Educational tool only. All groups exist on a spectrum of control. Individual experiences vary. Based on publicly available reports, ex-member accounts, court records, and expert analyses — not medical or legal advice.
12 group profiles for organisations whose documented founding falls in the 1910s. Sorted by CLCI score, descending.
Filipino Christian denomination founded by Felix Manalo (1914), now headquartered in Quezon City under Eduardo V Manalo. Notable for disciplined bloc-voting in Philippine elections and the 2015 'Lowell Menorca' family-internal abduction allegations.
Historical closed millennialist Christian community in Bedford, England, founded in 1919 by Mabel Barltrop (known within the community as 'Octavia'), an Anglican vicar's widow who received what she identified as direct revelations continuing the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century Joanna Southcott prophetic tradition. The Society held that the world would end and that they would reign as the 144,000 of Revelation. The Society was the documented keeper of Joanna Southcott's sealed box across the twentieth century. The community is defunct; final dissolution of the organisational structure was effectively complete by 2012 with the death of the last full member. Profiled here as a historical reference entry from Jane Shaw's principal academic monograph.
Appalachian Pentecostal congregations practising serpent-handling and strychnine drinking based on Mark 16:17–18. Multiple documented deaths including pastor Jamie Coots (2014) and Mack Wolford (2012).
Tenrikyo schism founded in 1913 by Onishi Aijiro, who proclaimed himself the living Kanrodai (axis of the world). Famous for the construction of the kilometre-scale Honbushin shrine complex at Tondabayashi.
Major Western esoteric movement founded by Rudolf Steiner (1912). Operates global Waldorf school network and biodynamic agriculture. Documented anti-vax sub-currents.
Largest African-Initiated Church (AIC) in South Africa, founded by Engenas Lekganyane (1910). Distinctive Easter pilgrimage to Moria headquarters draws millions. Mostly mainstream with some moderate-control patterns.
Major modern Rosicrucian fraternal-spiritual order founded by H. Spencer Lewis (1915). Distinctive monograph correspondence-course system.
Broader US Communist Party (CPUSA) and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Mainstream political parties. Distinct from cadre-Trotskyist sects.
Largest single Brazilian Pentecostal denomination. Estimated 12+ million members. Mainstream Pentecostal low-moderate control.
Broader Latin American Pentecostal boom umbrella beyond Brazil. Mainstream low-moderate control. 200+ million adherents across region.
Korean reformist Buddhist tradition founded by Sotaesan Park Chungbin (1916). Distinctive 'Il-Won-Sang' (One Circle) symbol. Mainstream low-control.
Federally recognised Native American Church (incorporated 1918) practising sacramental peyote use. American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978, amended 1994) protects peyote use.