLM)
- MonaVie (historical MLM)
- Mooji / Anthony Paul Moo-Young
- Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Daniel Olukoya)
- Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (Nigeria, D.K. Olukoya)
- MOVE (Philadelphia, John Africa)
- Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG, Uganda)
- MSIA / Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (John-Roger Hinkins)
- Myalism (Jamaica historical)
N 31 groups
- Namdhari Sikh tradition (Kuka)
- Naqshbandi-Haqqani (high-control sub-currents)
- Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order (Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani lineage)
- Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order (mainstream)
- Nation of Islam (Louis Farrakhan)
- Nation of Yahweh (Yahweh ben Yahweh, defunct)
- National Bolshevik Party / Other Russia (Limonov)
- National Justice Party (NJP, white nationalist)
- National Labor Federation / NATLFED (Gino Perente)
- National Safety Associates / Juice Plus+ (mainstream-adjacent MLM)
- Native American Church (Peyote tradition)
- Native American Indigenous spiritualities (umbrella)
- Neo-charismatic prophets network (Cindy Jacobs et al.)
- Néo-Phare (Arnaud Mussy)
- Neoreactionary (NRx) online movement
- Neturei Karta (anti-Zionist Haredi)
- New Acropolis
- New Apostolic Church
- New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) / C Peter Wagner network / 7-Mountain Dominionism
- New Kadampa Tradition (NKT, Kelsang Gyatso)
- New Thought movement (mainstream)
- Newfrontiers (UK Charismatic)
- NewSpring Church (Perry Noble, post-2016)
- NGO / aid-worker cult umbrella (rare but documented)
- Nichiren Shoshu (parent of Soka Gakkai split)
- Nihang warrior Sikh tradition (mainstream)
- Nithyananda 'Kailasa' micro-state project
- Nu Skin Enterprises
- Nuwaubian Nation / Dwight York
- NXIVM-style Wellness Cults
- Nyahbinghi Order (Rastafari Mansion)
O 41 groups
- Oath Keepers (anti-government militia)
- Octavio Rettig — Bufo alvarius (5-MeO-DMT) facilitator network
- Okinawan Indigenous Religion (utaki worship, mainstream)
- Old Catholic Church (Union of Utrecht)
- Old Order Mennonites
- Olive Tree movement (Park Tae-son / Jeondogwan)
- OneCoin (Ruja Ignatova)
- Oneida Community Perfectionists (1848–81, historical)
- Oneness University (Sri Bhagavan / Sri Amma)
- Oneness University / Ekam (Kalki Bhagavan / Sri Bhagavan)
- OneTaste (Nicole Daedone)
- Online astrology influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Online dating-coach / 'attraction' parasocial cults (umbrella)
- Online energy-healing influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Online fitness influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Online intuitive-eating / anti-diet influencer cults (umbrella)
- Online mediumship / 'spirit channeling' cult communities (umbrella)
- Online MLM-spiritual hybrid cults (umbrella)
- Online radical-religious influencer cults (umbrella)
- Online radical-religious influencer cults 2026 evolution
- Online tarot / witch influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Online trading-influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Online trauma-healing influencer cults (umbrella)
- OnPassive / GoFounders
- Oomoto-kyo (Japanese new religion)
- Open Minds Foundation 2024 continuation
- Optavia / Medifast
- Opus Dei (numerary high-control variant)
- Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (Jiyu-Kennett, Shasta Abbey)
- Order of Nine Angles (O9A)
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO mainstream)
- Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) — Crowley-tradition Thelemic order
- Orthodox Bahá'í Faith (Mason Remey lineage)
- Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC)
- Osho International Foundation (post-Rajneesh)
- Other Bahá'í offshoots (umbrella)
- Other Buddhist traditions (umbrella)
- Other European Jewish Orthodox communities (umbrella)
- Other Japanese new religions (umbrella)
- Oyotunji African Village (USA Yoruba)
P 30 groups
- Pacific Islander Indigenous spiritualities (umbrella, mainstream)
- Palmarian Catholic Church
- Pana-Wave Laboratory (Yuko Chino)
- Panacea Society (Bedford, Mabel Barltrop / 'Octavia')
- Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
- Pastafarianism / Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Patriot Front
- Pentecostalism (mainstream)
- Peoples Temple (Jim Jones / Jonestown)
- Philadelphia Church of God / Gerald Flurry
- Philippine Catholic Church (mainstream)
- Philippine Moro high-control groups (umbrella)
- Pickup-artist online community (umbrella)
- Pietism (Spener-Francke historical movement)
