While the word

religion Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...

is difficult to define and understand, one standard model of religion that is used in

religious studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

courses defines it as Many religions have their own narratives,

symbol A symbol is a mark, Sign (semiotics), sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, physical object, object, or wikt:relationship, relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by cr ...

tradition A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common e ...

s and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the

origin of life Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life arises from abiotic component, non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to organism, living entities on ...

or the universe. They tend to derive

morality Morality () is the categorization of intentions, Decision-making, decisions and Social actions, actions into those that are ''proper'', or ''right'', and those that are ''improper'', or ''wrong''. Morality can be a body of standards or principle ...

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

religious law Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Examples of religiously derived legal codes include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distin ...

s, or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the

cosmos The cosmos (, ; ) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order. Usage of the word ''cosmos'' implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. The cosmos is studied in cosmologya broad discipline covering ...

and

human nature Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of Thought, thinking, feeling, and agency (philosophy), acting—that humans are said to have nature (philosophy), naturally. The term is often used to denote ...

. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups,

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

s, movements, or ultimate concerns. The word ''religion'' is sometimes used interchangeably with the words "

faith Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, faith is " belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". According to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, faith has multiple definitions, inc ...

" or "belief system", but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviours, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of

veneration Veneration (; ), or veneration of saints, is the act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness. Angels are shown similar veneration in many religions. Veneration of saints is practiced, ...

of a

deity A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over some aspect of the universe and/or life. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' defines ''deity'' as a God (male deity), god or god ...

or for

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holy places A sacred space, sacred ground, sacred place, sacred temple, holy ground, holy place or holy site is a location which is regarded to be sacred or hallowed. The sacredness of a Sacred natural site, natural feature may accrue through tradition or ...

(either natural or architectural) or

religious text Religious texts, including scripture, are texts which various religions consider to be of central importance to their religious tradition. They often feature a compilation or discussion of beliefs, ritual practices, moral commandments and ...

s. Certain religions also have a

sacred language A sacred language, liturgical language or holy language is a language that is cultivated and used primarily for religious reasons (like church service) by people who speak another, primary language in their daily lives. Some religions, or part ...

often used in liturgical services. The practice of a religion may also include

sermon A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher, usually a member of clergy. Sermons address a scriptural, theological, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law, or behavior within both past and present context ...

s, commemoration of the activities of a

God In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. In polytheistic belief systems, a god is "a spirit or being believed to have created, or for controlling some part of the un ...

or gods,

sacrifice Sacrifice is an act or offering made to a deity. A sacrifice can serve as propitiation, or a sacrifice can be an offering of praise and thanksgiving. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Gree ...

festival A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...

s, feasts, trance,

ritual A ritual is a repeated, structured sequence of actions or behaviors that alters the internal or external state of an individual, group, or environment, regardless of conscious understanding, emotional context, or symbolic meaning. Traditionally ...

liturgies Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a community, communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, ...

, ceremonies,

worship Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity or God. For many, worship is not about an emotion, it is more about a recognition of a God. An act of worship may be performed individually, in an informal or formal group, ...

initiation Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense, it can also signify a transformatio ...

s, funerals,

marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...

s, meditation, invocation, mediumship,

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

, art,

dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

public service A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address the needs of aggregate members of a community, whether provided directly by a public sector agency, via public financing available to private busin ...

, or other aspects of human culture. Religious beliefs have also been used to explain parapsychological

phenomena A phenomenon ( phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable Event (philosophy), event. The term came into its modern Philosophy, philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be ...

such as

out-of-body experience An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world as if from a location outside their physical body. An OBE is a form of autoscopy (literally "seeing self"), although this term is more common ...

s, near-death experiences, and

reincarnation Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the Philosophy, philosophical or Religion, religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new lifespan (disambiguation), lifespan in a different physical ...

, along with many other

paranormal Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Not ...

and

supernatural Supernatural phenomena or entities are those beyond the Scientific law, laws of nature. The term is derived from Medieval Latin , from Latin 'above, beyond, outside of' + 'nature'. Although the corollary term "nature" has had multiple meanin ...

experiences. Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; Indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and

new religious movement A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion, is a religious or Spirituality, spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. NRMs can be novel in origin, or they can be part ...

s, which refers to recently developed faiths. One modern academic theory of religion,

social constructionism Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory. The term can serve somewhat different functions in each field; however, the foundation of this Conceptual framework, theoretical framework suggests ...

, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and

follows a model similar to the

Abrahamic religions The term Abrahamic religions is used to group together monotheistic religions revering the Biblical figure Abraham, namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The religions share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrasts them wit ...

as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings, and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures that are not based upon such systems, or in which these systems are a substantially simpler construct.

Eastern religions

Eastern religions are the religions which originated in

East East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that ea ...

, South and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

encompassing a diverse range of eastern and spiritual traditions.

East Asian religions

World religions that originated in

East Asia East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan, plus two special administrative regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau. The economies of Economy of China, China, Economy of Ja ...

, also known as Taoic religions; namely

Taoism Taoism or Daoism (, ) is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao ( zh, p=dào, w=tao4). With a range of meaning in Chinese philosophy, translations of Tao include 'way', 'road', ' ...

and

Confucianism Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, Religious Confucianism, religion, theory of government, or way of li ...

and religions and traditions descended from them.

Chinese philosophy schools

* Taojia ("School of the Tao") * Fajia ('School of Law") ** Zonghengjia ("School of Diplomacy") * Mojia ("School of Mo") ** Mingjia ("School of Names") * Nongjia ("School of Agrarianism") * Rujia ("School of Scholars") * Yangism * Yinyangjia ("School of Yin Yang") * Zajia ("School of Syncretism")

Confucianism

* Confucian ritual religion * Current Texts Confucianism * Donglin movement * Han Learning * Korean Confucianism **

Donghak Donghak () was an academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism founded in 1860 by Choe Je-u. The Donghak movement arose as a reaction to seohak (), and called for a return to the "Way of Heaven". While Donghak originated as a reform movement ...

** Silhak * Lingnan Confucianism * Neo-Confucianism ** Cheng-Zhu school ** Edo Neo-Confucianism ** Tongcheng school ** Yangmingism *** Taizhou School *

New Confucianism New Confucianism () is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republic of China (1912–1949), Republican China, and further developed in post-Mao era People's Republic of China, contemporary China. I ...

** Confucian church *** Indonesian Confucianism *** Confucian Academy ** Progressive Confucianism * New Text ** Changzhou school ** Gongyang school *** Holy Confucian Church * Old Text * Tianzuism * Taigu school

Taoism

* Dokyo * Korean Taoism * Kunlun * New Taoism * Qigong ** Zhong Gong * Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue") * Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity") * Way of the Five Pecks of Rice ** Way of the Celestial Masters *** Northern Celestial Masters *** Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness") Syncretic Taoism * Dragon Gate Taoism ** Wuliupai ("School of Wu-Liu") * Huang–Lao * Kōshin *

Xuanxue Xuanxue (), sometimes called Neo-Daoism (Neo-Taoism), is a metaphysical Post-classical history, post-classical Chinese philosophy from the Six Dynasties (222-589), bringing together Taoist and Confucianism, Confucian beliefs through revision and di ...

("Neo-Taoism") * Yao Taoism ("Meishanism")

Indian religions

The four world religions that originated in the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakista ...

, also known as Dharmic religions; namely

Hinduism Hinduism () is an Hypernymy and hyponymy, umbrella term for a range of Indian religions, Indian List of religions and spiritual traditions#Indian religions, religious and spiritual traditions (Sampradaya, ''sampradaya''s) that are unified ...

Jainism Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religions, Indian religion whose three main pillars are nonviolence (), asceticism (), and a rejection of all simplistic and one-sided views of truth and reality (). Jainism traces its s ...

Sikhism Sikhism is an Indian religion and Indian philosophy, philosophy that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century CE. It is one of the most recently founded major religious groups, major religio ...

and

Buddhism Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

and religions and traditions descended from them.

Buddhism

* Pre-sectarian Buddhism (theorized) **

Mahayana Mahāyāna ( ; , , ; ) is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, Buddhist texts#Mahāyāna texts, texts, Buddhist philosophy, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India ( onwards). It is considered one of the three main ex ...

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Chinese Buddhism Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism ( zh, s=汉传佛教, t=漢傳佛教, first=t, poj=Hàn-thoân Hu̍t-kàu, j=Hon3 Cyun4 Fat6 Gaau3, p=Hànchuán Fójiào) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism. The Chinese Buddhist canonJiang Wu, "The Chin ...

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Zen Buddhism Zen (; from Chinese: '' Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka ph ...

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Japanese Zen :''See also Zen for an overview of Zen, Chan Buddhism for the Chinese origins, and Sōtō, Rinzai school, Rinzai and Ōbaku for the three main schools of Zen in Japan'' Japanese Zen refers to the Japanese forms of Zen, Zen Buddhism, an orig ...

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Madhyamaka Madhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; ; ; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་ ; ''dbu ma pa''), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the Śūnyatā, emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no Svabhava, ''svabhāva'' d ...

**** Sanlun **** Prasaṅgika **** Svatantrika *** Nichiren Buddhism **** Fuju-fuse **** Honmon Butsuryū-shū **** Kempon Hokke **** Nichirenism **** Nichiren Shōshū ****

Nichiren Shū was a Buddhism in Japan, Japanese Buddhist priest and philosopher of the Kamakura period. His teachings form the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, a unique branch of Japanese Mahayana, Mahayana Buddhism based on the ''Lotus Sutra''. Nichiren declar ...

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Pure Land Buddhism Pure Land Buddhism or the Pure Land School ( zh, c=淨土宗, p=Jìngtǔzōng) is a broad branch of Mahayana, Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure land, Pure Land. It is one of the most widely practiced traditions of East Asi ...

