List of religions

This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions. Some entries are written more than once.

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Abrahamic religions
Main article: Abrahamic religions

A group of monotheistic traditions often grouped together because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.

Baha'i Faith
Main article: Baha'i Faith

Christianity
Main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations by number of members

Catholicism
Main article: Catholicism

Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy

Protestantism
Main article: Protestantism

Restorationism
Main article: Restorationism

Gnosticism
Main article: Gnosticism
Christian Gnosticism
  • Ebionites
  • Cerdonians
  • Colorbasians
  • Simonians
Early Gnosticism
Medieval Gnosticism
  • Cathars
  • Bogomils
  • Paulicianism
  • Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
  • Sethians

Islam
Main article: Islam
Kalam Schools
Main article: Kalam
  • Ash'ari
  • Kalam
  • Maturidi
  • Murji'ah
  • Mu'tazili
Kharijite
Main article: Kharijite
  • Ibadi
  • Azraqi
  • Harūriyya
  • Sufri

Shi'ism
Main article: Shi'a Islam
Sufism
Main article: Sufism

Sunnism
Main article: Sunni Islam

Restorationism
Groups sometimes considered non-Islamic
These religious traditions are not recognized as parts of Islam by mainstream Islamic fiqh, but consider themselves to be Muslim.

Judaism
Main article: Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Historical groups
Other sects
  • Samaritanism
  • Ebionites
  • Elkasites
  • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
    • Frankists
  • Melchizedek

Others

European

Wicca
Main article: Wicca

African diasporic religions

These religions are those of African cultures who have settled outside of Africa (diaspora). They are also sometimes called Creole religions. They include a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. The traditions come from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa.

Eastern religion
Main article: Eastern religion

Dharmic religions
Main article: Indian religions

Religions that have idea of Dharma.

Buddhism
Main article: Buddhism
  • Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
    • Theravada
      • Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
      • Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
      • Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
      • Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
      • Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
      • Thai Maha Nikaya
        • Dhammakaya Movement
      • Thai Thammayut Nikaya
      • Thai Forest Tradition
  • Mahayana
    • Humanistic Buddhism
    • Madhyamika
    • Nichiren Buddhism
      • Soka Gakkai
    • Pure Land
    • Tathagatagarbha
    • Tiantai
      • Tendai
    • Zen
      • Caodong
      • Fuke Zen
      • Kwan Um School of Zen
      • Sanbo Kyodan
      • Sōtō
      • Ōbaku (school of Buddhism)
      • Rinzai
  • Vajrayana
    • Shingon Buddhiyupa
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Barom Kagyu
          • Tsalpa Kagyu
          • Phagdru Kagyu
          • Drikung Kagyu
          • Drukpa Kagyu
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingmapa
      • Sakyapa
        • Jonangpa
  • Navayana
    • Shambhala
  • New Buddhist movements
    • Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)
    • Diamond Way
    • Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
    • New Kadampa Tradition
    • Share International
    • True Buddha School
    • Vipassana movement

Hinduism
Main article: Hinduism
Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
Main article: Hindu philosophy

