List of religions
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This is a list of religions.
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Religions, sects and denominations in a general setting [change]
Some entries are written more than once.
Abrahamic religions [change]
Main page: Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
- Christianity
- Catholicism
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Oriental Orthodoxy
- Syriac Christianity
- Protestantism
- Restorationism
- Christian new religious movements
- Unification Church (Moonies)
- Peoples Temple
- Gnosticism
- Hermeticism
- Manichaeism
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Islam
- Kalam
- Kharijite
- Sunni Islam
- Shi'a Islam (Shi'ite)
- Sufism (a form of Islamic mysticism)
- 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
- Judaism
- Historical groups
- Essenes
- Hebrews
- Pharisees/Pharisaism
- Sadducees
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Non-Rabbinic sects
- Falasha Judaism
- Karaite Judaism
- Samaritanism
- Historical groups
Religions of South Asian origin [change]
Main page: Indian religions
- Buddhism
- Theravada
- Mahayana
- Vajrayana
- New Buddhist movements
- Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)
- Hinduism
- Vedanta
- Vaishnavism
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Smartism
- Yoga
- Hindu philosophy
Persian religions [change]
Religions of East Asian origin [change]
Creole religions [change]
Faiths of indigenous peoples [change]
- African religions
- European religions
- Middle Eastern religions
- Native American religions
- Abenaki mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Chippewa mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Guarani mythology
- Haida 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
- Winnebago mythology
- Zuni mythology
- Northern indigenous religions
- Oceanic religions
See also: Animism, Goddess Worship, Paganism, Shamanism
Religions and spiritual movements of modern origin [change]
- ACIM (A Course In Miracles)
- Eclectic unification religions
- Creativity Movement
- Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
- Happy Science
- Humanism
- Helenaism
- Left Hand Path religions
- Neopaganism (some forms)
- Satanism
- Temple of Set
- The Creativity Movement
- Neopaganism
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Raelism
- Scientology
- Spiritualism
- Science Grounded Religion
- Summum
- Sithism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices [change]
Esotericism [change]
Mysticism [change]
- Christian mysticism
- Hindu mysticism
- Martinism
- Meditation
- Kabbalah
- Spirituality
- Sufism (Islamic mysticism)
- Theosophy
Magic (religion) [change]
Beliefs that are not religions [change]
Joke religions [change]
- Church of the SubGenius (The cult of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs)
- Discordianism
- The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism)
Fictional religions [change]
- The religions of the Cthulhu Mythos
- Jedi (Star Wars)
- Klingon religion (Star Trek)
- Robotology (Futurama)
- Virtology (Godspell)
- Jashinism (Naruto)
