List of religions and spiritual traditions

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Religious symbols in clock-wise order from top: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baháʼí Faith, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Slavic neopaganism, Celtic polytheism, Heathenism (Germanic paganism), Semitic neopaganism, Wicca, Kemetism (Egyptian paganism), Hellenism (Greek paganism), Italo-Roman neopaganism.

While the word religion is hard to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as a

[…] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.[1]

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws, or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, which at some point in the future will be countless.[2]

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with the words "faith" or "belief system", but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviours, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of veneration of a deity or for prayer, holy places (either natural or architectural) or religious texts. Certain religions also have a sacred language often used in liturgical services. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a God or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, rites, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture. Religious beliefs have also been used to explain parapsychological phenomena such as out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences and reincarnation, along with many other paranormal and supernatural experiences.[3][4]

Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and new religious movements, which refers to recently developed faiths.[5] One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings,[6] and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures that are not based upon such systems, or in which these systems are a substantially simpler construct.

Eastern religions[]

Main article: Eastern religions

East Asian religions[]

Main article: East Asian religions
See also: Three teachings

Religions that originated in East Asia, also known as Taoic religions; namely Taoism, Confucianism, Shenism and Shintoism, and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Confucianism[]

Main article: Confucianism
See also: Confucian ritual religion
  • Confucian churches
    • Holy Confucian Church
    • Indonesian Confucian Church
    • Shanrendao
    • Shengdao
    • Taigu school
    • Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition
    • Xuanyuanism
  • Confucian philosophy schools
    • Neo-Confucianism
    • New Confucianism

Shinto[]

Main article: Shinto
See also: Shinto sects and schools

Taoism[]

Main article: Taoism
  • Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
    • Way of the Celestial Masters
      • Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness")
  • Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity")
  • Lingbao School ("School of the Numinous Treasure")
  • Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue")
    • Dragon Gate Taoism
  • Wuliupai ("School of Wu-Liu")
  • Yao Taoism (a.k.a. "Meishanism")
  • Faism (a.k.a. "Redhead Taoism")
  • Xuanxue (a.k.a. "Neo-Taoism")

Other[]

Chinese[]
Main article: Religion in China
  • Benzhuism
  • Chinese folk religion
    • Northeast China folk religion
  • Chinese salvationist religions
  • Luoism
  • Mohism
  • Nuo folk religion
  • Wang Hao-te
  • Xiantiandao
  • Yao folk religion
  • Yiguandao
  • Zhuang Shigongism
Japanese[]
Main article: Religion in Japan
Korean[]
Main article: Religion in Korea
Vietnamese[]
Main article: Religion in Vietnam

Indian religions[]

Main article: Indian religions

The three main religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Buddhism[]

Main article: Buddhism
See also: Schools of Buddhism
  • Mahayana
    • Tiantai
    • Buddha-nature
      • Daśabhūmikā
      • Huayan school
        • Hwaeom
        • Kegon
    • Chan Buddhism
  • Seon Buddhism
  • Nikaya Buddhism (incorrectly called "Hinayana" in the West)
    • Humanistic Buddhism
    • Theravada
      • Sangharaj Nikaya (Bangladesh)
      • Mahasthabir Nikaya (Bangladesh)
      • Dwara Nikaya (Burma)
      • Shwegyin Nikaya (Burma)
      • Thudhamma Nikaya (Burma)
        • Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
      • Amarapura Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Ramañña Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Siam Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Dhammayuttika Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Thai Forest Tradition
          • Tradition of Ajahn Chah
      • Maha Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Dhammakaya Movement
    • Vipassana movement
  • Vajrayana
    • Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
    • Newar Buddhism (Nepal)
    • Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
    • Shingon Buddhism
    • Tantric Theravada
    • Tendai Buddhism
    • Tibetan Buddhism
      • Bon (Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal)
      • Gelug
      • Kagyu
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Barom Kagyu
          • Drukpa Lineage
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingma
      • Sakya
      • Jonang
      • Bodongpa
      • Rimé movement
  • Navayana (India; also called Neo-Buddhism or Ambedkarite Buddhism)
    • Dalit Buddhist movement
  • Kirat Mundhum (Nepal)
Neo-Buddhism[]
Main article: Buddhist modernism
  • Dalit Buddhist movement
  • Shambhala Buddhism
  • Diamond Way Buddhism
  • Triratna Buddhist Community
  • New Kadampa Tradition[7]
  • Share International
  • True Buddha School
    • Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga
  • Hòa Hảo

