List of religions
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This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions. Some entries are written more than once.
Abrahamic religions
changeA group of monotheistic traditions often grouped together because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Baha'i Faith
changeChristianity
changeAnglicanism and Union of Utrecht
change- Anglicanism (via media between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism)
- Independent Catholic Churches
- Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
- Philippine Independent Church (In communion with the Anglican Church and the Union of Utrecht)
- Polish National Catholic Church
- Union of Utrecht (In communion with the Anglican Church)
- Old Catholicism
Catholicism
change- Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA)
- Roman Catholicism
- Sui iuris (including Byzantine Rite churches)
- Eastern Catholic Churches
- Syriac Catholic Church
Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy
changeProtestantism
change- Pre-Lutheran Protestants
- Anabaptists
- Baptists
- Brethren
- Catholic Apostolic Church
- Charismatic movement
- Christadelphians
- Christian Israelite Church
- Christian New Religious Movements
- Esoteric Christianity
- Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
- Lutheranism
- Methodism
- Messianic Judaism
- Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
- New Thought
- Pentecostalism
- Pietism
- Reformed churches
- Religious Society of Friends
- Spiritism
- Swedenborgianism
- United and uniting churches
- Unitarianism
- Universalism
Restorationism
change- Adventism
- Christadelphians
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Iglesia ni Cristo
- New Apostolic Church
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Restoration Movement
Gnosticism
change- Christian Gnosticism
- Ebionites
- Cerdonians
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Colorbasians
- Simonians
- Early Gnosticism
- Medieval Gnosticism
- Persian Gnosticism
- Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Islam
change- Kalam Schools
- Kharijite
Shi'ism
change- Sufism
Sunnism
changeRestorationism
change- Groups sometimes considered non-Islamic
- These religious traditions are not recognized as parts of Islam by mainstream Islamic fiqh, but consider themselves to be Muslim.
- Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
- Ahl-e Qur'an
- Ahmadiyya
- Druze
- Nation of Islam
- Nazati Muslim
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- United Submitters International
- Zikri
Judaism
change- Rabbinic Judaism
- Non-Rabbinic Judaism
- Alternative Judaism
- Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
- Jewish Renewal
- Karaite Judaism
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Historical groups
- Other sects
Others
change- Alevism
- Manichaism
- Druze
- Shabakism
- Bábism
- Mandaeism
- Rastafari movement
- Sabians
African diasporic religions
changeThese religions are those of African cultures who have settled outside of Africa (diaspora). They are also sometimes called Creole religions. They include a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. The traditions come from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa.
Eastern religion
changeDharmic religions
changeReligions that have idea of Dharma.
Buddhism
change- Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
- Theravada
- Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
- Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
- Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
- Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
- Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
- Thai Maha Nikaya
- Thai Thammayut Nikaya
- Thai Forest Tradition
- Theravada
- Mahayana
- Vajrayana
- Navayana
- New Buddhist movements
Hinduism
change- Agama Hindu Dharma
- Hindu revivalism
- Lingayatism
- Reform movements
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Tantrism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
- Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
- Nyaya
- Purva mimamsa
- Samkhya
- Vaisheshika
- Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
- Yoga
Jainism
changeSikhism
changeMain article: Sikhism
- Akhand Kirtani Jatha (AKJ)
- Amritdhari Sikh
- Brahm Bunga Trust (Dodra)
- Bhaniara Bhavsagar
- Bhindrawale Jatha
- Damdami Taksal (DDT)
- Dera Sacha Sauda
- Haripagni
- Kahna Dhesian
- Mahant Sikh
- Minas (Mirharvan)
- Namdhari Sikh (Kuka)
- Nanakpanthi
- Neeldhari Panth
- Nihang (Akali)
- Nirankari Sikh
- Nirmala Panth
- Nirvair Khalsa Daal
- Non-Denominational Kesdhari
- Prof. Darshan Singh Khalsa (SGGS Academy)
- Radhaswami Sikh
- Ramraiyya (Ram Rai)
- Ravidassia Dharam
- Sanatan Sikh Sabha
- Sant Mat Movement
- Sant Nirankari Mission
- Sehejdhari Daal
- Sikh Dharma International (SDI)
- Sindhi Sikhi
- Tapoban Tat-Gurmat
- Udasi Sikh
Others
changeEast Asian religions
changeEuropean religions
changeZelda
changeOther
changeIndigenous traditional faiths
changeTraditionally, these faiths have all been classified as pagan religions, but modern scholars prefer the terms "indigenous", "primal", "folk", or "ethnic".
African
change- West Africa
- Akan mythology
- Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
- Dahomey mythology (Fon)
- Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
- Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
- Central Africa
- Bushongo mythology (Congo)
- Lugbara mythology (Congo)
- Mbuti mythology (Congo)
- East Africa
- Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
- Dinka mythology (Sudan)
- Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
- Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
- Southern Africa
- Khoikhoi mythology
- Lozi mythology (Zambia)
- Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
- Zulu mythology (South Africa)
American
changeTraditional religions of the Native American peoples.
- Abenaki mythology
- Anishinaabe mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Cherokee mythology
- Chickasaw mythology
- Choctaw mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Eskimo religion
- Ghost Dance
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Hopi mythology
- Huron mythology
- Inca mythology
- Inuit mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Lenape mythology
- Longhouse religion
- Maya mythology
- Midewiwin
- Native American Church
- Navajo mythology
- Nootka mythology
- Olmec mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Salish mythology
- Seneca mythology
- Selk'nam religion
- Tsimshian mythology
- Urarina
- Ute mythology
- Zuni mythology
Eurasian
change- Oriental
- Siberian
- Uralic
- Estonian mythology
- Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
- Hungarian folk religion
- Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
- Tadibya
Oceania
changeCargo cults
changeIranian religions
changeHistorical polytheism
changeAncient Near Eastern
changeIndo-European
change- Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
- Baltic polytheism
- Basque mythology
- Celtic polytheism
- Germanic polytheism
- Greek polytheism
- Hungarian polytheism
- Finnish polytheism
- Roman polytheism
- Slavic polytheism
- Romani mythology
Hellenistic
changeMagic
changeMystic and esoteric versions of the major religions
change- Christian mysticism
- Esoteric Christianity
- Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism)
- Martinism
- Sufism (Islamic mysticism)
- Hindu mysticism
- Surat Shabd Yoga
Neopaganism
change- Kemetism (Egyptian neopaganism)
- Rodnovery (Slavic neopaganism)
- Dievturiba (Latvian neopaganism)
- Germanic neopaganism
- Hellenic Polytheism (Greco-Roman neopaganism)
- Druidry
- Deanism
New Age religions and UFO religions
changeOccult religions
changeLeft-hand path occult religions
change- Symbolic Satanism
- Theistic Satanism
- Atheistic Satanism
- Polytheistic Satanism (Church of Azazel Archived 2013-12-06 at the Wayback Machine)
- Luciferianism
Parody religions
change- Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism
- Discordianism
- Church of the SubGenius
- Dogeism
- Doitsuism
- The church of Volgograd
- Aghori
- Jedism
- Shrekism
- Silinism (Aerican Empire)
- The Church of Molossia
- The Church of Jah
Related pages
changeOther websites
change- Statistics on religious belief or adherence Archived 2018-12-26 at the Wayback Machine