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* [[Wicca]]
* [[Wicca]]
* [[Voudun]]
* [[Voudun]]
* [[Shamanism]]


=== Abrahamic religions ===
=== Abrahamic religions ===
''Believers in One God also called classical  monotheism .''
''Believers in One God also called classical  monotheism .''
*''' Babism '''
*''' Babism '''
*''' Bahá'í '''
*''' [[Bahá'í]]'''
** Bahá'í Faith  
** Bahá'í Faith  
** Orthodox Bahá'í Faith  
** Orthodox Bahá'í Faith  
*''' Christianity ''' (see  List of Christian denominations )
*'''[[Christianity]]''' (see  List of Christian denominations )
** Eastern Orthodoxy  
** Eastern Orthodoxy  
** Roman Catholicism  
** Roman Catholicism  
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*** Reformed churches|Reformed  
*** Reformed churches|Reformed  
**** Presbyterian  
**** Presbyterian  
*** Society of Friends (Quakers)
*** Society of Friends (Quakers)
*** Waldensians  
*** Waldensians  
** Restorationism  
** Restorationism  
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*** Mormonism  
*** Mormonism  
*** Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist  
*** Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist  
*''' Druze|Druzism '''
*''' Druzism '''
*''' Gnosticism '''
*'''[[Gnosticism]]'''
** Basilidians  
** Basilidians  
** Bogomils  
** Bogomils  
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** Cainites  
** Cainites  
** Carpocratians  
** Carpocratians  
** Cathars  
** [[Cathars]]
** Marcionism  (not entirely Gnostic)
** Marcionism  (not entirely Gnostic)
** Ophites  
** Ophites  
** Valentinians (see:  Valentinius )
** Valentinians  
*''' Islam '''
*'''[[Islam]]'''
** Ahmadiyya  
** Ahmadiyya  
** Kharijites  
** Kharijites  
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*** Sufris  
*** Sufris  
** Nation of Islam  
** Nation of Islam  
** Shi'a Islam|Shiite  
** Shi'a Islam (Shiite)
*** Alawites  
*** Alawites  
*** Ismailis  
*** Ismailis  
*** Jafari  
*** Jafari  
*** Zaiddiyah  
*** Zaiddiyah  
** Sunni Islam|Sunni
** Sunni Islam  
*** Berailvi  
*** Berailvi  
*** Deobandi  
*** Deobandi  
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*** Shafi'i  
*** Shafi'i  
*** Wahhabi  
*** Wahhabi  
** Sufism  
** [[Sufism]]
** Zikri  
** Zikri  
*''' Judaism ''' (see also:  Jew ;  Hebrews )
*'''[[Judaism]]'''  
**Contemporary divisions
**Contemporary divisions
*** Karaite Judaism  
*** Karaite Judaism  
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*** Humanistic Judaism  
*** Humanistic Judaism  
**Historical Sects
**Historical Sects
*** Hasmonean s
*** Hasmoneans
*** Essenes  
*** Essenes  
*** Pharisees  
*** Pharisees  
*** Sadducees  
*** Sadducees  
*** Zealot s
*** Zealots
**** Sicarii  
**** Sicarii  
**Heretical sects that believed  Jesus  was a prophet
**Heretical sects that believed  Jesus  was a prophet
*** Ebionites  
*** Ebionites  
*** Elkasite s
*** Elkasites
*** Nazarene s
*** Nazarenes
*** Talmidaism|Talmidis
*** Talmidaism  
** Crypto-Judaism|Crypto-Jews  
** Crypto-Jews  
*** Marrano s
*** Marranos
*** Converso s
*** Conversos
**Jewish messianic movements
**Jewish messianic movements
*** Jacob Frank|Frankists  
*** Jacob Frank (Frankists)
*** Sabbatai Zevi|Sabbatians  
*** Sabbatai Zevi (Sabbatians)
**** Donmeh  
**** Donmeh  
*''' Samaritanism|Samaritans '''
*''' Samaritanism''' (Samaritans)
*''' Mandaeanism|Mandaeanists '''  
*''' Mandaeanism'''  
*''' Rastafarianism|Rastafarians '''
*''' Rastafarianism '''
*''' Black Hebrews '''
*''' Black Hebrews '''


