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Name of Religion
Primary Text(s)
Public accusations on where the texts plagiarized from

Islam
The Qur’an and the hadiths
The Hebrew scriptures and the Christian New Testament, sometimes word for word, but often with alterations to the text. Jewish apocryphal literature (including the Talmud) also taken.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism)
The Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price and Doctrines and Covenants
The Bible, both the Old Testament and the New. Scholars allege that Solomon Spalding’s (1761-1816) book The Manuscript Found, a novel, was an early version of The Book of Mormon that Mormon founder Joseph Smith allegedly took and presented to the world. Part of The Pearl of Great Price came from the Egyptian Book of Breathings.

The Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)
Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health, the Key to the Scriptures. Eddy was the founder of the Christian Science sect.
Her work extensively plagiarized Phineas Quimby’s Science of Man. She also plagiarized Francis Lieber. Eddy was an associate of Quimby’s.

Seventh Day Adventism
Ellen G. White, the founder of the sect, wrote a number of key documents guiding Adventism, which was an offshoot of the Millerite movement of the 1840s. One of them is called The Great Controversy.
Joseph Smith’s Pearl of Great Price, the apocryypha, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, The Book of Jasher, Adersheim’s Bible History: Old Testament and The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, and others.

The Theosophical Society
Founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s guiding books of the movement were titled Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine.
Books plagiarized from more than 100 sources, including The Celtic Druids and Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins

Eckankar
This twentieth century sect was founded upon the writings of Paul Twitchell, who wrote several books, including The Far Country.
Plagiarized from Julian Johnson’s The Path of the Masters.

The Way, International
A twentieth century anti-trinitarian evangelical sect was founded upon the writings and teachings of Victor Paul Wierwille. One of Wierwille’s foundational books is Receiving the Holy Spirit (1972).
Plagiarized from J.E. Stiles’ book, The Gift of the Holy Spirit. Researchers examining Wierwille’s other writing say he plagiarized from at least seven other books, including works by E.W. Kenyon and E.W. Bullinger.

The Jain Sect
This sect, founded in India more than 2,500 years ago making it one of the oldest living religions, has had its teachings altered at various times in its history.
Seventeenth-century cleric called Úrîbhûsana plagiarized another work titled Pândavapurâna from a rival sect.

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