Typology of new religious movements: sociocultural grounds for classification

The article presents an overview of new religious movements, identifies their common and different features, analyzes their classification by attitude towards a person,socio-cultural characteristics, and the principle of origin. Today, researchers pay much attention to religious innovations, they consider this phenomenon at the junction of various humanities. Such interest is caused not only by an increase in the number of organizations and believers, which is confirmed by modern sociological research, but also by new ideas, teachings and practices of sacred and physical self-actualization, alien to the religious traditions that dominate in the cultural environment. The classification of new religious movements by attitude towards a person and society allows us to assess their impact on the adherents of specific religious associations.