- Pillar of Fire under Alma White (historical era)
- Plexus Worldwide
- Plum Village / Thich Nhat Hanh tradition (mainstream)
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church / Exclusive Brethren
- Polyamory / relationship coaching online cults (umbrella)
- Polynesian LDS / Mormon Pacific communities (mainstream)
- Posadism (Trotskyist UFO-communism)
- Post-Soviet Russian and Eastern European NRMs (umbrella)
- Potter's House Christian Fellowship (Christian Fellowship Ministries)
- Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
- Primerica (financial-services MLM)
- Primitive Baptists (Old Line)
- Process Church of the Final Judgment (historical)
- Proud Boys (Western chauvinist far-right)
- Providence / Christian Gospel Mission (JMS, Jeong Myeong-seok)
- Pure Land Buddhism (mainstream East Asian)
Q 11 groups
- Qadiriyya Sufi Order (mainstream)
- QAnon 2024–2026 evolution (post-Q drops)
- QAnon Movement
- QAnon-wellness 'conspirituality' overlap (umbrella)
- QNet
- Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
- Quan Yin Method (Suma Ching Hai)
- Quanzhen Taoism (Complete Perfection, monastic)
- Quietism (Molinos / Madame Guyon, historical)
- Quiverfull movement
- Quraniyoon (Quran-only Muslims, mainstream)
R 42 groups
- Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB)
- Radhe Maa (Sukhvinder Kaur)
- Raëlian Movement
- Raëlian Movement modern continuation
- Rajneesh / Osho Movement
- Ram Bahadur Bomjon / Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangha
- Rama Seminars (Frederick Lenz)
- Ramana Maharshi tradition (mainstream)
- Rampal (Satlok Ashram, India)
- Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (JZ Knight)
- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
- Rastafari Movement (mainstream)
- Rātana Church (Māori Christian mainstream)
- Rationalist community (LessWrong / MIRI)
- Ravi Zacharias / RZIM (Ravi Zacharias International Ministries)
- Ravidassia tradition (mainstream)
- ReAwaken America Tour
- Reborn in Christ Church (Igreja Renascer em Cristo)
- Reclaiming Tradition (Starhawk feminist Wicca)
- Red-pill / black-pill online radicalisation pipelines
- Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG, Adeboye)
- Redemptorists (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer)
- Reform Judaism
- Regnum Christi (lay movement of Legionaries of Christ)
- Reiyukai (Japanese new Buddhism)
- Religious-political fundraising organisations (umbrella, mainstream)
- Remnant Fellowship Church (Gwen Shamblin Lara)
- Renovação Carismática Católica (high-control Latin American variants)
- Restored Church of God (David C. Pack)
- Restored Hope Network (US Christian conversion-therapy ministries)
- Revolutionary Communist Party USA (Bob Avakian)
- Right-wing news influencer parasocial cult communities
- Rigpa (Sogyal Rinpoche, post-2017)
- Rissho Kosei-kai
- Rodan + Fields (skincare MLM)
- Romanian Orthodox Church
- Russell Brand / post-2023 evangelical pivot
- Russian 'Sovereign Citizens' / Grazhdane SSSR (Citizens of the USSR)
- Russian Imperial Movement
- Russian Old Believers — Bezpopovtsy (priestless)
- Russian Old Believers (Starovery)
- Russian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate
S 84 groups
- S.N. Goenka Vipassana Movement (10-day retreats)
- Sabbatean movement (Sabbatai Zevi)
- Saddleback Church (Rick Warren)
- Sahaja Yoga (Nirmala Srivastava / Shri Mataji)
- Sahaja Yoga (Nirmala Srivastava)
- Sahaja Yoga successor organisations / Vishwa Nirmala Dharma (post-Nirmala Srivastava)
- Salafi-jihadist movement (broader, post-ISIS)
- Salafist Islam (high-control sub-branches)
- Salvation Sect (Guwonpa) / Yoo Byung-eun (Sewol ferry context)
- Sant Nirankari Mission (Indian, mainstream)
- Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj movement (Satlok Ashram)
- Santa Muerte high-control templos (umbrella)
- Santa Muerte veneration (broader)
- Santería / Lukumí (Cuban Yoruba diaspora)
- Santo Daime / União do Vegetal (Brazilian ayahuasca churches)
- Sathya Sai Baba ashram residential schools (Puttaparthi)
- Sathya Sai Baba movement
- Sathya Sai Baba organisation
- Satmar Hasidic
- Scandinavian state Lutheran churches (mainstream)
- Scentsy (home fragrance MLM)
- School of Economic Science / School of Philosophy
- School of Living (intentional communities, mainstream)
- Science of Identity Foundation / Chris Butler
- Sean Feucht / Burn 24-7 / Let Us Worship
- Sedevacantist movement (independent traditional Catholicism)
- Seed of David / faith-healing isolates
- Seicho-no-Ie (Taniguchi Masaharu)
- Self-Realization Fellowship (Paramahansa Yogananda)
- Self-Realization Fellowship modern continuation