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East Asian Yogācāra East Asian Yogācāra refers to the Mahayana Buddhist traditions in East Asia which developed out of the History of Buddhism in India, Indian Buddhist Yogachara, Yogācāra (lit. "yogic practice") systems (also known as ''Vijñānavāda'', "the d ...

** Nikaya Buddhism (also called " Hinayana") ***

Theravada ''Theravāda'' (; 'School of the Elders'; ) is Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school's adherents, termed ''Theravādins'' (anglicized from Pali ''theravādī''), have preserved their version of the Buddha's teaching or ''Dharma (Buddhi ...

**** Sangharaj Nikaya **** Mahasthabir Nikaya **** Dwara Nikaya **** Shwegyin Nikaya **** Thudhamma Nikaya ****

Amarapura–Rāmañña Nikāya The Amarapura–Rāmañña Nikāya () is the larger of the two Theravada, Buddhist Nikāya, monastic orders () in Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, the other being the Siam Nikaya, Siyam Nikāya. History The order came into existence on August ...

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Vajrayana ''Vajrayāna'' (; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Mahāyāna Buddhism, Mahāyāna Buddhis ...

*** Azhaliism *** Bongthingism *** Chinese Esoteric Buddhism *** Newar Buddhism *** Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism *** Shingon Buddhism **** Tachikawa-ryū *** Southern Esoteric Buddhism ***

Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. It also has a sizable number of adherents in the areas surrounding the Himalayas, including the Indian regions of Ladakh, Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, D ...

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***** Yellow Shamanism (syncretic) **** Kagyu ***** Dagpo Kagyu ****** Karma Kagyu ****** Drukpa Kagyu ***** Shangpa Kagyu ****

Nyingma Nyingma (, ), also referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Nyingma school was founded by PadmasambhavaClaude Arpi, ''A Glimpse of the History of Tibet'', Dharamsala: Tibet Museum, 2013. ...

**** Sakya **** Jonang **** Bodongpa * Navayana

Dharmic philosophy schools

* Āstika (Orthodox schools) **

Nyaya Nyāya (Sanskrit: न्यायः, IAST: nyāyaḥ), literally meaning "justice", "rules", "method" or "judgment", is one of the six orthodox (Āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy. Nyāya's most significant contributions to Indian philosophy ...

** Mimamsa ** Samkhya ** Vaisheshika ** Vedanta *** Advaita Vedanta *** Akshar-Purushottam Darshan *** Bhedabheda **** Achintya Bheda Abheda **** Dvaitadvaita *** Dvaita Vedanta *** Pratyabhijna *** Shaiva Siddhanta *** Shiva Advaita *** Shuddhadvaita *** Vishishtadvaita **

Yoga (philosophy) Yoga philosophy is one of the six major important schools of Hindu philosophy,Maurice Phillips (Published as Max Muller collection), The Evolution of Hinduism, , PhD. Thesis awarded by University of Berne, Switzerland, page 8 though it is only ...

* Nāstika (Heterodox schools) ** Ajivika **

Ajñana ''Ajñāna'' (, (Vedic) IPA: /ɐd͡ʑ.ɲɑː.nɐ/; (Classical) IPA: /ɐd͡ʑˈɲɑː.n̪ɐ/) was one of the Āstika and nāstika, ''nāstika'' or "heterodox" schools of Hindu philosophy, ancient Indian philosophy, and the ancient school of rad ...

** Akiriya **

** Charvaka **

** Sassatavada

Hinduism

* Ganapatya * Sant Mat ** Dadupanth ** Kabir panth ** Ravidassia religion ** Sadh * Satya Mahima Dharma * Saura *

Shaivism Shaivism (, , ) is one of the major Hindu denominations, Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Para Brahman, supreme being. It is the Hinduism#Demographics, second-largest Hindu sect after Vaishnavism, constituting about 385 million H ...

** Aghori ** Kapalika ** Kashmir Shaivism ** Kaumaram ** Nath *** Adinath Sampradaya *** Inchegeri Sampradaya ** Pashupata Shaivism ** Shaiva Siddhanta ** Veerashaivism ***

Lingayatism The Lingayats are a Monotheism, monotheistic religious denomination of Hindu denominations, Hinduism. Lingayats are also known as , , , . Lingayats are known for their unique practice of Ishtalingam, Ishtalinga worship, where adherents carry a ...

* Shaktism ** Caribbean Shaktism ** Srikula * Smartism * Śrauta *

Tantra Tantra (; ) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the India, Indian subcontinent beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE, first within Shaivism and later in Buddhism. The term ''tantra'', in the Greater India, Indian tr ...

** Kaula *** Newar Hinduism *

Vaishnavism Vaishnavism () ), also called Vishnuism, is one of the major Hindu denominations, Hindu traditions, that considers Vishnu as the sole Para Brahman, supreme being leading all other Hindu deities, that is, ''Mahavishnu''. It is one of the majo ...

Krishnaism Krishnaism is a term used in scholarly circles to describe large group of independent Hinduism, Hindu traditions—sampradayas related to Vaishnavism—that center on the devotion to Krishna as ''Svayam Bhagavan'', ''Ishvara'', ''Para Brahman'' ...

** Balmikism ** Bhagavata tradition ** Brahma Sampradaya *** Madhva tradition *** Gaudiya Vaishnavism **** Manipuri Vaishnavism *** Haridasa ** Ekasarana Dharma ** Kapadi Sampradaya ** Mahanubhava ** Nimbarka Sampradaya ** Pranami/ Pranami Sampraday ** Radha Vallabh Sampradaya ** Ramsnehi Sampradaya ** Rudra Sampradaya *** Pushtimarg **

Sri Vaishnavism Sri Vaishnavism () is a denomination within the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism, predominantly practiced in South India. The name refers to goddess Lakshmi (also known as Sri), as well as a prefix that means "sacred, revered", and the god Vi ...

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Ramanandi Sampradaya The Ramanandi (), also known as Ramavats (), is one of the largest sects of Vaishnavas. Out of 52 sub-branches of Vaishnavism, divided into four Vaishnava '' sampradayas'', 36 are held by the Ramanandi. The sect mainly emphasizes the worshi ...

*** Thenkalais **** Manavala Mamunigal Sabha ** Vaishnava-Sahajiya ** Warkari * Zunism (disputedly Hindu) Syncretic Hinduism * Banjara Hinduism *

Baul The Baul () are a group of mystic minstrels of mixed elements of Sufism and Vaishnavism from different parts of Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley and Meghalaya. Bauls constitute bot ...

* Bhil Hinduism * Folk Hinduism * Dyaoism * Indonesian Hinduism ** Balinese Hinduism ** Javanese Hinduism *** Tenggerese Hinduism ** Kaharingan ** Naurus *** Nuaulu religion

Jainism

Digambara ''Digambara'' (; "sky-clad") is one of the two major Jain schools and branches, schools of Jainism, the other being ''Śvetāmbara'' (white-clad). The Sanskrit word ''Digambara'' means "sky-clad", referring to their traditional monastic pract ...

** Kanji Panth ** Taran Panth * Śvētāmbara **

Murtipujaka Mūrtipūjaka (lit. "image-worshipper"), also known as Derāvāsī ("temple-dweller") or Mandir Mārgī ("follower of the temple path"), is the largest sect of Śvētāmbara, Śvetāmbara Jainism. Mūrtipūjaka Jains differ from both Śvetāmba ...

** Sthānakavāsī * Yapaniya (Historical)

Sikhism

Sects such as the Nirankari, Ramraiya and Namdhari are not accepted within the Sikh Rehat Maryada (Sikh Code of Conduct) as they believe in a current human guru. *

Tat Khalsa The Tat Khalsa (), also romanised as Tatt Khalsa, known as the Akal Purkhias during the 18th century, was a Sikh faction that arose from the schism following the passing of Guru Gobind Singh in 1708, led by his widow Mata Sundari, opposed to th ...

* Udasi * Nanakpanthi * Nirankari * Nirmala * Sewapanthi * Nihang * Taksali * Mina * Ramraiya * Namdhari * Akhand Kirtani * 3HO * Sanatan Sikh

Yoga

* Ananda Yoga * Bhakti yoga * Hatha yoga ** Bihar School of Yoga * Integral Yoga * Jivamukti Yoga * Jnana yoga * Karma yoga * Kripalu Yoga * Kriya Yoga * Kundalini yoga * Raja yoga * Sahaja Yoga * Siddha Yoga * Sivananda yoga * Surat Shabd Yoga * Tantric Yoga

Abrahamic religions

Christianity

Early Christianity *

Arianism Arianism (, ) is a Christology, Christological doctrine which rejects the traditional notion of the Trinity and considers Jesus to be a creation of God, and therefore distinct from God. It is named after its major proponent, Arius (). It is co ...

* Jewish Christianity ** Pauline Christianity *** Proto-orthodox Christianity **** Great Church *****

Nicene Christianity Nicene Christianity includes those Christian denominations that adhere to the teaching of the Nicene Creed, which was formulated at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 and amended at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381. It encompas ...

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Chalcedonian Christianity Chalcedonian Christianity is the branches of Christianity that accept and uphold theological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, held in AD 451. Chalcedonian Christianity accepts the Christological Definiti ...

******* Neo-Chalcedonism * Johannine Community * Proto-Gnosticism **

Gnosticism Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek: , Romanization of Ancient Greek, romanized: ''gnōstikós'', Koine Greek: Help:IPA/Greek, �nostiˈkos 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced ...

*** Bogomilism *** Cainites *** Catharism *** Paulicianism ***

Sethianism The Sethians (Greek language, Greek: Σηθιανοί) were one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd and 3rd century AD, along with Valentinianism and Basilideans, Basilideanism. According to John D. Turner, it originated in the 2n ...

**** Valentinianism *** Simonians * Marcionism Eastern Christianity * Church of the East (called " Nestorianism") ** Ancient Church of the East **

Assyrian Church of the East The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, is an Eastern Christianity, Eastern Syriac Christianity, Syriac Christian denomin ...

