LIST OF RELIGIONS

The following is a 'list of religions'.
:''Note: A discussion of the ways in which "major religions" have historically been separated from the list of all religions can be found in the article Major world religions.
:''Note: As there are countless small religions, many of which cannot be verified to be real or legitimate, only those religions with Wikipedia articles will be listed in order to ensure that all entries on this list are notable and verifiable.
:''Note: The classification below is only one of several possible, using a filter system for categorization. A group will be listed in a category as close to the top of the page as the definitions for the category allow. Even if multiple definitions are applicable a religion will, ideally, only be listed once. The definition of religion for this page is inclusive.
==Abrahamic religions==
''A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.''
===Bábism===

Azali

Bábism
===Bahá'í===

Bahá'í Faith
===Christianity===
(see List of Christian denominations for greater detail)

★ 'Adamites'


Brethren of the Free Spirit


Picards

★ 'Arianists'


Arian Catholicism

★ 'Eastern Christianity'


Assyrian Church of the East



Nestorianism




Church of the East & Abroad


Armenian Apostolic Church


Eastern Catholicism


Eastern Orthodoxy



Western Orthodoxy



★ Other Eastern Orthodox Churches




Greek Old Calendarists




Macedonian Orthodox Church




Russian Old Believers




Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia




Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church




Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy


Oriental Orthodoxy (Miaphysitism doctrine, related to Monophysitism)



Antiochian Catholic Church in America

★ 'Messianic Judaism' (Only identified as Judaism by adherents and Christian missionaries; actually Jewish-rite Christianity)

★ 'Western Christianity'


Catholicism



Latin Rite (Roman Catholicism)




Catholic Charismatic Renewal




Hebrew catholics



★ Catholics not in communion with Rome




American Catholic Church in the United States




Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil




Catholic Apostolic Church




Celtic Catholic Church




Charismatic Episcopal Church




Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association




Free Catholic Church




Liberal Catholic Church




Mariavite Church




Old Catholic Church




Palmarian Catholic Church




Philippine Independent Church




Polish National Catholic Church




Sedevacantism




true Catholic Church


Protestantism



★ Early Protestantism




Pre-Lutheran Protestants





Hussites






Moravians






Taborites






Unity of the Brethren






Utraquists





Lollards





Waldensians




Puritans





Hebrew Christians



★ High Protestantism




Anglicanism





Anglican Communion






Continuing Anglican Movement




Calvinist sects





Presbyterian





Reformed




Lutherans



★ Low Protestantism




Baptists (from the Calvinists)




Methodists (from the Anglicans)





Salvation Army




★ Radical Low Protestantism





Anabaptists






Amish






Hutterites







Bruderhof Communities






Mennonites











Brethren Denominations






Church of the United Brethren in Christ






Plymouth Brethren






River Brethren






Schwarzenau Brethren






Social Brethren





Pentecostals and Charismatic






Oneness Pentecostalism







True Jesus Church





Pietists and Holiness Churches





Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)



Restorationism




Adventism




Christadelphians




Iglesia ni Cristo




Jehovah's Witnesses




Latter Day Saints or Mormons





Aaronic Order





Apostolic United Brethren





Church of Christ (Temple Lot)





Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)





Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)





The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints





Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)





Church of Christ with the Elijah Message





Community of Christ





Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints





Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints





Restoration Church of Jesus Christ





Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints





Restored Church of Jesus Christ





Sons Aumen Israel





True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days




Millerites





Seventh-day Adventist




Restoration movement (Campbell)





Churches of Christ


Swedenborgianism
=== Gnosticism ===

★ 'Christian Gnosticism'


Ebionites


Cerdonians



Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)


Colorbasians


Simonians

★ 'Early Gnosticism


Borborites


Cainites


Carpocratians


Ophites

★ 'Hermeticism'

★ 'Medieval Gnosticism'


Cathars


Bogomils


Paulicianism

★ 'Persian Gnosticism'


Mandaeanism


Manichaeism



Bagnolians

★ 'Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism'


Sethians



Basilidians



Thomasines



Valentinians




Bardesanites
=== Islam ===
(see Divisions of Islam)

★ 'Ghulat' ''including''(considered separate religions)


Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)