Hinduism[]

Main article: Hinduism
Further information: Hindu denominations
  • Ayyavazhi
  • Kaumaram
  • Shaivism[8]
    • Aghori
    • Indonesian Shaivism
    • Kapalika
    • Kashmir Shaivism
    • Nath
    • Pashupata Shaivism
    • Shaiva Siddhanta
    • Veerashaivism (Lingayatism)
  • Shaktism[8]
    • Kalikula
    • Srikula
  • Smartism
  • Śrauta
  • Tantra
    • Baul
    • Kaula
  • Vaishnavism/Krishnaism[8][9]
Bhakti movements
Main articles: Bhakti movement and Contemporary Sant Mat movements
Hindu philosophy schools
Main article: Hindu philosophy
  • Āstika (Orthodox schools)
    • Nyaya
    • Purva mimamsa
    • Samkhya
    • Vaisheshika
    • Vedanta
      • Advaita Vedanta
      • Akshar-Purushottam Darshan
      • Bhedabheda
        • Achintya Bheda Abheda
        • Dvaitadvaita
      • Dvaita Vedanta
      • Integral yoga
      • Pratyabhijna
      • Shaiva Siddhanta
      • Shiva Advaita
      • Shuddhadvaita
      • Vishishtadvaita
    • Yoga (philosophy)
  • Nāstika (Heterodox schools)
Yoga
Main article: Yoga
Neo Vedanta Movements[]
  • Ananda
  • Ananda Ashrama
  • Ananda Marga[13]
  • Anandamayee Sangha
  • Arya Samaj[14]
  • Brahma Kumaris
  • Chinmaya Mission
  • Hindutva
  • Mahima Dharma
  • Matua Mahasangha
  • Narayana Dharm
  • Oneness Movement
  • Ramakrishna Mission (Vedanta Society)
  • Satsang
  • Sathya Sai Baba movement
  • Satya Dharma
  • Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres
  • Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Sri Ramana Ashram

Jainism[]

Main article: Jainism

Sikhism[]

Main articles: Sikhism and Sects of Sikhism
  • AKJ
  • Damdami Taksal
  • Nanakpanthi
  • Nanaksar
  • Nirmala
  • Naamdhari
  • Nihang
  • Ravidassia
  • Sevapanthi
  • Sikh Dharma International (3HO)
  • Singh Sabha Missionary
  • Udasi

Middle Eastern religions[]

Main article: Religion in the Middle East
See also: Western religions

Religions that originated in the Middle East; namely Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Abrahamic religions[]

Main article: Abrahamic religions

Bábism[]

Main article: Bábism
See also: Baháʼí divisions

Christianity[]

