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# {{lb|en|religion}} {{abbreviated|en|NRM}} Any [[religious]] [[community]] or [[spiritual]] group of [[modern]] origins, having a [[peripheral]] place within itsa nationstate's [[dominant]] religious [[culture]].

#* {{quote-book|en|passage=TM, Erhard Seminars Training (est), and the Rajneesh Foundation are currently the most visible '''NRMs''' offering a release service to clients in Western Europe, but a large number of smaller groups are also in operation.|page=44|title=New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change|author=James A. Beckford|authorlink=w:James A. Beckford|year=1987|publisher=SAGE Publications Ltd|isbn=0803985916}}

#* {{quote-book|en|passage=To illustrate rather than to define: among the better-known '''NRMs''' are the Brahma Kumaris, the Church of Scientology, the Divine Light Mission (now known as Elan Vital), ''est'' (erhard Seminar Training, now known as the Landmark Forum), the Family (originally known as the Children of God), ISKCON (the Hare Krishna), Rajneeshism (now know as Osho International), Sahaja Yoga, the Soka Gakkai, Trandscendental Mediations, the Unification Church (known as the Moonies) and the Way International. One might also include Neo-Paganism, Occultism, Wicca (or witchcraft) and several movements that are within mainstream traditions, such as part of the House Church (Restoration) movement from within Protestant traditions, and Folkolare, the Neo-Catechumenates, Communione e Liberazione and perhaps even Opus Dei from within the Roman Catholic traditions.|last=Barker|first=Eileen|authorlink=w:Eileen Barker|editor-first=Dinesh|editor-last=Bhugra|editor-link=w:Dinesh Bhugra|title=Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies|year=1996||publisher=Routledge|location=London and New York|isbn=0415089557|page=126|chapter=New Religions and Mental Health|pages=126-127}}