BALANCED VIEW/GREAT FREEDOM TIMELINE 1948: Candice O’Denver was born. 1982: O’Denver experienced a personal and spiritual crisis. 1990s (Early): O’Denver was enrolled in the California College of the Arts. 1993: O’Denver completed a Master’s thesis entitled Metaspace. 2003: Great Freedom was founded by Candice O’Denver. 2006-2007: Tours were conducted in a number of nations, with an extended stay in Rishikesh, India. 2010: Great Freedom was renamed Balanced View. FOUNDER/GROUP HISTORY There is very little biographical information available on Candice O’Denver, [Image at right] the founder of Great Freedom, which later became Balanced View. She was born around 1948 and raised Catholic. Norman (2010) reports that a pattern that emerged early in her life was looking inside herself for answers to life issues, reading the works of noted philosophers, and noting…
Régis Dericquebourg was an assistant-professor in the University Charles De Gaulle - Lille 3 (France). He is now an associate-professor at the Faculty of Comparative Studies on Religions and Humanism (Antwerpen-Wilrijk). He is a permanent member of the Group of sociology of Religions and Secularity (laïcité) at the National Center of Scientific Studies in Paris. He is President of the European Observatory of Religions and Secularism and cofounder of Human Rights Without Frontiers Int. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the Jehovah’s Witnesses (1975-1979) and has continued research on this movement. In 1986, he began studies on healing churches, publishing books such as Religions de guérison (Healing Religions) (Paris. Cerf. 1988), Les Antoinistes (The Antoinists) (Paris. Turnhout. Brepols. 1993), The Christian Scientists (Turin. Elle Di Ci. 1999), Croire et guérir…
RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL MOVEMENTS AND THE VISUAL ARTS Massimo Introvigne Center for Studies on New Religions MODERN VISUAL ARTS AND RELIGION The Special Project of the World Religion and Spirituality Project, Religious and Spiritual Movements and the Visual Arts, explores the relationships between contemporary religious movements and the visual arts. There are different concepts of “visual arts,” and copyright laws define them differently in Europe and North America. Most notably, U.S. copyright law (Copyright Act 1976, Article 1) excludes filmmaking from the field of the visual arts, while most European laws do include it—some would even add theatre and ballet. We would adopt a somewhat broad definition of the visual arts, including filmmaking, but focusing in particular on the traditional visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, designs, crafts, with the…
KABBALAH CENTRE TIMELINE 1885: Yehuda Ashlag was born in Warsaw, Poland. 1891: Levi Isaac Krakovsky was born in Romny, Polish Russia. 1929 (August 20): Feivel Gruberger (later known as Philip Berg) was born in Brooklyn, New York. 1922: Y. Ashlag established a small yeshiva and began to teach Kabbalah to his pupils. In the same year L.I. Krakovsky moved to Palestine and and met Y. Ashlag. 1937: L.I. Krakovsky moved to the U.S. and founded the Kabbalah Culture Society of America in Brooklyn (later in Hollywood). 1945: Karen Mulnich (later Berg) was born in the USA 1954: Y. Ahlag died in Jerusalem. 1962: Berg met his mentor Rabbi Yehuda Brandwein, the dean of the Yeshiva "Kol Yehuda“ on a trip to Israel. 1965: P. Berg founded the "National Institute for…
Carole M. Cusack The University of Sydney RELIGION IN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING, AND EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE ABSTRACT Contemporary Australian expressions of religion and spirituality demonstrate a diversity and flexibility that is largely the result of the changes wrought by the dual processes of secularisation and multiculturalism, which have increasingly characterised Australian culture since the 1960s (Bouma 1999, 18-24). Prior to the mid-twentieth century, Australia’s spiritual and religious climate was dominated by the convict origins of the white settlers, interdenominational conflict between Catholic and Protestant Christians, and the systematic suppression of the indigenous Australian Aboriginal culture, including Aboriginal religion (Thompson 2002, passim). ‘Spirituality,’ a looser construct than ‘religion’ (Brown, 1997, 116), has gained in popularity as organized religion, chiefly Christianity, has declined. Data from the five-yearly Australian…