*** Chaldean Syrian Church *

Eastern Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (''sui iuris'') particular churches of ...

** Albanian Greek Catholic Church ** Belarusian Greek Catholic Church ** Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church ** Byzantine Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia ** Chaldean Catholic Church ** Greek Byzantine Catholic Church ** Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church ** Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Italo-Greek Catholic Church") ** Macedonian Catholic Church ** Maronite Church ** Melkite Greek Catholic Church ** Romanian Greek Catholic Church ** Russian Greek Catholic Church ** Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Byzantine Catholic Church" in the United States) ** Slovak Greek Catholic Church ** Syriac Catholic Church ** Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ** Syro-Malabar Church ** Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church **(Independent Eastern Catholic Churches) *** Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church *

Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is List of Christian denominations by number of members, one of the three major doctrinal and ...

(officially the "Orthodox Catholic Church") ** Albanian Orthodox Church ** Bulgarian Orthodox Church **

Georgian Orthodox Church The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonl ...

Greek Orthodox Church Greek Orthodox Church (, , ) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian Churches, each associated in some way with Christianity in Greece, Greek Christianity, Antiochian Greek Christians, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christian ...

** Old Believers ** Romanian Orthodox Church **

Russian Orthodox Church The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The Primate (bishop), p ...

*** Belarusian Orthodox Church **

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constit ...

** True Orthodox Church *** Old Calendarists ** Ukrainian Orthodox Church *

Oriental Orthodox Churches The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide. The Oriental Orthodox Churches adhere to the Nicene Christian tradition. Oriental Orthodoxy is ...

(a.k.a. " Non-Chalcedonian" or " Miaphysite"/" Monophysite") **

Armenian Apostolic Church The Armenian Apostolic Church () is the Autocephaly, autocephalous national church of Armenia. Part of Oriental Orthodoxy, it is one of the most ancient Christianity, Christian churches. The Armenian Apostolic Church, like the Armenian Catholic ...

** Coptic Orthodox Church ** Syriac Orthodox Church ***

Jacobite Syrian Christian Church The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, also known as the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church, Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church, or the Syriac Orthodox Church in India is an autonomous maphrianate of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Syriac Orthodo ...

(of the St. Thomas Christians in India) **

Ethiopian Orthodox Church The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church () is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Christian churches in Africa originating before European colonization of the continent, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates bac ...

** Eritrean Orthodox Church **

Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church, is an Autocephaly, autocephalous Oriental Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox church headquartered in #Catholicate ...

(of the St. Thomas Christians in India) * Spiritual Christianity Western Christianity * Proto-Protestantism ** Brethren of the Free Spirit (Historical) ** Hussites (Historical) *** Czech Brethren *** Moravians **

Lollardy Lollardy was a proto-Protestantism, proto-Protestant Christianity, Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation. It was initially led by John Wycliffe, a Catholic C ...

(Historical) ** Strigolniki (Historical) **

Waldensians The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses (), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Originally known as the Poor of Lyon in the l ...

Protestantism Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...

** Anabaptists ( Radical Protestants) ***

Amish The Amish (, also or ; ; ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, church fellowships with Swiss people, Swiss and Alsace, Alsatian origins. As they ...

*** Hutterites ***

Mennonite Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of ...

s *** River Brethren *** Schwarzenau Brethren **

Anglicanism Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

*** Anglo-Catholicism *** Continuing Anglican movement ***

Evangelical Anglicanism Evangelical Anglicanism or Evangelical Episcopalianism is a tradition or Churchmanship, church party within Anglicanism that shares affinity with broader evangelicalism. Evangelical Anglicans share with other evangelicals the attributes of "co ...

Baptists Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches ge ...

** Black church *** Black theology **

Charismatic Christianity Charismatic Christianity is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts as an everyday part of a believer's life. It has a global presence in the Christian community. Practit ...

***

Pentecostalism Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a movement within the broader Evangelical wing of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God in Christianity, God through Baptism with the Holy Spirit#Cl ...

("First wave") ****

Oneness Pentecostalism Oneness Pentecostalism (also known as Apostolic Pentecostalism, Jesus' Name Pentecostalism, or the Oneness movement) is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian branch of Pentecostalism, Pentecostal Christianity that emphasizes the absolute oneness o ...

****

Word of Faith A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its ...

*** Charismatic movement ("Second wave") **** Neo-charismatic movement ("Third wave") ** Christian deism ** Confessing Movement **

Evangelicalism Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...

***

Progressive Christianity Progressive Christianity represents a range of related perspectives in contemporary Christian theology and practice. It is a postmodern theological approach, which developed out of the liberal Christianity of the modern era, although progressive C ...

*** Protestant fundamentalism **

Lutheranism Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

*** Evangelical Catholic *** Neo-Lutheranism ***

Pietism Pietism (), also known as Pietistic Lutheranism, is a movement within Lutheranism that combines its emphasis on biblical doctrine with an emphasis on individual piety and living a holy Christianity, Christian life. Although the movement is ali ...

Methodism Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christianity, Christian Christian tradition, tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother ...

*** Calvinistic Methodists *** Holiness movement *** Wesleyanism **

Puritans The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should b ...

Quakers Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally ...

**Calvinism, Reformed churches ***Amyraldism (a.k.a."four-point Calvinism") ***Arminianism ***Christian reconstructionism ***Congregational churches ***Continental Reformed churches ****Swiss Reformed ****Dutch Reformed Church, Dutch Reformed ****Huguenot, French Huguenot ***Neo-Calvinism ***New Calvinism ***Presbyterianism ***Zwinglianism **Reformed Eastern Christianity **Restoration Movement, Restoration movement (a.k.a. "Restorationism") ***Adventism ****Seventh-day Adventist Church ***Churches of Christ ***Bible Student movement ****Jehovah's Witnesses ***Latter Day Saint movement ****The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ****Mormon fundamentalism **Swedenborgianism (a.k.a. "The New Church") **Unitarianism *Roman Catholic Church/Latin Church (a.k.a. "Roman Catholicism" or "Catholicism") **Black Catholicism **Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Charismatic Catholics **Gallicanism **Independent Catholic churches (a.k.a "Independent Catholicism") ***Old Catholic Church **Liberal Catholicism **Modernism (Roman Catholicism), Modernist Catholics **Traditionalist Catholics ***Sedevacantism ***Sedeprivationism **Ultramontanism Syncretic *El Tío, Cult of El Tío *María Lionza, Cult of María Lionza *Santa Muerte, Cult of Santa Muerte * Esoteric Christianity ** Theosophy (Boehmian), Christian Theosophy ** Christo-paganism, Christopaganism **Martinism *Folk Christianity **Folk Catholicism ***Galician mythology, Galician folk religion **Folk Orthodoxy *God Worshipping Society (Historical) *Judaizers (Judeo-Christian) **Christian Kabbalah **Messianic Judaism *Rizalista religious movements, Rizalista *Samaritan Christians *Spiritual Baptist Other *American civil religion, American Civil Religion *Christian Universalism *Nondenominational Christianity *Nontrinitarianism

Islam

Khawarij *Azariqa, Azraqi (Historical) *Haruriyyah (Historical) *Ibadi *Najdat (Historical) *Sufri (Historical) Shia Islam *Alevism **Alians **Bektashi Order, Bektashism **Kurdish Alevism *Alawites (Nusayris) *Isma'ilism **Mustaali ***Dawoodi Bohra ****Alavi Bohra ****Atba-i-Malak *****Atba-i-Malak Badar *****Atba-i-Malak Vakil ****Hebtiahs Bohra ****Progressive Dawoodi Bohra ***Sulaymani **Nizari *Twelver **Ja'fari jurisprudence ***Akhbari ***Shaykhism ***Usuli *Zaidiyyah **Jarudiyah **Batriyya Sufism *Bektashi Order *Chishti Order *Kubrawiya **Ma Laichi#The Khufiyya, Khufiyya *Mevlevi Order *Mouride *Naqshbandi **Jahriyya *Ni'matullāhī *Qadiriyya *Roshani movement, Roshani *Shadhili *Suhrawardiyya *Sufi Order International *Tijaniyyah *Universal Sufism Sunni Islam *Kalam/Fiqh **Ash'ari ***Maliki ***Shafi'i ***Hanbali **Maturidi ***Hanafi ****Barelvi ****Deobandi ****Gedimu *Athari **Salafi ***Madkhalism ***Wahhabism ***Ahle Hadith ***Islamism **Islamic Modernism Syncretic *Abangan * Ali-Illahism * Din-i Ilahi * Nuristanis#Pre-Islamic religion, Kafirism * Pagal Panthis * Persian mysticism *Satpanth **Barmati Panth * Wetu Telu Other *Ahmadiyya *Avicennism *Han Kitab, Chinese Islam *European Islam *Illuminationism *Jadid *Liberal movements within Islam *Mahdavia *Mahdist State, Mahdist movement *Muʿtazila *Quranism *Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi **Messiah Foundation International *Transcendent Theosophy *Zikrism

Judaism

Historical Judaism *Biblists * Essenes ** Bana'im ** Hemerobaptists (possible ancestor of Mandaeism) ** Maghāriya ** Nazarene (sect)#Nasoraean Mandaeans, Nasoraeans (ancestor of Mandaeism) * Hellenistic Judaism *Houses of Hillel and Shammai * Hypsistarians, Hypsistarianism * Magarites * Jewish Christian, Messianic sects ** Ebionites ** Elcesaites *Nazirite *Okbarites * Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism) * Sabbateans ** Frankism * Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism) ** Boethusians * Second Temple Judaism * Synagogal Judaism * Therapeutae *Yudghanites * Zealots (Judea) ** Sicarii Kabbalah * Lurianic Kabbalah * Merkabah mysticism * Practical Kabbalah * Abraham Abulafia, Prophetic Kabbalah Non-Rabbinic Judaism *Folk Judaism * Haymanot * Karaite Judaism * Qemant people#Religion, Qemant Judaism Rabbinic Judaism * Conservative Judaism ( Masorti Judaism) * Humanistic Judaism * Jewish Renewal * Orthodox Judaism **Carlebach movement ** Haredi Judaism (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) *** Dor Daim *** Hardal ***Haredi burqa sect *** Hasidic Judaism *** Misnagdim *** Sephardic Haredi ** Modern Orthodox Judaism *** Open Orthodox Judaism **Musar movement ** Religious Zionism * Reconstructionist Judaism * Reform Judaism

