[{"n": "L. Ron Hubbard", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/l-ron-hubbard/", "s": "American author who founded the Church of Scientology."}, {"n": "Joseph Smith", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/joseph-smith/", "s": "Founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement."}, {"n": "Mary Baker Eddy", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/mary-baker-eddy/", "s": "Founder of Christian Science and The Church of Christ, Scientist"}, {"n": "Charles Taze Russell", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/charles-taze-russell/", "s": "Founder of the Bible Student movement and early Christian Zionist."}, {"n": "Marshall Applewhite", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/marshall-applewhite/", "s": "Founder of Heaven's Gate who led a mass suicide."}, {"n": "Heinrich Kramer", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/heinrich-kramer/", "s": "Dominican inquisitor whose Malleus Maleficarum fueled early modern witch hunts."}, {"n": "James S. White", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/james-s-white/", "s": "Co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and pioneering publisher."}, {"n": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/joseph-franklin-rutherford/", "s": "Second president of the Watch Tower Society and key organizer of Jehovah's Witnesses."}, {"n": "John Flynn (minister)", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/john-flynn-minister/", "s": "Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service."}, {"n": "John G. Lake", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/john-g-lake/", "s": "Canadian-American Pentecostal leader and missionary to South Africa."}, {"n": "John Mott", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/john-mott/", "s": "American evangelist and Nobel Peace Prize winner for ecumenical peace work."}, {"n": "Leonard Howell", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/leonard-howell/", "s": "Early Rastafari preacher who proclaimed Haile Selassie divine."}, {"n": "Li Hongzhi", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/li-hongzhi/", "s": "Founder of Falun Gong, a US-based new religious movement."}, {"n": "Louis Farrakhan", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/louis-farrakhan/", "s": "American religious leader and head of the Nation of Islam."}, {"n": "Marie Laveau", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/marie-laveau/", "s": "Louisiana Creole Voodoo priestess, herbalist, and midwife."}, {"n": "Kimpa Vita", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/kimpa-vita/", "s": "Kongolese prophetess who led the Antonian Christian movement."}, {"n": "Mani (prophet)", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/mani-prophet/", "s": "Iranian prophet who founded the dualistic religion Manichaeism."}, {"n": "Marcion of Sinope", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/marcion-of-sinope/", "s": "Early Christian theologian who proposed a distinct God of the New Testament."}, {"n": "Meister Eckhart", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/meister-eckhart/", "s": "German Dominican mystic and theologian accused of heresy."}, {"n": "Mother Teresa", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/mother-teresa/", "s": "Albanian-Indian nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity."}, {"n": "Padre Pio", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/padre-pio/", "s": "Italian Capuchin friar known for stigmata and mystical phenomena."}, {"n": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/", "s": "Jesuit priest and paleontologist who integrated evolution with Christian mysticism."}, {"n": "Pierre-Jean De Smet", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/pierre-jean-de-smet/", "s": "Flemish Jesuit missionary who traveled 180,000 miles among Native peoples."}, {"n": "Sathya Sai Baba", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/sathya-sai-baba/", "s": "Indian godman who claimed to be Shirdi Sai Baba's reincarnation."}, {"n": "Shri Ramakrishna", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/shri-ramakrishna/", "s": "Indian Hindu mystic who taught the unity of all religions."}, {"n": "Sri Aurobindo", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/sri-aurobindo/", "s": "Indian philosopher, yogi, and nationalist who formulated Integral Yoga."}, {"n": "Swami Vivekananda", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/swami-vivekananda/", "s": "Indian Hindu monk who introduced Vedanta and Yoga to the West."}, {"n": "Teresa of Avila", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/teresa-of-avila/", "s": "Carmelite nun, mystic, and reformer of the Carmelite orders."}, {"n": "Thomas Merton", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/thomas-merton/", "s": "Trappist monk, writer, and advocate for interfaith understanding."}, {"n": "Zhu Xi", "u": "/e/founders-of-new-religious-movements/zhu-xi/", "s": "Neo-Confucian philosopher whose works shaped East Asian state ideology."}]