This article focuses on the question of how communities are formed in the context of new religious movements, specifically the Raelian Movement, a religious group in which individualist values typical of a New Age self religion merge with both possible and impossible community formations. Identifying the family as a key element in the analysis of the relation between individual and community, this article discusses how the Raelian religious project - which takes the individual as a value and strongly rejects the Christian familiar configuration - is dissolved not in the absence of community formations, but in the shaping of community assemblages that are more volatile and less cohesive, but no less complex and viable as transnational communities mediated by the mass media.
new religious movements; making of communities; family; mediation; media