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Catholicism

• Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
  Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
  
  The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association , abbreviation CPA, CPCA, or CCPA, is an association of people, not all of whom are Christian, established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics....
  

• Independent Catholic Churches
  Independent Catholic Churches
  
  Independent Catholic churches are Christian denominations which claim Apostolic Succession for their bishops but are not a part of the Roman Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Old Catholic Churches under the Archbishop of Utrecht or the Anglican Communion....
  
• Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
  Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
  
  The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church is an Independent Catholic Churches established in 1945 by Brazilian bishop Dom Carlos Duarte Costa, a former Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Botucatu....
  
• Philippine Independent Church
  Philippine Independent Church
  
  The Philippine Independent Church, officially the Iglesia Filipina Independiente , is a Christian denomination of the Catholic tradition in the form of a national church....
   (In communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with the Anglican Church
  Anglican Communion
  
  The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy....
   and the Union of Utrecht
  Union of Utrecht
  
  The Union of Utrecht is a treaty signed on 23 January 1579 in Utrecht , the Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under the control of Spain....
  )
• Polish National Catholic Church
  Polish National Catholic Church
  
  The Polish National Catholic Church is a Christian church founded and based in the Religion in the United States by Polish-Americans who were Roman Catholic....
  
• Union of Utrecht (In communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with the Anglican Church
  Anglican Communion
  
  The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy....
  )

• Old Catholicism
  Old Catholic Church
  
  The Old Catholic Church is a Christianity denomination originating with mainly German language-speaking groups that split from the Holy See in the 1870s because they disagreed with the solemn declaration of the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated by the First Vatican Council ....
  
• Liberal Catholic Church
  Liberal Catholic Church
  
  The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity open to theosophy and even reincarnation. It is not connected to the Roman Catholic Church....
  

• Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite
  Latin Rite
  
  The Latin Rite is one of the 23 sui iuris particular Churches within the Catholic Church. This particular Church developed in western Europe and north Africa, where, from classical antiquity to the Renaissance, Latin was the principal language of education and culture, and so also of the liturgy....
  )
• Sui iuris
  Sui iuris
  
  Sui iuris, commonly also spelled sui juris, is a Latin phrase that literally means ?of one?s own laws?....
   (Including Byzantine Rite
  Byzantine Rite
  
  The Byzantine Rite, sometimes called the Rite of Constantinople or Constantinopolitan Rite, is the liturgy used currently by all the Eastern Orthodox Churches and by the Greek-Catholic Churches ....
   churches)
• Traditionalist Catholicism

• Eastern Catholicism (Eastern Churches in Communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with Rome
  Roman Catholic Church
  
  The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
  )

• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Eastern Orthodox Church
  Eastern Orthodox Church
  
  The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
  
• Greek Orthodox Church
  Greek Orthodox Church
  
  The term Greek Orthodox Church refers to several churches within the larger full communion of Eastern Orthodox Church Christianity sharing a common cultural tradition and whose liturgy is traditionally conducted in Koine Greek, the original language of the New Testament....
  
• Russian Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox Church
  
  The Russian Orthodox Church ; or The Moscow Patriarchate , also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christianity who constitute an Autocephaly Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches....
  

• Oriental Orthodoxy
  Oriental Orthodoxy
  
  Oriental Orthodoxy is the communion of Eastern Christianity Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils ? the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the Council of Ephesus....
  
• Coptic Orthodox Church
• Ethiopian Orthodox Church

• Syriac Christianity
  Syriac Christianity
  
  Syriac Christianity is a culturally and linguistically distinctive community within Eastern Christianity. It has its roots in the Near East, and is represented by a number of Christian denominations today, mainly in the Middle East and in Kerala, India....
  
• Assyrian Church of the East
  Assyrian Church of the East
  
  The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East , currently presided over by Mar Dinkha IV, is a Christian particular church and one of the earliest to separate itself from communion with the Catholic Church ....
  
• Indian Orthodox Church
  Indian Orthodox Church
  
  The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is an autocephaly church and a member of the Oriental Orthodoxy Church family in Christianity, founded by St....
  
• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (In full communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
• Syriac Orthodox Church
  Syriac Orthodox Church
  
  The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephaly Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East, with members spread throughout the world. It schism with Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism over the Council of Chalcedon, which the Syriac Orthodox Church rejects....
   (In full communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
• Mar Thoma Church
  Mar Thoma Church
  
  The Mar Thoma Church is a Christianity Christian denomination from Kerala, the south-western state of India. It claims that the original Malankara Church was established by Thomas the Apostle at the same time as Saint Paul established the church in Corinth....
   (In full communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with the Anglican Church in India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  )
• Syriac Catholic Church
  Syriac Catholic Church
  
  The Syriac Catholic Church, or Syrian Catholic Church, is a Christian church in the Levant having practices and rites in common with the Syriac Orthodox Church....
   (In full communion
  Full communion
  
  Full communion is a term used in Christianity ecclesiology to describe the relationship of communion , with mutually recognized sharing of the same essential doctrines, between a Christian community and other communities or between that community and individuals....
   with Rome
  Roman Catholic Church
  
  The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
  )

Protestantism

• Anglicanism
  Anglicanism
  
  Anglicanism is a tradition of Christianity faith. Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs, worship and church structures....
   (via media between the Roman Catholic Church
  Roman Catholic Church
  
  The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
   and Protestantism)
• Anglican Communion
  Anglican Communion
  
  The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy....
  
• Church of England
  Church of England
  
  The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
  
• Church of Ireland
  Church of Ireland
  
  The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation....
  
• Church of Wales
• Episcopal Church (United States)
  Episcopal Church (United States)
  
  The Episcopal Church, sometimes called The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, is the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe....
  
• Scottish Episcopal Church
  Scottish Episcopal Church
  
  The Scottish Episcopal Church is a Christian denomination in Scotland and a member of the Anglican Communion, although it itself has pre-Anglican origins....
  
• Pre-Lutheran Protestants
• Hussites
• Lollards
• Waldensians
  Waldensians
  
  Waldensians, Waldenses or Vaudois are names for a Christian spiritual movement of the later Middle Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions....
  
• Anabaptists
• Amish
  Amish
  
  The various Amish or Amish Mennonite church fellowships are Christian religious denominations, and form a very traditional subgrouping of Mennonite churches....
  
• Brethren in Christ
• Church of the Brethren
  Church of the Brethren
  
  The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren organized in 1708 by eight people led by Alexander Mack, a miller, in Schwarzenau , Germany....
  
• Hutterites
• Mennonites
• Old German Baptist Brethren
  Old German Baptist Brethren
  
  Old German Baptist Brethren descend from a Pietism movement in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, when Alexander Mack founded a fellowship with 7 other believers....
  
• Baptists
• Brethren
  Brethren
  
  The Brethren are a number of Protestant Christian religious bodies using the word "brethren" in their names. In some cases these similarities of name reflect roots in the same early Brethren groups, and in others the adoption of "Brethren" as part of the name reflects an independent choice to evoke the concept of religious brotherhood ....
  
• Catholic Apostolic Church
  Catholic Apostolic Church
  
  The term Catholic Apostolic Church belongs to the entire community of Christians , quoting the last sentence of the Nicene Creed. It has, however, also become specifically applied to the movement often called Irvingism, although it was neither actually founded nor anticipated by Edward Irving, and nor was the title Catholic Apostolic...
  
• Charismatic movement
  Charismatic movement
  
  The term Charismatic Movement describes the adoption of certain beliefs typical of those held by Pentecostal Christians by those within the historic denominations....
  
• Christadelphians
  Christadelphians
  
  Christadelphians are a Christianity group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century. The name was coined by John Thomas , who was the group's founder....
  
• Christian Israelite Church
  Christian Israelite Church
  
  The Christian Israelite Church was founded in 1822 by the prophet John Wroe in England. Today there are groups of members meeting in Australia at locations including Sydney City, the Sydney suburb of Windsor, Victoria, Fitzroy, Victoria in Melbourne, the Central Coast and Singleton, New South Wales in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales....
  
• Christian New Religious Movements
• Unification Church
  Unification Church
  
  The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In addition to providing and sustaining spiritual, scriptural, and liturgical functions and structures for its worldwide community of believers, the Unification Church, like many religious organizations, owns, operates, and subsidizes organiz...
   (Moonies)
• Christian Science
  Christian Science
  
  Christian Science is a religious belief system claimed to have been discovered in the year 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy. Practiced most prominently by members of the Church of Christ, Scientist that she founded, Christian Science asserts that humanity and the universe as a whole are, correctly viewed, spiritual rather than material; that truth an...
  
• Children of God
  Children of God
  
  The Children of God , later known as the Family of Love, the Family, and now the Family International , is a religious group, widely referred to as a cult by the media, many in academia, and some former members, that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, California, United States....
  
• Peoples Temple
  Peoples Temple
  
  Peoples Temple was an organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, possessed over a dozen locations in California including its Peoples Temple in San Francisco....
  
• Esoteric Christianity
  Esoteric Christianity
  
  Esoteric Christianity is a term which refers to an ensemble of Spirituality currents which regard Christianity as a mystery religion, and profess the existence and possession of certain Esotericism doctrines or practices, hidden from the public but accessible only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or highly educated people....
  
• Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
  Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
  
  The Free Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination founded by the cleric and politician, Ian Paisley in 1951. Most of its membership live in Northern Ireland....
  
• Lutheranism
  Lutheranism
  
  Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century Germans Reformer Martin Luther....
  
• Methodism
  Methodism
  
  Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by John Wesley and his younger brother Charles Wesley that sought to keep Methodism as a Revivalism movement within the Church of England....
  
• Messianic Judaism
  Messianic Judaism
  
  Messianic Judaism is a religious movement whose adherents believe that Jesus of Nazareth, whom they call Yeshua , is both the Death and resurrection of Jesus Jewish Messiah and their Divinity Salvation....
  
• Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
  Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
  
  The Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus , is a Christian denomination founded in the Philippines by Bishop Teofilo D. Ora in May 1922. It has spread to areas including California, USA; Calgary, Canada and some Asian countries....
  
• New Thought
  New Thought
  
  The New Thought Movement or New Thought is a spiritual movement which developed in the United States during the late 19th century and emphasizes metaphysics beliefs....
  
• Pentecostalism
  Pentecostalism
  
  Pentecostalism is a renewalist religious movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on the direct personal experience of God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit....
  
• Oneness Pentecostalism
• Pietism
  Pietism
  
  Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century and later. It proved to be very influential throughout Protestantism and Anabaptist, inspiring not only Anglicanism priest John Wesley to begin the Methodism, but also Alexander Mack to begin the Schwarzenau Brethren movement....
  
