Outline of religion

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to religion:

Religion – organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.

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

Classification[]

Main article: Major religious groups

Demographics[]

Main article: List of religious populations

List of religions[]

Main article: List of religions and spiritual traditions

Religion by region[]

Religion by continent
Africa • Antarctica • Asia • Europe • North America • Oceania (includes Australia) • South America
Religion by political division, arranged alphabetically
Religions by country
Religion by political division, arranged by continent or major geopolitical region
Religion in Africa
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Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo
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Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • South Sudan •Tunisia
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Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe
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Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia (Somaliland) • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe
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Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa • Swaziland
Religion in Antarctica
Religion in Asia
Religion in Central Asia
Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan
Religion in East Asia
China
Tibet
Hong Kong • Macau
Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan
Religion in North Asia
Russia
Religion in Southeast Asia
Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia • East Timor (Timor-Leste) • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam
Religion in South Asia
Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
Religion in India
States of India: Andhra Pradesh • Arunachal Pradesh • Assam • Bihar • Chhattisgarh • Goa • Gujarat • Haryana • Himachal Pradesh • Jammu and Kashmir • Jharkhand • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Meghalaya • Mizoram • Nagaland • Odisha • Punjab • Rajasthan • Sikkim • Tamil Nadu • Telangana • Tripura • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarakhand • West Bengal
Religion in West Asia
Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • State of Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen
Religion in the Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)
Religion in North Caucasus
Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)
Religion in South Caucasus
Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)
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• Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • North Macedonia • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia •
Spain
Autonomous communities of Spain: Catalonia
Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine
United Kingdom
England (Birmingham, Cornwall, London, Sussex) • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales
Vatican City
Religion in the European Union
North America
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Religion in Provinces of Canada: • Alberta • British Columbia • Manitoba • New Brunswick • • • Ontario (Toronto) • • Quebec • Saskatchewan
Religion in Territories of Canada: • Nunavut •
Greenland • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
(Washington, D.C.)
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Religion in Central America
Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama
Religion in the Caribbean
Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • • Puerto Rico • • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands
Religion in Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)
Religion in Australasia
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Religion in Dependencies/Territories of Australia
Christmas Island • • Norfolk Island
New Zealand
Religion in Melanesia
Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •
Religion in Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (USA) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • (USA) •
Religion in Polynesia
American Samoa (USA) • (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)
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Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

Religious studies[]

Main article: Religious studies

Religious concepts[]

Religious belief[]

  • Acosmism
  • Angel
  • Animism
  • Doctrine
  • Eschatology
  • Esotericism
  • Faith
  • Free will
  • Gnosticism
  • Goodness and evil
  • Holy Land
  • Humanism
  • Ietsism
  • Karma
  • Religion and LGBT people
  • Life after death
  • Mysticism
  • Mythology
  • Pain and Suffering
  • Prophet
  • Reincarnation
  • Religious cosmology
    • Creation myth
  • Religious naturalism
  • Sacred
  • Sacred space
  • Shamanism
  • Sin
  • Soul
  • Spirituality
    • List of spirituality-related topics
  • Supernaturalism
  • Tao
  • Theology
    • Agnosticism
    • Antitheism
    • Atheism
    • Deism
    • Deity
      • List of deities
    • Dualism
    • God
    • Henotheism
    • Immanence
    • Monism
    • Monolatrism
    • Monotheism
    • Nondualism
    • Nontheistic religions
    • Pandeism
    • Panentheism
    • Pantheism
    • Polytheism
    • Post-theism
    • Theism
  • Transcendence

Approaches to the beliefs of others[]

Religious behaviour and experiences[]

  • Meditation
  • Memes in religion
  • Nonviolence
  • Pilgrimage
  • Places of worship
  • Prayer
  • Religious experience
  • Religious war
  • Ritual

Religion-specific topics[]

African traditional and diasporic topics[]

Main articles: African traditional religion and Afro-American religion

Anitism topics[]

