List of religions and spiritual traditions

While the word religion is hard to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as a

[…] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.[1]

Further information: Major religious groups, Religious denomination, and History of religion
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Religious symbols in clock-wise form from top: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baháʼí Faith, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Slavic neopaganism, Celtic polytheism, Heathenism (Germanic paganism), Semitic neopaganism, Wicca, Kemetism (Egyptian paganism), Hellenism (Greek paganism), Italo-Roman neopaganism.

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws, or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, which at some point in the future will be countless.[2]

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with the words "faith" or "belief system", but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviours, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of veneration of a deity or for prayer, holy places (either natural or architectural) or religious texts. Certain religions also have a sacred language often used in liturgical services. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a God or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, liturgies, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture. Religious beliefs have also been used to explain parapsychological phenomena such as out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences and reincarnation, along with many other paranormal and supernatural experiences.[3][4]

Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; Indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and new religious movements, which refers to recently developed faiths.[5] One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings,[6] and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures that are not based upon such systems, or in which these systems are a substantially simpler construct.

Eastern religions
Main article: Eastern religions

East Asian religions

Religions that originated in East Asia, also known as Taoic religions; namely Taoism, Confucianism, Shenism, Muism and Shintoism, and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Confucianism
Main article: Confucianism
  • Confucian churches
    • Kongshenghui
    • Hong Kong Confucian Academy
    • Indonesian Confucian Church
    • Shanrendao
    • Shengdao
    • Taigu school
    • Luanism
    • Neo-Confucianism
    • Edo Neo-Confucianism
    • New Confucianism
    • Korean Confucianism

Shinto
Main article: Shinto
  • Koshintō
  • Yoshida Shintō
  • Izumo-taishakyo
  • Konkōkyō
  • Kurozumikyō
  • Shōroku Shintō Yamatoyama
  • Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō

Taoism
Main article: Taoism
  • Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
    • Way of the Celestial Masters
      • Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness")
  • Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity")
  • Lingbao School ("School of the Numinous Treasure")
  • Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue")
    • Dragon Gate Taoism
  • Wuliupai ("School of Wu-Liu")
  • Yao Taoism (a.k.a. "Meishanism")
  • Faism (a.k.a. "Redhead Taoism")
  • Xuanxue (a.k.a. "Neo-Taoism")
Chinese religions
  • Benzhuism (Bai people)
  • Bimoism (Yi people)
  • Chinese ancestral worship
  • Chinese folk religion
    • Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia
    • Northeast China folk religion
  • Chinese religions of fasting
  • Chinese salvationist religions
  • Chinese shamanism (Wuism)
  • De Jiao
  • Dongba (Nakhi people)
  • Guiyidao (Red Swastika Society)
  • Luoism
  • Maitreyanism
  • Manchu shamanism (Manchu people)
  • Mazu worship
  • Moism (Zhuang people)
  • Nuo folk religion (Tujia people)
  • Qiang folk religion (Qiang people)
  • Sanyiism
  • Tiandiism
  • Wang Ye worship
  • Weixinism
  • Xiantiandao
  • Xuanyuanism
  • Yao folk religion (Yao people)
  • Yaochidao
  • Yiguandao
  • Zailiism
Chinese philosophy schools
Main article: Hundred Schools of Thought
  • Daojia
  • Fajia
  • Huang–Lao
  • Mohism
  • Ruism
  • Yangmingism
Japanese religions
  • Ainu religion
  • Kōshin-shinkō
  • Onmyōdō
  • Ryukyuan religion
  • Shugendō
Korean religions
  • Korean shamanism
    • Gasin faith
  • Cheondoism
  • Daejongism
  • Daesun Jinrihoe
  • Jeung San Do
  • Suwunism
  • Korean Taoism
Mongolian religions
  • Mongolian shamanism
    • Yellow shamanism
    • Black shamanism
Vietnamese religions
  • Vietnamese folk religion
  • Vietnamese Taoism
  • Đạo Mẫu
  • Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương
  • Đạo Dừa
  • Caodaism
  • Hòa Hảo