• Holiness movement
  Holiness movement
  
  The Holiness movement in Christianity is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature of humanity can be cleansed through faith and by the power of the Holy Ghost if one has had his sins forgiven through faith in Jesus....
  
• Reformed churches
  Reformed churches
  
  The Reformed churches are a group of Christian Protestant Christian denomination formally characterized by a similar Calvinism system of doctrine, historically related to the churches that first arose especially in the Swiss Reformation led by Huldrych Zwingli and soon afterward appeared in nations throughout Western and Central Europe....
  
• Puritans
• Presbyterianism
  Presbyterianism
  
  Presbyterianism is a group of Christian congregations adhering to the Calvinism theological tradition within Protestantism. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Bible and the necessity of Divine grace through faith in Christ....
  
• Congregational church
  Congregational church
  
  Congregational churches are Protestantism Christianity churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each Wiktionary:congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....
  
• Religious Society of Friends
  Religious Society of Friends
  
  The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity....
  
• Spiritism
  Spiritism
  
  Spiritism is a Christian philosophy doctrine, established in France in the mid-nineteenth century.Spiritism, or French spiritualism, is based on Spiritist Codification written by French people educator Hypolite L?on Denizard Rivail under the pseudonym Allan Kardec reporting s?ances in which he observed a series of phenomena that could be o...
  
• Espiritismo
  Espiritismo
  
  Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that Goodness and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life....
  
• Swedenborgianism
  Swedenborgianism
  
  Swedenborgianism is the belief system developed from the writings of the Sweden theologian Emanuel Swedenborg . It is claimed by its followers that it is a new form of Christianity, and the movement is founded on the belief that God explained the spiritual meaning of the Bible to Swedenborg as a means of revealing the truth of the second comi...
  
• Christian Spiritualism
• United and uniting churches
  United and uniting churches
  
  United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestantism Christian denominations....
  
• Unitarianism
  Unitarianism
  
  Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God, in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity . It is the philosophy upon which the modern Unitarian movement was based, and, according to its proponents, is the Early Christianity of Christianity....
  
• Universalism
  Universalism
  
  Universalism refers to theological religion, theology and philosophy concepts with universal application or applicability. It is a term used to identify particular doctrines as considering of all people in their formation....
  

Restorationism

• Adventism
• Millerites
  Millerites
  
  The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller who, in 1833, first shared publicly his belief in the coming Second Coming of Jesus in roughly the year 1843....
  
• Sabbatarianism
• Seventh-day Adventists
• Christadelphians
  Christadelphians
  
  Christadelphians are a Christianity group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century. The name was coined by John Thomas , who was the group's founder....
  
• Latter Day Saint movement
  Latter Day Saint movement
  
  The Latter Day Saint movement is a group of Restorationism religious denominations and adherents who follow at least some of the Teachings of Joseph Smith, Jr....
   (Mormonism
  Mormonism
  
  Mormonism is a term used to describe the religion, ideology and subculture elements of the Latter Day Saint movement, and specifically, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
  )
• Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
  Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
  
  The Church of Christ is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement and is headquartered in Independence, Missouri, Missouri on what is known as the Temple Lot....
  
• Community of Christ
  Community of Christ
  
  Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , is an American-based, international Christian church established in April 1830 that claims as its mission "to proclaim Jesus Christ and promote communities of joy, hope, love, and peace." The church reports approximately Commun...
  
• Rigdonites
  Rigdonite
  
  Rigdonite is a name given to members of the Latter Day Saint movement who accept Sidney Rigdon as the successor in the President of the Church to movement founder, Joseph Smith, Jr....
  
• The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. LDS)
• Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  
  The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalism denominations and one of United States' largest practitioners of plural marriage....
   (a.k.a. FLDS)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with fewer than a thousand members. The Strangite church is distinct from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is larger and better-known, although both organizations claim to be the original church established by Joseph Smith...
  
• Iglesia ni Cristo
  Iglesia ni Cristo
  
  The Iglesia ni Cristo . The INC says the book contains "outright blasphemy" towards the late founder Felix Manalo by likening the INC to a criminal syndicate....
  
• Jehovah's Witnesses
  Jehovah's Witnesses
  
  Jehovah's Witnesses is a restorationism, Millenarianism Christianity religious movement. Sociology of religion have classified the group as an Adventism sect....
  
• Restoration Movement
  Restoration Movement
  
  The Restoration Movement began during the Second Great Awakening early nineteenth century as a movement to reform the church and unite Christians....
  

Gnosticism

• Ebionites
  Ebionites
  
  The Ebionites were a Jewish sect that insisted on the necessity of following Torah, which they interpreted in light of Jesus' expounding of the Law....
  
• Cerdonians
  Cerdonians
  
  The Cerdonians were a Gnostic sect founded by Cerdo, a Syrian, who came to Rome about 137, but concerning whose history little is known. They held that there are two first causes ? the perfectly good and the perfectly evil....
  
• Marcionism
  Marcionism
  
  Marcionism is an Early Christian Dualism belief system that originates in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope at Rome around the year 144. Marcion affirmed Jesus Christ as the savior sent by God and Paul as his chief apostle, but he rejected the Hebrew Bible and Yahweh....
   (not entirely Gnostic)
• Colorbasians
  Colorbasians
  
  In early Christianity, the Colorbasians were a branch of gnostics, so called from Colorbasus, who improved on the visions of the gnostics that had preceded them. Epiphanius of Salamis enumerates and rebuts their beliefs in the Panarion....
  
• Simonians
  Simonians
  
  The Simonians were a Gnostic sect of the second century, whose teachings, Simonianism, regarded Simon Magus as its founder and which traced its doctrines back to him....
  

• Borborites
  Borborites
  
  According to the book Panarion, by Epiphanius of Salamis, and Theodoret's Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium, the Borborites were a libertine gnosticism Ophites sect....
  
• Cainites
  Cainites
  
  The Cainites, or Cainians, were a gnosticism and Antinomianism sect who were known to worship Cain as the first victim of the Demiurge YHWH, the deity of the Tanakh , who was identified by many groups of gnostics as evil....
  
• Carpocratians
• Ophites
  Ophites
  
  The Ophites were members of numerous Gnosticism sects in Syria and Egypt about 100 AD. The Ophite sects revered the Serpent of Genesis as a symbol of gnosis, which the tyrant Yaldabaoth tried to hide from Adam and Eve....
  
• Hermeticism
  Hermeticism
  
  Hermeticism is a set of philosophy and Religion beliefs based primarily upon the Hellenistic Egyptian Pseudepigrapha attributed to Hermes Trismegistus who is the representation of the congruence of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes....
  

• Cathars
• Bogomils
• Paulicianism
  Paulicianism
  
  Paulicians were a Gnostic and quasi Manichaean Christianity group which flourished between 650 and 872 in Anatolia, Armenia and the Eastern Themes of the Byzantine Empire....
  
• Tondrakians
  Tondrakians
  
  Tondrakians were members of an anti-feudal, heretical Christian sect that flourished in medieval Armenia between the early 9th century and 11th century and centered around the city of Tondrak, north of Lake Van ....
  

• Mandaeanism
• Manichaeism
  Manichaeism
  
  Manichaeism was one of the major Iranian Gnosticism religions, originating in Sassanid Persia. Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived....
  
• Bagnolians
  Bagnolians
  
  The Bagnolians were a sect in the 8th century, deemed heresy, who rejected the Old Testament and part of the New Testament. They held the world to be etrnity, and affirmed that God did not create the soul, when he infused it into the body....
  

• Sethians
• Basilidians
• Thomasines
  Thomas the Apostle
  
  Saint Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas, or Didymus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is perhaps best known for disbelieving Jesus' Resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus....
  
• Valentinians
• Bardesanites

Islam

• Ash'ari
  Ash'ari
  
  The Ash?ari theology is a school of early Kalam founded by the theologian Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari . The disciples of the school are known as Ash'arites, and the school is also referred to as Ash'arite school....
  
• Kalam
  Kalam
  
  Kalam is the Islamic philosophy of seeking Islamic theology principles through dialectic. In Arabic language the word literally means "speech"....
  
• Maturidi
  Maturidi
  
  In Islam, a Maturidi is one who follows Abu Mansur Al Maturidi's theology, which is a close variant of the Ash'ari theology . The Maturidis, Asharis and Atharis are all part of Sunni Islam, which makes up the overwhelming majority of Muslims....
  
• Murji'ah
  Murji'ah
  
  Murji'ah is an early Islamic school, whose followers are known in English language as Murjites or Murji'ites .During the early centuries of Islam, Muslim thought encountered a multitude of influences from various ethnic and philosophical groups that it absorbed....
  
• Mu'tazili
  Mu'tazili
  
  Mu?tazilah is a theology school of thought within Sunni Islam. It is also anglicized as Mu?tazilite. They are usually not accepted by other Sunni Muslims, though their theology parallels Shi'a Islam, such as their belief in the indivinity of the Qur'an....
  

• Ibadi
  Ibadi
  
  The Ibadi movement or Ibadiyya is a form of Islam distinct from the Shi'a and Sunni denominations. It is the dominant form of Islam in Oman....
   (Only surviving sect)
• Azraqi
  Azraqi
  
  Abul-Mahasin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi was an 11th century poet who lived in Persia.Born in Herat, Firdowsi is said to have taken refuge in his father's house on his flight from Ghazneh to Tus....
  
• Haruriyya
  Haruriyya
  
  The Haruri were an early Muslim sect from the period of the Rashidun , named for their first leader, Habib ibn-Yazid al-Haruri. The Haruri were one branch of the Kharijite "Rejectors" movement, so called because they rejected ?Ali's right to the Caliphate....
  
• Sufri
  Sufri
  
  The Sufris were a sect of Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries, and a part of the Kharijites. They established the Midrarid state at Sijilmassa....
  

• Ismailis
• Mustaali
  Mustaali
  
  The Musta?li Ismaili Islam are so named because they accept Al-Musta'li as the ninth Fatimid Caliph and legitimate successor to his father, Al-Mustansir of Cairo....
   / Bohra
• Jafari
• Twelvers
• Alawites
• Alevi
  Alevi
  
  The Alevi are a religious, sub-ethnic and cultural community in Turkey, numbering in the tens of millions. Alevism is generally considered an Islamic religion....
   / Bektashi
  Bektashi
  
  Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi order , considered to be a distinct branch of Twelver Shi'a Islam. It was founded in the 13th century by the Islamic saint Hajji Bektash Wali....
  
• Zaiddiyah

• Bektashi
  Bektashi
  
  Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi order , considered to be a distinct branch of Twelver Shi'a Islam. It was founded in the 13th century by the Islamic saint Hajji Bektash Wali....
  