Other Abrahamic

*Bábism **Azalism *Baháʼí Faith **Caravan of East and West **Attempted schisms in the Baháʼí Faith#Free Baháʼís, Free Baháʼís **Orthodox Baháʼí Faith *Druze *Mandaeism * Samaritanism

Iranian religions

Manichaeism

* Athinganoi (Historical) * Chinese Manichaeism

Yazdânism

*Ishikism *Shabakism *Yarsanism *Yazidism

Zoroastrianism

*Behafaridians (Historical) *Gayomarthians *Ilm-e-Khshnoom *Khurramites (Historical) *Mazdakism (Historical) **Mazdaznan *Azar Kayvan, Sepasian (Historical) **Azarkeivanian *Ustadh Sis (Historical) *Zurvanism **Zoroastrianism in Russia, Blagovery

Indigenous (ethnic, folk) religions

Religions that consist of the traditional customs and beliefs of particular ethnic groups, refined and expanded upon for thousands of years, often lacking formal doctrine. Some adherents do not consider their ways to be "religion", preferring other cultural terms. Many indigenous religions incorporate forms of Animism, Totemism and Regional forms of shamanism, Shamanism alongside Nature worship, Nature, Veneration of the dead, Ancestor and Animal Worship

African

Traditional African

* ǃKung people#Beliefs, ǃKung religion * Abwoi religion * Acholi people#Religion, Acholi religion * Afizere#Religion, Afizere traditional religion * Akan religion ** Asase Ya/Afua, Asante religion * Zande people#Traditional beliefs, Azande traditional religion * Bafia people#Religion, Bafia religion * Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon)#Religion and belief systems, Baka traditional religion * Bantu mythology, Bantu religion ** Kisii people#Religion, Abagusii religion ** Kamba people#Culture and beliefs, Akamba traditional religion ** AmaMpondomise#Culture and religion, AmaMpondomise traditional religion ** Badimo ** Balondo Civilization#Religion, Balondo religion ** Baluba mythology, Baluba religion ** Bamileke people#Religious beliefs, Bamileke religion ** Bamum people#Religion, Bamum traditional religion ** Banyole#Religion, Banyole traditional beliefs ** Bubi people#Religion, Bubi spirituality ** Bushongo mythology, Bushongo religion ** Bwiti ** Chaga people#Early religion, Chaga faith ** Chokwe people#Society and culture, Chokwe spiritual beliefs ** Duala people#Religion, Duala traditional religion ** Fipa people#Worship, Fipa religion ** Furiiru people#Religious belief, Furiiru traditional religion ** Giriama people#Religion, Giriama traditional religion ** Herero people#Religion, Herero traditional faith ** Himba people#Religion, Himba religion ** Kikuyu people#Spirituality and religion, Kikuyu traditional religion ** Kongo religion ** Kwe people#Religion, Kwe faith ** Lozi mythology, Lozi religion ** Luvale people#Religion, Luvale religion ** Makua people#Religion, Makua traditional religion ** Mbole people#Religion, Mbole religion ** Nyakyusa people#Belief system, Nyakyusa religion ** Ovambo people#Traditional religion, Ovambo traditional religion ** Pedi people#Religion, Pedi traditional religion ** Songye#Religion, Songye religion ** Suku people#Religion, Suku religion ** Swazi people#Religion, Swazi traditional religion ** Tonga people (Malawi)#Religion, Tonga religion ** Tsonga people#Traditional beliefs and healers, Tsonga traditional religion ** Tumbuka mythology, Tumbuka religion ** Xhosa people#Folklore and religion, Xhosa traditional religion ** Zulu traditional religion * Baoule people#Religion, Baoule traditional religion * Bari people#Bari religion, Bari traditional religion * Bassa people (Liberia)#Religion, Bassa traditional religion * Pojulu people#Spirituality, Biri traditional religion * Bobo people#Religion, Bobo religion * Hausa animism, Bori * Bwa people#Religion and mythology, Bwa religion * Chamba people#Beliefs, Chamba traditional religion * Dahomean religion * Damara people#Religion, Damara religion * Dan people#Religion, Dan religion * Dinka religion * Dogon people#Culture and religion, Dogon religion * Ebira people#Religion, Ebira traditional religion * Edo people#Traditional Beliefs, Edo traditional religion * Efik mythology, Efik religion * Ekoi mythology, Ekoi religion * Esan people#Religion and folklore, Esan traditional religion * Fali people#Religion, Fali traditional religion * Frafra people#Religion, Frafra beliefs * Gbagyi people#Religion, Gbagyi traditional religion * Hadza people#Religion, myths, and tales, Hadza religion * Babur and Bura people#Religion, Hyel * Idoma people#Traditional religion, Idoma traditional religion * Ijaw people#Religion and cultural practices, Ijaw traditional religion * Ibibio people#Religion, Inam * Jola people#Religion, Jola traditional religion * Kalenjin mythology, Asisian religion * Khoekhoe#Religion, Khoekhoen religion * Kissi people#Religion and spiritual beliefs, Kissi traditional religion * Kono people#Religious and spiritual beliefs, Kono traditional religion * Koore people#Religion, Koore religion * Krahn people#Religion, Krahn religion * Kuku people#Religious beliefs, Kuku traditional beliefs * Lobi people#Animism, Lobi animism * Lotuko mythology, Lotuko ethnic religion * Lugbara mythology, Lugbara religion * Maasai mythology, Maasai religion * Madi people#Religion, Madi traditional religion * Manjak people#Religious and Spiritual Practices, Manjak religion * Mbuti mythology, Mbuti religion * Moba people#Religion, Moba ethnic religion * Mursi people#Religion and culture, Mursi animism * Nso people#Religion, Nso religion * Nuer people#Religion, Nuer religion * Nyongo society, Nyongo Society ** Bakossi people#Traditional beliefs, Bakossi beliefs * Odinani, Odinala / Odinani * Oropom people#Religion and customs, Oropom religion * Safwa people#Religion, Safwa religion * Samburu people#Religion, Samburu religion * San religion **San healing practices, N'um * Serer religion * Sidama people#Religion and beliefs, Sidama religion * Surma people#Religion and beliefs, Surma religion * Tammari people#Traditional religion, Tammari traditional religion * Temne people#Traditional beliefs, Temne traditional religion * Traditional Berber religion * Turkana people#Traditional religion, Turkana traditional religion * Urhobo people#Religion, Urhobo traditional religion * West African Vodun, Vodun * Waaqeffanna * Yoruba religion ** Ifá *Indigenous religion in Zimbabwe **Shona people#Religion, Shona traditional religion

Diasporic African

* Abakuá * Arará * Batuque (religion), Batuque * Birongo * Candomblé ** Candomblé Bantu ** Candomblé Jejé ** Candomblé Ketu * Comfa * Convince * Cuban Vodú * Dominican Vudú * Espiritismo * Haitian Vodou * Hoodoo (folk magic), Hoodoo * Kélé * Kumina * Louisiana Voodoo * Montamentu * Myal * Obeah * Palo (religion), Palo * Quimbanda * Trinidadian Vodunu, Rada * * Santería * Tambor de Mina * Trinidad Orisha * Umbanda * Winti ** Saramaka#Belief system, Saramaka religion

Altaic

* Evenks#Religion, Evenki shamanism * Manchu shamanism * Turkic mythology, Turko-Mongolian mythology, Mongolic religion **Altai people, Altaic shamanism ***Burkhanism ** Dukha people#Belief and religion, Dukha shamanism **Mongolian shamanism *** Black shamanism *** Tengrism **** Aiyy Faith, Aiyy **** Tengir Ordo **** Vattisen Yaly ** Nanai people#Religion, Nanai shamanism **Oroqen people#Religion, Oroqen shamanism **Shors#Shamanism, Shor shamanism **Soyot#Religion, Soyot shamanism **Ulch people#Religion, Ulch shamanism **Yakut shamanism