Main article: Philippine mythology

Ayyavazhi topics[]

Main article: Ayyavazhi

Baháʼí Faith topics[]

Main articles: Outline of the Baháʼí Faith and Baháʼí Faith

Buddhism topics[]

Main articles: Outline of Buddhism and Buddhism

Cao Dai topics[]

  • Cao Dai

Christianity topics[]

Main articles: Outline of Christianity and Christianity
  • Christian vegetarianism
  • Christianity by country
  • Eastern Christianity
  • History of Christianity
  • List of Christian denominations
  • List of Jesus-related articles
  • List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Protestantism
    • Protestantism by country
  • Religious texts
  • Timeline of Christian missions

Hinduism topics[]

Main articles: Outline of Hinduism and Hinduism
  • Diet in Hinduism
  • Hindu denominations
  • History of Hinduism
  • List of Hinduism-related articles

Islam topics[]

Main articles: Outline of Islam and Islam
  • Allah
    • Ninety-nine names of Allah
  • Glossary of Islam
  • Hajj
  • History of Islam
  • Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
  • Islam by country
  • Islamic schools and branches
    • Ahmadiyya
    • Sunni
    • Shia
    • Sufi
  • Muhammad
  • Religious texts
    • Hadith
      • Hadith collections
      • Hadith Qudsi
      • Isnad – Ilm ar-rijal – Narrators of hadith
      • Matn
    • List of Islamic texts
    • Quran – Sura – Ayat
      • Asbab al-nuzul
      • Naskh
      • Quranic literalism
      • Tafsir Qudsi – tafsir
  • Salat
  • Zakat

Jainism topics[]

Main articles: Index of Jainism-related articles and Jainism

Judaism topics[]

Main articles: Judaism and Outline of Judaism

Modern Paganism topics[]

Main article: Modern Paganism
  • Asatru
  • Kemetism
  • List of Modern pagan movements
  • Neoshamanism
  • Wicca
  • Witchcraft

New Age topics[]

New religious movement topics[]

Main article: New religious movement
  • List of new religious movements

Open source religion topics[]

Main article: Open source religion

Rasta topics[]

Main article: Rastafari

Satanism topics[]

Main article: Satanism
  • LaVeyan Satanism
  • Theistic Satanism
    • Black mass
    • Conjuration
    • Deal with the Devil
    • Demonolatry

Shintō topics[]

Main article: Shinto
  • Shinto sects and schools

Sikhism topics[]

Main articles: Outline of Sikhism and Sikhism

Spiritism topics[]

Main article: Spiritism
  • History of Spiritism

Taoism topics[]

Main articles: Taoism and Outline of Taoism

Tenrikyo topics[]

Main article: Tenrikyo

Unitarian Universalism topics[]

Main article: Unitarian Universalism

Vegetarianism and religion topics[]

Main article: Vegetarianism and religion
  • Philosophic issues in topics in religion and vegetarianism
    • Exogenous criticism of other religions where there may be vegetarianism
    • Endogenous criticism of behaviors within one's own religion
    • Epistemological concerns about relative legitimacy of religious grounds for vegetarian practice in light of modern science grounds for vegetarian practice

In Indian religions[]

In Abrahamic religions[]

In Other religions[]

  • Zoroastrianism
  • Nation of Islam
  • Taoism
  • Faithist/Oahspe
  • Neopaganism
  • Meher Baba's teachings

Zoroastrianism topics[]

Main article: Zoroastrianism
  • Avesta
  • Zoroaster

Irreligion topics[]

Main article: Irreligion

Religion and religious ideas in fiction[]

  • Religion in fantasy
  • Religion in science fiction

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Eric Baratay, l'anthropocentrisme du christianisme occidental, Si les lions pouvaient parler, essais sur la condition animale, sous la direction de Boris Cyrulnik, Gallimard, ISBN 2-07-073709-8

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