• Chishti
• Mevlevi
  Mevlevi
  
  The Mevlevi Order or the Mevleviye are a Sufism order founded by the followers of Rumi, a 13th century Persian speaking people poet, Islamic jurist, and theologian, in Konya ....
  
• Naqshbandi
  Naqshbandi
  
  Naqshbandi is one of the major tasawwuf orders of Islam. The order is considered by some to be a "sober" order known for its silent dhikr rather than the vocalized forms of dhikr common in other orders....
  
• Tariqah
  Tariqah
  
  ?ariqah means "way, path, method" and refers to an Islamic religious order; in Sufism, it is conceptually related to Haqiqa "truth", the ineffable ideal that is the pursuit of the tradition....
  
• Quadiriyyah
• Suhrawardiyya
  Suhrawardiyya
  
  Suhrawardiyya is the name of a Sufi order founded by Iranian Sufi Diya al-din Abu 'n-Najib as-Suhrawardi .He was a murid of Ahmad al-Ghazali, who was a brother of Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali....
  
• Tijani
  Tijaniyyah
  
  The Tijaniyyah is a sufi tarika originating in North Africa but now more widespread in West Africa, particularly in Senegal,The Gambia,Mauritania, Mali, and Northern Nigeria and Sudan....
  
• Universal Sufism
  Universal Sufism
  
  Universal Sufism is a Spirituality and universalist movement founded by Hazrat Inayat Khan early in the 20th century. The philosophy of Universal Sufism is based on Cooperation of all people and religions, and the presence of spiritual guidance in all people, places and things....
  
• Dances of Universal Peace
  Dances of Universal Peace
  
  The Dances of Universal Peace are a form of spiritual meditative dance conducted in the company of a number of other dancers in a circle. The dances are facilitated by a dance leader who usually plays guitar or drum accompaniment....
  

• Hanafi
  Hanafi
  
  The Hanafi school is the oldest of the four schools of law or jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after its founder, Abu Hanifa an-Nu?man ibn Thabit , and his legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani....
  
• Berailvi
• Deobandi
  Deobandi
  
  The Deobandi is a Sunni Islamic revivalist movement which started in India and Pakistan and has more recently spread to other countries, such as Afghanistan, South Africa and the United Kingdom....
  
• Hanbali
  Hanbali
  
  Hanbali is one of the four schools of Fiqh or Shariah within Sunni Islam . It is also claimed to be a school of aqeedah in Sunni Islam according to the Wahabi and Salafi sects but Sunni scholars reject this position....
  
• Wahhabi
• Maliki
  Maliki
  
  The Maliki madhhab is one of the four madhab of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam. It is the third-largest of the four schools, followed by approximately 15% of Muslims, mostly in North Africa and West Africa....
  
• Shafi'i

These religious traditions are not recognized as parts of Islam by mainstream Islamic fiqh

Fiqh

Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law?based directly on the Quran and Sunnah?that complements Shariah with evolving Fatwa/interpretations of Ulema....
, but consider themselves to be Muslim.

• Ahl-e Haqq
  Ahl-e Haqq
  
  The Ahl-e Haqq or Y?rs?n , are members of a religion founded by Sultan Sahak in the late 14th century in western Iran. The total number of members is estimated at around 1,000,000, primarily found in western Iran and Iraq, mostly ethnic Kurdish people and Lak people , though there are also smaller groups of Lorestan, Azerbaijani people,...
   (Yarsan)
• Ahmadiyya
  Ahmadiyya
  
  Ahmadiyya , is a religious missionary movement founded towards the end of the 19th century Originating with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ....
  
• Druze
  Druze
  
  The Druze are a religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and in the Palestinian territories whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies, similar to other followers of Ismaili Shi'a Islam....
  
• Nation of Islam
  Nation of Islam
  
  The Nation of Islam is a religious group founded in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan, United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in July 1930 with the self-proclaimed goal of resurrecting the spiritual, mind, society, and economics condition of the Black people of America....
  
• Moorish Science Temple of America
  Moorish Science Temple of America
  
  File:Moorish Science Temple 1928 Convention.jpgThe Moorish Science Temple of America is a religious organization which states that African Americans were descended from the Moors and thus were originally Islamic....
  
• United Submitters International
  United Submitters International
  
  The United Submitters International is a minor Islamic group, founded by Rashad Khalifa. It is regarded by most Muslims as heretical. The group calls itself the "Submitters" and claims to follow the Qur'an Alone, rejecting hadiths and sunnah....
  
• Zikri
  Zikri
  
  The Zikri faith is an offshoot of Islam concentrated in Makran, Balochistan .The name Zikri comes from the Arabic language word dhikr . The word is commonly used to describe Sufi worship....
  

Judaism

• Conservative Judaism
  Conservative Judaism
  
  Conservative Judaism is a modern Jewish denominations of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s....
  
• Masorti
  Masorti
  
  The Masorti movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and United States. It is part of the Conservative movement....
  
• Conservadox Judaism
  Conservadox Judaism
  
  Conservadox is the term sometimes used to describe Jews whose beliefs and practices place them on the religious continuum somewhere between Conservative Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism....
  
• Union for Traditional Judaism
  Union for Traditional Judaism
  
  The Union for Traditional Judaism is an ostensibly non-denominational Jewish educational, outreach and communal service organization. The UTJ, as it is known, sees itself as trans-denominational, and works to encourage traditional observance among all Jews....
  
• Orthodox Judaism
  Orthodox Judaism
  
  Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
  
• Haredi Judaism
  Haredi Judaism
  
  Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....
  
• Hasidic Judaism
  Hasidic Judaism
  
  Hasidic Judaism is a type of Orthodox Judaism or Haredi Judaism Orthodox Judaism religious movement. Some refer to Hasidic Judaism as Hasidism, and the adjective chasidic / hasidic applies....
  
• Modern Orthodox Judaism
  Modern Orthodox Judaism
  
  Modern Orthodox Judaism is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize halakha and Jewish principles of faith with the secular, modern world....
  
• Reform Judaism
  Reform Judaism
  
  Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices and organizational infrastructure associated with Reform Judaism in Reform Judaism and in Reform Judaism ....
  
• Progressive Judaism
  Progressive Judaism
  
  Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
  
• Liberal Judaism
  Liberal Judaism
  
  Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom is one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Reform Judaism ....
  

• Alternative Judaism
  Alternative Judaism
  
  Alternative Judaism or Agnostic Judaism refers to a variety of groups whose members, while identifying as Jews in some fashion, nevertheless do not practice Rabbinical Judaism as most other Jews....
  
• Humanistic Judaism
  Humanistic Judaism
  
  Humanistic Judaism is a movement within Judaism that emphasizes Jewish culture and history?rather than belief in God?as the sources of Jewish identity....
   (not always identified as a religion)
• Jewish Renewal
  Jewish Renewal
  
  Jewish Renewal is a Jewish denominations in Judaism which endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with Mysticism, Hasidic Judaism, musical and Meditation practices....
  
• Karaite Judaism
  Karaite Judaism
  
  Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denominations characterized by the recognition of the Tanakh as its sacred text, and the rejection of Rabbinic Judaism and the Oral Law as binding....
  
• Reconstructionist Judaism
  Reconstructionist Judaism
  
  Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern American-based Judaism Jewish denominations based on the ideas of the late Mordecai Kaplan . The movement views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization....
  

• Essenes
  Essenes
  
  The Essenes were, strictly speaking, a Jewish religious group that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, i...
  
• Pharisees
  Pharisees
  
  The word Pharisees comes from the Hebrew language ?????? perushim from ???? parush, meaning "separated" . The Pharisees were, depending on the time, a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era ....
   (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
• Sadducees
  Sadducees
  
  The Sadducees were members of a Jewish sect and were rivals of the Pharisees , founded in the 2nd century BC. They ceased to exist sometime after the destruction of the second Temple in Jerusalem in 70AD....
  
• Zealots
• Sicarii
  Sicarii
  
  Sicarii is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group to the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Roman Empire and their partisans from Judea....
  

• Ebionites
  Ebionites
  
  The Ebionites were a Jewish sect that insisted on the necessity of following Torah, which they interpreted in light of Jesus' expounding of the Law....
  
• Elkasites
• Nazarene
  Nazarene (sect)
  
  The Nazarene sect were an Early Christianity Jewish Christian sect similar to the Ebionites, in that they maintained their adherence to the Torah, but unlike the Ebionites, they accepted the virgin birth and divinity of Jesus....
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• Sabbateans
• Frankists

Rastafari movement

Mandaeans and Sabians

• Mandaeism
  Mandaeism
  
  Mandaeism or Mandaeanism is a monotheistic religion with a strongly Dualism worldview. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam , Abel, Seth, Enos , Noah, Shem, Aram, son of Shem and especially John the Baptist....
  
• Sabians
  Sabians
  
  The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
  
• Sabians of Harran
  Sabians
  
  The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
  
• Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans
  Sabians
  
  The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
  

Samaritanism

Unitarian Universalism

Indian religions

Ayyavazhi

Buddhism

• Nikaya schools
  Nikaya Buddhism
  
  The term Nikaya Buddhism was invented by Mahayanist scholars, in order to find a more acceptable term than Hinayana to refer to the Early Buddhist schools....
   (which have historically been called Hinayana
  Hinayana
  
  Hinayana is a Sanskrit and Pali term literally meaning:, "the low vehicle", "the inferior vehicle", or "the deficient vehicle", where "vehicle" means "a way of going to enlightenment"....
   in the West)
• Theravada
  Theravada
  
  Theravada...
  
• Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
  Amarapura Nikaya
  
  The Amarapura Nikaya is a Sri Lankan monastic fraternity founded in 1800. It is named after the city of Amarapura, Myanmar , the former capital of the Burmese kingdom....
  
• Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
  Siam Nikaya
  
  The Siam Nikaya is a monastic order within Sri Lanka, founded by Upali Thera and located predominantly around the city of Kandy. It is so named because it originated within Thailand ....
  
• Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
  Ramanna Nikaya
  
  Ramanna Nikaya is one of the most orthodox Buddhism orders in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1864 when Ambagahawatte Saranankara, a member of the Salagama caste, returned to Sri Lanka after being ordained by Ven....
  
• Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
  Sangharaj Nikaya
  
  The Sangharaja Nikaya is a tradition of Theravada Buddhism, located in Bangladesh.The word Nikaya is Pali and literally means "volume". It refers to the sections of the Tipitaka....
  
• Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
  Mahasthabir Nikaya
  
  The Mahasthabir Nikaya is a Bengali order of Buddhist monks. They were anti-reformists who attempted to stifle the movement led by Saramitra Mahasthabir , which led to the formation of the Sangharaj Nikaya in 1864....
  