American

* Abenaki mythology, Abenaki religion * Ache people#Rituals and beliefs, Ache religion * Akawaio people#Religion, Akawaio religion * Alaska Native religions ** Shamanism among Alaska Natives, Alaskan shamanism ** Inuit religion ** Tanana Athabaskans#Animism and shamanism, Tanana shamanism ** Yup'ik#Shamanism, Yupik shamanism *** Siberian Yupik#Spiritual culture, Yuit shamanism *** Sirenik Eskimos#Spiritual culture, Sirenik shamanism * Andoque people#Religion and oral history, Andoque religion * Anishinaabe traditional beliefs, Anishinaabe beliefs ** Ojibwe#Spiritual beliefs, Ojibwe beliefs ** ''Midewiwin'' ** ''Wabunowin'' * Apache#Religion, Apache religion * Arhuaco people#Cosmology and worldview, Arhuaco spirituality * Atacama people#Religion, Atacama religion * Blackfoot religion * Bororo#Totemism, Bororo totemism * Caddo#Religion, Caddo religion * Traditional narratives of Indigenous Californians, Californian religions ** Achomawi people#Religion, Achomawi religion ** Acjachemen#Religion, Acjachemen religion ** Cahuilla mythology, Cahuilla religion ** Hupa traditional narratives, Hupa beliefs ** ''Kuksu (religion), Kuksu'' *** Cahto#Religion, Cahto religion *** Esselen#Spiritual beliefs, Esselen beliefs *** Miwok mythology, Miwok religion *** Ohlone mythology, Ohlone religion *** Pomo religion ** Kumeyaay traditional narratives, Kumeyaay beliefs ** Northern Paiute traditional narratives, Northern Paiute beliefs ** Mohave people#Religion, Mohave religion ** Wiyot#Culture and religion, Wiyot religion * Calusa#Beliefs, Calusa religion * Chaná mythology, Chaná religion * Chilote mythology, Chilote religion * Choctaw mythology, Choctaw religion * Croatan#Beliefs, Croatan beliefs * Crow religion * Fuegians#Myphology, Fuegian religion ** Selk'nam mythology, Selk'nam religion * Garifuna#Spirituality, Garifuna spirituality * Guarani mythology, Guarani religion * Guarayos#Traditional religious beliefs, Guarayos beliefs * Guayupe#Religion, Guayupe religion * Gwich'in people#Traditional beliefs, Gwich'in beliefs * Haida mythology, Haida religion * Ho-Chunk mythology, Ho-Chunk religion * Huaorani people#Worldview, Huaorani religion * Hupda people#Cosmology, Hupda cosmgony * Religion in the Inca Empire, Inca religion ** Aymara people#Religion and spirituality, Aymara religion ** Chavin culture#Religion and ritual, Chauvin religion ** Nazca culture#Religion, Nazca religion ** Taki Unquy ** Wari' people#Beliefs, Wari' beliefs * Illinois Confederacy#Religion, Illinois religion * Innu#Mythology, Innu religion * Iroquois mythology, Iroquois religion ** Cherokee spiritual beliefs, Cherokee beliefs *** Four Mothers Society *** Keetoowah Nighthawk Society, Keetoowah Society ** Mohawk people#Religion, Mohawk religion ** Creek mythology, Muscogee Creek religion ** Seneca mythology, Seneca religion ** Wyandot religion * Jivaroan peoples#Religion, Jivaroan religion ** Achuar#Religion and cosmology, Achuar religion ** Aguaruna people#Religion, Aguaruna religion ** Shuar#Illness and shamanism, Shuar shamanism * Karankawa people#Religion and ritual, Karankawa religion * Kayabi people#Religion, Kayabi religion * Kalapalo people#Beliefs, Kalapalo beliefs * Kalinago#Religion, Kalinago religion * Amazonian Kichwas#Culture, Kichwa religion * Kogi people#Spiritual beliefs, Kogi religion * Kuikuro#Religion, Kuikoro religion * Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology, Kwakwakaʼwakw religion * Lenape mythology, Lenape religion * Lokono#Religion, Lokono religion * Maleku people#Animal Symbolism, Maleku beliefs * Mandan#Religion, Mandan religion * Mapuche religion * Marajoara#Religion and ideology, Marajoara religion * Matses#Worldview, Matses beliefs * Mesoamerican religion ** Aztec religion ** Classical Veracruz culture#Religion, Classical Veracruz religion ** Cora people#Religion, Cora religion ** Huichol people#Religion and mythology, Huichol religion ** Lencan mythology, Lencan religion ** Maya religion *** Chuj people#Religion and beliefs, Chuj religion *** Chan_Santa_Cruz#Religion, Cult of The Talking Cross *** Huastec civilization#Religion, Huastec religion *** Lacandon people#Religion, Lacandon religion *** Mazatec#Traditional religious rituals, Mazatec religion *** Maximón, Maximon *** Mopan people#Religion, Mopan religion *** Pech people#Cosmogony, Pech religion *** Q'eqchi'#Religion, Q'eqchi' religion *** Tzeltal people#Social system and religion, Tzeltal religion *** Tzotzil#Native religion, Tzotzil religion *** Tzʼutujil people#Atiteco religion and culture, Tzʼutujil religion ** Mixe people#Religion, Mixe religion ** Nagualism ** Olmec religion ** Purépecha religion ** Talamancan mythology, Talamancan religion ** Teotihuacan#Religion, Teotihuacan religion ** Tepehuan#Beliefs, Tepehuan beliefs ** Tlapanec people#Religion, Tlapanec religion ** Totonac#Religion, Totonac religion ** Zapotec civilization#Religion, Zapotec religion *Mi'kmaq#Religion, spirituality, and tradition, Mi'kmaq religion * Miskito people#Religion, Old Miskito religion *Muisca religion * Muzo people#Religion, Muzo religion * Navajo#Spiritual and religious beliefs, Navajo beliefs * Nuu-chah-nulth mythology, Nuu-chah-nulth religion * Omaha people#Religion, Omaha religion * Osage Nation#Traditional spirituality, Osage spirituality * Pawnee mythology, Pawnee religion * Parakanã people#Parakanã shamanism, Parakanã shamanism * Pech people#Cosmogony, Pech religion * Pemon people#Myths, Pemon religion * Penobscot#Spirituality, Penobscot spirituality * Pericues#Religion, Pericues religion * Piaroa people#Religion, Piaroa religion * Tsenacommacah#Religion, Powhatan religion * Pueblo religion ** Acoma Pueblo#Religion, Acoma Pueblo religion ** Hopi mythology, Hopi beliefs ** Zuni mythology, Zuni religion ** Basketmaker III Era#Culture and religion, Ancestral Pueblo religion (Basketmaker III) Pueblo II Period#Culture and religion, (Pueblo II) Pueblo III Period#Culture and religion, (Pueblo III) Pueblo IV Period#Culture and religion, (Pueblo IV) * Puruhá#Religion, Puruhá religion * Q'ero#History, myths, and beliefs, Q'ero beliefs * Quechua people#Mythology, Quechua beliefs * Rikbaktsa people#Beliefs and culture, Rikbaktsa beliefs * Salishan oral narratives, Salish narratives * Seminole#Religion, Seminole religion * Seri people#Cosmology and religion, Seri religion * Sioux#Religion, Sioux religion ** Assiniboine#Mythology, Assiniboine religion ** Lakota religion *** ''Wocekiye'' * Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (religion of the Mississippian culture) * Taensa#Religion, Taensa religion * Taíno#Spirituality, Taino spirituality * Tairona#Religious beliefs, Tairona religion * Tapirape people#Religion, Tapirape shamanism * Tehuelche people#Religion, Tehuelche religion * Ticuna#Religion and rituals, Ticuna shamanism * Toba people#Religion, Toba religion * Philosophy and religion of the Tlingit, Tlingit religion * Tsimshian mythology, Tsimshian religion * Ute mythology, Ute religion * Wai-Wai people#Religion, Wai-Wai religion * Wapishana#Religion, Wapishana religion * Warao people#Religion, Warao religion * Native American religions#Washat Dreamers Religion, Washat Dreamers Religion * Wayuu people#Religion and society, Wayuu religion * Western Shoshone traditional narratives, Western Shoshone religion * Yaqui#Yaqui cosmology and religion, Yaqui religion * Yaruro#Religion and medicine, Yaruro religion

Austroasiatic

* Asur people#Religion, Asur religion * Birhor people#Traditional religious beliefs, Birhor traditional religion * Bru people#Religion, Bru religion * Đạo Lương **Whale_worship#Features of Vietnamese Cá Ông worship, Ca Ong ** Đạo Mẫu *** Four Palaces ** Thánh Trần worship * Khasi people#Religion, Ka Niam Khasi * Mon people#Religion, Mon religion * Muong ethnic religion * Nicobarese people#Religion, Nicobarese traditional religion *Nocte people#Religion, Nocte religion * Pnar people#Religion, Ka Niamtre * Pacoh people#Religion, Paoch animism * Sari Dharam * Sarnaism * Senoi#Beliefs, Senoi ethnic religion * Sora people#Religion, Sora traditional beliefs * Tampuan people#Religion, Tampuan animism * Ta Oi people#Religious beliefs, Ta Oi animism *Wancho Naga#Religion, Wancho religion

Austronesian

* Kawas (mythology), Amis native religion * Aliran Kepercayaan/Mythology of Indonesia ** Kenyah people#Religion, Adat Pu'un ** Torajan people#Religious affiliation, Aluk ** Parmalim, Batak Parmalim ** Dayak people#Religion and festivals, Dayak religion *** Kaharingan ** Savu people#Jingi Tiu, Jingi Tiu ** Kejawèn ** Kapitayan *** Kangeanese people#Religion and beliefs, Kangeanese religion ** Pemena, Karo Pemena ** Kendayan people#Religion, Kendayan religion ** Marapu ** Rejang people#Folk religion, Rejang religion ** Rotenese people#Religion, Rotenese religion ** Saminism Movement ** Sangirese people#Religion, Sangirese religion ** Sumbawa people#Religion, Sumbawa religion ** Sunda Wiwitan, Sundanese Wiwitan ** Wai Apu people#Religion, Wai Apu religion *Indigenous religious beliefs of the Philippines, Dayawism ** Batak people (Philippines)#Indigenous Batak religion, Batak folk religion ** Bicolano people#Pre-colonial indigenous religion, Bicolano religion ** Blaan people#Indigenous Blaan religion, Blaan folk religion ** Capiznon people#Indigenous Capiznon religion, Capiznon folk religion ** Cuyunon people#Indigenous Cuyonon Religion, Cuyunon folk religion ** Gaddang people#Supernatural traditions, Gaddang folk religion ** Ifugao people#Religion, Ifugao folk religion ** Ilocano people#Indigenous beliefs, Ilocano folk religion ** Itneg people#Indigenous Itneg religion, Itneg folk religion ** Kalinga people#Indigenous Beliefs, Kalinga folk religion ** Kankanaey people#Religion, Kankanaey folk religion ** Karay-a people#Indigenous Karay-a Religion, Karay-a folk religion ** Mangyan people#Indigenous Mangyan religion, Mangyan folk religion ** Palawan people#Indigenous Pala'wan Religion, Palawan folk religion ** Pangasinan people#Indigenous religion, Pangasinan folk religion ** Sama-Bajau#Religion, Sama Bajau folk religion ** Sambal people#Sambal indigenous religion, Sambal folk religion ** Subanon people#Religious beliefs and practices, Subanon folk religion ** Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people, Tagalog folk religion ** Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagbanwa people, Tagbanwa folk religion **Pulahan ** Tboli people#Tboli religion, Tboli folk religion ** Teduray people#Teduray indigenous religion, Teduray folk religion ** Visayans#Pre-Christianity, Visayan folk religion * Malagasy mythology, Fomba Gasy * Jarai people#Religion, Jarai religion * Kanakanavu people#Spirituality, Kanakanavu native religion * Malaysian folk religion ** Datuk Keramat ** Jakun people#Beliefs, Jakun religion ** Iban people#Religion, Pengarap Iban ** Melanau people#Religion, Melanau religion ** Momolianism ** Murut people#Customs and religion, Murut religion ** Orang Kanaq#Religion, Orang Kanaq religion ** Orang Seletar#Religion, Orang Seletar religion ** Semai people#Spirituality and beliefs, Semai religion ** Semaq Beri people#Religion, Semaq Beri religion ** Temuan people#Religion, Temuan religion * Micronesian mythology, Micronesian religion ** Carolinian people#Traditional religion(s), Carolinian religion ** Chamorro people#Cosmogony and religion, Chamorro religion ** Chuukese people#Religion, Chuukese religion ** Nauruan indigenous religion * Polynesian narrative ** Cook Islands mythology, Cook Islands narrative ** Hawaiian religion ** Mangarevan narrative ** Religion of Māori people, Māori religion ** Niuean mythology, Niuean narrative ** Rapa Nui mythology, Rapa Nui narrative ** Samoan mythology, Samoan narrative ** Tahiti and Society Islands mythology, Tahitian narrative ** Tongan religion, Tongan narrative ** Tuvaluan mythology, Tuvaluan narrative * Puyuma Pulingaw, Paiwan shamanism * Sakizaya people#Religion, Sakizaya native religion * Taivoan people#Religion, Taivoan animism * Tao people#Ritual and religion, Tao native religion