Dharmic religions
Main article: Indian religions

The four main religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Buddhism
Main article: Buddhism
  • Mahayana
  • Chinese Buddhism
    • Tiantai
      • Tendai
      • Cheontae
      • Daśabhūmikā
    • Huayan school
      • Hwaeom
      • Kegon
    • Chan Buddhism
      • Seon Buddhism
      • Thiền Buddhism
        • Trúc Lâm
      • Zen Buddhism
      • Caodong school
        • Sōtō
          • Keizan line
          • Jakuen line
          • Giin line
      • Linji school
        • Rinzai school
        • Ōbaku
        • Fuke-shū
      • Kwan Um School of Zen
      • Sanbo Kyodan
    • Madhyamaka
      • East Asian Mādhyamaka (a.k.a. the "Three Treatise school")
      • Jonang
      • Prasaṅgika
      • Svatantrika
    • Nichiren Buddhism
      • Honmon Butsuryū-shū
      • Kempon Hokke
      • Nichiren Shōshū
      • Nichiren Shū
      • Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga
      • Reiyūkai
        • Myōchikai Kyōdan
        • Myōdōkai Kyōdan
        • Risshō Kōsei Kai
      • Soka Gakkai
    • Pure Land Buddhism
      • Jōdo Shinshū
        • Honganji-ha
        • Ōtani-ha
      • Jōdo-shū
    • Yogācāra
      • East Asian Yogācāra
    • Humanistic Buddhism
  • Nikaya Buddhism (incorrectly called "Hinayana" in the West)
    • Theravada
      • Sangharaj Nikaya (Bangladesh)
      • Mahasthabir Nikaya (Bangladesh)
      • Dwara Nikaya (Burma)
      • Shwegyin Nikaya (Burma)
      • Thudhamma Nikaya (Burma)
        • Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
      • Amarapura Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Ramañña Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
        • Galduwa Forest Tradition
      • Siam Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Sri Lankan Forest Tradition
      • Dhammayuttika Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Thai Forest Tradition
          • Tradition of Ajahn Chah
      • Maha Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Dhammakaya Movement
    • Vipassana movement (United States)
  • Vajrayana
    • Azhaliism (Bai people)
    • Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
    • Newar Buddhism (Nepal)
    • Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
    • Shingon Buddhism (Japan)
    • Southern Esoteric Buddhism
    • Tibetan Buddhism
      • Bon (Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal)
      • Gelug
      • Kagyu
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Barom Kagyu
          • Drukpa Lineage
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingma
      • Sakya
      • Jonang
      • Bodongpa
      • Rimé movement
  • Kirat Mundhum (Nepal)
Neo-Buddhism
  • Navayana (India; also called Neo-Buddhism or Ambedkarite Buddhism)
  • Dalit Buddhist movement
  • Shambhala Buddhism
  • Diamond Way Buddhism
  • Triratna Buddhist Community
  • New Kadampa Tradition[7]
  • Share International
  • True Buddha School
  • Hòa Hảo
  • Won Buddhism