• Thai Maha Nikaya
  Maha Nikaya
  
  The Maha Nikaya is the largest order of Theravada Buddhism monks in Thailand.The identification of the Maha Nikaya as a single, discrete, entity may be seen as questionable: after the founding of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya in 1833, all recognized monks not ordained in the Dhammayuttika order were considered to be part of the 'maha nikaya', t...
  
• Dhammakaya Movement
  Dhammakaya Movement
  
  The Dhammakaya Movement is a Buddhist movement founded in Thailand in the 1970s....
  
• Thai Thammayut Nikaya
• Thai Forest Tradition
  Thai Forest Tradition
  
  The Thai Forest Tradition is a tradition of Buddhist monasticism within Buddhism in Thailand Theravada Buddhism. It uses remote wilderness and forest dwellings as training grounds for spiritual practice....
  
• Mahayana
  Mahayana
  
  Mahayana is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophy and practice. It was History of Buddhism in India....
  
• Humanistic Buddhism
  Humanistic Buddhism
  
  Humanistic Buddhism is a modern Buddhist philosophy practiced mostly by Mahayana Buddhists. It is the integration of people's spiritual practice into all aspects of their daily lives....
  
• Madhyamika
• Nichiren Buddhism
  Nichiren Buddhism
  
  Nichiren Buddhism is a branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese monk Nichiren . Nichiren Buddhism is a comprehensive term covering several major schools and many sub-schools, as well as several of Japan's Shinshukyo....
  
• Soka Gakkai
• Pure Land
• Tathagatagarbha
• Tiantai
  Tiantai
  
  Tiantai is one of the important sects of Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan, also called the Lotus School because of its emphasis on the Lotus Sutra....
  
• Tendai
  Tendai
  
  is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, a descendant of the China Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school.David W. Chappell frames the relevance of Tendai for a universal Buddhism:...
  
• Yogacara
  Yogacara
  
  Yogacara The orientation of the Yogacara school is largely consistent with the thinking of the Pali Nikayas. It frequently treats later developments in a way that realigns them earlier versions of Buddhist doctrines....
  
• Zen
  Zen
  
  Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....
  
• Caodong
  Caodong
  
  C?od?ng is a China Zen Buddhism sect founded by Tung-shan and his Dharma-heirs in the 9th century. Some attribute the name "C?od?ng" as a union of "Dongshan" and "Caoshan" from one of his Dharma-heirs, Caoshan Benji; however, the "Cao" much more likely came from C?oxi , the "mountain-name" of Huineng, the Sixth Ancestor of Chan, as Caosh...
  
• Fuke Zen
  Fuke Zen
  
  Fuke Zen was a branch of Zen Buddhism which existed in Japan from the 13th century until the late 19th century. Fuke monks were noted for playing the shakuhachi flute as a form of meditation....
  
• Kwan Um School of Zen
  Kwan Um School of Zen
  
  The Kwan Um School of Zen is an international school of Zen centers and groups, founded in 1983 by Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim. The school's international head Buddhist temple is located at the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island, which was founded in 1972 shortly after Seung Sahn first came to the United States ....
  
• Sanbo Kyodan
  Sanbo Kyodan
  
  Sanbo Kyodan is an independent laypeople school of Japanese Zen in the Soto tradition, employing approaches from both the Rinzai and Soto schools....
  
• Soto
  Soto
  
  Soto Zen , or as it is known in Japan, is one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism. The other two are Rinzai school and Obaku sects. The sect was first established as the Caodong sect during the Tang Dynasty in China by Dongshan Liangjie in the 9th century, which Dogen Zenji then brought to Japan in the 13th century....
  
• Obaku (school of Buddhism)
  Obaku (school of Buddhism)
  
  The , often termed the third sect of Zen Buddhism in Japan, was established in 1661 by a small faction of masters from China and their Japan students at Mampuku-ji in Uji, Japan....
  
• Rinzai
• Vajrayana
  Vajrayana
  
  Vajrayana Buddhism is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayana, Mantranaya, Mantrayana, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle ....
  
• Shingon Buddhism
  Shingon Buddhism
  
  Shingon Buddhism is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the other branch of Vajrayana Buddhism besides Tibetan Buddhism. It is often called "Japanese Esoteric Buddhism"....
  
• Tibetan Buddhism
  Tibetan Buddhism
  
  Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhism religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India ....
  
• Bön
  Bön
  
  B?n is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, has recently recognized the B?n tradition as the fifth principal spiritual school of Tibet, along with the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug schools of Buddhism, despite the long historical competition of influences between the Bon tradtition and Buddhis...
  
• Gelukpa
• Kagyu
  Kagyu
  
  The Kagyu or Kagyupa school, also known as the "Oral Lineage" or Whispered Transmission school, is today one of four main schools of Himalayan or Tibetan Buddhism, the other three being the Nyingma , Sakya , and Gelug ....
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• Dagpo Kagyu
  Dagpo Kagyu
  
  Dagpo Kagyu encompases all the branches of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism which trace their lineage back through Gampopa who was also known as Dagpo Lhaje and as Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche or the "Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo"....
  
• Karma Kagyu
  Karma Kagyu
  
  Karma Kagyu , or Kamtsang, is the largest Lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu is the Gyalwa Karmapa....
  
• Barom Kagyu
• Tsalpa Kagyu
• Phagdru Kagyu
• Drikung Kagyu
  Drikung Kagyu
  
  Drikung Kagyu or Drigung Kagyu is one of the eight "minor" lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. "Major" here refers to those Kagyu lineages founded by the immediate disciples of Gampopa while "minor" refers to all the lineages founded by disciples of Phakmo Drupa , one of the three main disciples of Gampopa....
  
• Drukpa Kagyu
• Shangpa Kagyu
  Shangpa Kagyu
  
  The Shangpa Kagyu is known as the "secret" lineage and different origins than the better known Dagpo Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. They come from the lineage of Tilopa whereas the Shangpa lineage descends from his sister Niguma....
  
• Nyingmapa
• Sakyapa
• Jonangpa
• New Buddhist movements
• Aum Shinrikyo
  Aum Shinrikyo
  
  Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese Shinshukyo. The group was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in the Tokyo Subway....
   (now known as Aleph)
• Diamond Way
• Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
  Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
  
  The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order describes itself as an association of Buddhists, and others who aspire to its path of mindfulness, under the leadership of the Western Buddhist Order....
  
• New Kadampa Tradition
  New Kadampa Tradition
  
  The New Kadampa Tradition ~ International Kadampa Buddhist Union is a global Buddhist organization founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in England in 1991....
  
• Share International
  Share International
  
  Share International, formerly called the Tara Center, is an organization, sometimes labeled as a religious movement, that grew out of the teachings of the Scottish amateur painter Benjamin Creme with its main office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands....
  
• True Buddha School
  True Buddha School
  
  The True Buddha School is a modern Vajrayana Buddhism Buddhist sect with influence from Sutrayana and Taoism based in Taiwan.Founded in the late 1980s, the founder of this sect is Lu Sheng-yen , often referred to by his followers as a tulku, a Tibetan term for a reincarnated teacher or deity....
  
• Vipassana movement
  Vipassana movement
  
  The Vipassana movement refers to a number of branches of modern Theravada Buddhism, for example in the various traditions of Sri Lanka, Burma, Laos and Thailand including contemporary American Buddhist teachers such as Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield , as well as nonsectarian derivatives from those traditions such as the...
  

Hinduism

• Agama Hindu Dharma
• Hindu revivalism
• Lingayatism
  Lingayatism
  
  Lingayatism or Veerashaivism is a Hindu religious sect, or according to themselves, an independent religion in India. The adherents of this faith are known as Lingayats or Veera shaivas and are a large caste of Shiva worshippers....
  
• Reform movement
  Reform movement
  
  A reform movement is a kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society rather than rapid or fundamental changes....
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• Arya Samaj
  Arya Samaj
  
  Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded in India by Swami Dayananda in 1875. He was a sannyasa who believed in the infallible Moral absolutism of the Vedas....
  
• Brahmo Samaj
  Brahmo Samaj
  
  Brahmo Samaj is the societal component of Brahmoism. "It is without doubt the most influential socio-religious movement in the evolution of Modern India." It was conceived as reformation of the prevailing Bengal of the time and began the Bengal Renaissance of the 19th century pioneering all religious, social and educational advance of the H...
  
• Shaivism
  Shaivism
  
  Shaivism,names the oldest of the four sects of Hinduism. Followers of Shaivism, called "Shaivas," and also "Saivas" or "Saivites," revere Shiva as the Supreme Being....
  
• Shaktism
  Shaktism
  
  Shaktism is a Hindu denominations of Hinduism that focuses worship upon Shakti or Devi ? the Hindu Divine Mother ? as the absolute, ultimate Godhead....
  
• Tantrism
• Smartism
  Smartism
  
  Smartism is a religious denomination of the Hinduism religion. The term Smarta refers to adherents who follow the Vedas and Shastras....
  
• Vaishnavism
  Vaishnavism
  
  Vaishnavism is a tradition of Hinduism, distinguished from other schools by its worship of Vishnu or his associated avatars, principally as Rama and Krishna, as the original and supreme God....
  
• Gaudiya Vaishnavism
  Gaudiya Vaishnavism
  
  Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Vaishnavism religious movement founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in India in the 16th century. "Gaudiya" refers to Gauda with Vaishnavism meaning the worship of Vishnu....
  
• ISKCON (Hare Krishna
  Hare Krishna
  
  The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra , is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra made well known outside of India by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ....
  )

• Nyaya
  Nyaya
  
  is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy—specifically the school of logic. The Nyaya school of philosophical speculation is based on texts known as the Nyaya Sutras, which were written by Aksapada Gautama from around the 2nd century AD....
  
• Purva mimamsa
• Samkhya
  Samkhya
  
  Sankhya, also Samkhya, is one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy. Sage Kapila is traditionally considered to be the founder of the Sankhya school, although no historical verification is possible....
  
• Vaisheshika
  Vaisheshika
  
  'Vaisheshika', or , is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy of India. Historically, it has been closely associated with the Hindu school of logic, Nyaya....
  
• Vedanta
  Vedanta
  
  Vedanta is a spiritual tradition explained in the Upanishads that is concerned with the self-realisation by which one understands the ultimate nature of reality and teaches the believer's goal is to transcend the limitations of self-identity and realize one's unity with Brahman....
   (Uttara Mimamsa)
• Advaita Vedanta
  Advaita Vedanta
  
  Advaita is more often than not deviantly interpreted as monism/monistic system of thought. Advaita Vedanta is a sub-school of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy....
  
