religious movement new religious movement http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/298031006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q477544 A religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. NRMs can be novel in origin or part of a wider religion, in which case they are distinct from pre-existing denominations. Some NRMs deal with the challenges posed by the modernizing world by embracing individualism, whereas others seek tightly knit collective means. NRM alternative religious movement new religious movements