Return to the World Religions in Richmond home page. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z A African Christian Community Church All Saints Apostolic Ministries All Saints Apostolic Video All Saints Episcopal All Saints Presbyterian Archangel Michael Coptic Arabic ASEV Ashtanga Yoga Center B BABV Bahai Bahai Video BAPS BAPS Video Belmont Beth Ahabah Beth El Bethlehem Bible Way Church Bon Air Bon Air Baptist Bon Air Chapel Bon Air Presbyterian Boulevard Branch’s Baptist Brazilian Brazilian Brazilian Brazilian English Brazilian Video Bread of Life Family Worship Center Broadus Memorial Buford C Cambridge Baptist CCV Cedar Street Celebration Center Centenary Central Baptist Chamberlayne Baptist Children of God Victory Tabernacle Chinese Baptist Christadelphians Video Christian…
WRSP locates and links to online video materials that supplement and enhance the text entries. The Video Connections entries are listed alphabetically and linked with relevant text entries. A COURSE IN MIRACLES ADIDAM AETHERIUS SOCIETY AGAINST THE STREAM BUDDHIST MEDITATION SOCIETY AHMADIYYA ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AMISH AMMACHI AMWAY ANANDA CHURCH OF SELF REALIZATION ANANDA MARGA YOGA ANUSARA YOGA ANSWERS IN GENESIS APATHETIC AGNOSTICS ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT ASSEMBLIES OF GOD AUM SHINRIKYO BAHA'I FAITH BAPS SHRI SWAMINARAYA MANDIR BENNY HINN MINISTRIES BETHEL BIBLE COLLEGE BIKRAM YOGA BRACO (THE GAZER) BRANCH DAVIDIANS BROWNSVILLE REVIVAL BURNING MAN FESTIVAL CALVARY CHAPEL CATHOLIC WORKERS MOVEMENT CHEN TAO CHOPRA CENTER FOR WELLBEING CHRIST OF THE OZARKS CHRIST THE REDEEMER CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH OF ALL WORLDS CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER…
From the first studies in the 1960s on the influence of Theosophy on key modern artists, such as Kandinsky and Mondrian, to well attended conferences in the twenty-first century, academia and the art communities increasingly realized new religious movements (NRMs)'s crucial influence on the visual arts. For the purposes of this project, religious and spiritual movements are broadly defined, including esoteric and spiritual movements that do not consider themselves as religious and broader currents of spirituality that do not necessarily constitute an organized "movement." These movements start with the new Christian and esoteric groups of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as the Swedenborgians or Christian Science. For this project, visual arts include painting, sculpture, architecture, cinema, and contemporary performance art. The WRSP special project presents profiles of both movements…
KERISTA COMMUNE TIMELINE 1923: John Presmont (formerly Jake Peltz, possible birth name Jacob Luvich, aka “Brother Jud”) was born. (1953?): Susan Furchgott (aka Eve Furchgott aka “Even Eve”) was born. 1956: Brother Jud had a vision in which he was told to found a sexually experimental intentional community. “Old Tribe” Kerista began. 1962: Brother Jud had a vision of an island called Kerista and henceforth that name was used by the community. 1965: Robert Anton Wilson visited Kerista in New York and published an article on the group in Fact magazine. 1966: Kerry Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism, joined the Los Angeles chapter of Kerista. 1970: The “Old Tribe” Kerista ended. 1971 (February): “New Tribe” Kerista was founded in San Francisco, after Brother Jud and Even Eve met. 1991: Kerista disbanded.…
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z*** *** For an alternative directory organized by sets of related profiles, see Entries By Category *** All special projects are indexed individually. A O Abramovic, Marina Adidam Adi Da Samraj A COURSE IN MIRACLES A Course in Miracles | Marianne Williamson Aetherius Society AFRICA Faith of Unity | Good News International Ministries | Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments | Redeemed Christian Church of God | Shashemene | Synagogue Church of All Nations | Zar Spirit Possession in Central Sudan | Zion Christian Church | AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITIONS African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem ! Father Divine | Moorish Science Temple of America |…