List of religions
(Revision as of 13:05, 24 Oct 2004)
Religions, sects and denominations
- Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible.
Abrahamic religions
Believers in the One God, Yahweh
- Babism
- Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)
- Druzism
- Gnosticism
- Islam
- Judaism (see also: Hebrew religion)
- Pre-Rabbinic sects
- Sects that believed in Jesus's prophethood
- Ebionites
- Elkasites
- The Nazarene Sects
- The revival movement, Talmidaism
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Falasha Judaism
- Karaite Judaism
- Mandaeanism
- Rastafarianism
- Samaritanism
Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, also major religions of historical India
- Hinduism (see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
- Vaishnavism
- Swaminarayan sect
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Bhakti (devotional Hinduism)
- Smartism
- Hindu Tantra
- Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
- Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
- Vaishnavism
- Buddhism (see Schools of Buddhism)
- Jainism
- Sikhism
Orisha religions
Beliefs of the former African slaves
Indigenous and/or tribal religions
The orally transmitted cannon of the indigenous peoples
- African religions
- European religions
- Native American religions
- Abenaki mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Chippewa mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Huron mythology
- Ibo mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Lenape mythology
- Navaho mythology
- Nootka mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Salish mythology
- Seneca mythology
- Tsimshian mythology
- Ute mythology
- Zuni mythology
- Northern indigenous religions
- Oceanic religions
Left-hand path religions
Religions which value the spiritual advancement of the self over other goals
- Demonolatry
- Dragon Rouge
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Satanism
- Setianism also spelled Sethianism
- Thelema
Neopagan Religions
Revival religions
Alien-based religions
Belivers in the extraterrestrial seeding of Earth
Spirit religions
Faiths that are primarily concerned with the existence of spirits
Syncretic unification religions
Faiths that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same
- Arès Pilgrim Movement
- Cao Dai
- Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
- Huna
- Konkokyo
- Law of One
- Manichaeism
- Unitarian Universalism
- Universal Life Church
- Tenrikyo
- Theosophy
- Seicho-No-Ie
Parody or mock religions
Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general
- Church of God the Utterly Indifferent
- Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
- Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)
- Elvis religions
- Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
- The First Preslyterian Church of Elvis the Divine [1] (http://www.geocities.com/presleyterian_church/home.html)
- Fictional religions turned Parody
- Bokononism
- Jedi (The 2001 Census reported more Jedi in England than Sikhs)
- The First Church of the Last Laugh [2] (http://www.saintstupid.com/)
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Universal Church of Google
- Roshambo
- Shatnerology
- Text editor religions
Utilitarian religions
Groups formed for sole benefit of religious status
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
Various new religious movements
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings
- Ananda Marga
- Anthroposophy
- Brianism
- Cargo cults (e.g. Jon Frum)
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- Eckankar
- Elan Vital
- Faithists of Kosmon
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Rajneeshism
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- The Unification Church (Moonies)
Uncategorized religions
These religions fail to be easily classified in the above categories
Fictional religions
- Alvianism (Sealab 2021)
- Amalgamated Church (Futurama)
- Appliantology (the Frank Zappa album Joe's Garage)
- Avantism (the Harvest of Stars novels by Poul Anderson)
- Bajoran religion (The Way of the Prophets) (Star Trek)
- Bokononism (Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Children of the Son (Star Trek)
- Church of All Worlds (Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein)
- Church of Artificial Intelligence (Otherworld)
- The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent (The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Church of the New Revelation (aka Fosterite Church) (Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein)
- Church of the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams)
- Church of the Shrike (Hyperion by Dan Simmons)
- Church of Trek (Futurama)
- Cthulhu Mythos (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Feeders of Vaal (Star Trek)
- The First Church of the Flaming Sword Las Vegas (Waiting for God)
- Foundationism (Babylon 5)
- Global Standard Deity (the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde)
- Jedi (Star Wars)
- Klingon religion (Star Trek)
- Mechanoid religion, advocating life after deactivation, in Silicon Heaven (Red Dwarf)
- Mercerism (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick)
- Mind Head (the Steve Martin movie Bowfinger)
- Movementarianism ("The Joy of Sect" episode of The Simpsons)
- "The Necromonger Way" (The Chronicles of Riddick)
- Nugganism (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
- Omnianism (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
- Oprahism (Futurama)
- Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised (Discworld)
- Robotology (Futurama)
- Selfosophy ("Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" episode of Millennium. Adherents would reject the idea that it was a religion, and that all dissenters would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of, but in full accordance with, the law.)
- Sith (Star Wars)
- Space Catholicism (Futurama)
- Wayism (Andromeda)
Forms of Religion
- Agnosticism
- Animism
- Atheism
- Ditheism (Dualism)
- Henotheism
- Humanism
- Kathenotheism
- Maltheism
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
- Polytheism
- Shamanism
- Suitheism
- Universism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices
Esotericism
Mysticism
Magic (religion)
- Astrology
- Divination
- Exorcism
- Faith healing
- Feng Shui
- Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
- Magick
- Miracles
- Seid (shamanic magic)
- Witchcraft
Ritualism
Organizations promoting Ecumenism
- Interfaith.org (http://www.interfaith.org/default.asp) a cooperative association of organizations and clergy persons who have joined together to establish a greater spiritual presence on the World Wide Web.
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- The Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO)
- Temple of Understanding
- simplified kundalini yoga an organisation founded by Vethathiri maharishi to establish world peace and happiness.
See also
- List of organizations
- List of religious organizations
- New religious movements
- List of purported cults
- List of people by belief
- Sacred text
- Mythology
References
- Wikipedia (2004). List of religions (http://www.wikipedia.org/List_of_religions). Retrieved Oct. 18, 2004.
External links
- Statistics on religious belief or adherence (http://www.adherents.com)
- Sacred Texts (http://www.sacred-texts.com)
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