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Servants of the Paraclete (Servi Paraclitorum)
- Seven Angels Ministries (Mancoba Seven Angels Ministries)
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Shadhili-Darqawi — Murabitun World Movement (Sheikh Abdalqadir as-Sufi / Ian Dallas)
- Shaivism (mainstream)
- Shakers (United Society of Believers, historical)
- Shaklee Corporation (mainstream comparator)
- Shaktism (mainstream Goddess tradition)
- Shambhala International (post-Sakyong scandal)
- Shepherd's Rod / Davidian Seventh-day Adventists (historical)
- Shincheonji Church of Jesus
- Shincheonji Church of Jesus / Lee Man-hee
- Shri Ram Chandra Mission / Heartfulness (Sahaj Marg)
- Shuvu Banim (Eliezer Berland)
- Siddha Yoga (Muktananda / Chidvilasananda)
- Skoptsy (historical Russian self-castration sect)
- Skver (Skverer) Hasidic / New Square
- Smarta tradition (mainstream)
- Snake-Handling Pentecostals (Church of God with Signs Following)
- Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
- Society of Saint John (SSJ) / Catholic religious community (Pennsylvania, 1997–2004)
- Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV) / sedevacantist Catholic-traditionalist breakaway
- Society of Separatists of Zoar (historical)
- Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)
- Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) / Sodalit Movement (Luis Fernando Figari)
- Soka Gakkai International (SGI)
- Sokushinbutsu / Shingon mountain ascetic self-mummification (historical)
- Solar Lodge (Crowley-derived OTO offshoot, historical)
- Soldiers of Heaven / Jund as-Samaa (historical)
- Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church (Orlando, FL)
- South Pacific Christian movements (umbrella, mainstream)
- Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)
- Sovereign Citizens Movement
- Sovereign Grace Churches (formerly SGM)
- Spartacist League / International Communist League
- Spiritism (Allan Kardec, mainstream)
- Spiritual Science Research Foundation (SSRF) / Jayant Athavale
- Spiritualism (mainstream)
- Sri Karunamayi (Indian guru, hugging-style ministry)
- Sthanakvasi Jain (anti-idol reform)
- Stop Cop City / Atlanta Forest Defenders (specific antifa-adjacent cell)
- Strangite Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ – James Strang lineage)
- Sub-Saharan African prophetic / apostolic high-control churches (umbrella)
- Subud (Susila Budhi Dharma)
- Sukyo Mahikari (Japanese new religion)
- Summit Lighthouse (parent of Church Universal and Triumphant)
- Svetambara Jain mainstream
- Swadhyay Parivar (Pandurang Shastri Athavale)
- Swaminarayan BAPS (Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha)
- Swedenborgian Church / New Church (mainstream)
- Synanon (defunct, 1958–1991)
- Syriac Orthodox Church
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Kerala)
T 64 groups
- 'Techno-feudalism' / accelerationist Silicon Valley online cults
- 'Tradwife' online influencer cult communities (umbrella)
- Tablighi Jamaat
- Tablighi Jamaat (Saadi / Nizamuddin faction)
- Tadtad cults (Mindanao amulet militias)
- Takfir wal-Hijra (Jama'at al-Muslimin)
- TB Joshua — Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN)
- Teal Swan / Teal Eye LLC / The Teal Tribe
- Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP)
- TelexFree (historical pyramid fraud)
- Temple of Set (Michael Aquino)
- Temple of the True Inner Light
- Temple Society (Templers)
- Tenrikyo (Japanese new religion)
- Tenrikyo offshoots (Honmichi, Honbushin)
- Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō (the 'dancing religion')
- The Base (accelerationist)
- The Bible Speaks / Carl Stevens / Greater Grace World Outreach
- The Brethren / Jim Roberts Group
- The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (Olumba Olumba Obu)
- The Family / Santiniketan Park Association (Anne Hamilton-Byrne)
- The Fellowship (Australia)
- The Foundation (Trent and Tony Stansfeld)
- The House of Yahweh (Yisrayl Hawkins)
- The Message of the Hour / William Branham / Voice of God Recordings
- The Newman Tendency / All Stars Project (post-Newman)
- The Newman Tendency / Social Therapy (Fred Newman)
- The Order / Brüder Schweigen (Robert Mathews, 1983–84)
- The Potter's House (T.D. Jakes)
- The Satanic Temple (TST)
- The Source Family (Father Yod / James Edward Baker)
- The Sullivanians (Sullivan Institute / Fourth Wall)
- The Village Church (Matt Chandler)
- The Way International
- The Way International / Victor Paul Wierwille
- The Way to Happiness Foundation (Scientology-affiliated)
- Theosophical Society (Blavatsky lineage)
- Therapeutic-community (TC) Synanon-derivative movement
