Orthodox Bahá'í Faith (Mason Remey lineage)
Small Bahá'í offshoot following Mason Remey's 1960 succession claim against the Universal House of Justice. Declared covenant-breakers by mainstream Faith.
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BITE breakdown
0 — small Bahá'í offshoot following Mason Remey's 1960 succession claim; declared covenant-breakers by mainstream Faith.
Profile facts
In context
Mason Remey (1874–1974), an American Bahá'í Hand of the Cause, claimed in 1960 to be the second Guardian of the Faith. Declared covenant-breaker by Shoghi Effendi's widow and most Hands. Small surviving Orthodox Bahá'í Faith continues.
Recovery resources
- ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) — General referral and cult-aware therapist directory.
- Freedom of Mind Resource Center — Steven Hassan's organisation; BITE-model resources and family-side exit guidance.
- Reclamation Collective — Religious-trauma-aware therapist network; relevant for post-exit identity-rebuilding.
- Religious Trauma Institute — Religious-trauma clinical research and clinician directory (Marlene Winell tradition).
- INFORM (Information Network on Religious Movements) — LSE-founded UK research-based information service covering new religious movements.
See the full curated list at /resources.
This profile is in progress — history, deeper BITE evidence and survivor voices are still being added. Contributions welcome via GitHub.
Timeline
- 1960Remey's succession claim
- 1974Remey dies
Sources
- Various Bahá'í-studies academic work search ↗
We cite sources by name and outlet rather than fabricating links. Where a source includes its own URL, the open ↗ link opens it directly; otherwise search ↗ runs a Google Scholar query for the cited title — useful for verifying academic sources. For news outlets, search the outlet's own archive.
Change history
Substantive edits logged per the score-updates policy.
- 2026-05-29Phase 1 Batch J: per-group recovery resources applied via programmatic palette (closest-fit by category + subCategory + score). Palette: Universal fallback.
- 2026-05-20Source-density flags derived from existing free-text sources[]: academic sources. Heuristic auto-flag; subsequent editorial pass will populate structuredSources[] with reliability tiers.
- 2026-05-20Score band scheme migrated from 4 bands to 5 (Minimal 0–5 / Low 6–12 / Moderate 13–20 / High 21–30 / Extreme 31–40). No CLCI value changed; the new Minimal band was carved out of the bottom of the previous Low band.
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