• Integral Yoga
• Vishishtadvaita
  Vishishtadvaita
  
  VishishtAdvaita Vedanta ) is a sub-school of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy, the other major sub-schools of Vedanta being Advaita and Dvaita....
  
• Dvaita Vedanta
• Yoga
  Yoga
  
  Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in both Buddhism and Hinduism....
  
• Ashtanga Yoga
  Ashtanga Yoga
  
  Ashtanga Yoga may refer to:*Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, a system of yoga developed by Pattabhi Jois*Raja Yoga or Yoga, a modern yoga system outlined by Patanjali...
  
• Bhakti Yoga
  Bhakti yoga
  
  Bhakti Yoga is a term within Hinduism which denotes the spiritual practice of fostering loving devotion to God, called bhakti. Traditionally there are nine forms of bhakti-yoga....
  
• Hatha yoga
  Hatha yoga
  
  Hatha Yoga , also called Hatha Vidya , is a system of Yoga that introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a sage of 15th century India, and compiler of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika....
  
• Siddha Yoga
  Siddha Yoga
  
  Siddha Yoga is a new religious movement that is based in part on the Hindu spiritual traditions of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism It has ashrams and meditation centers in a number of countries, including India, the United States, Australia, Great Britain and Japan....
  
• Tantric Yoga

Jainism

• Digambara
• Shvetambara

Sikhism

• Khalsa
  Khalsa
  
  Khalsa is a Persian term which refers to the collective body of all baptism Sikhs. The Khalsa was originally established as a military order of "saint-soldiers" on March 30, 1699, by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Gurus....
  
• Nihang
  Nihang
  
  Nihang is an armed Sikh order. Early Sikh military history is dominated by the Akali Sikh military order particularly for many famous military victories won while often heavily out-numbered....
  
• Namdhari
  Namdhari
  
  Namdhari Sikhs are an unorthodox sect of Sikhism. The main difference between Namdhari Sikhs and mainstream Sikhs is their belief in Sri Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji as their living Guru ....
   or Kuka Sikhs
• Sahajdhari
  Sahajdhari
  
  Sahajdhari is a person, normally born in a non-Sikh family, who desires to become a Sikh and has chosen the path of Sikhism. A sehajdhari believes in all the tenets of Sikhism and the teachings of the Sikh Gurus....
   Sikh

Iranian religions

• Manichaeism
  Manichaeism
  
  Manichaeism was one of the major Iranian Gnosticism religions, originating in Sassanid Persia. Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani have been lost, numerous translations and fragmentary texts have survived....
  
• Mazdakism
• Yazdânism
  Yazdânism
  
  Yazd?nism is a term introduced by Mehrdad Izady to denote a group of native Kurdish people monotheistic religions: Alevism, Ahl-e Haqq and Yazidism....
  
• Alevi
  Alevi
  
  The Alevi are a religious, sub-ethnic and cultural community in Turkey, numbering in the tens of millions. Alevism is generally considered an Islamic religion....
  
• Yarsani
• Yazidi
  Yazidi
  
  The Yazidi is a Kurds religion with ancient Indo-Iranians roots. Yazidis are primarily Kurdish language, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq....
  
• Zoroastrianism
  Zoroastrianism
  
  Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster, after whom the religion is named. The term Zoroastrianism is in general usage, essentially synonymous with Mazdaism, i.e., the worship of Ahura Mazda, exalted by Zoroaster as the supreme divine authority....
  
• Zurvanism
  Zurvanism
  
  Zurvanism is a now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan as its First Principle . Zurvanism is also known as Zurvanite Zoroastrianism....
  

East Asian religions

Confucianism

• Neo-Confucianism
  Neo-Confucianism
  
  Neo-Confucianism / is a form of Confucianism that was primarily developed during the Song Dynasty, but which can be traced back to Han Yu and Li Ao in the Tang Dynasty....
  
• New Confucianism
  New Confucianism
  
  New Confucianism is a new movement of Confucianism that began in the twentieth century. It is deeply influenced by, but not identical with, the Neo-Confucianism of the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty dynasties....
  

Shinto

Taoism

Other

• Caodaism
• Chondogyo
  Chondogyo
  
  Cheondoism or Chondoism is a 20th-century Korean religious movement, based on the 19th century Donghak movement founded by Choe Jeu that had its origins in the peasant rebellions which arose starting in 1812 during the Joseon Dynasty....
  
• Chinese folk religion
  Chinese folk religion
  
  Chinese folk religion is a collective label given to various folklore beliefs that draws heavily from Chinese mythology. This labeling is similar to how non-monotheistic religions are collectively called paganism in the West....
  
• Falun Gong
  Falun Gong
  
  Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline founded in People's Republic of China by Li Hongzhi in 1992. It has five sets of meditation exercises and teaches the principles truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance , as set out in the main books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun ....
  
• I-Kuan Tao
  I-Kuan Tao
  
  I-Kuan Tao, also Yi Guan Dao, or usually initialized as IKT is a new religious movement that originated in twentieth-century China....
  
• Jeung San Do
  Jeung San Do
  
  Jeung Sando or Jeunglism is a new religious movement founded in Korea in the 19th century. This movement is characterised by a universal message, millenarianism and a method of healing meditation....
  
• Legalism
  Legalism (Chinese philosophy)
  
  In History of China, Legalism was one of the four main philosophic schools during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period ....
  
• Mohism
  Mohism
  
  Mohism or Moism was a Chinese philosophy developed by the followers of Mozi , 470 BCE–c.391 BC. It evolved at about the same time as Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism and was one of the four main Hundred Schools of Thought during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period ....
  

African diasporic religions

• Batuque
• Candomblé
  Candomblé
  
  Candombl? is an African-originated or Afro-Brazilian religion, practiced chiefly in Brazil. The religion largely originated in the city of Salvador, the capital of Bahia....
  
• Dahomey mythology
  Dahomey mythology
  
  The Dahomey are a nation located in Benin, Africa. The mythology of the Dahomey includes an entire pantheon of thunder gods; for example,*Xevioso is the god of thunder in the So region....
  
• Haitian mythology
  Haitian mythology
  
  Haitian Vodou is a predominantly African derived belief system. It is a syncretism of Roman Catholic rituals introduced during the French colonial period, African beliefs, with roots in the Yoruba mythology, Kingdom of Kongo and Dahomey mythology, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino Amerindians that once populated the island....
  
• Kumina
  Kumina
  
  Kumina or Cumina is a cultural form indigenous to Jamaica. It is a religion, music and dance practiced by in large part Jamaicans who reside in the eastern parish on St....
  
• Macumba
  Macumba
  
  Macumba is a word of African origins. Various explanations of its meaning include "a musical instrument", the name of a Central African deity, and simply "magic"....
  
• Mami Wata
  Mami Wata
  
  Mami Wata is a Pantheon of water deity spirits or deity, venerated in West Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Caribbean and parts of North America and South America....
  
• Obeah
  Obeah
  
  Obeah is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, Magic , and religious practices derived from Central African and West African origins....
  
• Oyotunji
  Oyotunji
  
  Oyotunji African Village is a village located near Sheldon, South Carolina, Beaufort County, South Carolina, South Carolina that was founded by the late Oba Adefunmi in 1970, as part of a "New World Yoruba" initiative....
  
• Quimbanda
  Quimbanda
  
  Quimbanda is an Afro-American religion practiced in Brazil. It is often also called Macumba and found mostly in urban areas such as Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Maranh?o and Pernambuco....
  
• Santería
  Santería
  
  Santer?a is a Syncretism of Caribbean origin. Also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, or Lukumi. From Spanish meaning "one who 'has', 'makes' or 'works' the spirit"....
   (Lukumi)
• Umbanda
  Umbanda
  
  Umbanda is an Afro-Brazilian religion that blends African religions with Catholicism and Spiritism .Umbanda is related to and has many similitudes with other Afro-Brazilian religions like Candombl?, Batuque , Macumba, Quimbanda, Xamb?, Culto aos Egungun, Culto de If?, Irmandade, Confraria, Xang? do Nordeste and Tambor de Mina, but also has...
  
• Vodou
  Vodou
  
  Vodun or Vudun is a African traditional religion Polytheistic organised religion of coastal West Africa, from Nigeria to Ghana. It is distinct from the unorganised traditional Animisms in the interiors of these same countries, as well as from various religions with often similar names of the African Diaspora in the New World, such as...
  

Indigenous traditional religions

African

• Akan mythology
• Ashanti mythology
  Ashanti mythology
  
  The Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa are known for their colorful folktales and mythology.The most important god in the pantheon of the Ashanti people of Ghana is Nyame , the omniscience, omnipotence sky god....
   (Ghana)
• Dahomey (Fon) mythology
  Dahomey mythology
  
  The Dahomey are a nation located in Benin, Africa. The mythology of the Dahomey includes an entire pantheon of thunder gods; for example,*Xevioso is the god of thunder in the So region....
  
• Efik mythology
  Efik mythology
  
  In Efik mythology, Abassi is the creator god. His wife is Atai, who convinced him to allow two humans to settle on Earth, but to forbid them to reproduce or work and they returned to heaven when Abassi rang the dinner bell; these rules were designed so that they would not exceed Abassi in wisdom and strength....
   (Nigeria, Cameroon)
• Igbo mythology
  Igbo mythology
  
  Odinani is the name of the traditional religious beliefs and practises of the Igbo people of western Africa. Odinani is a monotheism faith, with Chukwu , who, according to mythology created the world and everything in it, as the supreme God, and is associated with all things on Earth....
   (Nigeria, Cameroon)
• Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
• Yoruba mythology
  Yoruba mythology
  
  The Yor?b? religion comprises religious beliefs and practices of the Yoruba people of old before the Yoruba community encountered Islam, Christianity and other faiths....
   (Nigeria, Benin)

• Bushongo mythology
  Bushongo mythology
  
  The Bushongo are an ethnic group from the Congo River and surrounding areas. The creation god in Bushongo mythology is called Bumba , who vomited the sun, moon, earth, plants and animals, and then humanity....
   (Congo)
• Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology
  Bambuti mythology
  
  Bambuti mythology is the mythology of the African Mbuti Pygmies of Democratic Republic of the Congo.The most important god of the Bambuti pantheon is Khonvoum , a god of the hunt who wields a bow made from two snakes that together appear to humans as a rainbow....
   (Congo)
• Lugbara mythology
  Lugbara mythology
  
  The Lugbara live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. In Lugbara mythology, Adroa appeared in both good and evil aspects; he was the creator god and appeared on Earth as a human who was near death....
   (Congo)

• Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
• Dinka mythology
  Dinka mythology
  
  The Dinka, or Jieng/Muonyjang, are a Nilotic ethnic group in the south of Sudan.The supreme, creator god is Nhialic ; he is present in all of creation, and controls the destinies of every human, plant and animal on Earth....
   (Sudan)
• Lotuko mythology
  Lotuko mythology
  
  The Lotuko are an ethnic group from the Sudan.The chief god is called Ajok; he is generally seen as kind and benevolent, but can be angered. He once reportedly answered a woman's prayer for the resurrection of her son....
   (Sudan)
• Masai mythology
  Masai mythology
  
  The Maasai are an ethnic group living in Kenya and Tanzania....
   (Kenya, Tanzania)

• Khoikhoi mythology
  Khoikhoi mythology
  
  This is a summary of some of the deity, heroes and monsters that appear in the beliefs of the Khoikhoi, an ethnic group from southern Africa....
  
