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Revision as of 21:08, 19 February 2009
The following is a partial list of religions and spiritual traditions.
Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Christianity
Catholicism
- Western
- 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)
- Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite)
- Sui iuris (Including Byzantine Rite churches)
- Traditionalist Catholicism
- Eastern
- Eastern Catholicism (Eastern Churches in Communion with Rome)
- Syriac Christianity
- Assyrian Church of the East
- Indian Orthodox Church
- Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (In full communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
- Syriac Orthodox Church (In full communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
- Mar Thoma Church (In full communion with the Anglican Church in India)
- Syriac Catholic Church (In full communion with Rome)
Protestantism
- Anglicanism (via media between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism)
- 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
- Adventism
- Christadelphians
- Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism)
- Iglesia ni Cristo
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Restoration Movement
Gnosticism
- Christian Gnosticism
- Ebionites
- Cerdonians
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Colorbasians
- Simonians
- Early Gnosticism
- Medieval Gnosticism
- Persian Gnosticism
- Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Islam
- Kalam Schools
- Kharijite
- Shi'a Islam
- Sufism
- Sunni Islam
- 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)
- Ahmadiyya
- Druze
- Nation of Islam
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- United Submitters International
- Zikri
Judaism
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Non-Rabbinic Judaism
- Alternative Judaism
- Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
- Jewish Renewal
- Karaite Judaism
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Historical groups
- Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
Rastafari movement
Mandaeans and Sabians
Samaritanism
Indian religions
Religions that originated in Greater India and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
- 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
- New Buddhist movements
Hinduism
- 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
Sikhism
- Khalsa
- Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
- Sahajdhari Sikh
Iranian religions
East Asian religions
Confucianism
Shinto
Taoism
Other
African diasporic religions
African diasporic religions are 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. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.
- Batuque
- Candomblé
- Dahomey mythology
- Haitian mythology
- Kumina
- Macumba
- Mami Wata
- Obeah
- Oyotunji
- Quimbanda
- Santería (Lukumi)
- Umbanda
- Vodou
Indigenous traditional religions
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".
African
- West Africa
- Akan mythology
- Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
- Dahomey (Fon) mythology
- Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
- Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
- Central Africa
- Bushongo mythology (Congo)
- Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
- Lugbara 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
- Abenaki mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Cherokee mythology
- Chickasaw mythology
- Choctaw mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Ghost Dance
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Hopi mythology
- Huron mythology
- Inca mythology
- Inuit mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Leni 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
- Asian
- European
- Estonian mythology
- Eskimo religion
- Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
- Hungarian folk religion
- Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
- Tadibya
Oceania/Pacific
Cargo cults
Historical polytheism
Ancient Near Eastern
Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
- Baltic polytheism
- Celtic polytheism
- Germanic polytheism
- Greek polytheism
- Hungarian polytheism
- Finnish polytheism
- Roman polytheism
- Slavic polytheism
Hellenistic
Neopaganism
New Age, Esotericism, Mysticism
- Anthroposophy
- Christian mysticism
- Esoteric Christianity
- Hindu mysticism
- Martinism
- Meher Baba
- Nazi mysticism
- Occultism
- Rosicrucian
- Surat Shabd Yoga
- Sufism
- Thelema
Left-Hand Path
Magic
- Hoodoo (Rootwork)
- Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
- Magick
- Pow-wow
- Seid (shamanic magic)
- Vaastu Shastra
- Witchcraft
New religious movements
Shinshukyo
- Church of World Messianity
- PL Kyodan
- Seicho-No-Ie
- The Downfall of Wikipedia is a religion set up just now, that aims to vandalize Wikipedia so badly, the administrators can't keep track. If you edit this page you are part of my religion for ever.
Fictional religions
Parody or mock religions
- Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
- Church of Euthanasia
- Church of the SubGenius
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
Others
- Discordianism
- Ethical Culture
- Fellowship of Reason
- Humanism
- Secular Humanism
- Juche
- Objectivism
- Subud
Other categorisations
By demographics
By area
- Religion in Africa
- Religion in North America
- Religion in South America
- Religion in Asia
- Religion in Australia
- Religion in Europe
- Oceania / Pacific
- Religion by country
- Buddhism by region
See also
- List of religious organizations
- List of people by belief
- Mythology
- Civil religion
- Mystery religion
- Shamanism
- Totemism
