List of religions

(Revision as of 18:10, 11 Jun 2005)

The following is a list of religions. Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible. This system uses a filter system for categorization. A group will be listed in a category as close to the top of the page as the definitions for the category allow. Even if multiple definitions are applicable a religion will only be listed once. The definition of religion for this page is fairly liberal.

Table of contents

1 Magical / Esoteric

1.1 Abrahamic religions
1.2 Dharmic religions
1.3 Other revealed religions
1.4 Indigenous religions
1.5 Neopaganism|Neopagan or revival religions
1.6 Non-revealed religions
1.7 Left-Hand Path religions
1.8 Syncretism|Syncretic religions
1.9 Entheogen religions
1.10 New religious movement s
1.11 Parody or mock religions

2 Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices

Magical / Esoteric

Abrahamic religions

Believers in One God also called classical monotheism .

Babism
Bahá'í
- Bahá'í Faith
- Orthodox Bahá'í Faith
Christianity (see List of Christian denominations )
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Roman Catholicism
- Oriental Orthodoxy ( Monophysitism )
- Nestorianism
- Protestantism
  - Anabaptists
  - Anglicans
  - Baptists
  - Lutherans
  - Methodists
  - Pentecostalism|Pentecostals
  - Reformed churches|Reformed
    - Presbyterian
  - Society of Friends (Quakers)
  - Waldensians
- Restorationism
  - Jehovah's Witnesses
  - Mormonism
  - Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist
Druze|Druzism
Gnosticism
- Basilidians
- Bogomils
- Borborites
- Cainites
- Carpocratians
- Cathars
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Ophites
- Valentinians (see: Valentinius )
Islam
- Ahmadiyya
- Kharijites
  - Ibadis
  - Sufris
- Nation of Islam
- Shi'a Islam|Shiite
  - Alawites
  - Ismailis
  - Jafari
  - Zaiddiyah
- Sunni Islam|Sunni
  - Berailvi
  - Deobandi
  - Hanafi
  - Hanbali
  - Maliki
  - Mu'tazili
  - Shafi'i
  - Wahhabi
- Sufism
- Zikri
Judaism (see also: Jew ; Hebrews )
- Contemporary divisions
  - Karaite Judaism
  - Rabbinic Judaism
    - Orthodox Judaism
      - Haredi Judaism
      - Hassidic Judaism
      - Modern Orthodox Judaism
    - Reform Judaism
    - Conservative Judaism ( Masorti )
    - Reconstructionist Judaism
  - Humanistic Judaism
- Historical Sects
  - Hasmonean s
  - Essenes
  - Pharisees
  - Sadducees
  - Zealot s
    - Sicarii
- Heretical sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
  - Ebionites
  - Elkasite s
  - Nazarene s
  - Talmidaism|Talmidis
- Crypto-Judaism|Crypto-Jews
  - Marrano s
  - Converso s
- Jewish messianic movements
  - Jacob Frank|Frankists
  - Sabbatai Zevi|Sabbatians
    - Donmeh
Samaritanism|Samaritans
Mandaeanism|Mandaeanists
Rastafarianism|Rastafarians
Black Hebrews

Dharmic religions

Religions with a concept of Dharma , also major religions of historical India

Hinduism (see also Contemporary Hindu movements )
- Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
  - Swaminarayan Religion
  - Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday
  - Gaudiya Vaishnavism
    - ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
- Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
  - Samkhya
  - Nyaya
  - Vaisheshika
  - Purva mimamsa
  - Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
    - Advaita Vedanta
    - Aurobindo|Integral Yoga
  - Yoga
    - Ashtanga Yoga
    - Hatha yoga
    - Siddha Yoga
    - Tantric Yoga
Buddhism
- Mahayana
- Nikaya Buddhism|Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
  - Theravada
- Vajrayana
Jainism
- Digambara
- Shvetambara
Sikhism