- Theravada Buddhism (mainstream)
- Three Percenters militia movement
- Three-Self Patriotic Movement (China state-registered church)
- Tibetan Buddhism (mainstream)
- Tijaniyya — Niass Faydiyya (Baye Niasse lineage)
- Tijaniyya Sufi Order (mainstream West African)
- TikTok spirituality / 'WitchTok' cult communities (umbrella)
- Tony Alamo Christian Ministries (defunct, founder convicted)
- Tony Robbins Business Mastery / Platinum Partnership
- Tony Robbins UPW intensives
- Toronto Blessing (Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship)
- Transcendental Meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
- Trappists (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance)
- Triratna Buddhist Community (Sangharakshita)
- Troubled Teen Industry high-control programmes
- True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
- True Buddha School (Lu Sheng-yen)
- Tupperware (mainstream MLM, bankruptcy 2024)
- Twelve Tribes
- Twelve Tribes Communities / Messianic Communities / Yellow Deli (Gene Spriggs)
- Twelve Tribes of Israel (Rastafari Mansion)
- Twin Flames Universe (Jeff and Shaleia Divine)
- Twin Oaks Community (Virginia, mainstream)
- Two by Twos / 'The Truth' (no-name fellowship)
- Two by Twos / The Truth / Cooneyites / Workers and Friends (William Irvine)
- Tzu Chi Foundation (Cheng Yen)
U 16 groups
- Udasi Sikh tradition (mainstream)
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church / Orthodox Church of Ukraine (post-2018)
- Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Haredi)
- Umbanda (Brazilian Afro-syncretic, mainstream)
- Unarius Academy of Science
- Unification Church (Moonies / Family Federation for World Peace)
- Unification Church / Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) / Moonies
- Unification Church successor groups
- Unitarian Universalist Association (mainstream)
- United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI, Oneness Pentecostal)
- United Submitters International (Rashad Khalifa)
- Universal Life Church (ordination network)
- Universal Medicine (Serge Benhayon, Australia)
- Universal White Brotherhood (Peter Deunov / Mikhaël Aïvanhov)
- University Bible Fellowship (UBF)
V 29 groups
- Vaishnavism (mainstream)
- Valley of the Dawn (Vale do Amanhecer)
- Various 'ascension' / 5D / starseed online communities (umbrella)
- Various 'clean eating' / 'wellness influencer' online cults (umbrella)
- Various 'self-improvement' podcast cult communities (umbrella)
- Various 1970s 'mind cure' / human-potential movements (umbrella)
- Various 1970s Jesus Movement groups (umbrella, historical)
- Various 2025 high-control group emergence (umbrella)
- Various Bangladeshi pir / fakir high-control groups (umbrella)
- Various body-positive / fat-acceptance influencer cults (umbrella)
- Various Falun Gong-adjacent qigong sects (umbrella)
- Various Hawaiian / Polynesian guru-led communities (umbrella)
- Various Indian 'godmen' / guru figures (umbrella)
- Various Indonesian high-control Islamic groups (umbrella)
- Various Jain spinoff communities (umbrella)
- Various Latin American evangelical denominations (umbrella)
- Various modern channeling networks (umbrella)
- Various Mormon-fundamentalist polygamist groups (umbrella)
- Various small far-left cadre sects (umbrella)
- Vector Marketing / Cutco Cutlery
- Vemma Nutrition (historical MLM)
- Vietnamese high-control religious movements (umbrella)
- Vineyard Churches (mainstream)
- Vipassana Trust prison programmes (mainstream)
- ViSalus (Body by Vi)
- Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)
- Vissarion (Church of the Last Testament, Siberia)
- Vizhnitz Hasidic
- Vodou diaspora communities (NYC, Miami, Montreal)
W 20 groups
- Wagner Group / Africa Corps (Russian PMC, post-2023)
- Wat Phra Dhammakaya
- Wayne Dyer self-help legacy (mainstream)
- Wealth-affirmation coaching cults
- Westboro Baptist Church
- Western Vajrayana high-control teacher circles (umbrella)
- William Wolfe / American Reformer / Center for Baptist Leadership
- Willow Creek Community Church (Bill Hybels)
- Wim Hof Method extreme-franchise variants
- Winti (Surinamese Afro-syncretic)
- Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)
- Won Buddhism (Korean)
- Word of Faith / Prosperity Gospel networks
- Word of Faith Fellowship (Jane Whaley)
- Word of Life / Livets Ord (Sweden)
- Workers World Party (WWP)
- World Financial Group (mainstream-adjacent comparator)
- World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG)
- World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) / Heavenly Mother Zhang Gil-jah
- Worldwide Church of God under Herbert W. Armstrong (historical)