Hinduism
Main article: Hinduism
Further information: Hindu denominations and Bhakti movement
  • Ayyavazhi
  • Kaumaram
  • Shaivism[8]
    • Aghori
    • Indonesian Shaivism
    • Kapalika
    • Kashmir Shaivism
    • Nath
      • Adinath Sampradaya
      • Inchegeri Sampradaya
    • Pashupata Shaivism
    • Shaiva Siddhanta
    • Veerashaivism (Lingayatism)
  • Shaktism[8]
  • Smartism
  • Śrauta
  • Tantra
    • Baul
    • Kaula
  • Vaishnavism/Krishnaism[8][9]
    • Balmikism
    • Brahma Sampradaya (Madhva tradition)
    • Ekasarana Dharma
    • Kapadi Sampradaya
    • Mahanubhava
    • Nimbarka Sampradaya
    • Pranami/Pranami Sampraday
    • Radha Vallabh Sampradaya
    • Ramsnehi
    • Rudra Sampradaya
      • Pushtimarg
    • Sri Vaishnavism
      • Ramanandi Sampradaya
      • Thenkalais
        • Manavala Mamunigal Sabha
      • Vadakalais
    • Swaminarayan Sampradaya
      • Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha
      • Gunatit Samaj
      • Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi
        • International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal
        • Swaminarayan Gurukul
      • Nar Narayan Dev Gadi
        • International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation
        • Narnarayan Dev Yuvak Mandal
      • Swaminarayan Gadi (Maninagar)
      • Swaminarayan Mandir Vasna Sanstha
    • Vaishnava-Sahajiya
    • Warkari
Sant Mat[11]
  • Dadupanth
  • Kabir panth
  • Ravidassia religion
  • Sadh
Hindu philosophy schools
Yoga
Main article: Yoga
Hindu new movements
  • Ananda
  • Ananda Ashrama
  • Ananda Marga[13]
  • Anandamayee Sangha
  • Arya Samaj[14]
  • Brahma Kumaris
  • Chinmaya Mission
  • Hindutva
  • Mahima Dharma
  • Matua Mahasangha
  • Narayana Dharm
  • Oneness Movement
  • Ramakrishna Mission (Vedanta Society)
  • Satsang
  • Sathya Sai Baba movement
  • Satya Dharma
  • Shirdi Sai Baba movement
  • Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres
  • Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Sri Ramana Ashram
    • Neo-Advaita

Jainism
Main article: Jainism
  • Digambara
    • Bispanthi[15]
    • Digambar Terapanth
    • Kanji Panth[15]
    • Taran Panth
  • Śvētāmbara
    • Murtipujaka
    • Sthānakavāsī
    • Svetambar Terapanth

Sikhism
Main article: Sikhism
Mainstream
  • Khalsa
Sects
  • Damdami Taksal
  • Nanakpanthi
  • Nihang
  • Nirmala
  • Sanatan Sikh
  • Sikh Dharma International (3HO)
  • Udasi

Middle Eastern religions

Religions that originated in the Middle East; namely Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Baháʼí Faith
Main article: Baháʼí Faith

Christianity
Main article: Christianity
Eastern Christianity
Western Christianity
Other
See also: Gnosticism and Christian mysticism

Certain Christian groups difficult to classify as "Eastern" or "Western." Many Gnostic groups were closely related to early Christianity, for example, Valentinism. Irenaeus wrote polemics against them from the standpoint of the then-unified Catholic Church.[16]

  • Arianism (Historical)
  • Bagnolians (Historical)
  • Bogomilism (Historical)
  • Bosnian Church (Historical)
  • Catharism (Historical)
  • Cerdonians (Historical)
  • Esoteric Christianity
  • Christian Universalism
  • Christopaganism
    • Christian Wicca
  • Eastern Lightning
  • Ecclesia Gnostica
  • God Worshipping Society (Historical)
  • Johannite Church
  • Judaizers (Judeo-Christian)
    • Hebrew Roots
    • Makuya
    • Messianic Judaism
    • Sacred Name Movement
    • Yehowists
    • Ebionites (Historical)
  • Nondenominational Christianity
  • Nontrinitarianism
  • Marcionism (Historical)
  • Unification Church (Family Federation for World Peace and Unification)
    • World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church
  • Reformed Eastern Christianity
  • Sethianism (Historical)
    • Basilideans (Historical)
    • Valentinianism (Historical)
      • Bardesanite School (Historical)
  • Simonians (Historical)
  • Theosophy