===Dharmic religions===
===Dharmic religions===
''Religions with a concept of Dharma , also major religions of historical India ''
''Religions with a concept of [[Dharma]], also major religions of historical India ''
*''' Hinduism ''' (see also  Contemporary Hindu movements )
*'''[[Hinduism]]'''  
** Agama Hindu Dharma  (Javanese Hinduism)
** Agama Hindu Dharma  (Javanese Hinduism)
** Shaivism  
** [[Shaivism]]
** Shaktism  
** [[Shaktism]]
** Smartism  
** [[Smartism]]
**  Vaishnavism  
**  [[Vaishnavism]]
***Swaminarayan Religion
***Swaminarayan Religion
***Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday
***Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday
*** Gaudiya Vaishnavism  
*** Gaudiya Vaishnavism  
**** ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
**** ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
**Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy  
**Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy  
*** Samkhya  
*** Samkhya  
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**** Aurobindo|Integral Yoga  
**** Aurobindo|Integral Yoga  
*** [[Yoga]]   
*** [[Yoga]]   
**** Ashtanga Yoga  
**** [[Ashtanga Yoga]]
**** Hatha yoga  
**** [[Hatha yoga]]
**** Siddha Yoga  
**** [[Siddha Yoga]]
**** Tantric Yoga  
**** [[Tantric Yoga]]
*''' [[Buddhism]] '''  
*''' [[Buddhism]] '''  
** Mahayana  
** Mahayana  
** Nikaya Buddhism|Nikaya schools (which have historically been called  Hinayana  in the West)
** Nikaya Buddhism  (which have historically been called  Hinayana  in the West)
*** Theravada  
*** Theravada  
** Vajrayana
** Vajrayana
*''' Jainism '''
*'''[[Jainism]]'''
** Digambara  
** Digambara  
** Shvetambara  
** Shvetambara  
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''These are broadly similar to Abrahamic religions in scope and nature, but follow a separate history of prophesy and belief''
''These are broadly similar to Abrahamic religions in scope and nature, but follow a separate history of prophesy and belief''


* Zoroastrianism  
* [[Zoroastrianism]]


=== Indigenous religions ===
=== Indigenous religions ===
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** Basque mythology  
** Basque mythology  
** Chukchi mythology  
** Chukchi mythology  
** Druidry ( Celtic Religion )
** Druidry (Celtic Religion )
** Finnish mythology  
** Finnish mythology  
** Greek religion  
** Greek religion  
*** Greek mythology  
*** [[Greek mythology]]
*** Mystery religion s
*** Mystery religions
**** Eleusinian Mysteries  
**** [[Eleusinian Mysteries]]
**** Mithraism  
**** [[Mithraism]]
**** Pythagoreanism  
**** [[Pythagoreanism]]
** Norse mythology  
** Norse mythology  
** Roman religion  
** Roman religion  
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** Bön  (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
** Bön  (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
** Chinese mythology  
** Chinese mythology  
** Shinto  
** [[Shinto]]
*** Oomoto  
*** Oomoto  
** Tengri|Tengrism  (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
** Tengrism  (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
** Yezidis  (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
** Yezidis  (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
* Native American  religions
* Native American  religions
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** Tuvaluan mythology  
** Tuvaluan mythology  


=== Neopaganism|Neopagan or revival religions ===
=== Neopaganism===
''Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices''
''Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices''
* Ásatrú  
* Ásatrú  
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** Kumina  
** Kumina  
** Obeah  
** Obeah  
** Santería (''Lukumi'')
** [[Santeria]] (''Lukumi'')
** Voudun  
** [[Voudun]]
*** Beninese Vodun  
*** Beninese Vodun  
*** La Regla Arara  
*** La Regla Arara  
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* Rodoverie  (Slavic paganism)
* Rodoverie  (Slavic paganism)
* Summum  
* Summum  
* Wicca  
* [[Wicca]]
** Alexandrian Wicca  
** Alexandrian Wicca  
** Dianic Wicca  ( Feminist Wicca )
** Dianic Wicca  ( Feminist Wicca )
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=== Non-revealed religions ===
=== Non-revealed religions ===
''Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet''
''Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet''
* [[Taoism]]
* [[Confucianism]] 
* Carvaka  
* Carvaka  
* Confucianism
* Fellowship of Reason  
* Fellowship of Reason  
* Religious Humanism|Spiritual Humanism  
* Spiritual Humanism  
* Mohism  
* Mohism  
* Prometheism  [http://www.prometheism.net/]
* Prometheism  [http://www.prometheism.net/]
* Taoism


=== Left-Hand Path religions ===
=== Left-Hand Path religions ===
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* Demonolatry  
* Demonolatry  
* Dragon Rouge  
* Dragon Rouge  
* Satanism  
* [[Satanism]]
** LaVeyan Satanism  
** LaVeyan Satanism  
*** Church of Satan  
*** Church of Satan  
*** First Satanic Church  
*** First Satanic Church  
** Order of Nine Angles  
** Order of Nine Angles  
* Setianism  ''also spelled Sethianism''
* [[Setianism]] ''also spelled Sethianism''
** Temple of Set  
** Temple of Set  
** The Storm  
** The Storm  
* Quimbanda  
* Quimbanda  


