If you are interested in reading detailed information about each of the major religions of the world such as the founders, sacred texts, beliefs and practices, then please follow this link: http://www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm However this is a brief description of ETHICAL CULTURE Ethical Culture, which has 7,000 followers, was founded as the Society for Ethical Culture in 1876 in New York City by Felix Adler. The International Union of Ethical Societies was formed in 1896. It joined other humanist organizations in 1952 to form the International Humanist and Ethical Union, based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Ethical Culture movement stresses the importance of ethics and morality in human interaction, although it offers no system of ethics or other religious beliefs of its own.