• Lozi mythology
  Lozi mythology
  
  The main function of Lozi mythology is to show that the original Lozi people were dwellers on the Barotse Floodplain of the upper Zambezi River and that they are, therefore, entitled to claim unchallenged title to that homeland....
   (Zambia)
• Tumbuka mythology
  Tumbuka mythology
  
  The Tumbuka are an ethnic group living in Malawi. God is called Chiuta , who is all-powerful, omniscient and self-created. He is also a god of rain and fertility....
   (Malawi)
• Zulu mythology
  Zulu mythology
  
  Zulu mythology contains numerous deity, commonly associated with animals or general classes of natural phenomena.Unkulunkulu is the highest God and is the creator of humanity....
   (South Africa)

American

• Abenaki mythology
  Abenaki mythology
  
  The Abenaki are a Indigenous peoples in the United States tribe located in the northeastern United States. Religious ceremonies are led by shamans, called Medeoulin ....
  
• Aztec mythology
  Aztec mythology
  
  The Aztec civilization recognized a polytheistic mythology, which contained the many gods and supernatural creatures from their religious beliefs....
  
• Blackfoot mythology
  Blackfoot mythology
  
  The Blackfeet are a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who currently live in Montana and Alberta. They lived north and west of the Great Lakes and came to participate in Plains Indian culture....
  
• Cherokee mythology
  Cherokee mythology
  
  This article concerns itself with the mythology of the Cherokee, Native Americans in the United Statess indigenous to the southeastern United States and to Oklahoma...
  
• Chickasaw mythology
• Choctaw mythology
  Choctaw mythology
  
  Choctaw mythology is related to Choctaws who are a Native Americans in the United States people originally from the Southeastern United States ....
  
• Creek mythology
  Creek mythology
  
  The Creek mythology is related to an American Indians in the United States Creek people who are originally from the Southern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee , the name they use to identify themselves today....
  
• Crow mythology
  Crow mythology
  
  Crow mythology is the belief system of the Crow tribe, Native Americans in the United Statess of the Great Plains area of the United States. The medicine people of the tribe are known as Akbaalia ....
  
• Ghost Dance
  Ghost Dance
  
  Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890, the Ghost Dance was a religious movement incorporated into numerous Indigenous peoples of the Americas belief systems....
  
• Guarani mythology
  Guaraní mythology
  
  Guaran? Mythology refers to the beliefs of the Guaran? people of the south-central part of South America, especially the native peoples of Paraguay and parts of the surrounding areas of Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia....
  
• Haida mythology
  Haida mythology
  
  The Haida are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their national territories lie along the west coast of Canada and include parts of south east Alaska....
  
• Ho-Chunk mythology
  Ho-Chunk mythology
  
  The Hocagara or Hocaks are a Siouan_languages-speaking Native_Americans_in_the_United_States originally from Wisconsin and northern Illinois, but due to forced emigration, they are also found in Nebraska, where about half the nation now lives....
  
• Hopi mythology
  Hopi mythology
  
  The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe....
  
• Huron mythology
• Inca mythology
  Inca mythology
  
  Inca mythology includes a number of stories and legends that are mythological and helps to explain or symbolizes Inca beliefs.All Christian priests that followed the Spanish conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro burned the records of the Inca culture....
  
• Inuit mythology
  Inuit mythology
  
  Inuit mythology has many similarities to the religions of other polar regions. Inuit traditional religious practices could be very briefly summarised as a form of shamanism based on Animism principles....
  
• Iroquois mythology
  Iroquois mythology
  
  Much of the mythology of the Iroquois, a confederation of variously five or six tribes of Native Americans in the United States, has been lost. Some of the religious stories have been preserved, including creation stories and some folktales....
  
• Kwakiutl mythology
• Lakota mythology
  Lakota mythology
  
  Here is a list of articles pertaining to Lakota people mythology, a Native Americans in the United States people of North Dakota and South Dakota:...
  
• Leni Lenape mythology
• Longhouse religion
  Longhouse Religion
  
  The Longhouse Religion, refers to the religious movement, founded in 1799, among peoples who formerly lived in longhouses. Prior to the adoption of the single family dwelling, various groups of peoples lived in large, extended-family homes also known as long houses....
  
• Maya mythology
• Midewiwin
  Midewiwin
  
  The Midewiwin or the Grand Medicine Society is a secretive religion of the aboriginal groups of the Maritimes, New England and Great Lakes regions in North America....
  
• Native American Church
  Native American Church
  
  Native American Church, a religious denomination which practices Peyotism or the Peyote religion, originated in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is the most widespread indigenous peoples religion among Native Americans ....
  
• Navajo mythology
  Navajo mythology
  
  Navajo Mythology is a system of beliefs that is enormously rich and expressive as well as complex with many tales. Navajo people mythology is based on the recognition that all of the stories find a place within several major eras of sacred history, a history which took place "in the beginning." Stories are passed down generation to generati...
  
• Nootka mythology
• Olmec mythology
  Olmec mythology
  
  The religion of the Olmec people significantly influenced the social development and mythological world view of Mesoamerica. Many scholars have seen echoes of Olmec supernaturals in the subsequent religions and mythologies of nearly all later pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures....
  
• Pawnee mythology
  Pawnee mythology
  
  The Pawnee are a tribe of Native Americans in the United Statess, originally located in Nebraska, United States....
  
• Salish mythology
  Salish mythology
  
  The Coast Salish are a linguistic and cultural grouping of First Nations originally from British Columbia, Canada and Washington, United States....
  
• Seneca mythology
  Seneca mythology
  
  The Seneca tribe was one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy from the northeastern United States. Some important figures in Seneca Mythology were:...
  
• Selk'nam religion
• Tsimshian mythology
  Tsimshian mythology
  
  Tsimshian mythology is the mythology of the Tsimshian, a First Nations Native Americans in the United States people in Canada and the United States....
  
• Urarina
  Urarina
  
  The Urarina are an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Basin who inhabit the Chambira, Urituyacu, and Corrientes Rivers. According to both archaeological and historical sources, they have resided in the Chambira Basin of contemporary northeastern Peru for centuries....
  
• Ute mythology
  Ute mythology
  
  The Ute mythology, is the mythology of the Ute Tribe, a tribe of Native Americans in the United States from the western United States.*Siats is a cannibalistic clown-monster....
  
• Zuni mythology
  Zuni mythology
  
  The Zuni mythology is the mythology of the Zuni tribe. The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in the southwest of the United States. They worship many Kachinas ....
  

Eurasian

• Bön
  Bön
  
  B?n is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, has recently recognized the B?n tradition as the fifth principal spiritual school of Tibet, along with the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug schools of Buddhism, despite the long historical competition of influences between the Bon tradtition and Buddhis...
  
• Chinese mythology
  Chinese mythology
  
  File:Nine-Dragons1.jpgChinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religions that have been passed down in oral or written form....
  
• Japanese mythology
  Japanese mythology
  
  Japanese mythology is a system of beliefs that embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon alone consists of an uncountable number of kami ....
  
• Koshinto
  Ko-shinto (Jomon-jin)
  
  Ko-Shinto, , is the name given to the original Shinto tradition of the Jomonpeople still practiced today in some Ainu people families and communities as well as in some Ryukyuan areas....
  
• Siberian Shamanism
• Tengriism
  Tengriism
  
  Tengriism was the major belief of the Mongols and Turkic peoples before the vast majority joined the established world religions. It focuses around the sky deity Tengri and incorporates elements of shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship....
  

• Estonian mythology
  Estonian mythology
  
  Estonian mythology is a complex of myths belonging the Estonian folk heritage and literary mythology.Information about the pre-Christianity and medieval Estonian mythology is scattered in historical chronicles, travellers' accounts and in ecclesiastical registers....
  
• Eskimo religion
  Shamanism among Eskimo peoples
  
  Shamanism among Eskimo peoples refers to those aspects of the various Eskimo cultures that are related to the Shamanism role as a Shamanism#Mediator between people and spirits, souls, and Inuit mythology....
  
• Finnish mythology
  Finnish mythology
  
  Finnish mythology is the mythology that went with Finnish paganism which was practised by the Finnish people prior to Christianisation. It has many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and its non-Finnic neighbours, the Baltic people and the Scandinavians....
   and Finnish paganism
  Finnish paganism
  
  Finnish paganism was the indigenous paganism religion in Finland and Karelia prior to Christianization. It was a polytheism religion, worshipping a number of different deities....
  
• Hungarian folk religion
  Shamanistic remnants in Hungarian folklore
  
  Ethnology used in analysing Ethnography data of Hungarian mythology, and some historical sources reveal that some features of Hungarian folklore are remnants of Shamanism beliefs, maintained from the deep past, or possibly borrowed from Turkic peoples with whom Hungarian people used to live together before having wandered to the Pannonian Basin; o...
  
• Sami religion
  Sami religion
  
  Sami Shamanism is a Sami polytheistic religion which was in practice up until recent times. Although it varied considerably from region to region within S?pmi , it commonly had a strong emphasis on ancestor worship and animal spirits, such as the bear cult....
   (including the Noaidi)
• Tadibya
  Tadibya
  
  Tadibya is the mediator between the ordinary world and the upper- and underworlds of the spirits among the Nenets people. The Nenets rank their shamans after their spiritual attachment and function, as well according to their experience....
  

Oceania/Pacific

• Australian Aboriginal mythology
  Australian Aboriginal mythology
  
  Australian Aboriginal myths are the stories ritual by Indigenous Australians within each of the language groups across Australia.All such myths variously tell of significant truths within each Aboriginal groups' local cultural landscape affectively layering the whole of the Australian continent's topography with cultural nuance and deep...
  
• Austronesian beliefs
  Austronesian people
  
  Austronesian people are a population group present in Oceania and Southeast Asia who speak, or had ancestors who spoke, one of the Austronesian languages....
  