Main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations
Eastern Christianity[]
Main article: Eastern Christianity
  • Church of the East (incorrectly[citation needed] called "Nestorianism")
    • Ancient Church of the East
    • Assyrian Church of the East
      • Chaldean Syrian Church
    • Chaldean Catholic Church
  • Eastern Catholic Churches
    • Albanian Greek Catholic Church
    • Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
    • Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
    • Byzantine Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
    • Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
    • Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church
    • Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Italo-Greek Catholic Church")
    • Macedonian Catholic Church
    • Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    • Romanian Catholic Church
    • Russian Greek Catholic Church
    • Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Byzantine Catholic Church" in the United States)
    • Slovak Greek Catholic Church
    • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
    • Chaldean Catholic Church
    • Syriac Catholic Church
    • Maronite Church
    • Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
    • Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
    • (Independent Eastern Catholic Churches)
      • Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church
  • Eastern Orthodox Church (officially the "Orthodox Catholic Church")
    • Greek Orthodox Church
    • Serbian Orthodox Church
    • Russian Orthodox Church
    • Romanian Orthodox Church
    • Bulgarian Orthodox Church
    • Georgian Orthodox Church
    • Albanian Orthodox Church
    • Ukrainian Orthodox Church
    • (Noncanonical/Independent Eastern Orthodox Churches)
      • Greek Old Calendarists (a.k.a. "Genuine Orthodox" or "True Orthodox")
      • Russian Old Believers (a.k.a. "Old Ritualists")
  • Oriental Orthodox Churches (a.k.a. "Non-Chalcedonian" or "Miaphysite"/"Monophysite")
    • Armenian Apostolic Church
    • Coptic Orthodox Church
    • Syriac Orthodox Church
      • Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church (of the St. Thomas Christians in India)
    • Ethiopian Orthodox Church
    • Eritrean Orthodox Church
    • Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (of the St. Thomas Christians in India)
  • Spiritual Christianity
Western Christianity[]
Main article: Western Christianity
  • Proto-Protestantism
    • Brethren of the Free Spirit (Historical)
    • Hussites (Historical)
    • Strigolniki (Historical)
    • Waldensians
  • Protestantism
    • Anabaptists (Radical Protestants)
      • Amish
      • Hutterites
      • Mennonites
      • River Brethren
      • Schwarzenau Brethren
      • Shakers
    • Anglicanism
      • Anglo-Catholicism
      • Broad church
      • Continuing Anglican movement
      • English Dissenters
        • Nonconformists
      • High church
      • Low church
      • Open Evangelicals
      • Puritans
    • Baptists
    • Black church
      • Black theology
    • Christian deism
    • Confessing Movement
    • Evangelicalism
      • Charismatic movement
      • Dispensationalist Christian Zionism
      • Emerging church
      • German Christians (movement)
      • Neo-charismatic movement
      • Neo-Evangelicalism
      • Plymouth Brethren
        • Exclusive Brethren
        • Open Brethren
      • Progressive Christianity
      • Protestant fundamentalism
    • Jesuism
    • Lollardy (Historical)
    • Lutheranism
    • Methodism
      • Calvinistic Methodists
      • Holiness movement
        • Church of the Nazarene
      • The Salvation Army
      • Wesleyanism
    • Pentecostalism
    • Quakers ("Friends")
    • Reformed churches
      • Amyraldism (a.k.a."four-point Calvinism")
      • Arminianism
        • Remonstrants
      • Calvinism
      • Christian Reconstructionism
      • Congregational churches
      • Continental Reformed churches
        • Swiss Reformed
        • Dutch Reformed
        • French Huguenot
      • Neo-Calvinism
      • Presbyterianism
      • Zwinglianism (Historical)
    • Restoration movement
      • Adventism
        • Branch Davidians
        • Seventh-day Adventist Church
      • Christadelphians
      • Christian Science
      • Churches of Christ
      • Iglesia ni Cristo
      • Bible Student movement
      • Latter Day Saint movement
        • Mormon fundamentalism
        • Community of Christ
      • Millerism (Historical)
      • Stone-Campbell movement (a.k.a. "Campbellites")
    • Swedenborgianism (a.k.a. "The New Church")
    • Unitarianism
    • Unity Church
  • Roman Catholic Church/Latin Church (a.k.a. "Roman Catholicism" or "Catholicism")
    • Affirming Catholicism
    • Anglican Ordinariate Catholics
    • Breakaway Catholics
    • Charismatic Catholics
    • Civil Constitution of the Clergy
    • Gallicanism
    • Hebrew Catholics
    • Independent Catholic churches
      • Old Catholic Church (Union of Utrecht)
        • Polish National Catholic Church (Union of Scranton)
    • Liberal Catholicism
    • Liberation theology
    • Modernist Catholics
    • Traditionalist Catholics
      • Sedevacantism
        • Palmarian Catholic Church
    • Ultramontanism
Other[]
See also: Gnosticism and Christian mysticism

