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The Radhasoami custom, as founded by Shiv Dayal Singh in Agra in 1861, has been highly influential in the development of several new religions in North America and somewhere else. However, little work has been done in exhibiting how Radhasoami has been transplanted into American dirt and the impact it has had on the spiritual current market. Utilizing socio-historical/textual evaluation, this study starts by checking out the emergence of Radhasoami as a transnational religious beliefs, focusing on the development of Radhasoami in America since the early on part of the century. The objective is to illustrate its affect on several expert movements in America, paying close focus on how society, in particular, alters the manifestation of religious communities and their individual theology. By charting such lines of affect among religions, we may then begin to obtain a much keener understanding of how and why religions evolve just how they do. One of the guru movements genealogically and theologically connected to Radhasoami are: Paul Twitchell's Eckankar; John-Roger Hinkins' Motion of Religious Inner Recognition [MSIA]; and Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind's Sikh Study Groups. In addition, you'll find so many smaller groups who've been influenced by Radhasoami which do not have as yet many people. Nonetheless, these "virtual" communities are essential not only because they contribute to the plurality of religious beliefs in America, nevertheless they give us access to review the evolutionary origins of an organization which may develop into a well-known entity or at least help as a micro-bridge for future movements. Each of these "virtual" communities, Jerry Mulvin's Divine Knowledge of Light and Sound, Gary Olsen's The Master Way, and Michael Turner's The Sonic Spectrum, have developed a distinctive version of Radhsoami practices and teachings, illustrating the fluidity of religious ideas and exactly how such ideas get included and transformed over very short intervals and in very limited settings.