Caucasian

* Circassian paganism, Khabzeism * Vainakh religion

Dravidian

* Khonds#Religious beliefs, Khond traditional religion * Kota people (India)#Religion, Kota religion * Gondi people#Religion, Koyapunem * Sauria Paharia people#Religion, Sauria Paharia religion * Tamil mythology, Tamil religion * Toda people#Religion, Toda religion

Indo-European

* Kalash people#Religion, Kalashism * Nagpuria people#Religion, Nagpuria religion * Ossetian mythology, Ossetian native religion * Folk practices in Punjab, Punjabi folk religion * Tharu people#Religion, Tharu religion

Koreanic and Japonic

* Koshintō (Historical) ** Matagi#Spirituality, Matagi spirituality ** Shinto ***Shinbutsu-shūgō, Shinbutsu-shugo ****Whale_worship#Features of Japanese Ebisu worship, Ebisu Cult ****Gion cult ****Fujiko (religion), Fujiko ****Rokugō Manzan ****Sect Shinto *****Fukko Shinto, Fukko ******Shintō Taikyō, Taikyō ******Izumo-taishakyo *****Jingukyo *****Confucian Shinto, Juka ******Yamazaki Ansai, Suika ******Shintō Taiseikyō, Taiseikyō *****Konkōkyō *****Ontake-kyō *****Oomoto *****Kurozumikyō *****Shugendō ****Shrine Shinto *****Association of Shinto Shrines *****Kokugaku ******State Shinto * Muism **Gasin faith *Ryukyuan religion

Melanesian and Aboriginal

* Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Australian Aboriginal spirituality ** Gamilaraay#Dreaming, Gamilaraay dreaming ** Larrakia people#Mythology, Larrakia dreaming ** Aboriginal Tasmanians#Spirituality, Tasmanian Aboriginal spirituality ** Yolŋu#Mythology, Yolnu religion *Religion in Fiji#Ancient religion, Fijian ancient religion *Kanak people#Traditional beliefs and religion, Kanak traditional beliefs *Papuan mythology, Papuan religion ** Dumo people#Spiritual life, Dumo spirituality ** Fore people#Religious beliefs and practices, Fore traditional beliefs ** Kaluli people#Religion, Kaluli religion ** Korowai people#Religious life, Korowai religion ** Trobriand people#Magic, Trobriand traditional beliefs ** Urapmin people#Traditional beliefs, Urapmin traditional beliefs

Negrito

* Aeta people#Religion, Aeta religion * Ati people#Religion, Ati animism * Onge people#Culture and religion, Onge native religion * Semang#Beliefs, Semang animism * Vedda#Religion, Vedda original religion

Paleosiberian

* Ainu people#Religion, Ainu religion * Koryaks#Religion, Koryak religion * Itelmens#Religion, Itelmen religion * Nivkh people#Religion, Nivkh traditional religion * Yukaghir people#Religion, Yukaghir shamanism

Sino-Tibetan

* Banrawats#Deities, Banrawat religion * Bathouism * Benzhuism * Biate people#Religion, Biate animism * Bimoism * Bon ** Dongba ** Pumi people#Religion, Hangui * Burmese folk religion ** Lisu people#Animism/shamanism/ancestor worship, Lisu religion * Chang Naga#Religion, Chang Naga animism * Chutia people#Religion, Chutia religion * Chinese folk religion ** Ancestor veneration in China, Ancestor Worship ** Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia ** Faism ** Mazu, Mazu worship ** Northeast China folk religion ** Queen Mother of the West, Queen Mother worship ** Shangdiism ** Shendao shejiao, Shendao ** Taiwanese folk beliefs ** Wang Ye worship ** Chinese shamanism, Wuism ***Shamanism during the Qing dynasty, Jurchen/Qing shamanism ***Shamans in Ming China, Ming shamanism ** Associations of good-doing, Xínghaode * Mosuo#Daba, Daba * Pumi people#Religion, Dingba * Donyi-Polo * Garo people#Songsarek, Songsarek * Gurung shamanism * Hani people#Religion, Hani religion * Mizo religion#Revival, Hnam Sakhua * Jingpo people#Religion, Jingpo religion * Kayan people (Myanmar)#Traditional religion, Kan Khwan * Karbi people#Religion, Karbi religions * Karen people#Animism, Karen animism * Kirat Mundhum, Kiratism ** Yuma Sammang, Yumaism * Mru people#Krama religion, Krama * Maring people#Beliefs and Rituals, Maring beliefs * Miji people#Religion, Miji animism * Mizo religion * Mro-Khimi people#Religion and Beliefs, Mro religion * Nuo folk religion * Hruso people#Religion, Nyezi-No * Qiang folk religion * Reang#Religious belief and practices, Reang religion * Sanamahism * Tangsa Naga#Religion, Tangsa Naga animism **Rangfrah * Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak * Toto people#Religion, Toto nature religion * Akha people#Belief system, Zahv

Tai and Miao

* Hlai people#Religion, Hlai animism * Miao folk religion, Kev Dab Kev Qhuas * Kam people#Religion, Kam religion * Maonan people#Religion, Maonan traditional religion * Mo (religion), Mo * Pa Then people#Religion, Pa Then religion * Qabiao people#Religion, Qabiao religion * Tai folk religion, Satsana Phi ** Ahom religion ** Giay people#Religion, Giay animism ** Tai folk religion#Lamet religion, Lamet religion ** Nung people#Religion, Nung religion ** Saek people#Religion, Saek religion * Sui people#Religion, Sui religion * Tay people#Religion, Then

Uralic

* Komi mythology, Komi shamanism * Mari Native Religion

Other

* Fugara, Beduin shamanism * Shamanism in Pakistan, Burusho shamanism

New religious movements

Religions that cannot be classed as either world religions or traditional folk religions, and are usually recent in their inception. Non-cargo cults are generally excluded from this list, see Governmental lists of cults and sects, list of cults for groups considered cults.

Cargo cults

*John Frum *Johnson cult *Pomio Kivung *Prince Philip Movement *Vailala Madness

New ethnic religions

Black

*African Zionism *Ausar Auset Society *''Black Muslims (disambiguation), Black Muslims'' **American Society of Muslims *Dini Ya Msambwa *Five-Percent Nation *Godianism *Hauka *Igbe religion *Moorish Science Temple of America **Moorish Orthodox Church of America *Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God *Mumboism *Mungiki *Nation of Islam **United Nation of Islam *Nuwaubian Nation Black Hebrew Israelites *African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem *Church of God and Saints of Christ *Commandment Keepers *Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ *Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge *Nation of Yahweh *One West Camp Rastafari * Bobo Ashanti * Nyabinghi (Mansion of Rastafari), Nyabinghi * Twelve Tribes of Israel (Rastafari), Twelve Tribes of Israel

White

*Creativity (religion), Creativity *Occultism and the far right (disambiguation), Fascist Occultism **Ariosophy **Esoteric Nazism **Julius Evola, Evolaism **Fascist mysticism **Occultism in Nazism, Nazi Occultism **Statolatry *Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites, Israelism **British Israelism **Christian Identity **French Israelism **Nordic Israelism *Order of Nine Angles *Völkisch movement **German Faith Movement **Wotansvolk

Native American

*Ghost Dance *Indian Shaker Church *Longhouse Religion *Mexicayotl *Native American Church **Big moon peyotism, Big Moon Peyotism *Native American religions#Waashat Religion, Wasshat religion

World religion-derived new religions

Abrahamic-derived

*Antoinism *Archeosophical Society *Beili Wang *Branch Davidians *Chapel of Russia's Resurrection *Nigerian Chrislam, Chrislam * Christian Science *Matthew_Fox_(priest)#Creation_Spirituality, Creation Spirituality *Daheshism *Eastern Lightning *Faizrakhmanist *The Family International *Milah Abraham, Gafatar *Grail Movement *Holy Spirit of Blood and Water Church *Koreshanity *Lalpa Kohhran Thar, Lalpa Kohran Thar *Vissarion, Last Testamentism *Mama Tata *Mentuhui *Modekngei *Noahidism *Pai Mārire, Pai Marire *Pilgrims of Arès, Pilgrims of Ares *Rātana *Ringatū, Ringatu *Soldiers of Heaven *Kardecist spiritism, Spiritism *Unification Church **Unification Church of the United States *The Urantia Book, Urantia movement *World Elijah Evangelical Mission *World Mission Society Church of God *Zhushenjiao