=== Syncretism|Syncretic religions ===
===Syncretic religions ===
''Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same''
''Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same''
* Revelation of Arès|Arès Pilgrim Movement
* Revelation of Arès  
* Cao Dai  
* Cao Dai  
* Falun Dafa  ( Falun Gong )
* Falun Dafa  ( Falun Gong )
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* Mahikari  [http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/easia/mahik.html]
* Mahikari  [http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/easia/mahik.html]
* Manichaeism  
* Manichaeism  
* Unitarian Universalism  
* [[Unitarian Universalism]]
* Universal Life Church  
* Universal Life Church  
* Tenrikyo  
* Tenrikyo  
* Theosophy  
* [[Theosophy]]
* Seicho-No-Ie  
* Seicho-No-Ie  


=== Entheogen religions===
=== Entheogen religions===
''Religions based around divinely inspiring substances''
''Religions based around divinely inspiring substances''
* Ayahuasca -based beliefs
* Ayahuasca-based beliefs
** Santo Daime  [http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/latam/santo.html]
** Santo Daime  [http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/latam/santo.html]
** União do Vegetal  
** União do Vegetal  
* Church of the Universe  ( marijuana sacrament)
* Church of the Universe  (marijuana sacrament)
* Peyotism  
* Peyotism  
* THC Ministry  
* THC Ministry  
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'''Indigenous NRM's'''
'''Indigenous NRM's'''
*  Burkhanism  
*  Burkhanism  
* Cargo cult|Cargo cults  
* Cargo cults  
*  Ghost Dance  
*  Ghost Dance  
*  Native American Church  
*  Native American Church  
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'''Hindu-oriented NRM's'''
'''Hindu-oriented NRM's'''
*  Sai Baba / Sathya Sai Baba|Sathya Sai Organisation
*  Sai Baba / Sathya Sai Baba  
*  Hare Krishna  
*  Hare Krishna  
*  Transcendental Meditation  
*  Transcendental Meditation  
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*  Swaminarayan  
*  Swaminarayan  
*  Vedanta Society  
*  Vedanta Society  
*  Osho / Rajneesh|Rajneeshism  
*  Rajneeshism  
*  Meher Baba  (actually a Zoroastrian)
*  Meher Baba  (actually a Zoroastrian)


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*  Subud  
*  Subud  
*  Ahmadi  
*  Ahmadi  
*  Baha'i  
*  [[Baha'i]]
*  Dances of Universal Peace  
*  Dances of Universal Peace  
*  Said Nursi  
*  Said Nursi  
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*  Tenrikyo  
*  Tenrikyo  
*  Seicho no Ie  
*  Seicho no Ie  
*  Johrei or Reiki  
*  Johrei or Reiki  
*  Oomoto  
*  Oomoto  
*  Soka Gakkai   
*  Soka Gakkai   
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*  Covenant of the Sword and the Arm of the Lord  
*  Covenant of the Sword and the Arm of the Lord  
*  World Church of the Creator  ( Creativity Movement )
*  World Church of the Creator  ( Creativity Movement )
*  Ku Klux Klan|Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan  [http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/american_knights_kkk.asp]
*  Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan  [http://www.adl.org/backgrounders/american_knights_kkk.asp]


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


'''Other NRM's'''
'''Other NRM's'''
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* Process Church|Process Church of the Final Judgement  
* Process Church|Process Church of the Final Judgement  
* Purtillology  
* Purtillology  
* Racist religions
* Racist religions
* Sathya Sai Organisation  
* Sathya Sai Organisation  
** Kardecist Spiritism  
** Kardecist Spiritism  
* Subud  
* Subud  
* Tuka Movement  
* Tuka Movement  
*The Unification Church  (Moonies)
*The Unification Church  (Moonies)
* Church of Virus|Virus, The Church of
* Church of Virus
* Yoism  
* Yoism  


