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Transcendental Meditation, also called TM, technique of meditation in which practitioners mentally with the aim of achieving a state of inner peacefulness and bodily calm.

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United Methodist church:Adhere to doctrines expressed in documents known as Articles of religion and confession of faith. Wesley’s explanatory notes on the New Testament provide additional material for doctrinal studies.

Free Methodist Church: Stay true to early church beliefs written and preached by Wesley. Detested slavery and denied slave owners membership as paying for seats caused difficulty for believers. Today, they embrace forming relationships with communities, promoting justice and peace along with ministering to the poor.

African Methodist episcopal church: Provide aid to society members, originally splintered in order to help people of African descent avoid intolerance they often faced, and welcome people of all races.

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world affirming - more spiritual than religious

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It's a denomination

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The 4 alls: chiefly scripture, tradition, reason and Christian experience

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Founded in the 18th century by John Wesley who wanted to reform the church of England from within.

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Practitioners 5,000,000
Celebrities
Clint Eastwood
Gwyneth patrow
Katy Perry
The Beatles

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follows structure of cult:
-focus on self fulfilment
-middle class members
-smaller than churches
-no links to state

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Methodists believe that everyone should be baptised to be cleaned from original sin, not only confessing adults. They also believe that saints and the virgin Mary were not free from original sin, Methodists still celebrate saints but not in the same way as traditional Catholics do.

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As lots of laws are based on the religion.

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Transcendental Meditation is a form of silent, mantra meditation advocated by the Transcendental Meditation movement. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi created the technique in India in the mid-1950s.

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Heavens gate is described as a cult, The central belief of the group was that followers could transform themselves into immortal extraterrestrial beings by rejecting their human nature, and this would take them to heaven.
Applewhite and 38 of his followers drank a lethal mixture of phenobarbital and vodka and then lay down to die,
They preached that suicide would allow them to leave their bodily “containers” and enter an alien spacecraft hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet.

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estimated to have 900,000 participants in the 70's, 1M in the 80's

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Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church worldwide

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Roman Catholic Church is growing big in Congo, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, Nigeria, Uganda, Colombia, Argentina, and Angola

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Founded by Jesus

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Based in Italy ran by the pope

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62.9% of people in Argentina belong to a Roman Catholic Church.

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They claim the monopoly of truth

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Methodists believe that people should have a very personal relationship with God that transforms their lives.

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form of silent meditation

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1.34 billion people are admittedly catholic