Ahmadi


Druze


Submission


Zikri

★ 'Kalam Schools'


Ash'ari


Kalam


Maturidi


Murji'ah


Mu'tazili

★ 'Kharijite'


Ibadi (Only surviving sect)


Harūriyya


Azraqi


Sufri

★ 'Shi'a'


Ismailis



Mustaali / Bohra


Jafari



Twelvers



Alawites



Alevi / Bektashi


Zaiddiyah

★ 'Sufism'


Bektashi


Chishti


Mevlevi


Naqshbandi


Tariqah


Quadiriyyah


Suhrawardiyya


Tijani

★ 'Sunni'


Hanafi



Berailvi



Deobandi


Hanbali



Wahhabi


Maliki


Shafi'i
===Judaism===
(see also: Jew; Hebrews; Jewish Denominations; Jewish ethnic divisions)

★ 'Contemporary divisions'


Conservative Judaism (Masorti/Conservadox)



Union for Traditional Judaism


Humanistic Judaism (atheistic, not always identified as a religion)


Karaite Judaism


Orthodox Judaism



Haredi Judaism



Hasidic Judaism



Modern Orthodox Judaism


Reconstructionist Judaism (regards Jewish identity as primarily cultural, not religious)


Reform Judaism

★ 'Historical groups'


Essenes


Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic/Orthodox Judaism)


Sadducees


★ Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet



Ebionites



Elkasites



Nazarenes


Zealots



Sicarii


Sabbateans



Frankists
===Sabians===

Sabians of Harran

Mandaean Nasaræan Sabeans
===Samaritanism=
Contents
Near Eastern religions
Pacific religions
Syncretic and eclectic Pagan religions
Non-revealed religions
Abrahmic-oriented NRMs
Christian-oriented NRMs
Islam-rooted NRMs
Judaism-oriented NRMs
NRMs with roots in Indian relgions
Buddhist-oriented NRMs
Hindu-oriented NRMs
Monotheistic NRMs
Indigenous NRMs
Asian-oriented NRMs
Chinese-oriented NRMs
Filipino-oriented NRMs
Indonesian-oriented NRMs
Japanese-rooted NRMs
Korean-oriented NRMs
Vietnamese-oriented NRMs
Native American-oriented NRMs
Western esoteric NRMs
Supremacist religions
Black-supremacist religions
White-supremacist religions
Other NRMs
Other religions or belief systems
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements and practices
Systems claiming not to be religions, but which have characteristics of religion
References
See also
External links


Indian religions==
''Religions that originated in Greater India that share a number of key concepts and religions descended from them.
===Ajivika

Ayyavazhi

Buddhism===
(see Schools of Buddhism)

Mahayana


Humanistic Buddhism


Madhyamika


Nichiren



Soka Gakkai


Pure Land


Tathagatagarbha


Tiantai



Tendai


Yogacara


Zen



Caodong



Fuke Zen



Kwan Um School of Zen



Sanbo Kyodan



Sōtō



Ōbaku (school of Buddhism)



Rinzai

Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)


Theravada



Amarapura Nikaya



Vijja Dhammakaya



Mahasthabir Nikaya



Ramañña Nikaya



Sangharaj Nikaya



Siam Nikaya



Thai Forest Tradition



Thammayut Nikaya

Vajrayana


Shingon Buddhism


Tibetan Buddhism



Bön



Gelukpa



Kagyupa



Nyingmapa



Sakyapa




Jonangpa
===Hinduism===
(see also Contemporary Hindu movements)

Agama Hindu Dharma (''Javanese Hinduism'')

Lingayatism

Reform movements


Arya Samaj


Brahmo Samaj

Shaivism

Shaktism

★ Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy


Nyaya


Purva mimamsa


Samkhya


Vaisheshika


Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)



Advaita Vedanta



Integral Yoga



Dvaita Vedanta


Yoga



Ashtanga Yoga



Bhakti Yoga



Hatha yoga



Siddha Yoga



Tantric Yoga

Smartism

Vaishnavism


Gaudiya Vaishnavism



ISKCON (Hare Krishna)



Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
===Jainism===

Digambara

Shvetambara
===Panth Religions===

Dadu Panth

Kabir Panth

Nirankari
===Sikhism===

Khalsa


Nihang

Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs

Sahajdhari Sikh
==Iranic religions


=Manichaeism

Mazdakism

Yazdânism

Zoroastrianism===

Zurvanism

Magus (see Three Wise Men)
== Taoic religions


=Caodaism

Chondogyo

Confucianism===

Neo-Confucianism

New Confucianism
===Shinto===

Oomoto
===Taoism

Yiguandao=


Other revealed religions


=Atenism

Mithraism

Orphism=


Indigenous religions==
''The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct''
===African Traditional Religion===

Ancient Egyptian religion


Atenism

Akamba mythology

Akan mythology

Ashanti mythology

Bambuti mythology

Bushongo mythology

Dahomey mythology

Dinka mythology

Efik mythology

Igbo mythology

Isoko mythology

Khoikhoi mythology

Lotuko mythology

Lozi mythology

Lugbara mythology

Masai mythology

Pygmy mythology

Tumbuka mythology

Yoruba mythology

Zulu mythology
===European Religion===

Baltic mythology


Estonian mythology


Latvian mythology


Lithuanian mythology

Celtic mythology


Gallo-Roman religion


Irish mythology


Scottish mythology


Welsh mythology

Etruscan mythology

English mythology

Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism

French mythology

Germanic paganism


Anglo-Saxon mythology


Norse mythology


Swiss mythology

Greek religion


Albanian mythology (''Illyrian gods'')


Greek mythology



Roman religion




Roman mythology




Romanian mythology


Mystery religions



Eleusinian Mysteries



Mithraism



Pythagoreanism

Lusitanian mythology

Slavic mythology

Spanish mythology


Basque mythology


Catalan mythology
Near Eastern religions


Ancient Semitic religions

Mesopotamian mythology


Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)


Babylonian and Assyrian religion



Babylonian mythology



Chaldean mythology


Canaanite mythology



Canaanite religion


Hittite mythology


Persian mythology



Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)


Sumerian mythology

Turkic mythology


Tatar mythology


Tengriism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
===Native American religions===

Abenaki mythology

Blackfoot mythology

Chickasaw mythology

Choctaw mythology

Creek mythology

Crow mythology

Guarani mythology

Haida mythology

Ho-Chunk mythology

Hopi mythology

Huron mythology

Inca mythology

Inuit mythology

Iroquois mythology

Kwakiutl mythology

Lakota mythology

Leni Lenape mythology

Mesoamerican mythology


Aztec mythology


Maya mythology


Olmec mythology

Midewiwin

Navajo mythology

Nootka mythology

Pawnee mythology

Salish mythology

Seneca mythology

Selk'nam religion

Tsimshian mythology

Urarina ayahuasca shamanism and animism

Ute mythology

Zuni mythology
Pacific religions


Australian Aboriginal mythology

Austronesian beliefs


Balinese mythology


Javanese beliefs


Melanesian mythology


Micronesian mythology



Modekngei



Nauruan indigenous religion


Philippine mythology



Anito



Gabâ



Kulam


Polynesian mythology



Hawaiian mythology



Maori mythology




Maori religion



Rapa Nui mythology




Moai




Tangata manu

Chinese mythology

Japanese mythology
==Neopagan religions


=Reconstructionist Pagan religions===
''Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices''

Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism

Dievturiba

Finnish neopaganism

Germanic neopaganism


Ásatrú


Heathenry


Odinism


Theodism


Wotanism

Hellenic polytheism ''(modern revivalist forms)''

Judeo-Paganism

Kemetic polytheism ''(modern revivalist forms)''

Romuva

Stregheria
Syncretic and eclectic Pagan religions


Church of All Worlds

Discordianism

Neo-druidism ''(Some Neo-druids are eclectic, some are Reconstructionist)''

Wicca


Alexandrian Wicca


Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)


Faery Wicca


Feri Tradition


Gardnerian Wicca


Reclaiming


Seax-Wica
==Left-Hand Path religions==

Luciferianism

Satanism

Setianism
==African diasporic religions==
''Religions originating but not entirely located in Africa''

African Initiated Church

Anago

Batuque

Candomblé

Kumina

Macumba

Mami Wata

Obeah

Oyotunji

Quimbanda

Rastafari Movement

Santería (''Lukumi'')

