New Religious Movements

By BreganSullivan

  • Census pushing to answer Jediism

    Jediism received press coverage following a worldwide email campaign in 2001 urging people to write "Jedi" as their answer to the religion classification question in their country's census, resulting in the Jedi census phenomenon. The majority of such respondents are assumed to have claimed the faith as a joke

  • The temple of the Jedi order established in Texas

  • Article on growth of Jediism most read article on the website Explorefaith.org that year.

  • Church of Jediism founded in the UK

    Daniel Jones founded the church of jediism with his brother barney

  • Texas temple given tax exemption

  • Pushing in Turkey to build Jedi Temples

    In April 2015, the students of Dokuz Eylül University in Turkey started a petition on Change.org demanding a Jedi temple be built on the campus. The petition was in response to a previous petition which had demanded a mosque on the campus of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). The petition demanding the mosque reached 180,000 signatures, falling short of its 200,000 target, invoking a response from Mehmet Karaca, the rector of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ), promising "a landmark mosque".