• Balinese mythology
  Balinese mythology
  
  Balinese mythology is the traditional mythology of the Balinese people of the Indonesian island of Bali, before the majority adoption of Hinduism....
  
• Javanese beliefs
  Javanese beliefs
  
  Javanese beliefs have principles embodying a "search for inner self" but at the core is the concept of Peace Of Mind.Although Kejawen is not a religious category, it addresses ethical and spiritual values as inspired by Javanese tradition....
  
• Melanesian mythology
  Melanesian mythology
  
  Melanesian mythology is a European way of referring to the custom stories of the world area known since the 19th century as "Melanesia", an umbrella term used for the archipelagos of New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu....
  
• Micronesian mythology
  Micronesian mythology
  
  Micronesian mythology refers to the traditional belief systems of the people of Micronesia....
  
• Modekngei
  Modekngei
  
  Modekngei, or Ngara Modekngei is a monotheism religious movement founded around 1915 by Temedad, a native of the island of Babeldaob, that spread throughout Palau....
  
• Nauruan indigenous religion
  Nauruan indigenous religion
  
  The Nauruan indigenous religion is a monotheism system of belief that includes a female deity called Eijebong and an island of spirits called Buitani....
  
• Philippine mythology
  Philippine mythology
  
  Philippine mythology and folklore include a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities. Some Filipinos, even though heavily westernized and Christianized, still believe in such entities....
  
• Anito
  Anito
  
  Anito is the collective name for Pre-Spain belief system/s that existed in the Philippines. It is also the name for spirits, which may include deceased ancestors and nature-spirits or diwatas....
  
• Gabâ
  Gabâ
  
  Gab? or gabaa, for the Cebuano people , is the concept of a non-human and non-divine, imminent Retributive justice. A sort of negative karma, it is generally seen as an evil effect on a person because of their wrongdoings or transgressions....
  
• Kulam
  Kulam
  
  Kulam is a Tagalog language word meaning "magic spell or "curse"." Often, the same word is used as a term for witchcraft....
  
• Polynesian mythology
  Polynesian mythology
  
  Polynesian mythology is the Oral_tradition of the people of Polynesia a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers....
  
• Hawaiian mythology
  Hawaiian mythology
  
  Hawaiian mythology is a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology. It brings to life the legends, historical tales and sayings of the Hawaiian people....
  
• Maori mythology
  Maori mythology
  
  Maori mythology and Maori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Maori of New Zealand may usefully be divided....
  
• Maori religion
  Maori religion
  
  Maori religion is the religious beliefs and practice of the Maori, the Polynesian indigenous people of New Zealand....
  
• Rapa Nui mythology
  Rapa Nui mythology
  
  The Rapa Nui mythology, also known as Pascuense mythology or Easter Island mythology, is the name given to the mythology formed by myths, legends and beliefs of the native Rapa Nui people of the island of Rapa Nui , located in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, almost four thousand kilometers from continental Chile....
  
• Moai
  Moai
  
  'Moai' are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui between 1250 and 1500 Common Era. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called Easter Island#Ahu around the island's perimeter....
  
• Tangata manu
  Tangata manu
  
  The 'Tangata manu' , was the winner of a traditional competition on Rapa Nui . The ritual was an annual competition to collect the first Sooty Tern egg of the season from the islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui and climb the sea cliff of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo....
  

Cargo cults

• John Frum
  John Frum
  
  John Frum is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is depicted as an United States World War II serviceman, who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow him....
  
• Johnson cult
  Johnson cult
  
  The so-called "Johnson cult", formerly misidentified as a cargo cult, was initiated on New Hanover Island in Papua New Guinea in 1964. Although labeled as a cargo cult, it is characterized more as a political theater....
  
• Prince Philip Movement
  Prince Philip Movement
  
  The Prince Philip Movement is a cargo cult of the Yaohnanen tribe on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu.The Yaohnanen believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being, the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit and brother of John Frum....
  
• Vailala Madness
  Vailala Madness
  
  The Vailala Madness was a social movement in the Papuan Gulf, in the Papua beginning in the later part of 1919 and petering out after 1922. It is generally accepted as the first well-documented cargo cult, a class of Millenarianism religio-political movements, although the expression cargo cult itself dates from the mid 1940s....
  

Historical polytheism

Ancient Near Eastern

• Ancient Egyptian religion
• Ancient Semitic religions
• Mesopotamian mythology
  Mesopotamian mythology
  
  Mesopotamian mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythologies from the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq....
  
• Arabian mythology
  Arabian mythology
  
  Arabian mythology comprises the ancient, pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arabs.Prior to Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in 622, the physical centre of Islam, the Kaaba of Mecca, the Kaaba was covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, Genie, demigods and other assorted creatures which represented the profoundly polytheistic environment of...
   (pre-Islamic)
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion
• Babylonian mythology
  Babylonian mythology
  
  Babylonian mythology is a set of stories depicting the activities of Babylonian deity, heroes, and mythological creatures. While these stories are in modern times usually considered a component of Babylonian religion, their purpose was not necessarily religious in nature....
  
• Chaldean mythology
• Canaanite mythology
• Canaanite religion
  Canaanite religion
  
  Canaanite religion is the name for the group of Ancient Semitic religions practised by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age through the first centuries of the Common Era....
  
• Hittite mythology
  Hittite mythology
  
  Heavily influenced by Mesopotamian mythology, the religion of the Hittites and Luwians retains noticeable Indo-European mythology elements, for example Teshub the god of thunder, and his conflict with the serpent Illuyanka....
  
• Persian mythology
  Persian mythology
  
  By Persian mythology is meant the myths and sacred narratives of the culturally and linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau and its borderlands, as well as areas of Central Asia from the Black Sea to Khotan ....
  
• Sumerian mythology

Indo-European

• Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
• Zoroastrianism
  Zoroastrianism
  
  Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster, after whom the religion is named. The term Zoroastrianism is in general usage, essentially synonymous with Mazdaism, i.e., the worship of Ahura Mazda, exalted by Zoroaster as the supreme divine authority....
  
• Historical Vedic religion
  Historical Vedic religion
  
  The religion of the Vedic period is the historical predecessor of Hinduism. Its liturgy is reflected in the Mantra portion of the four Vedas, which are compiled in Sanskrit....
  
• Baltic polytheism
  Baltic mythology
  
  For Baltic mythology, see*Latvian mythology*Lithuanian mythology...
  
• Celtic polytheism
  Celtic polytheism
  
  Celtic polytheism, sometimes known as Celtic paganism, refers to the religious beliefs and practises of the ancient Celts of western Europe prior to Christianisation....
  
• Brythonic mythology
• Gaelic mythology
• Germanic polytheism
• Anglo-Saxon religion
• Norse religion
  Norse mythology
  
  Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled....
  
• Continental Germanic religion
• Greek polytheism
  Ancient Greek religion
  
  Greek religion encompasses the collection of beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Greece in the form of both popular public religion and cult ....
  
• Hungarian polytheism
  Hungarian mythology
  
  Hungarian mythology includes the myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales and gods of the Magyars. Many parts of it are thought to be lost, i.e. only some texts remained which can be classified as a myth....
  
• Finnish polytheism
• Roman polytheism
• Slavic polytheism

Hellenistic

• Mystery religion
  Mystery religion
  
  Mystery Religions, Sacred Mysteries or simply Mysteries, were "religious Cult of the Graeco-Roman world, full admission to which was restricted to those who had gone through certain secret initiation rites."...
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• Eleusinian Mysteries
  Eleusinian Mysteries
  
  The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiation ceremony held every year for the Cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece. Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance....
  
• Mithraism
  Mithraism
  
  The Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras was a mystery cult which became popular among the military in the Roman Empire, from the 1st to 4th centuries AD....
  
• Orphism
• Pythagoreanism
  Pythagoreanism
  
  Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysics beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were much influenced by mathematics and probably a very inspirational source for Plato and Platonism....
  
• Early Christianity
  Early Christianity
  
  Early Christianity is commonly defined as the Christianity of the three centuries between the Crucifixion of Jesus and the First Council of Nicaea ....
  
• Gallo-Roman religion
  Gallo-Roman religion
  
  Galo is pronounced .Galo-Roman religion was a fusion of Roman mythology religious forms and modes of worship with Gaulish deities from Celtic polytheism....
  

Neopaganism

New Age, Esotericism, Mysticism

• Anthroposophy
  Anthroposophy
  
  Anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spirituality world accessible to direct experience through inner development — more specifically through cultivating conscientiously a form of thinking independent of sensory experience....
  
• Christian mysticism
  Christian mysticism
  
  Christian mysticism is traditionally practised through the disciplines of:* prayer ;* fasting, broadly understood as self-denial in general; and...
  
• Esoteric Christianity
  Esoteric Christianity
  
  Esoteric Christianity is a term which refers to an ensemble of Spirituality currents which regard Christianity as a mystery religion, and profess the existence and possession of certain Esotericism doctrines or practices, hidden from the public but accessible only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or highly educated people....
  
• Hindu mysticism
  Hinduism
  
  'Hinduism' is the predominant religion of the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as , a Sanskrit phrase meaning "the eternal dharma", by its practitioners....
  
• Martinism
  Martinism
  
  Martinism is a form of mystical or esoteric Christianity, which envisions the figure of Christ as "The Repairer" who enables individuals to attain an idealised state such as that in the Garden of Eden before the Fall....
  
• Meher Baba
  Meher Baba
  
  Meher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
  
• Nazi mysticism
  Nazi mysticism
  
  Nazi occultism is any of several highly speculative theories about Nazism, also called the Nazi Mysteries. With the publication of Le Matin des Magiciens in 1960, this kind of speculation has become part of popular culture....
  
• Occultism
• Rosicrucian
  Rosicrucian
  
  The term Rosicrucian describes a secret society of mystics, allegedly formed in late mediaeval Germany, holding a doctrine "built on esoteric truths of the ancient past", which, "concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm....
  
• Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
  Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
  
  The Ancient Mystical Order Ros? Crucis , also called Rosicrucian Order, is a philosophical and humanist worldwide fraternal organization. Members are known as students....
  
• Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians
  Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians
  
  Antiquus Ordo Rosicrucianis is a hermetic-qabalistic Initiatory Order, an Aquarian Age mystery school in the western tradition. Its traditional Latin name is "Antiquus Ordo Rosicrucianis" and its original German name is "Alter Orden der Rosenkreuzer", and means "Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians"....
  
• Rosicrucian Fellowship
  Rosicrucian Fellowship
  
  The Rosicrucian Fellowship - "An International Association of Christian Mystics" - was founded in 1909/11 by Max Heindel as herald of the Age of Aquarius and with the aim of publicly promulgating "the true Philosophy" of the Rosicrucians....
  