Certain Christian groups are difficult to classify as "Eastern" or "Western." Many Gnostic groups were closely related to early Christianity, for example, Valentinism. Irenaeus wrote polemics against them from the standpoint of the then-unified Catholic Church.[16]

  • Arianism (Historical)
  • Bagnolians (Historical)
  • Bogomilism (Historical)
  • Bosnian Church (Historical)
  • Catharism (Historical)
  • Cerdonians (Historical)
  • Esoteric Christianity
    • Behmenism
    • Christian Kabbalah
    • Martinism
  • Christian Universalism
  • Christopaganism
    • Christian Wicca
  • Eastern Lightning
  • Ecclesia Gnostica
  • Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
  • God Worshipping Society (Historical)
  • Judaizers (Judeo-Christian)
    • Hebrew Roots
    • Makuya
    • Messianic Judaism
    • Sacred Name Movement
    • Yehowists
    • Ebionites (Historical)
  • Nondenominational Christianity
  • Nontrinitarianism
    • Unitarianism
    • Bible Student movement
    • Christadelphians
    • Oneness Pentecostalism
    • Spiritual Christianity
    • Tolstoyan movement
  • Marcionism (Historical)
  • Unification Church (Family Federation for World Peace and Unification)
    • World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church
  • Reformed Eastern Christianity
  • Sethianism (Historical)
    • Basilideans (Historical)
    • Valentinianism (Historical)
      • Bardesanite School (Historical)
  • Simonians (Historical)
  • Theosophy

Druze[]

Main article: Druze

Islam[]

Main article: Islam
See also: Islamic schools and branches, Ilm al-Kalam, Ahl al-Hadith, and Islamism
Khawarij[]
Main article: Khawarij
  • Azraqi (Historical)
  • Haruriyyah (Historical)
  • Ibadi
  • Sufri (Historical)
Shia Islam[]
Main article: Shia Islam
  • Alevism
  • Isma'ilism
    • Mustaali
      • Dawoodi Bohra
        • Alavi Bohra
        • Atba-i-Malak
          • Atba-i-Malak Badar
          • Atba-i-Malak Vakil
        • Hebtiahs Bohra
        • Progressive Dawoodi Bohra
      • Sulaymani
    • Nizari
      • Satpanth
  • Twelver
  • Zaidiyyah
    • Jarudiyah
    • Batriyya
  • Khurramites (Historical)
Sufism[]
Main articles: Sufism and Islamic Mysticism
See also: List of Sufi orders
  • Bektashi Order
  • Chishti Order
  • Mevlevi Order
  • Naqshbandi
    • Jahriyya
  • Kubrawiya
    • Khufiyya
  • Ni'matullāhī
  • Qadiriyya
  • Shadhili
  • Suhrawardiyya
  • Sufi Order International
  • Tijaniyyah
  • Universal Sufism
    • Dances of Universal Peace
Sunni Islam[]
Main article: Sunni Islam
  • Kalam/Fiqh
  • Athari
    • Salafi
      • Wahhabism/Ahle Hadith
      • Islamism
    • Islamic Modernism
  • Muʿtazila
Other[]
  • Ahmadiyya
    • Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
  • Al-Fatiha Foundation
  • Ali-Illahism
  • Din-i Ilahi
  • European Islam
  • Ittifaq al-Muslimin
  • Jadid
  • Jamaat al Muslimeen
  • Liberal movements within Islam
    • Muslim Canadian Congress
      • Canadian Muslim Union
    • Progressive British Muslims
    • Progressive Muslim Union
  • Mahdavia
  • Mahdist State
  • Quranism
    • Tolu-e-Islam
    • United Submitters International
  • Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
    • Messiah Foundation International
  • Xidaotang

Judaism[]