Umbanda

Vodou (''Dahomey mythology'')

Vodou (''Haitian mythology'')

Non-revealed religions


''Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet''

Carvaka

Deism


Pandeism


Panendeism


Polydeism

Ethical Culture

Mohism
==Syncretic religions==
''Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same''

Arès Pilgrim Movement

Bwiti

Cao Dai

Church Universal and Triumphant

Huna

Konkokyo

Manichaeism

Matrixism

Modekngei

Omnism

Santo Daime

Seicho-No-Ie

Tenrikyo

Universal Life Church

Unitarian Universalism

Universalism
==Entheogen religions==
''Religions based around divinely inspiring substances''

Ayahuasca-based beliefs


União do Vegetal

Church of the Universe

Peyotism

THC Ministry
==Cargo cults==
''Religions appearing in Pacific tribal societies in the wake of Western culture.''

John Frum

Johnson cult

Prince Philip Movement

Vailala Madness
==New religious movements==
''Religions founded since 1850 with small followings''
See list of new religious movements for a list based on other sources
Abrahmic-oriented NRMs

Christian-oriented NRMs


Aaronic Order

Church of the Lord (Aladura)

Branch Davidians

Branhamism

Body of Christ

Calvary Chapel

Christian City Church ("CCC" or "C3i")

Christian Conventions (non-denominational) (aka ''Two by Twos'', ''The Truth'', ''The Way'') and its offshoot Cooneyites

Catholic Mariavite Church

Children of God

Christian and Missionary Alliance

Christian and Missionary Alliance - Began around 1887, but was not a denomination until 1965.

Christian Coalition - A movement of right-wing Christians rather than a specific Christian denomination.

Christian Identity

Christian Reconstructionism

Christian Science


Eschatology (religious movement)

Church of Christ, Instrumental (Kelleyites)

Church of the Last Testament

Concerned Christians

Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen

Destiny Church, New Zealand

Divine Science

Doukhobor

Endeavor Academy

Eternal Grace

Evangelical Covenant Church of America ("Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant")

Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA)

Exclusive Brethren

Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches

Foundation for A Course In Miracles

Grail Movement

Grace Movement Churches

Great Commission Association

Greater Grace World Outreach

Holiness movement

Holy Spirit Movement

House of David

Indian Shakers

International Churches of Christ

Jesus is Lord Movement

Jesus Movement

Kardecist Spiritism

Legio Maria

Love Holy Trinity Blessed Mission

Love Israel

Lumpa Church

Mama Tata

Members Church of God International

Metropolitan Community Churches

Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

New Frontiers (formerly New Frontiers International)

Peoples Temple

Process Church of the Final Judgement

Schwenkfelder Church

Spirit-Spirit Sect

The Way International

Two by Two (non-denominational)

Understanding Principles for Better Living Church

Unification Church

Universal Life

Westboro Baptist Church
Islam-rooted NRMs


Dances of Universal Peace

Ha-Mim's religion

Fourth Way

Moorish Science Temple of America

Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)


Nation of Gods and Earths



Faradian Islam

Subud

Universal Sufism
Judaism-oriented NRMs


House of Yahweh

Black Hebrews
NRMs with roots in Indian relgions

Buddhist-oriented NRMs


Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

Hoa Hao

Jewish Buddhists

Share International

Soka Gakkai

Won Buddhism
Hindu-oriented NRMs


Ananda Marga

Brahma Kumaris

Divine Light Mission

Eckankar

Osho/Rajneeshism

Oneness University

Sahaja Yoga

Sathya Sai Baba movement

Sant Mat

Savitri Era

Self-Realization Fellowship

Swaminarayan

Vedanta Society
Monotheistic NRMs


Direct Worship of the Actual God

''The Urantia Book'' movement
Indigenous NRMs


Burkhanism

Mungiki
Asian-oriented NRMs

Chinese-oriented NRMs


Falun Gong ("Dharma Wheel Work," a qigong meditation group)

