| Name
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Founder
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Date Founded
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Location Founded
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Core Beliefs
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Notes
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| Adventism
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William Miller
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August 7, 1831
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Dresden, New York
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The imminent Second Coming (or "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ.
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| African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Richard Allen
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1816
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Adherence to the Apostles' Creed and The Twenty Five Articles of Religion
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| Christian Science
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Mary Baker Eddy
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1866
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| Church Universal and Triumphant
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| Churches of Christ/Disciples of Christ
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Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell
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| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
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Joseph Smith, Jr.
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New York
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| Episcopal Church
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| Jehovah's Witnesses
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Charles Taze Russell
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Pennsylvania
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| Moorish Science Temple of America
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| Nation of Islam
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| Native American Church
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Quanah Parker
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| Pentecostalism
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Charles Parham
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Los Angeles, California
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| Polish National Catholic Church
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| Reconstructionist Judaism
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Mordecai Kaplan
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| Scientology
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L. Ron Hubbard
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| Southern Baptist Convention
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| Spiritualist Church
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| Unitarian Universalism
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| United Church of Christ
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