Osho / Rajneesh movement
Modern Spiritual Movements New religious movement
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Neutral catalog summary
About this record
Osho / Rajneesh movement is cataloged as a New religious movement within Modern Spiritual Movements. Its candidate country context is “United States, India” and its period or origin is “Developed from the 1960s; institutional transformations after 1990; living.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Teachings and organizations of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Osho.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Rajneesh movement; Rajneeshism; Osho movement; Neo-Sannyas movement; Rajneesh Foundation
- Parent tradition
- Teachings and organizations of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Osho
- Public geographic context
- United States, India
- Period / origin
- Developed from the 1960s; institutional transformations after 1990; living
- Living / historical status
- Living transnational movement with historical organizational phases
- Access / protocol
- Institution-specific
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateUnited States, India
This record also has global, transnational, diaspora, textual or doctrinal context and is not reduced to one country.
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
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Stable attribution
Cite this record
Osho / Rajneesh movement. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 1496. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/1496
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