Main articles: Judaism and Jewish religious movements
Kabbalah[]
Main articles: Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism[]
  • Haymanot
  • Karaite Judaism
  • Samaritanism
Rabbinic Judaism[]
Main article: Rabbinic Judaism
  • Conservative Judaism (a.k.a. Masorti Judaism)
  • Humanistic Judaism
  • Jewish Renewal
  • Orthodox Judaism
    • Haredi Judaism (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox)
      • Hardal
      • Hasidic Judaism
      • Misnagdim
      • Sephardic Haredi
    • Modern Orthodox Judaism
  • Reconstructionist Judaism
  • Reform Judaism
Others[]
Historical Judaism[]
  • Essenes
  • Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism) (Historical)
  • Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism) (Historical)
  • Zealots (Judea)
    • Sicarii
  • Messianic sects
    • Ebionites
    • Elcesaites
    • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
  • Second Temple Judaism
  • Frankism

Mandaeism[]

Main article: Mandaeism
  • Sabians

Iranian religions[]

Main articles: Iranian religions and Religion in Iran

Yazdânism[]

Main article: Yazdânism
  • Shabakism
  • Yarsanism
  • Yazidi

Zoroastrianism[]

Main article: Zoroastrianism
  • Behafaridians (Historical)
  • Mazdakism (Historical)
  • Zurvanism (Historical)

Indigenous (ethnic, folk) religions[]

Main articles: Ethnic religion and Folk religion
See also: Paganism, Animism, Totemism, and Shamanism

Religions that consist of the traditional customs and beliefs of particular ethnic groups, refined and expanded upon for thousands of years, often lacking formal doctrine.

Note: Some adherents do not consider their ways to be "religion," preferring other cultural terms.

African[]

Main article: Religion in Africa

Traditional African[]

Main article: Traditional African religions

Diasporic African[]

Main article: Afro-American religion

Altaic[]

See also: List of Tengrist movements

American[]

Main article: Native American religion

Austroasiatic[]

  • Sarnaism
  • Vietnamese folk religion

Austronesian[]

Indo-European[]

Tai and Miao[]

Main articles: Tai folk religion and Miao folk religion

Tibeto-Burmese[]

Uralic[]

Other indigenous[]

  • Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology
  • Circassian (Adyghe Habze)
  • Dravidian folk religion
  • Inuit religion
  • Ossetian
  • Papuan mythology
  • Siberian shamanism

New religious movements[]

Main article: New religious movement
See also: List of new religious movements

Religions that cannot be classed as either world religions or traditional folk religions, and are usually recent in their inception.

Cargo cults[]

Main article: Cargo cults
  • John Frum
  • Johnson cult
  • Prince Philip Movement
  • Vailala Madness

New ethnic religions[]

See also: Ethnic religion

Black[]

  • Ausar Auset Society
  • Dini Ya Msambwa
  • Five-Percent Nation
  • Godianism
  • Black Muslims
    • American Society of Muslims
  • Moorish Science Temple of America
  • Mumboism
  • Nation of Islam
    • United Nation of Islam
  • Nuwaubian Nation

Rastafari[]

Main article: Rastafari

Black Hebrew Israelites[]

Main article: Black Hebrew Israelites

White[]

Native American[]

New Hindu derived religions[]

  • Adidam
  • Brahmoism (Brahmo Samaj)
    • Adi Dharm
    • Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
  • Meivazhi
  • Rajneesh movement
  • Transcendental Meditation

Japanese new religions[]

Main article: Japanese new religions
  • Aum Shinrikyo
  • Church of World Messianity
  • Happy Science
  • Konkokyo
  • Oomoto
  • PL Kyodan
  • Seicho-no-Ie
  • Shinmeiaishinkai
  • Tenrikyo
  • Zenrinkyo

Modern Paganism[]

Main article: Modern Paganism
See also: List of Neopagan movements

Ethnic neopaganism[]

See also: Polytheistic reconstructionism and European Congress of Ethnic Religions

Syncretic neopaganism[]

Entheogenic religions[]

Main article: Entheogen

New Age Movement[]

Main article: New Age
  • Association for Research and Enlightenment
  • Conversations with God
  • A Course in Miracles
  • Eckankar
  • Love Has Won
  • Rainbow Family
  • The Family