Chinese salvationist religions

* Baguadao ("Way of the Eight Trigrams") * De teaching, Dejiao ("Teaching of Virtue") * Huangjidao ("Way of the Imperial Pole") * Huangtiandao ("Way of the Yellow Sky") * Huazhaidao ("Way of Flowers and Fasting") * Jiugongdao ("Way of the Nine Palaces") * Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition, Luandao ("Phoenix Way") * Luoism ("Way of Luo") ** Chinese religions of fasting *** Xiantiandao ("Way of Former Heaven") **** Guiyidao ("Way of the Return to the One") **** Shengdao ("Holy Way") **** Yaochidao ("Way of the Mother of Pearl Lake") **** Yiguandao ("Persistent Way") ***** Haizidao **** Dragon Flower Church of the Heart-bound Heavenly Way, Yixin Tiandao ("Heart-bound Heavenly Way") ** Dacheng teaching of Mount Jizu, Dacheng ** Church of the Highest Supreme, Hongyangism * Maitreya teachings, Maitreyanism * Sanban Puren Pai * Sanyiism * Shanrendao ("Way of the Virtuous Man") * Taigu school * Tiandihui * Tiandiism * Tianguangdao ("Way of the Heavenly Light") * Tianxian miaodao, Tianxian Miaodao ("Way of the Temple of the Heavenly Immortals") * Weixinism * White Lotus Societies, White Lotus * Xuanyuan teaching, Xuanyuandao ("Way of Xuanyuan") * Yellow Sand Society * Zailiism ("Way of the Abiding Principle) * Zhongyongdao ("Way of the Golden Mean")

Hindu reform movements

*Adidam *Adi Dharm **Brahmoism ***Brahmo Samaj ****Sadharan Brahmo Samaj *Ananda movement, Ananda *Swami Paramananda#In the West. Ananda Ashrama, Ananda Ashrama *Ananda Marga *Arya Samaj *Ayyavazhi *Chinmaya Mission *International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Hare Krishna *Mahanam Sampraday *Mahima Dharma *Matua Mahasangha *Kalki Bhagawan, Oneness Movement *Rajneesh movement *Satsang (Deoghar), Satsang *Sai Baba of Shirdi, Shirdi Sai Baba movement *Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres *Sri Aurobindo Ashram *Sri Ramana Ashram **Neo-Advaita *Swaminarayan Sampradaya **Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha **Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi ***International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal ***Swaminarayan Gurukul **Nar Narayan Dev Gadi ***International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation ***Narnarayan Dev Yuvak Mandal **Swaminarayan Sampradaya#Swaminarayan Gadi (Maninagar), Swaminarayan Gadi (Maninagar) **Swaminarayan Mandir Vasna Sanstha *Transcendental Meditation

Muist-derived

*Cheondoism **Jeungsanism ***Bocheonism ***Daesun Jinrihoe ***Jeung San Do **Suwunism *Daejongism *Victory Altar

Neo-Buddhism

*Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương ** Hòa Hảo ** Tứ Ân Hiếu Nghĩa *Diamond Way Buddhism *Falun Gong *Guanyin Famen *Humanistic Buddhism * Navayana *New Kadampa Tradition *Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga *PL Kyodan *Reiyūkai **Risshō Kōsei Kai *Rimé movement *Shambhala Buddhism *Shinnyo-en *Soka Gakkai *Triratna Buddhist Community *True Buddha School *Won Buddhism

Perennial and interfaith

* Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, Anandamayee Sangha * Bell Church, Bell religion * Brahma Kumaris *Caodaism *Coconut religion *Đạo Dừa *Living Interfaith *Meivazhi *Moorish Orthodox Church of America *Omnism *Open-source religion *Satya Dharma *Sathya Sai Baba movement *Share International *Subud

Shinshukyo

*Aum Shinrikyo **Aum Shinrikyo, Aleph **Hikari no Wa *Church of World Messianity *Dōkai *Gedatsukai *Happy Science *Higashikuni-kyo *Ijun *Kenshōkai *Kokuchukai *Mahikari movement, Mahikari **Sukyo Mahikari **World Divine Light (Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan) *Myōdōkai Kyōdan *Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga *Shinreikyo **Shōroku Shintō Yamatoyama **Shinji Shumeikai, Shumei *Shingaku *Shinmeiaishinkai *Shōshinkai *Tenrikyo **Tenrin-Ō Meisei Kyōdan **Honmichi ***Honbushin ***Sekai Shindokyo **Daehan Cheolligyo *Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō *Zenrinkyo

Sikh-derived

* Contemporary Sant Mat movements ** Advait Mat ** Radha Soami *** Radha Soami Satsang Beas *** Radha Soami Satsang Sabha, Radha Soami Satsang Dayagbal *** Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod *** Kirpal Singh#Ruhani Satsang, Ruhani Satsang *** Manavta Mandir *** Science of Spirituality (a.k.a. Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission) ** Radha Soami-influenced *** Ancient Teachings of the Masters *** Dera Sacha Sauda *** Eckankar *** Elan Vital (organization), Elan Vital (formerly Divine Light Mission) *** Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness ** Ravidassia

Modern paganism

Ethnic neopaganism

*Baltic neopaganism **Dievturība **Romuva (religion), Romuva *Caucasian neopaganism **Abkhaz neopaganism **Assianism *Celtic neopaganism **Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, Celtic reconstructionist paganism **Druidry (modern), Druidry ***Ár nDraíocht Féin ***Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids ***Reformed Druids of North America *Church of the Guanche People *Heathenry (new religious movement), Heathenry (a.k.a. Germanic neopaganism) *Hellenism (religion), Hellenism *Heraka *Armenian neopaganism, Hetanism *Italo-Roman neopaganism **Nova Roma **Roman Traditional Movement *Kemetism **Kemetic Orthodoxy *Semitic neopaganism *Slavic Native Faith, Rodnovery (a.k.a. Slavic neopaganism) **Native Polish Church **Peterburgian Vedism **Rodzima Wiara **Rodnover Confederation **RUNVira, Sylenkoism **Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities **Ynglism *Uralic neopaganism **Estonian neopaganism **Finnish neopaganism, Suomenusko **Hungarian neopaganism **Mordvin Native Religion, Mastorava **Udmurt Vos *Zalmoxianism *Zuism

Syncretic neopaganism

*Adonism *Pow-wow (folk magic), Brauchau *Christo-paganism, Christopaganism **Christianity and neopaganism#Christian Wicca, Christian Wicca *Church of All Worlds *Cochrane's Craft * Huna (New Age), Huna *Gaianism *Ivanovism *Mru people#Krama religion, Krama *Nature religion *Neoshamanism **Urban shamanism *Radical Faeries *Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism *Stregheria *Summum *Technopaganism *Temple of Priapus *Wicca **British Traditional Wicca ***Alexandrian Wicca ***Algard Wicca ***Blue Star Wicca ***Central Valley Wicca ***Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca ***Gardnerian Wicca **Celtic Wicca **Faery Wicca **Feri Tradition **Georgian Wicca **Odyssean Wicca **Seax-Wica **Universal Eclectic Wicca **Wiccan church, Wiccan Churches Goddess religions *Church of Aphrodite *Feraferia *Wiccan views of divinity#Star Goddess, Goddess Wicca **Covenant of the Goddess **Dianic Wicca ***Faerie faith *Reclaiming (Neopaganism), Reclaiming

Entheogenic religions

*Church of the Universe *Healing Church in Rhode Island *Neo-American Church *Santo Daime *Temple of the True Inner Light *Carlos Castaneda#Tensegrity, Tensegrity *THC Ministry *União do Vegetal

New Age Movement

* Association for Research and Enlightenment * Church Universal and Triumphant *Mayanism *The Michael Teachings, Michael Teachings * Rainbow Family * The Infinite Way

New Thought

* Church of Divine Science * Church of the Truth * Home of Truth * Jewish Science * Psychiana * Religious Science *Scientology **Free Zone (Scientology), Independent Scientology * Seicho-no-Ie * Unity Church * Universal Foundation for Better Living

Nonsectarian Theism

*Deism **Cult of the Supreme Being **Deism in England and France in the 18th century, Enlightenment Deism **Gottgläubig **Moralistic therapeutic deism **Spinoza, Spinozism **Theophilanthropy *Egotheism *Henotheism *Kathenotheism *Liberal theism *Neo-revelationism *Philosophical theism *Theistic naturalism

Nontheism and Atheism

*Adevism *Agnosticism **Agnostic atheism **Agnostic theism **Christian agnosticism **God-Building *Apatheism **Practical atheism *Christian atheism **Nontheist Quakers *Cult of Reason *Cultural Christians *Cultural Hindus *Cultural Muslims *Ecospirituality **Biosophy **Religious naturalism **Spiritual ecology **Spiritual naturalism *Freethought **North Texas Church of Freethought *Humanism **Christian humanism **Ethical movement **Humanistic Judaism **Religious humanism **Renaissance Humanism **Secular humanism **Theistic humanism *Hylotheism *Ietsism *Ignosticism *Implicit and explicit atheism *Irreligion *Jewish atheism *Negative and positive atheism *Hindu atheism, Nirīśvaravāda *Satanism#Rationality, Non-theistic Satanism **Our Lady of Endor Coven **LaVeyan Satanism ***Church of Satan ***First Satanic Church **The Satanic Temple *Monism **Dialectical monism **Indefinite monism *Moral Re-Armament *Pandeism **Christianity and pandeism, Christian pandeism *Panentheism **Process theology *Pantheism **Classical pantheism **Cosmotheism **Naturalistic pantheism *Post-theism *Rational mysticism *Religion of Humanity **Church of Humanity *Secularism **Jewish secularism **Secular Buddhism ** Secular paganism **Secular religion **Secular spirituality **Secular theology *Statolatry *Syntheism *Theopanism *Death of God theology, Theothanatology *Transhumanism **Russian cosmism, Cosmism **Terasem Movement, Terasem **Theta Noir *Transtheism

