{"id":641,"date":"2026-07-01T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merder.org\/?page_id=641"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:36:12","slug":"new-religious-movements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/merder.org\/?page_id=641","title":{"rendered":"New Religious Movements: Images, Symbols, and Sacred Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrig-page\">\n<style>\n    .wrig-page { max-width: 1120px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 1rem; line-height: 1.55; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-note { border-left: 4px solid #52616b; padding: .7rem 1rem; background: #f6f7f8; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(260px, 1fr)); gap: 1rem; margin: 1.25rem 0; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-card { border: 1px solid #d9d9d9; border-radius: 6px; padding: 1rem; background: #fff; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-card h2 { font-size: 1.15rem; margin-top: 0; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-card img { width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; border: 1px solid #ececec; background: #f7f7f7; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-meta, .wrig-caution { font-size: .92rem; color: #333; }<br \/>\n    .wrig-caution { background: #fff8e6; border-left: 3px solid #b98200; padding: .55rem .7rem; }<br \/>\n  <\/style>\n<h1>New Religious Movements: Images, Symbols, and Sacred Places<\/h1>\n<p>This is a limited visual study page using only images that passed the final safety review. The page avoids sensational or loosely related imagery and includes only material tied to a clearly identified modern religious movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-note\">This limited page uses fewer images than the other gallery pages because only images with clear reusable or public-display status and strong relevance were included.<\/p>\n<section class=\"wrig-grid\">\n<article class=\"wrig-card\">\n<h2>Salt Lake Temple, Utah &#8211; Sept 2004-2<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/merder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/new-religious-movements-salt-lake-temple-utah-sept-2004-2.jpg\" alt=\"Salt Lake Temple, Utah - Sept 2004-2\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-caption\">This image shows Salt Lake Temple, Utah &#8211; Sept 2004-2. It connects to a documented modern religious movement through latter-day saint architecture\/history. Students can use it to study modern sacred architecture, religious authority, and community identity without sensationalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-caution\"><strong>Caution:<\/strong> Avoid mockery or sensationalism; represent modern movements with documented sites or archival material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-meta\"><strong>Category:<\/strong> Latter-day Saint architecture\/history<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-meta\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Salt%20Lake%20Temple%2C%20Utah%20-%20Sept%202004-2.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-meta\"><strong>Rights\/license:<\/strong> Wikimedia Commons; CC BY 2.5; attribution: derivative work: Entheta (talk) Salt_Lake_Temple,_Utah_-_Sept_2004.jpg: Diliff<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>Why This Page Is Limited<\/h2>\n<p>New religious movements are diverse and often misunderstood. This page uses a limited image set to avoid random modern spiritual imagery, satire, or unrelated architecture. The goal is to connect visible evidence to documented communities, sites, leaders, or institutions.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>Questions for Looking Closely<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Which modern religious movement is clearly connected with this image?<\/li>\n<li>How does the image help students study authority, sacred space, text, or community formation?<\/li>\n<li>What would make an image too generic or sensational for this page?<\/li>\n<li>What further source information would help interpret this image responsibly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>Further Study \/ Linked Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Further links will be added after a separate source review. For now, students should use the source and rights notes on each image card as the verified starting point for study.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merder.org\/world-religions-images\/\">Back to World Religions Image Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wrig-meta\">Source note: Only images with verified WordPress-hosted media URLs and clear source\/rights notes are included. Unverified or poorly contextualized images were left out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Religious Movements: Images, Symbols, and Sacred Places This is a limited visual study page using only images that passed the final safety review. The page avoids sensational or loosely related imagery and includes only material tied to a clearly identified modern religious movement. This limited page uses fewer images than the other gallery pages &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/merder.org\/?page_id=641\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Religious Movements: Images, Symbols, and Sacred Places<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":628,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions\/848"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merder.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}