Other revealed religions

These are broadly similar to Abrahamic religions in scope and nature, but follow a separate history of prophesy and belief

Zoroastrianism

Indigenous religions

The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and most defunct

African religions
- Akamba mythology
- Akan mythology
- Ashanti mythology
- Bushongo mythology
- Dahomey mythology
- Dinka mythology
- Efik mythology
- Egyptian mythology
- Isoko mythology
- Khoikhoi mythology
- Lotuko mythology
- Lugbara mythology
- Pygmy mythology
- Tumbuka mythology
- Yoruba mythology
- Zulu mythology
European religions
- Anglo-Saxon mythology
- Basque mythology
- Chukchi mythology
- Druidry ( Celtic Religion )
- Finnish mythology
- Greek religion
  - Greek mythology
  - Mystery religion s
    - Eleusinian Mysteries
    - Mithraism
    - Pythagoreanism
- Norse mythology
- Roman religion
  - Roman mythology
- Slavic mythology
Asian religions
- Babylonian and Assyrian religion
  - Assyrian mythology
  - Babylonian mythology
  - Chaldean mythology
  - Sumerian mythology
- Bön (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
- Chinese mythology
- Shinto
  - Oomoto
- Tengri|Tengrism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
- Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
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
- Aleut mythology
- Evenk mythology
- Inuit mythology
- Yukaghir mythology
Oceanic religions
- Australian Aboriginal mythology
- Balinese mythology
- Micronesian mythology
- Maori mythology
- Modekngei (Republic of Palau )
- Nauruan indigenous religion
- Polynesian mythology
- Tuvaluan mythology

Neopaganism|Neopagan or revival religions

Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices

Ásatrú
Church of All Worlds
Dievturiba
Ghost Dance
Neo-druidism
Judeo-Paganism
Hellênismos
Orisha (beliefs of the former West African slaves in the New World)
- Kumina
- Obeah
- Santería (Lukumi)
- Voudun
  - Beninese Vodun
  - La Regla Arara
  - Jeje Vodun
  - Sèvis Gine
Kongo (beliefs of the former South and Central African (Bantu) slaves in the New World
- Candomblé
- Macumba
- Palo
  - Mayombe
    - Kimbisa
    - Briyumba
    - Malongo
- Umbanda and Quimbanda
- Xango
Rodoverie (Slavic paganism)
Summum
Wicca
- Alexandrian Wicca
- Dianic Wicca ( Feminist Wicca )
- Gardnerian Wicca
- Seax-Wica
- Faery Wicca
- Feri Tradition

Non-revealed religions

Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet

Carvaka
Confucianism
Fellowship of Reason
Religious Humanism|Spiritual Humanism
Mohism
Prometheism [1] (http://www.prometheism.net/)
Taoism

Left-Hand Path religions

The ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it

Demonolatry
Dragon Rouge
Satanism
- LaVeyan Satanism
  - Church of Satan
  - First Satanic Church
- Order of Nine Angles
Setianism also spelled Sethianism
- Temple of Set
- The Storm
Quimbanda

Syncretism|Syncretic religions

Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same

Revelation of Arès|Arès Pilgrim Movement
Cao Dai
Falun Dafa ( Falun Gong )
Huna
Konkokyo
Law of One
Mahikari [2] (http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/easia/mahik.html)
Manichaeism
Unitarian Universalism
Universal Life Church
Tenrikyo
Theosophy
Seicho-No-Ie

Entheogen religions

Religions based around divinely inspiring substances

Ayahuasca -based beliefs
- Santo Daime [3] (http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/latam/santo.html)
- União do Vegetal
Church of the Universe ( marijuana sacrament)
Peyotism
THC Ministry