Jainism
Main article: Jainism

Sikhism

Main article: Sikhism

Others

East Asian religions

Fictional religions
  • The Singularity Church of the Machine God (Deus Ex: Mankind Divided)
  • Tribunal Temple (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Nine Divines (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Imperial religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Nordic religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Altmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Bosmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Falmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Dunmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Yokudan religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Bretony religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Khajiiti religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Kothri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Orcish religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Daedroth worship (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Cthulhu Mythos (H.P. Lovecraft)
  • Jedi (Star Wars)
  • Sith (Star Wars)
  • Je'daii (Star Wars)
  • Prophets of the Dark Side (Star Wars)
  • Cult of the Screaming Blade (Star Wars)
  • Krayt Cult (Star Wars)
  • Mandalorian religion (Star Wars)
  • Voss mysticism (Star Wars)
  • Mind walkers (Star Wars)
  • Faith of the Seven (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Old Gods of the Forest (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Faith of R'hllor (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • White Walkers / The Great Other (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Valyrian religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Ghiscari religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Ironborn Religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Qohorik religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Dothraki religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Lhazarene religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Warlocks of Qarth (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • The Lion of Night and the Maiden-Made-of-Light (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Faceless Men (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Church of the Fonz (Family Guy)
  • Klingon religion (Star Trek)
  • Robotology (Futurama)
  • Virtology (Godspell)
  • Jashinism (Naruto)
  • The Church of Hanzo (Overwatch)
  • Imperial Cult (Warhammer 40k)
  • Cult Mechanicus (Warhammer 40k)
  • Divine Bomb worship (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
  • Pagan gods (The Wicker Man)
  • The Two Great Ones (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)
  • Lords of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica)
  • Cylonian religion (Battlestar Galactica)
  • He Who Walks Behind the Rows (Children of the Corn)
  • Eywa (Avatar)
  • Followers of Mademoiselle (Martyrs)
  • Muad'Dib (Dune)
  • Children of Atom (Fallout)

Indigenous traditional faiths
See also: Animism, Paganism, and Shamanism

Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified as pagan religions, but modern scholars prefer the terms "indigenous", "primal", "folk", or "ethnic".

African
Main article: African traditional religions
West Africa
  • Akan mythology
  • Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
  • Dahomey mythology (Fon)
  • Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
  • Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
Central Africa
  • Bushongo mythology (Congo)
  • Lugbara mythology (Congo)
  • Mbuti mythology (Congo)
East Africa
  • Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
  • Dinka mythology (Sudan)
  • Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
  • Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
Southern Africa
  • Khoikhoi mythology
  • Lozi mythology (Zambia)
  • Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
  • Zulu mythology (South Africa)

American
Main article: Native American mythology

Traditional religions of the Native American peoples.

  • Abenaki mythology
  • Anishinaabe mythology
  • Aztec mythology
  • Blackfoot mythology
  • Cherokee mythology
  • Chickasaw mythology
  • Choctaw mythology
  • Creek mythology
  • Crow mythology
  • Eskimo religion
  • Ghost Dance
  • Guarani mythology
  • Haida mythology
  • Ho-Chunk mythology
  • Hopi mythology
  • Huron mythology
  • Inca mythology
  • Inuit mythology
  • Iroquois mythology
  • Kwakiutl mythology
  • Lakota mythology
  • Lenape mythology
  • Longhouse religion
  • Maya mythology
  • Midewiwin
  • Native American Church
  • Navajo mythology
  • Nootka mythology
  • Olmec mythology
  • Pawnee mythology
  • Salish mythology
  • Seneca mythology
  • Selk'nam religion
  • Tsimshian mythology
  • Urarina
  • Ute mythology
  • Zuni mythology


Eurasian
Oriental
Siberian
  • Siberian Shamanism
  • Tengriism
  • Chukchi mythology
  • Aleut mythology
  • Evenk mythology
  • Yukaghir mythology
Uralic

Oceania

Cargo cults

Iranian religions

Historical polytheism

Ancient Near Eastern
  • Ancient Egyptian religion
  • Ancient Semitic religions
  • Mesopotamian mythology
    • Arabian mythology
    • Babylonian and Assyrian religion
      • Babylonian mythology
      • Chaldean mythology
    • Canaanite mythology
      • Canaanite religion
    • Hittite mythology
    • Persian mythology
    • Sumerian mythology

Indo-European

Hellenistic


Magic

Mystic and esoteric versions of the major religions
Main articles: Esotericism and Mysticism

Neopaganism
Main article: Neopaganism
  • Kemetism (Egyptian neopaganism)
  • Rodnovery (Slavic neopaganism)
  • Dievturiba (Latvian neopaganism)
  • Germanic neopaganism
  • Hellenic Polytheism (Greco-Roman neopaganism)
  • Druidry
  • Deanism

New Age religions and UFO religions
Main article: New Age

Occult religions
Main article: Occultism

Left-hand path occult religions

Parody religions

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