Parody religions and fiction-based religions

* The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters * Cat's Cradle, Bokononism * The Master (2012 film), The Cause * Church of Euthanasia * Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (a.k.a. "Pastafarianism") * Church of the SubGenius * Pepe the Frog#Kek, The Cult of Kek * Dinkoism * Discordianism * Dudeism * Earthseed * Schizopolis, Eventualism * Saint Stupid's Day Parade, First Church of the Last Laugh * Iglesia Maradoniana * Intelligent falling * Invisible Pink Unicorn * Jediism * Kibology * Kopimism * Landover Baptist Church * Omphalos hypothesis#Last Thursdayism, Last Thursdayism * Matrixism * The Elder Scrolls, The Nine Divines * 'Pataphysics * Russell's teapot * Aerican Empire, Silinism * Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence * Look Around You, Tarvuism * Trekkie#Religion, Trekism * United Church of Bacon

UFO religions

*Aetherius Society *Ashtar Galactic Command *Chen Tao ("True Way") *Fiat Lux (UFO religion), Fiat Lux *Ground Crew Project *Heaven's Gate (religious group), Heaven's Gate *Industrial Church of the New World Comforter *Mark-Age *Nuwaubian Nation *Raëlism *The Seekers (rapturists), The Seekers *Unarius Academy of Science *Universe people *Vale do Amanhecer

Western esotericism

*Anthroposophy *Biotronics *Builders of the Adytum * Chaos magic **Illuminates of Thanateros **Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth *Cthulhu Mythos#Fictional cults, Cthulhu Mythos cults *Emin (esoteric movement), Emin *Enochian magic *:pt:Sociedade Brasileira de Eubiose, Eubiose *Goetia *Fourth Way *Fraternity of the Inner Light *Hermeticism **Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ***The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc. **Hermetic Qabalah *Illuminism *Luciferianism **Fraternitas Saturni **Neo-Luciferian Church *New Acropolis *Occultism *Postmodern religion *Renaissance magic *Rosicrucian **Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis **Lectorium Rosicrucianum **Rosicrucian Fellowship *Satanism **Theistic Satanism ***Joy of Satan Ministries, Joy of Satan ***Temple of the Black Light ***Temple of Set *Spiritualism (movement), Spiritualism **Agasha Temple of Wisdom **Oahspe, Faithism *Thelema **A∴A∴ **Ordo Templi Orientis **Typhonian Order *Theosophy **Muckers **Neo-Theosophy ***Agni Yoga, Angi Yoga ****Roerichism

Historical religions

Prehistoric religion

* Religion and ritual of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, Cucuteni–Trypillia religion * Funnelbeaker culture#Religion, Funnelbeaker religion * Hemudu culture#Religion, Hemudu religion * Hongshan culture#Religion, Hongshan religion * Linear Pottery culture#Religion, Linear Pottery religion * Paleolithic religion ** Urreligion (theorized) *** Urmonotheismus (theorized) * Varna culture#Religion, Varna religion

Bronze Age

* Amorites#Religion, Amorite religion * Ancient Egyptian religion ** Atenism **Mysteries of Osiris **Amun#Theology, New Solar Theology * Ancient Mesopotamian religion ** Assyria#Ancient Assyrian religion, Ancient Assyrian religion ** Babylonian religion ** Sabians#Pagan Sabians, Sabian religion ** Shamsīyah, Shamsiyah ** Sumerian religion *Ancient Semitic religion ** Ancient Canaanite religion *** Midian#religion, Midianite religion *** Yahwism *Religion of the Indus Valley Civilization, Harappan religion *Hattians#Religion, Hattian religion *Hittite mythology and religion, Hittite religion *Hurrian religion *Kassite deities, Kassite religion * Liangzhu culture#Religion, Liangzhu religion * Longshan culture#Ritual, Longshan religion *Luwian religion *Minoan religion *Mycenaean religion * Nordic Bronze Age#Religion and cult, Nordic Bronze Age religion *Proto-Indo-European mythology, Proto-Indo-European religion ** Paleo-Balkan mythology, Paleo-Balkan religion ** Proto-Indo-Iranian religion *** Mahabad (prophet), Mahabadism *** Mazdaism (religions), Mazdaism *Proto-Uralic religion *Religion of the Shang dynasty, Shang religion ** Shang ancestral deification, Shang ancestor worship * Urnfield culture#Cult, Urnfield religion

Classical antiquity

* Adena culture#Art and religion, Adena religion * Kingdom of Aksum#Religion, Aksumite religion * Albanian mythology, Albanian folk beliefs * Ancient Greek religion **Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses, Arcadian Cults **Aristotelianism **Adonis#cult, Cult of Adonis ** Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great, Cult of Alexander the Great **Cult of Artemis at Brauron, Cult of Artemis **Cult of Dionysus ** Epicureanism ** Greco-Buddhism ** Greco-Roman mysteries *** Jupiter Dolichenus, Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus *** Samothrace temple complex#Cult of the Great Gods, Cult of the Great Gods *** Cybele, Cybele's Cult *** Dionysian Mysteries, Dionysian mysteries **** Orphism (religion), Orphism *** Eleusinian Mysteries, Eleusinian mysteries *** Mysteries of Isis **Greek hero cult, Greek hero cults ** Hellenistic religion ** Hermeticism ** Platonism ***Middle Platonism *** Neoplatonism ** Pythagoreanism *** Neopythagoreanism ** School of the Sextii ** Stoicism * Proto-Indo-Iranian paganism, Aryan religion ** Ancient Iranian religion ** Historical Vedic religion, Vedicism * Armenian mythology, Armenian paganism * Basque mythology, Basque paganism * Cantabrian mythology, Cantabrian religion * Castro culture#Religion, Castro religion * Dacians#Religion, Dacian religion * Ebla#Religion, Eblaite religion * Elam#Religion, Elamite religion * Etruscan religion * Gallaeci#Gallaecian deities, Gallaecian religion * Georgian mythology, Georgian paganism * Germanic paganism ** Pre-Christian Alpine traditions, Alpine paganism ** Anglo-Saxon paganism ** Cimbri#Religion, Cimbri religion ** Continental Germanic mythology, Continental Germanic paganism ** Frankish mythology, Frankish paganism ** Gothic paganism ** Old Norse religion * Armazi (god), Iberian religion * Illyrian religion ** Iapydes#Religion, Iapydes religion * Kushite religion * Ligures#Religion, Ligurian religion * Lusitanian mythology, Lusitanian religion * Lydian religion * Nuragic civilization#Religion, Nuragic religion * Paeonians#Religion, Paeonian religion * Phrygians#Religion, Phrygian religion * Proto-Celtic paganism ** Ancient Celtic religion *** Breton mythology, Breton paganism *** Cantabrian mythology, Cantabrian paganism *** Celtic Animism *** Cornish mythology, Cornish paganism *** Irish mythology, Irish paganism *** Isle of Man#Myth, legend, and folklore, Manx paganism *** Scottish mythology, Scottish paganism **** Hebridean mythology and folklore, Hebridean paganism *** Welsh mythology, Welsh paganism * Punic religion * Religion in ancient Rome, Roman religion ** Gallo-Roman religion ** Imperial cult of ancient Rome, Roman Imperial cult ** Greco-Roman mysteries *** Mithraism * Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia ** Nabataean religion ** Sabaeans#Religious practices, South Arabian paganism *Sabines#religion, Sabine religion * Samnite religion * Scythian religion * Śramaṇa, Sramana * Thracian religion * Umbri#Religion, Umbrian religion ** Marsi#Religion, Marsi religion * Urartu religion

Post-classical period

* Arioi * Balinese mythology, Balinese religion * Baltic Finnic paganism ** Estonian mythology, Estonian shamanism ** Finnish paganism, Finnish shamanism * Baltic mythology, Baltic paganism **Prussian mythology, Prussian paganism **Latvian mythology, Latvian paganism **Lithuanian mythology, Lithuanian paganism * Batak#Traditional Batak religion, Batak religion * Bulgars#Religion, Bulgar religion * Pagan religions of Azerbaijan, Caucasian Albanian paganism * Chimor#Religion, Chimor religion * Guanches#System of beliefs, Guanche religion * Shamanistic remnants in Hungarian folklore, Hungarian shamanism * Huns#Religion, Hunnic religion * Khitan people#Religion, Khitan religion * Jamaican Maroon religion * Lima culture#Cosmology, Lima religion * Moche culture#Religion, Moche religion * Sámi shamanism * Slavic paganism * Tiwanaku Empire#Religion, Tiwanaku religion * Tocharians#Religion, Tocharian religion * Vainakh religion * Wari culture#Religion, Wari religion

Other categorisations

By demographics

* List of religious populations, Major religious groups

By area

*Religion in Africa * Religion in Asia * Religion in Oceania * Religion in Europe * Religion in North America * Religion in South America * Religions by country ** List of state-established religions ** Buddhism by country *** Buddhism in the United States ** Christianity by country *** Roman Catholicism by country *** Eastern Orthodoxy by country *** Oriental Orthodoxy by country *** Protestantism by country ** Hinduism by country ** Islam by country *** Ahmadiyya by country ** Judaism by country, Jewish population by country ** Sikhism by country

References

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External links

* Maoz, Zeev; Henderson, Errol A. (2013). "doi:10.1080/03050629.2013.782306, The World Religion Dataset, 1945–2010: Logic, Estimates, and Trends". ''International Interactions''. 39 (3): 265–291. *
BBC.co.uk section on major world religions
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