Druze
Main article: Druze

Islam
Main article: Islam
See also: Islamic schools and branches, Ilm al-Kalam, Ahl al-Hadith, and Islamism
Khawarij
Main article: Khawarij
  • Azraqi (Historical)
  • Haruriyyah (Historical)
  • Ibadi
  • Sufri (Historical)
Shia Islam
Main article: Shia Islam
  • Alevism
    • Alians
    • Bektashism
  • Alawites (Nusayris)
  • Isma'ilism
    • Mustaali
      • Dawoodi Bohra
        • Alavi Bohra
        • Atba-i-Malak
          • Atba-i-Malak Badar
          • Atba-i-Malak Vakil
        • Hebtiahs Bohra
        • Progressive Dawoodi Bohra
      • Sulaymani
    • Nizari
      • Satpanth
  • Twelver
    • Ja'fari jurisprudence
      • Akhbari
      • Shaykhism
      • Usuli
  • Zaidiyyah
    • Jarudiyah
    • Batriyya
  • Khurramites (Historical)
Sufism
Main articles: Sufism and Islamic Mysticism
  • Bektashi Order
  • Chishti Order
  • Mevlevi Order
  • Naqshbandi
    • Jahriyya
  • Kubrawiya
    • Khufiyya
  • Ni'matullāhī
  • Qadiriyya
  • Shadhili
  • Suhrawardiyya
  • Sufi Order International
  • Tijaniyyah
  • Universal Sufism
    • Dances of Universal Peace
Sunni Islam
Main article: Sunni Islam
Other

Judaism
Main articles: Judaism and Jewish religious movements
Kabbalah
Main articles: Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism
Others
  • Noahidism
  • Subbotniks
Historical Judaism
  • Essenes
    • Bana'im
    • Hemerobaptists (possible ancestor of Mandaeism) (Historical)
    • Maghāriya
    • Nasoraeans (possible ancestor of Mandaeism) (Historical)
  • Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism) (Historical)
  • Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism) (Historical)
  • Zealots (Judea)
    • Sicarii
  • Messianic sects
    • Ebionites
    • Elcesaites
    • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
  • Second Temple Judaism
  • Frankism

Mandaeism
Main article: Mandaeism

Yazdânism

Zoroastrianism
Main article: Zoroastrianism
  • Behafaridians (Historical)
  • Mazdakism (Historical)
    • Mazdaznan
  • Zurvanism (Historical)

Indigenous (ethnic, folk) religions
Main articles: Ethnic religion and Folk religion
See also: Paganism, Animism, Totemism, and Shamanism

Religions that consist of the traditional customs and beliefs of particular ethnic groups, refined and expanded upon for thousands of years, often lacking formal doctrine. Some adherents do not consider their ways to be "religion," preferring other cultural terms.

Traditional African
  • Abwoi religion
  • Akamba religion
  • Akan religion
  • Badimo
  • Baluba mythology
  • Bantu mythology
    • Kongo religion
    • Zulu traditional religion
  • Berber religion
  • Bushongo mythology
  • Bwiti
  • Dahomean religion
  • Dinka religion
  • Dogon religion
  • Edo religion
  • Efik mythology
  • Fon and Ewe religion
  • Hausa religion
  • Ik religion
  • Kalenjin mythology
  • Khoekhoen Religion
  • Lotuko mythology
  • Lozi mythology
  • Lugbara mythology
  • Maasai mythology
  • Mbuti mythology
  • Odinala / Odinani
  • San religion
  • Serer religion
  • Tumbuka mythology
  • Urhobo people
  • Waaqeffanna
  • Yoruba religion

Diasporic African
Main article: Afro-American religion
  • Abakuá
  • Candomblé
    • Candomblé Bantu
    • Candomblé Jejé
    • Candomblé Ketu
  • Comfa
  • Convince
  • Cuban Vodú
  • Dominican Vudú
  • Espiritismo
  • Haitian Vodou
  • Hoodoo
  • Jamaican Maroon religion
    • Kromanti dance
  • Kélé
  • Kumina
  • Louisiana Voodoo
  • Montamentu
  • Myal
  • Obeah
  • Palo
  • Quimbanda
  • Santería
  • Tambor de Mina
  • Trinidad Orisha
  • Umbanda
  • Winti

Altaic
  • Evenki shamanism
  • Manchu shamanism
  • Turko-Mongolic religion
    • Tengrism
      • Mongolian shamanism
    • Aiyy
    • Burkhanism
    • Tengir Ordo
    • Vattisen Yaly

