The Mormon Movement: A New Religious Movement

In today’s modern society there are many different types of religions that have been developed throughout history because of a person’s opinion, beliefs, and origins. Typically, a new religious movement consists of a group of spiritual people that practice religion from modern origins. In this essay, I will describe and compare multiple new religious movements to one another. Mormonism is a religious movement known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; this movement started during the early 1800s. During the second great awakening in New York, Joseph Smith founded the movement and created the Book of Mormon. This Book of Mormon stood beside the bible as scripture and established the origins of American Indians. Mormonism is

The shakers preached for female manifestation in Anne Lee and male manifestation in Jesus Christ. The Shakers have spirit drawings and dances that displayed their spirituality and communicated with spirits to spread their beliefs. The shaker religion was based on spiritualism and was not only able to survive the Civil War and was able to thrive while keeping encouraging beliefs that are often opposed in modern society. Similarly, to the Shakers, The Oneida Community also known as the Perfectionists were established by John Humphry Noyes and had the practice of male continence. This is when a male goes through sexual intercourse without birth control; the self-controlled birth control had men have sexual activity without ejaculation. The Oneida community also had beliefs in complex marriage by having every woman be a wife to every man and every man being husband to every woman. Even though The Shakers and The Oneidas are similar, they are very different because The Shakers advocated for gender equality and helped convince the public that women were actually people and they both had clear opposite intentions in the spiritual relationship with sexual