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108 records of restricted rites, initiations, texts and teachings. Browse without JavaScript, open the evidence, or return to the interactive map.

This is an incomplete seed collection. Country associations follow a tradition’s recorded geography; they do not locate a leak or measure prevalence.

Abakuá initiation in Lydia Cabrera’s collected accounts

Advaita Vedānta

Alawites (Nusayris)

Arrernte religion

Barasana He House initiation

Bektashi Order

Brahmanical (Vedic) tradition

Chaui Pawnee Hako in Tahirussawichi’s account

Cherokee practitioners in Mooney’s North Carolina collection

Church of Scientology

Cuban Osha-Ifá in the Proyecto Orunmila Atefá compilation

Daoism

Druze

Eleusinian Mysteries

Freemasonry

Gardnerian Wicca in the exposed Book of Shadows recension

Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandihui, Hung League)

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Hopi religion

Iglulingmiut and Aivilingmiut angakkuq training in Rasmussen’s account

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jewish esotericism (Maʿaseh Merkavah and Kabbalah)

Kwakwaka'wakw religion

Long Valley Patwin initiation in Loeb’s historical account

Mazatec mushroom religion

Midewiwin (Grand Medicine Society)

Mithraic Mysteries

Munduruku karoko custodianship in Murphy’s field account

NXIVM and DOS

Naqshbandi order

Ngarrindjeri religion

Oghar/Aghori practitioners in Moti Nath’s account

Ordo Templi Orientis

Osage child-naming ritual specialists

Pitjantjatjara religion

Poro societies in Liberia

Sambia male initiation in Gilbert Herdt’s field accounts

Sande societies in Liberia

Selk’nam Hain in the accounts collected by Anne Chapman

Shingon Buddhism

Shugendō

Sámi religion (noaidi practice)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana)

Transcendental Meditation

Zuni initiatory fraternities in Stevenson’s account

Śākta Tantra (Kaula and Śrīvidyā)