Home›Latter Day Saint Movement›Parent ReligionBrowse ByParent ReligionThis page groups denominations by the wider religion they belong to. Wikipedia notes that "Shia Islam is the second largest denomination of Islam and its adherents believe that Ali succeeded Muhammad." Browsing by parent religion lets a visitor see every denomination belonging to one religion gathered together.FactsLearn MoreParent ReligionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDenominations 1Learn MoreThree Churches From One Nineteenth Century Succession Crisis This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.Latter Day Saint Movement gathers three churches descended from the succession crisis that followed Joseph Smith's assassination in 1844, each formed by a different community that rejected Brigham Young's Utah leadership. Community of Christ, known until 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, descends from the 1860 reorganization of believers who rejected both Young's leadership and the practice of plural marriage. It affirms the Trinity, ordains women, and is headquartered in Independence, Missouri, where its temple is dedicated to a ministry of peace and reconciliation. The Church of Jesus Christ, commonly called the Strangite church after its founder James Strang, formed when Strang produced a letter he said Smith had written naming him successor, a claim the majority of the movement rejected in favor of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Strang led his followers to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, where in 1850 he had himself crowned king, making the settlement the only avowedly monarchist religious community in nineteenth century American history. He was assassinated by his own followers in 1856, but a small Strangite church has continued, chiefly in Wisconsin, to the present day. Church of Christ (Temple Lot) organised in 1863 under Granville Hedrick, from Independence, Missouri believers who followed neither Young's majority nor the later Reorganization. It holds title to the original Temple Lot dedicated by Smith in 1831, a claim that became the subject of a nineteenth century lawsuit against the Reorganized Church, and it rejects the plural marriage and expanded temple ritual the Utah church later developed.Parent ReligionFilter Results1 entryAdherents Today MaximumAll17,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll17,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (1)Form of the ConfessionAllThe Articles of Faith, thirteen statements written by Joseph Smith in 1842, are the movement's closest equivalent to a creed. (1)FounderAllJoseph Smith, who organized the church on 6 April 1830 (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllPreached Expectation, Not Enforced (1)Legal StatusAllUnited States: Reynolds v. United States (1879) upheld the federal anti-polygamy law; Edmunds-Tucker Act 1887 dissolved the church's corporation; Utah 1896 statehood constitution bans polygamy (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2022-01-01 (1)Membership Over TimeAllAcross the whole Latter Day Saint movement, the family of denominations tracing their origin to Joseph Smith's 1830 founding of the Church of Christ, the constituent churches collectively have nearly 18 million nominal members as of 2022. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints itself accounts for about 98 to 99 percent of that total; the Community of Christ is the second-largest denomination, at about 252,000 members as of 2019, with a scattering of smaller denominations, including fundamentalist groups, making up the remainder. (1)Origin AccountAllThe movement traces its origin to Joseph Smith's account of receiving and translating the Book of Mormon, published in 1830 in upstate New York. (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1830 (1)Place of OriginAllUpstate New York, United States (1)Position on SexualityAllThe body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Restoration ClaimAllHistorians describe this as the movement's founding religious claim rather than a verifiable historical event (1)The tradition holds that the primitive church and its priesthood authority, lost in a Great Apostasy, were restored through Joseph Smith from 1820 (1)Sexuality Position DetailAllThe Latter Day Saint movement traces to a single founding by Joseph Smith in 1830, and it split into successor churches that hold opposite positions on this question today. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City and the movement's largest body by far, teaches that same-sex sexual relations violate the law of chastity and extends church discipline on that basis, while stating that experiencing same-sex attraction is not itself a sin and that LGBTQ individuals remain welcome as members. The Community of Christ, the movement's second-largest body, formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, formally approved same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy in 2013. No statement speaks for the movement as a whole. (1)Standing Giving ExpectationAllTithing traces to one shared founding revelation across the Latter Day Saint movement, Doctrine and Covenants 119 (1838), naming "one tenth of all their interest annually," and the practice remains named as a core institutional expectation in the movement's two largest present-day branches, though they have diverged in how fixed it remains. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps the historical calculation at a strict ten percent of income and ties it directly to temple access, recorded on its own denomination-level fact on this axis. The Community of Christ also names tithing as a core practice, historically calculated as ten percent of "net increase" (gross income less basic living needs), but its 2016 World Conference resolution on tithing, grounded in its own Doctrine and Covenants 165:2d, reframes the practice as "a spiritual practice that demonstrates willingness to offer every dimension of one's life to God" rather than a rule tied to a fixed calculation. The movement-wide constant is the named practice and its shared scriptural origin, not a single uniform rate or a single enforcement mechanism; only the Latter-day Saints branch specifically gates standing on it. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)TheologyAllMonotheistic: one God (1)Latter Day Saint MovementParent Religion3 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.