American
  • Abenaki mythology
  • Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
  • Blackfoot mythology
  • Californian religions
    • Miwok mythology
    • Ohlone mythology
    • Pomo religion
  • Cherokee mythology
  • Chilote mythology
  • Choctaw mythology
  • Creek mythology
  • Guarani mythology
  • Haida mythology
  • Ho-Chunk mythology
  • Hopi mythology
  • Inca mythology
  • Iroquois mythology
    • Seneca mythology
    • Wyandot religion
    • Longhouse Religion
  • Jivaroan religion
  • Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology
  • Lakota mythology
  • Lenape mythology
  • Mapuche religion
  • Mesoamerican religion
  • Midewiwin
  • Muisca religion
  • Navajo religion
  • Nuu-chah-nulth mythology
  • Pawnee mythology
  • Powhatan religion
  • Tsimshian mythology
  • Ute mythology
  • Zuni mythology

Austroasiatic
  • Ka Niam Khasi
  • Sarnaism
  • Vietnamese folk religion

Austronesian
  • Aliran Kepercayaan/Mythology of Indonesia
  • Malaysian folk religion
    • Datuk Keramat
    • Momolianism
  • Philippine Dayawism
    • Tagalog beliefs
  • Polynesian mythology
    • Hawaiian religion
    • Māori religion

Indo-European
  • Assianism (Ossetian religion)
  • Kalash religion

Tai and Miao
  • Ahom religion
  • Mo religion
  • Tai folk religion
  • Yao Taoism

Tibeto-Burmese
  • Bathouism
  • Benzhuism
  • Bimoism
  • Bon
  • Bongthingism
  • Burmese folk religion
  • Donyi-Polo
  • Heraka
  • Kiratism
  • Qiang folk religion
  • Sanamahism

Uralic
  • Mari Native Religion
  • Mordvin Native Religion
  • Sámi shamanism
  • Suomenusko
  • Udmurt Vos

Other Indigenous

New religious movements
Main article: New religious movement

Religions that cannot be classed as either world religions or traditional folk religions, and are usually recent in their inception.[17]

Cargo cults
Main article: Cargo cults
  • John Frum
  • Johnson cult
  • Prince Philip Movement
  • Vailala Madness

Black
  • Ausar Auset Society
  • Dini Ya Msambwa
  • Five-Percent Nation
  • Godianism
  • Black Muslims
    • American Society of Muslims
  • Moorish Science Temple of America
    • Moorish Orthodox Church of America
  • Mumboism
  • Nation of Islam
    • United Nation of Islam
  • Nuwaubian Nation

Rastafari
Main article: Rastafari
  • Bobo Ashanti
  • Nyabinghi
  • Twelve Tribes of Israel

Black Hebrew Israelites
Main article: Black Hebrew Israelites
  • African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
  • Church of God and Saints of Christ
  • Commandment Keepers
  • Nation of Yahweh
  • One West Camp
  • Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ
  • Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge

White
  • Ariosophy
  • British Israelism
  • Christian Identity
  • Creativity
  • French Israelism
  • Nordic Israelism
  • Wotansvolk

Native American
  • Ghost Dance
  • Indian Shaker Church
  • Mexicayotl
  • Native American Church

Hindu-derived new religions

Sikh-derived new religions
  • Contemporary Sant Mat movements
    • Advait Mat
    • Radha Soami
      • Radha Soami Satsang Beas
      • Radha Soami Satsang Dayagbal
      • Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod
      • Ruhani Satsang
      • Manavta Mandir
      • Science of Spirituality (a.k.a. Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission)
    • Radha Soami-influenced[18]
      • Ancient Teachings of the Masters
      • Dera Sacha Sauda
      • Eckankar
      • Elan Vital (formerly Divine Light Mission)
      • Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
    • Ravidassia

Christian-derived new religions
  • Antoinism
  • Modekngei

Japanese new religions
  • Aum Shinrikyo
  • Church of World Messianity
  • Happy Science
  • Konkokyo
  • Oomoto
  • PL Kyodan
  • Seicho-no-Ie
  • Shinmeiaishinkai
  • Tenrikyo
  • Zenrinkyo