New religious movement s

Religions founded since 1850 with small followings

Indigenous NRM's

Burkhanism
Cargo cult|Cargo cults
Ghost Dance
Native American Church

African Diaspora / Latin American NRM's

Rastafarianism
Umbanda
Candomble

Hindu-oriented NRM's

Sai Baba / Sathya Sai Baba|Sathya Sai Organisation
Hare Krishna
Transcendental Meditation
Sant Mat
Swaminarayan
Vedanta Society
Osho / Rajneesh|Rajneeshism
Meher Baba (actually a Zoroastrian)

NRM's with Islamic Roots

Subud
Ahmadi
Baha'i
Dances of Universal Peace
Said Nursi
Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)

Christian-oriented NRM's

Unification Church
Jehovah's Witnesses
Adventism
Mormonism
Jesus People
Children of God
People's Temple
Pentecostalism
Holiness movement

Buddhist-oriented NRM's

Soka Gakkai
Won Buddhism
Hoa Hao
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

Chinese-oriented NRM's

I-Kuan Tao
Falun Gong

Japanese-oriented NRM's

Tenrikyo
Seicho no Ie
Johrei or Reiki
Oomoto
Soka Gakkai
Aum Shinrikyo

Korean-oriented NRM's

Chondogyo
Unification Church

Vietnamese-oriented NRM's

Caodaism
Hoa Hao

White Supremacist Religions

Church of Jesus Christ Christian
Covenant of the Sword and the Arm of the Lord
World Church of the Creator ( Creativity Movement )
Ku Klux Klan|Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [4] (http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/american_knights_kkk.asp)

Alien-based religions

The Aetherius Society [5] (http://www.aetherius.org/index.html)
Raelism
Scientology
- Church of Scientology
- Free Zone
Unarius society ( Unarius Academy of Science ) [6] (http://www.unarius.org/start.html)
Urantia , Book of

Other NRM's

Anthroposophy
Aum Shinrikyo ( Aleph )
Baluan Native Christian United Church
Breatharianism (Air cult)
Brianism
Christian Fellowship Church of New Georgia
Church Universal and Triumphant
Eckankar
Elan Vital
Faithists of Kosmon
Juche (The personality cult of North Korean leaders)
Order of the Solar Temple
Process Church|Process Church of the Final Judgement
Purtillology
Racist religions
Sathya Sai Organisation
- Kardecist Spiritism
Subud
Tuka Movement
The Unification Church (Moonies)
Church of Virus|Virus, The Church of
Yoism

Parody or mock religions

Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general

Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs )
Discordianism (The Cult of Eris, the Goddess of Chaos)
Church of Bill Nye The Science Guy
Church of God the Utterly Indifferent
Elvis religions
- Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
- The First Preslyterian Church of Elvis the Divine [7] (http://www.geocities.com/presleyterian_church/home.html)
Fictional religions turned Parody
- Bokononism
- Jedi census movement
The First Church of the Last Laugh [8] (http://www.saintstupid.com/)
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Kibology
Landover Baptist Church
Universal Church of Google
Roshambo (religion)|Roshambo
Shatnerology
Text editor religions
- Church of Emacs
- Cult of Vi
- First Church of Pac-Man [9] (http://www.flamingmayo.com/firstchurchofpacman/)

Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices

Mysticism

Christian mysticism
- Gnosticism
Hinduism
- Tantra
- Yoga
- Bhakti yoga
- Vedanta
Kabbalah (also part of Judaism )
Martinism
Meditation
Spirituality
Ananda Marga
Sufism
Theosophy

Forms of religion

Agnosticism
Animism
Atheism
Ditheism ( Dualism )
Henotheism
- Monolatrism
Humanism
- Secular Humanism
Kathenotheism
Maltheism
Monism
Monotheism
Panentheism
Pantheism
- Cosmotheism
Polytheism
Shamanism
Suitheism

External links

Statistics on religious belief or adherence (http://www.adherents.com)
Sacred Texts (http://www.sacred-texts.com)

References

Adapted from: Wikipedia. (2005). List of Religions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions). Retrieved June 11, 2005.

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