New Thought[]

Main article: New Thought
  • Christian Science
  • Church of Divine Science
  • Church Universal and Triumphant
  • Jewish Science
  • Religious Science
  • Seicho-no-Ie
  • Unity Church

Parody religions and fiction-based religions[]

Main article: Parody religion
  • Church of Euthanasia
  • Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (a.k.a. "Pastafarianism")
  • Church of the SubGenius
  • Dinkoism
  • Discordianism
  • Dudeism
  • Iglesia Maradoniana
  • Jediism
  • Kibology
  • Kopimism
  • Landover Baptist Church
  • Last Thursdayism
  • 'Pataphysics
  • Silinism
  • Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
  • United Church of Bacon

Post-theistic and naturalistic religions[]

Main articles: Post-theism and Religious naturalism

UFO religions[]

Main article: UFO religions
  • Aetherius Society
  • Ashtar Galactic Command
  • Chen Tao ("True Way")
  • Fiat Lux
  • Ground Crew Project
  • Heaven's Gate
  • Industrial Church of the New World Comforter
  • Mark-Age
  • Nuwaubianism
  • Order of the Solar Temple
  • Raëlism
  • Scientology
    • Independent Scientology
  • The Seekers
  • Unarius Academy of Science
  • Universe people
  • Urantia movement

Western esotericism[]

Main article: Western esotericism
See also: Left-hand path and right-hand path, Occult, and Magick (Thelema)
  • Archeosophical Society
  • Builders of the Adytum
  • Fraternitas Saturni
  • Fraternity of the Inner Light
  • Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
    • The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
  • Illuminates of Thanateros
  • Luciferianism
  • New Acropolis
  • Occultism
    • Gaianism
    • Mayanism
    • Michael Teachings
  • Ordo Aurum Solis
  • Rosicrucian
    • Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
    • Rosicrucian Fellowship
  • Satanism
  • Thelema
  • Theosophy
  • Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

Other new[]

  • Eckankar
  • Faithism
  • Falun Gong
  • The Family International
  • Fourth Way
  • Ishikism
  • Nontheism
  • Omnism
  • Open-source religion
  • Otherkin[17]
  • Santa Muerte
  • Singularitarianism
  • Spiritualism (Spiritism)
  • Subud
  • The Circle of Reason

Historical religions[]

Main article: History of religion
  • Prehistoric religion
    • Paleolithic religion
  • Harappan religion

Bronze Age[]

  • Ancient Egyptian religion
    • Atenism
  • Ancient Mesopotamian religion
    • Sumerian religion

Classical antiquity[]

Other historical[]

  • Din-i Ilahi

Other categorisations[]

By demographics[]

Main article: Religious demographics
  • List of religious populations

By area[]

Further information: Religion geography
  • List of religions and spiritual traditions of Oceania/Pacific
  • Religion in Africa
  • Religion in Asia
  • Religion in Oceania
  • Religion in Europe
  • Religion in North America
  • Religion in South America
  • Religion by country
    • List of state-established religions
    • Buddhism by country
      • Buddhism in the United States
    • Christianity by country
      • Roman Catholicism by country
      • Eastern Orthodoxy by country
      • Protestantism by country
      • Oriental Orthodoxy by country
    • Hinduism by country
    • Islam by country
      • Ahmadiyya by country
    • Judaism by country, Jewish population by country
    • Sikhism by country

See also[]

  • Alchemy
  • Ceremonial magic
  • Chaos magic
  • Civil religion
  • Enochian magic
  • Goetia
  • Juche
  • List of Catholic rites and churches
  • List of fictional religions
  • List of religious organizations
  • Lists of people by belief
  • Magic
  • Mythology
  • Religious fundamentalism
  • Witchcraft

References[]

  1. ^ (Clifford Geertz, Religion as a Cultural System, 1973)
  2. ^ "World Religions Religion Statistics Geography Church Statistics". Retrieved 5 March 2015.
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