Way of Former Heaven sects, including


Daoyuan ("Sanctuary of the Tao"),


I-Kuan Tao ("Way of Unity"),


T'ung-shan She ("Society of Goodness"),


Tien-te Sheng-chiao ("Sacred Religion of Celestial Virtue"),


Tz'u-hui Tang ("Compassion Society").
Filipino-oriented NRMs


Pulajans

Union Espiritista Cristiana de Filipinas, Inc.
Indonesian-oriented NRMs


Parmalim

Kejawen

Kaharingan

Marapu


Santri


Abangan

Subud
Japanese-rooted NRMs


Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)

Church of World Messianity

Ho No Hana

Johrei (Johrei Movement - Sekai Kyusei Kyo Izunome Kyodan)

Kofuku no Kagaku

Makuya

Pana Wave

Reiki

Seicho no Ie

Shinreikyo

Soka Gakkai

Sukyo Mahikari

Tenrikyo
Korean-oriented NRMs


Jeung San Do

Providence
Vietnamese-oriented NRMs


Hoa Hao

Quan Yin Method
Native American-oriented NRMs


Ghost Dance

Longhouse religion

Native American Church
Western esoteric NRMs


Agni Yoga

Association for Research and Enlightenment

Church Universal and Triumphant

Eckankar

Gurdjieff

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Kardecist Spiritism

Order of the Solar Temple

Process Church of the Final Judgement

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Spiritualism

Thelema

Theosophy
Supremacist religions

Black-supremacist religions


Nation of Yahweh

Nuwaubianism

Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)


Nation of Gods and Earths



Faradian Islam

Subud
White-supremacist religions


Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations)

Kingdom Identity Ministries

Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

LaPorte Church of Christ

Nazi mysticism

World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)
===Alien-based religions===

Aetherius Society

Chen Tao

Heaven's Gate

Raelism

Scientology


Church of Scientology


Scientology In Australia



Free Zone (Scientology)

Universe people

Unarius Academy of Science
Other NRMs


Antoinism

Breatharianism (Air cult)

Dievturība

Digitalism

Elan Vital

Faithists of Kosmon

Kenja

Koreshanity

Process Church of the Final Judgment

Silva Mind Control

Summum

Church of Synanon

The Brethren

World Pantheist Movement

Zendik farm
== Parody or mock religions ==
''Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general''

Church of Emacs

Church of the SubGenius (The cult of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs)

Church of Last Thursday of Queen Maeve

★ Fictional religions turned Parody


Bokononism


Jedi census movement


Iglesia Maradoniana (The cult of former Argentinian soccer player Diego Maradona)

Pastafarianism (Flying Spaghetti Monster)

Invisible Pink Unicorn

Kibology

Landover Baptist Church

Other religions or belief systems



Ancestor worship

Animism

Ditheism (Dualism)


Monolatrism

Legalism

Maltheism

Monism

Monotheism

Mystery religion

Humanism


Secular Humanism

Objectivism

Rationalism

Pandeism



Panentheism

Pantheism


Cosmotheism

Polytheism


Henotheism


Kathenotheism


Polydeism

Psychonautics

Shamanism

Suitheism

Totemism

Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements and practices


===Esotericism===

Alchemy

Anthroposophy

Astrology

Divination

Esoteric Christianity

Numerology

Occultism

Rosicrucian


Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis


Rosicrucian Fellowship

Surat Shabda Yoga
===Mysticism===

Christian mysticism

Hindu mysticism


Tantra



Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga

Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)


Kabbalah Centre

Martinism

Merkabah (also part of Judaism)

Meher Baba

Sufism
===Magic (religion)===

Hoodoo (''Rootwork'')


New Orleans Voodoo

Kulam - Filipino witchcraft

Magick


Chaos magic


Enochian magic


Demonolatry



Goetia

Pow-wow

Seid (shamanic magic)

Tarot

Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)

Witchcraft
===Organizations promoting Ecumenism===

Dances of Universal Peace

Interreligious organisations


Focolare Movement


Humanity's Team

Subud
Systems claiming not to be religions, but which have characteristics of religion


Aesthetic Realism

Communism

Fascism

Fellowship of Reason

Juche

Nazi mysticism

References




See also



Major world religions

List of religious organizations

Monotheism

New religious movements

List of purported cults

List of fictional religions

List of people by belief

Sacred text

Mythology

Civil religion

External links



List of Religions in USA

Statistics on religious belief or adherence

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