Modern paganism
Main article: Modern paganism

Ethnic neopaganism
  • Armenian neopaganism
  • Baltic neopaganism
  • Caucasian neopaganism
    • Abkhaz neopaganism
      • Council of Priests of Abkhazia
    • Vainakh religion
  • Celtic neopaganism
    • Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism
  • Heathenry (a.k.a. Germanic neopaganism)
  • Hellenism
  • Italo-Roman neopaganism
    • Nova Roma
    • Roman Traditional Movement
  • Kemetism
    • Kemetic Orthodoxy
  • Semitic neopaganism
  • Slavic Native Faith (a.k.a. Slavic neopaganism)
    • Native Polish Church
    • Peterburgian Vedism
    • Rodzima Wiara
    • Rodnover Confederation
    • RUNVira (a.k.a. Sylenkoism)
    • Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities
    • Ynglism
  • Uralic neopaganism
    • Estonian neopaganism
    • Finnish neopaganism
    • Hungarian neopaganism
  • Zalmoxianism
  • Zuism

Syncretic neopaganism
  • Adonism
  • Christopaganism
    • Christian Wicca
  • Church of All Worlds
  • Church of Aphrodite
  • Druidry
    • Ár nDraíocht Féin
    • Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids
    • Reformed Druids of North America
  • Feraferia
  • Goddess movement
  • Huna
  • Ivanovism
  • Neoshamanism
  • Pow-wow
  • Radical Faeries
  • Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
  • Stregheria
  • Summum
  • Technopaganism
  • Wicca
    • British Traditional Wicca
      • Gardnerian Wicca
      • Alexandrian Wicca
      • Central Valley Wicca
      • Algard Wicca
      • Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca
      • Blue Star Wicca
    • Seax-Wica
    • Universal Eclectic Wicca
    • Celtic Wicca
    • Dianic Wicca
    • Faery Wicca
    • Feri Tradition
    • Georgian Wicca
    • Odyssean Wicca
    • Wiccan church
      • Covenant of the Goddess

Entheogenic religions
  • Church of the Universe
  • Neo-American Church
  • Santo Daime
  • Temple of the True Inner Light
  • Tensegrity
  • THC Ministry
  • União do Vegetal

New Age Movement
Main article: New Age
  • A Course in Miracles
  • Association for Research and Enlightenment
  • Chaos Magic
  • Conversations with God
  • Eckankar
  • Love Has Won
  • Rainbow Family
  • The Family

New Thought
  • Christian Science
  • Church of Divine Science
  • Church of the Truth
  • Church Universal and Triumphant
  • Home of Truth
  • Jewish Science
  • Psychiana
  • Religious Science
  • Seicho-no-Ie
  • The Infinite Way
  • Unity Church
  • Universal Foundation for Better Living

Parody religions and fiction-based religions
  • Church of Euthanasia
  • Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (a.k.a. "Pastafarianism")
  • Church of the SubGenius
  • Dinkoism
  • Discordianism
  • Dudeism
  • Iglesia Maradoniana
  • Jediism
  • Kibology
  • Kopimism
  • Landover Baptist Church
  • Last Thursdayism
  • 'Pataphysics
  • Silinism
  • Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
  • United Church of Bacon

Post-theistic and naturalistic religions
  • Abrahamites
  • Cult of the Supreme Being (Historical)
  • Deism
    • Christian Deism
  • Ethical movement
  • Freethought
    • North Texas Church of Freethought
  • God-Building
  • Humanism
  • Ietsism
  • Moorish Orthodox Church of America
  • Pandeism
  • Pantheism
    • Naturalistic pantheism
  • Religion of Humanity
    • Church of Humanity
  • Theophilanthropy
  • Saint-Simonianism
  • Syntheism
  • Unitarian Universalism
  • Universal Life Church

