Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicide of its members in 1997. Often described as a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and B
A recruitment flyer posted in San Francisco in August 1975
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Raëlism, also known as Raëlianism, is a UFO religion founded in the 1970s in France by Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël. Scholars of religion classify Raëlism as a new religious movement. The group
A public gathering of Raëlists in 2006 in the Insa-dong neighbourhood of Seoul, South Korea, protesting their government's 2003 ban on Raël entering the country
A medallion displaying the Raëlian symbol; practitioners typically wear these medallions to identify their beliefs
Raëlians promoting their religion on a street in Japan; one is dressed as an alien character mascot.
A small-scale tent copy of the proposed Elohim embassy erected at a Raëlian seminar in Colombia