• Surat Shabd Yoga
  Surat Shabd Yoga
  
  Surat Shabd Yoga or Surat Shabda Yoga is a form of Spirituality that is followed in the Sant Mat and many other related spiritual traditions....
  
• Tantra
  Tantra
  
  Tantra , or tantram is a religious philosophy according to which Shakti is usually the main deity worshipped, and the universe is regarded as the divine play of shakti and shiva....
  
• Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
  Ananda Marga
  
  Ananda Marga, officially known as Ananda Marga Pracharaka Samgha meaning "the samgha for the propagation of the path of ananda" is a "social and spiritual movement" founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar , known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti....
  
• Sufism
  Sufism
  
  Sufi is generally understood to be the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a ufi , though some adherents of the tradition reserve this term only for those practitioners who have attained the goals of the Sufi tradition....
  
• Thelema
  Thelema
  
  Thelema is a philosophy of life based on the rule or law, "Do what thou wilt." The ideal of "Do what thou wilt" and its association with the word Thelema goes back to Fran?ois Rabelais, but was more fully developed and proselytized by Aleister Crowley, who founded a religion named Thelema based on this ideal....
  

Left-Hand Path

• Luciferianism
  Luciferianism
  
  Luciferianism can be understood best as a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer.Luciferianism is identified by some people as an auxiliary of Satanism, due to the popular identification of Lucifer with Satan....
  
• Satanism
  Satanism
  
  Satanism is a term that refers to a number of related belief systems. Their commonality is that they all feature the symbolism of Satan or similar figures....
  
• Setianism

Magic

• Hoodoo (Rootwork)
• New Orleans Voodoo
  New Orleans VooDoo
  
  The New Orleans VooDoo was a team in the Arena Football League which was owned in part by Tom Benson, who also simultaneously owned the National Football League New Orleans Saints....
  
• Kulam
  Kulam
  
  Kulam is a Tagalog language word meaning "magic spell or "curse"." Often, the same word is used as a term for witchcraft....
   - Filipino witchcraft
• Magick
  Magick
  
  Magick, in the broadest sense, is any act designed to cause intentional change. The spelling with the terminal "k" was repopularized in the first half of the 20th century by Aleister Crowley when he introduced it as a core component of Thelema....
  
• Chaos magic
  Chaos magic
  
  Chaos magic is a form of magic which was first formulated in West Yorkshire, England, in the 1970s. Through a variety of techniques often reminiscent of Western ceremonial magic or neoshamanism, many practitioners believe they can change both their subjective experience and objective reality, though some chaos magicians dispute that magic...
  
• Enochian magic
  Enochian magic
  
  Enochian magic is a system of ceremonial magic based on the evocation and commanding of various spirits. It is based on the 16th-century writings of Dr....
  
• Demonolatry
• Goetia
  Goetia
  
  refers to a practice which includes the invocation of angels or the evocation of demons, and usage of the term in English largely derives from the 17th century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon, which features an Ars Goetia as its first section....
  
• Pow-wow
  Pow-wow (folk magic)
  
  Pow-wow is a system of American folk religion and magic associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch. Its name comes from the book Pow-wows, or, The Long Lost Friend, written by John George Hohman and first published in German as Der Lange Verborgene Freund in 1820....
  
• Seid (shamanic magic)
• Vaastu Shastra
• Witchcraft
  Witchcraft
  
  Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or Magic powers....
  

New religious movements

Shinshukyo

• Church of World Messianity
  Church of World Messianity
  
  The Church of World Messianity , abbreviated COWM, is a "new religion" founded in 1935 by Mokichi Okada , a former staff member of Omoto-kyo. The religion's key concept is Johrei, claimed to be a method of channeling divine light into the body of another for the purposes of healing....
  
• PL Kyodan
  PL Kyodan
  
  PL Kyodan, or the Church of Perfect Liberty, is a Japanese Shinshukyo founded in 1924 by Tokuharu Miki , who was a priest in the Obaku Sect of Zen Buddhism....
  
• Seicho-No-Ie
  Seicho-No-Ie
  
  Seicho-No-Ie, sometimes rendered Seicho-No-Iye, is a syncretic, nondenominational, monotheistic, New Thought religion, one of the ??? Shinshukyo in Japan that have spread since the end of World War II....
  

Fictional religions

Parody or mock religions

• Church of Euthanasia
  Church of Euthanasia
  
  The Church of Euthanasia , is a political organization started by the Reverend Chris Korda in the Boston, Massachusetts area of the United States....
  
• Church of the SubGenius
  Church of the SubGenius
  
  The Church of the SubGenius is a religious group satirizing religion, conspiracy theories, UFOs, and popular culture. Originally based in Dallas, Texas, Texas, the Church of the SubGenius gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s subculture and maintains an active presence on the Internet....
  
• Flying Spaghetti Monster
  Flying Spaghetti Monster
  
  The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of the parody religion The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, created in 2005 by Bobby Henderson as a satirical protest to the Kansas evolution hearings to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution....
  
• Invisible Pink Unicorn
  Invisible Pink Unicorn
  
  File:Invisible Pink Unicorn.svgThe Invisible Pink Unicorn is the goddess of a Satire parody religion aimed at Theism beliefs, which takes the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both Invisibility and pink....
  
• Kibology
  Kibology
  
  Kibology is a parody religion, partly satirizing Scientology. It is centered on the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.kibology. The central figure of Kibology is James Parry....
  
• Landover Baptist Church
  Landover Baptist Church
  
  The Landover Baptist Church is a fictional Baptist church based in the fictional town of Freehold, Iowa. The Landover Baptist web site and its associated Landoverbaptist.net Forum are a parody of fundamentalist Christianity and the Christian right in the United States....
  

Others

• Unitarian Universalism
  Unitarian Universalism
  
  Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion religion characterized by its support for a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning." Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth....
  
• Discordianism
  Discordianism
  
  Discordianism is a modernism religion centered on the idea that chaos is all that there is, and that Cosmos and disorder, the latter considered a concept distinct from chaos, are both illusions that are imposed on chaos....
  
• Ethical Culture
  Ethical Culture
  
  Ethical Culture was established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is an ethical, educational, and religion movement. Individual chapter organizations are generically referred to as Ethical Societies, though their names may include "Ethical Society," "Ethical Culture Society," "Society for Ethical Culture," "Et...
  
• Fellowship of Reason
  Fellowship of Reason
  
  The Fellowship of Reason is a moral community based in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Its founder, Martin L. Cowen III, calls himself a "non-theist", and says that although he does not believe in God or other things supernatural, he nonetheless thinks that churches serve a useful function by providing "moral communities." Wishing...
  
• Humanism
  Humanism
  
  Humanism is a broad category of ethics that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationalism, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts....
  
• Secular Humanism
  Secular humanism
  
  Secular humanism is a Humanism philosophy that upholds reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the Spirituality as the basis of moral reflection and decision-making....
  
• Juche
  Juche
  
  The Juche Idea is the official state ideology of North Korea and the political system based on it. The doctrine is a component part of Kimilsungism, the North Korean term for Kim Il-sung's family regime....
  
• Objectivism
  Objectivism (Ayn Rand)
  
  Objectivism is a philosophy Smith, Tara. Review of "On Ayn Rand." The Review of Metaphysics 54, no. 3 : 654?655. Retrieved from ProQuest Research Library.Encyclop?dia Britannica , s.v....
  
• Subud
  Subud
  
  Subud is an international spirituality association that began in Indonesia in the 1920s as a movement founded by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo....
  
• Omniquantism - the belief that if one or more omnipotent beings exist and all things are possible, then it is possible that all religions are correct simultaneously.

Other categorisations

By demographics

• List of religious populations
  List of religious populations
  
  Religious demographics and Religions by country....
  

By area

• Religion in Africa
  Religion in Africa
  
  Religion in Africa is multifaceted. Most Africans adhere to either Christianity in Africa or Islam in Africa. Islam and Christianity contest which is larger, but many people that are adherents of both religions also practice African traditional religions, with traditions of folk religion or syncretism practised alongside an adherent's Ch...
  
• Religion in North America
  Religion in North America
  
  Religion in North America spans the period of Indigenous peoples of the Americas dwelling, European ethnic groups settlement, and the present day....
  
• Religion in South America
• Religion in Asia
  Religion in Asia
  
  Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, with millions of different peoples following a wide variety of different religions....
  
• Religion in Australia
  Religion in Australia
  
  There is no state religion in Australia, the establishment of which is prohibited by the Constitution of Australia. Nearly two thirds of the population claim at least nominal adherence to a Christian-based religion, but nearly one third , do not identify with any religion....
  
• Religion in Europe
  Religion in Europe
  
  Religion in Europe history of religion, and its various faiths have been a major influence on Western art history, culture of Europe, Western philosophy and European Union law....
  
• Oceania / Pacific
• Religion by country
• List of state-established religions
• Christianity by country
  Christianity by country
  
  File:Christian distribution.pngThe following table pertains to Christianity by country, notably population statistics....
  
• Roman Catholicism by country
  Roman Catholicism by country
  
  Roman Catholicism by country...
  
• Protestantism by country
  Protestantism by country
  
  The following is a list of Protestants by country. For the purposes of this list, "Protestant" includes the following denominations: Assemblies of God, Anglican/Episcopalian , Baptist, Church of God, Church of the Nazarene, Churches of Christ, Congregational church, Calvinist, Holiness movement, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Pentecostal, Pr...
  
• Islam by country
  Islam by country
  
  Islam is the world's Major religious groups after Christianity with over 1.0-1.8 billion adherents, comprising 20-25% of the world population while most estimates figures that there are 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide....
  
• Buddhism by country
  Buddhism by country
  
  Obtaining exact numbers of practicing Buddhists can be difficult and may be reliant on the definition used. Adherents of Eastern religions such as Buddhism with local Animism, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Shamanism, Shinto, and Taoism often have beliefs comprised of a mix of religious ideas....
  
• Hinduism by country
  Hinduism by country
  
  The percentage of Hinduism population of each country was taken from the US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2006. Other sources used were CIA Factbook and adherents.com....
  
• Judaism by country, Jewish population
  Jewish population
  
  Jewish population refers to the number of Jews in the world. Precise figures are difficult to calculate because the definition of "Who is a Jew" remains a source of controversy....
  
• Sikhism by country
  Sikhism by country
  
  Sikhism throughout the world can be found dominantly in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, but a significant Sikh community Sikh diaspora, with the largest emigrant population being Indian Britons in the United Kingdom....
  
• Buddhism by region
  Buddhism by region
  
  Buddhist beliefs and practices vary according to region. There are distinctions between and within the Buddhism practised in various regions, including:...
  

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