List of religions
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This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions. Some entries are written more than once.
Abrahamic religions
Main page: Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions often grouped together because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Baha'i Faith
Main page: Baha'i Faith
Christianity
Main page: Christianity
Anglicanism and Union of Utrecht
- Anglicanism (via media between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism)
- 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)
- Old Catholicism
Catholicism
Main page: Catholicism
- Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA)
- Roman Catholicism
- Sui iuris (including Byzantine Rite churches)
- Eastern Catholic Churches
- Syriac Catholic Church
Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy
Protestantism
Main page: 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
- 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.
Gnosticism
Main page: Gnosticism
- Christian Gnosticism
- Ebionites
- Cerdonians
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Colorbasians
- Simonians
- Early Gnosticism
- Medieval Gnosticism
- Persian Gnosticism
- Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Main page: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Islam
Main page: Islam
- Kalam Schools
Main page: Kalam
- Kharijite
Main page: Kharijite
Shi'ism
Main page: Shi'a Islam
- Sufism
Main page: Sufism
Sunnism
Main page: Sunni Islam
Judaism
Main page: Judaism
- Rabbinic Judaism
Main page: Rabbinic Judaism
- Non-Rabbinic Judaism
- Alternative Judaism
- Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
- Jewish Renewal
- Karaite Judaism
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Historical groups
- Other sects
Others
African diasporic religions
Main page: African diasporic religions
These religions are those of African cultures who have settled outside of Africa (diaspora). They are also sometimes called Creole religions. They include 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. The traditions come from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa.
Eastern religion
Main page: Eastern religion
Dharmic religions
Main page: Indian religions
Religions that have idea of Dharma.
Buddhism
Main page: 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
- Navayana
- New Buddhist movements
Hinduism
Main page: Hinduism
- Agama Hindu Dharma
- Hindu revivalism
- Lingayatism
- Reform movements
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Tantrism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
- Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
Main page: Hindu philosophy
Jainism
Main page: Jainism
Sikhism
Main article: Sikhism
- Akhand Kirtani Jatha (AKJ)
- Amritdhari Sikh
- Brahm Bunga Trust (Dodra)
- Bhaniara Bhavsagar
- Bhindrawale Jatha
- Damdami Taksal (DDT)
- Dera Sacha Sauda
- Haripagni
- Kahna Dhesian
- Mahant Sikh
- Minas (Mirharvan)
- Namdhari Sikh (Kuka)
- Nanakpanthi
- Neeldhari Panth
- Nihang (Akali)
- Nirankari Sikh
- Nirmala Panth
- Nirvair Khalsa Daal
- Non-Denominational Kesdhari
- Prof. Darshan Singh Khalsa (SGGS Academy)
- Radhaswami Sikh
- Ramraiyya (Ram Rai)
- Ravidassia Dharam
- Sanatan Sikh Sabha
- Sant Mat Movement
- Sant Nirankari Mission
- Sehejdhari Daal
- Sikh Dharma International (SDI)
- Sindhi Sikhi
- Tapoban Tat-Gurmat
- Udasi Sikh
East Asian religions
Main page: East Asian religions
True religions
These religions, as their name suggests, hold truth. While many religions are based on faith and cannot be proven, true religions are beyond dispute and warrant investigation by any person of integrity.
- Hughism
European religions
Zelda
Main page: New Age
Other
Main page: Paganism
Indigenous traditional faiths
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified as pagan religions, but modern scholars prefer the terms "indigenous", "primal", "folk", or "ethnic".
African
Main page: African traditional religions
- West Africa
- Akan mythology
- Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
- Dahomey mythology (Fon)
- Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
- Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
- Central Africa
- Bushongo mythology (Congo)
- Lugbara mythology (Congo)
- Mbuti 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
Main page: Native American mythology
Traditional religions of the Native American peoples.
- Abenaki mythology
- Anishinaabe mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Cherokee mythology
- Chickasaw mythology
- Choctaw mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Eskimo religion
- Ghost Dance
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Hopi mythology
- Huron mythology
- Inca mythology
- Inuit mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- 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
- Oriental
- Siberian
- Uralic
- Estonian mythology
- Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
- Hungarian folk religion
- Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
- Tadibya
Oceania
Cargo cults
Main page: Cargo cult
Iranian religions
Main page: Iranian religions
Historical polytheism
- Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion
Ancient Near Eastern
Indo-European
Main page: Proto-Indo-European religion
Hellenistic
Main page: Hellenistic religion
Magic
Mystic and esoteric versions of the major religions
Main pages: Esotericism and Mysticism
- Christian mysticism
- Esoteric Christianity
- Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism)
- Martinism
- Sufism (Islamic mysticism)
- Hindu mysticism
- Surat Shabd Yoga
Neopaganism
Main page: Neopaganism
- Kemetism (Egyptian neopaganism)
- Rodnovery (Slavic neopaganism)
- Dievturiba (Latvian neopaganism)
- Germanic neopaganism
- Hellenic Polytheism (Greco-Roman neopaganism)
- Druidry
- Deanism
New Age religions and UFO religions
Occult religions
Main page: Occultism
Left-hand path occult religions
Main page: Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path
- Symbolic Satanism
- Theistic Satanism
- Atheistic Satanism
- Polytheistic Satanism (Church of Azazel Archived 2013-12-06 at the Wayback Machine)
- Luciferianism
Parody religions
- Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism
- Discordianism
- Church of the SubGenius
- Dogeism
- Doitsuism
- The church of Volgograd
- Jedism
- Shrekism
- Silinism (Aerican Empire)
- The Church of Molossia
- The Church of Jah
Related pages
Other websites
- Statistics on religious belief or adherence Archived 2018-12-26 at the Wayback Machine