UFO religions
  • Aetherius Society
  • Ashtar Galactic Command
  • Chen Tao ("True Way")
  • Fiat Lux
  • Ground Crew Project
  • Heaven's Gate
  • Industrial Church of the New World Comforter
  • Mark-Age
  • Nuwaubianism
  • Order of the Solar Temple
  • Raëlism
  • Scientology
    • Independent Scientology
  • The Seekers
  • Unarius Academy of Science
  • Universe people
  • Urantia movement

Western esotericism
  • Anthroposophy
  • Archeosophical Society
  • Builders of the Adytum
  • Fraternity of the Inner Light
  • Hermeticism
    • Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
      • The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.
  • Illuminates of Thanateros
  • Luciferianism
    • Fraternitas Saturni
    • Neo-Luciferian Church
  • New Acropolis
  • Occultism
    • Gaianism
    • Mayanism
    • Michael Teachings
  • Ordo Aurum Solis
  • Rosicrucian
    • Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
    • Lectorium Rosicrucianum
    • Rosicrucian Fellowship
  • Satanism
  • Thelema
  • Theosophy
    • Neo-Theosophy
  • Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

Other new
  • Chrislam
  • Faithism
  • Falun Gong
  • Fourth Way
  • Ishikism
  • Nontheism
  • Omnism
  • Open-source religion
  • Otherkin[19]
  • Pilgrims of Ares
  • Santa Muerte
  • Singularitarianism
  • Spiritualism (Spiritism)
  • Subud
  • Tai Ji Men
  • The Circle of Reason
  • The Family International

Historical religions

Bronze Age

Classical antiquity

Other categorisations

By demographics
Main article: Religious demographics
  • List of religious populations

By area
  • List of religions and spiritual traditions of Oceania/Pacific
  • Religion in Africa
  • Religion in Asia
  • Religion in Oceania
  • Religion in Europe
  • Religion in North America
  • Religion in South America
  • Religion by country
    • List of state-established religions
    • Buddhism by country
      • Buddhism in the United States
    • Christianity by country
      • Roman Catholicism by country
      • Eastern Orthodoxy by country
      • Protestantism by country
      • Oriental Orthodoxy by country
    • Hinduism by country
    • Islam by country
      • Ahmadiyya by country
    • Judaism by country, Jewish population by country
    • Sikhism by country

See also

References
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  2. "World Religions Religion Statistics Geography Church Statistics". Archived from the original on April 22, 1999. Retrieved 5 March 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. "About - the Parapsychological Association".
  4. "Key Facts about Near-Death Experiences". Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  5. Harvey, Graham (2000). Indigenous Religions: A Companion. (Ed: Graham Harvey). London and New York: Cassell. Page 06.
  6. Vergote, Antoine, Religion, belief and unbelief: a psychological study, Leuven University Press, 1997, p. 89
  7. Melton 2003, p. 1112.
  8. Tattwananda, Swami (1984). Vaisnava Sects, Saiva Sects, Mother Worship (1st rev. ed.). Calcutta: Firma KLM Private Ltd.
  9. Dandekar, R. N. (1987). "Vaiṣṇavism: An Overview". In Eliade, Mircea (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 14. New York: MacMillan.
  10. Melton 2003, p. 997.
  11. Lorenzen, David N. (1995). Bhakti Religion in North India: Community Identity and Political Action. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2025-6.
  12. Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. Vol. 1-2. Indian Philosophy (1923) Vol. 1, 738 p. (1927) Vol. 2, 807 p. Oxford University Press.
  13. Melton 2003, p. 1001.
  14. Melton 2003, p. 1004.
  15. "Welcome to Jainworld – Jain Sects – tirthankaras, jina, sadhus, sadhvis, 24 tirthankaras, digambara sect, svetambar sect, Shraman Dharma, Nirgranth Dharma". Jainworld.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
  16. "Irenaeus of Lyons". Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  17. Clarke 2006.
  18. Clarke 2006, pp. 507–509, Radhasoami movements.
  19. Laycock, Joseph P. Reitman (2012). "We Are Spirits of Another Sort". Nova Religio. 15 (3): 65–90. doi:10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65. JSTOR 10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65.

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