=== Parody or mock religions ===
===Parody or mock religions===
''Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general''
''Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general''
* Church of the SubGenius  (The cult of Bob Dobbs )
* [[Church of the SubGenius]] (The cult of [[Bob Dobbs]])
* Discordianism (The Cult of Eris, the Goddess of Chaos)
* [[Discordianism]] (The Cult of [[Eris]], the Goddess of Chaos)
* Church of Bill Nye The Science Guy  
* Church of Bill Nye The Science Guy  
* Church of God the Utterly Indifferent  
* Church of God the Utterly Indifferent  
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=== Mysticism ===
=== Mysticism ===
* Christian mysticism   
* Christian mysticism   
** Gnosticism  
**[[Gnosticism]]
* Hinduism  
* [[Hinduism]]
** Tantra  
** [[Tantra]]
** Yoga  
** [[Yoga]]
** Bhakti yoga  
** [[Bhakti yoga]]
** Vedanta  
** Vedanta  
* Kabbalah  (also part of Judaism )
* [[Kabbalah]] (also part of [[Judaism]])
* Martinism  
* [[Martinism]]
* Meditation   
* [[Meditation]]  
* Spirituality  
* [[Spirituality]]
* Ananda Marga  
* Ananda Marga  
* Sufism  
* [[Sufism]]
* Theosophy  
* [[Theosophy]]


==Forms of religion==
==Forms of religion==
* Agnosticism  
* [[Agnosticism]]
* Animism  
* [[Animism]]
* Atheism  
* [[Atheism]]
* Ditheism  ( Dualism )
* [[Ditheism]] ( Dualism )
* Henotheism  
* [[Henotheism]]
** Monolatrism  
** [[Monolatrism]]
* Humanism  
* [[Humanism]]
** Secular Humanism  
** [[Secular Humanism]]
* Kathenotheism  
* [[Kathenotheism]]
* Maltheism  
* [[Maltheism]]
* Monism  
* [[Monism]]
* Monotheism  
* [[Monotheism]]
* Panentheism  
* [[Panentheism]]
* Pantheism  
* [[Pantheism]]
** Cosmotheism  
** [[Cosmotheism]]
* Polytheism  
* [[Polytheism]]
* Shamanism  
* [[Shamanism]]
* Suitheism  
* [[Suitheism]]


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 18:22, 11 June 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.

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
  • Druzism
  • Gnosticism
    • Basilidians
    • Bogomils
    • Borborites
    • Cainites
    • Carpocratians
    • Cathars
    • Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
    • Ophites
    • Valentinians
  • Islam
    • Ahmadiyya
    • Kharijites
      • Ibadis
      • Sufris
    • Nation of Islam
    • Shi'a Islam (Shiite)
      • Alawites
      • Ismailis
      • Jafari
      • Zaiddiyah
    • Sunni Islam
      • Berailvi
      • Deobandi
      • Hanafi
      • Hanbali
      • Maliki
      • Mu'tazili
      • Shafi'i
      • Wahhabi
    • Sufism
    • Zikri
  • Judaism
    • 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
      • Hasmoneans
      • Essenes
      • Pharisees
      • Sadducees
      • Zealots
        • Sicarii
    • Heretical sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
      • Ebionites
      • Elkasites
      • Nazarenes
      • Talmidaism
    • Crypto-Jews
      • Marranos
      • Conversos
    • Jewish messianic movements
      • Jacob Frank (Frankists)
      • Sabbatai Zevi (Sabbatians)
        • Donmeh
  • Samaritanism (Samaritans)
  • Mandaeanism
  • Rastafarianism
  • Black Hebrews

Dharmic religions

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

Other revealed religions

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

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
  • Asian religions
    • Babylonian and Assyrian religion
      • Assyrian mythology
      • Babylonian mythology
      • Chaldean mythology
      • Sumerian mythology
    • Bön (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
    • Chinese mythology
    • Shinto
      • Oomoto
    • 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

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
    • Santeria (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

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

Syncretic religions

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

  • Revelation of Arès
  • Cao Dai
  • Falun Dafa ( Falun Gong )
  • Huna
  • Konkokyo
  • Law of One
  • Mahikari [2]
  • 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]
    • 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 cults
  • Ghost Dance
  • Native American Church

African Diaspora / Latin American NRM's

  • Rastafarianism
  • Umbanda
  • Candomble

Hindu-oriented NRM's

  • Sai Baba / Sathya Sai Baba
  • Hare Krishna
  • Transcendental Meditation
  • Sant Mat
  • Swaminarayan
  • Vedanta Society
  • 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 )
  • Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [4]

Alien-based religions

  • The Aetherius Society [5]
  • Raelism
  • Scientology
    • Church of Scientology
    • Free Zone
  • Unarius society ( Unarius Academy of Science ) [6]
  • 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
  • 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]
  • Fictional religions turned Parody
    • Bokononism
    • Jedi census movement
  • The First Church of the Last Laugh [8]
  • 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]

Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices

Mysticism

Forms of religion

References

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