List of religions and spiritual traditions

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eastern religions
Main article: Eastern religions

Dharmic religions
Main article: Indian religions

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

Buddhism
Main article: Buddhism
  • Mahayana
    • Chinese Buddhism
      • Tiantai
        • Tendai
        • Cheontae
      • Huayan school
        • Daśabhūmikā
      • Chan Buddhism
        • Seon Buddhism
        • Thiền Buddhism
          • Trúc Lâm (syncretic)
        • Zen Buddhism
        • Caodong school
          • Sōtō
            • Keizan line
            • Jakuen line
            • Giin line
        • Linji school
          • Otokan line
            • Rinzai
          • Ōbaku
          • Fuke-shū
        • Sanbo Kyodan
    • Madhyamaka
      • Sanlun
      • Jonang
      • Prasaṅgika
      • Svatantrika
    • Nichiren Buddhism
      • Honmon Butsuryū-shū
      • Kempon Hokke
      • Nichiren Shōshū
      • Nichiren Shū
    • Pure Land Buddhism
      • Jōdo Shinshū
        • Honganji-ha
        • Ōtani-ha
        • Yuzu Nembutsu
        • Seizan
      • Jōdo-shū
    • Yogācāra
      • East Asian Yogācāra
  • Nikaya Buddhism (incorrectly called "Hinayana" in the West)
    • Theravada
      • Sangharaj Nikaya
      • Mahasthabir Nikaya
      • Dwara Nikaya
      • Shwegyin Nikaya
      • Thudhamma Nikaya
      • Amarapura Nikaya
      • Ramañña Nikaya
        • Galduwa Forest Tradition
      • Siam Nikaya
      • Sri Lankan Forest Tradition
      • Dhammayuttika Nikaya
        • Thai Forest Tradition
      • Maha Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Dhammakaya Movement
    • Vipassana movement (United States)
  • Vajrayana
    • Azhaliism
    • Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
    • Newar Buddhism
    • Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
    • Shingon Buddhism
    • Southern Esoteric Buddhism
    • Tibetan Buddhism
      • Bon (syncretic)
      • Gelug
      • Kagyu
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Drukpa Lineage
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingma
      • Sakya
      • Jonang
      • Bodongpa

Hinduism
Main article: Hinduism
Further information: Hindu denominations and Bhakti movement
  • Ayyavazhi
  • Kaumaram
  • Shaivism[7]
    • Aghori
    • Indonesian Shaivism
    • Kapalika
    • Kashmir Shaivism
    • Nath
      • Adinath Sampradaya
      • Inchegeri Sampradaya
    • Pashupata Shaivism
    • Shaiva Siddhanta
    • Veerashaivism (Lingayatism)
  • Shaktism[7]
  • Smartism
  • Śrauta
  • Banjara hinduism
  • Bhil hinduism
  • Tantra
    • Baul
    • Kaula
  • Vaishnavism/Krishnaism[7][8]
    • Balmikism
    • Brahma Sampradaya (Madhva tradition)
    • Ekasarana Dharma
    • Kapadi Sampradaya
    • Mahanubhava
    • Nimbarka Sampradaya
    • Pranami/Pranami Sampraday
    • Radha Vallabh Sampradaya
    • Ramsnehi
    • Rudra Sampradaya
      • Pushtimarg
    • Sri Vaishnavism
    • Swaminarayan Sampradaya
      • Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha
      • Gunatit Samaj
      • Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi
        • International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal
        • Swaminarayan Gurukul
      • Nar Narayan Dev Gadi
        • International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation
        • Narnarayan Dev Yuvak Mandal
      • Swaminarayan Gadi (Maninagar)
      • Swaminarayan Mandir Vasna Sanstha
    • Vaishnava-Sahajiya
    • Warkari
Sant Mat[10]
  • Dadupanth
  • Kabir panth
  • Ravidassia religion
  • Sadh
Hindu philosophy schools
Yoga
Main article: Yoga
Hindu new movements
  • Ananda
  • Ananda Ashrama
  • Ananda Marga[12]
  • Anandamayee Sangha
  • Arya Samaj[13]
  • Brahma Kumaris
  • Chinmaya Mission
  • Hindutva
  • Mahima Dharma
  • Matua Mahasangha
  • Narayana Dharm
  • Oneness Movement
  • Ramakrishna Mission (Vedanta Society)
  • Satsang
  • Sathya Sai Baba movement
  • Satya Dharma
  • Shirdi Sai Baba movement
  • Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres
  • Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Sri Ramana Ashram
    • Neo-Advaita

Jainism
Main article: Jainism
  • Digambara
    • Bispanthi[14]
    • Digambar Terapanth
    • Kanji Panth[14]
    • Taran Panth
  • Śvētāmbara
    • Murtipujaka
    • Sthānakavāsī
    • Svetambar Terapanth

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

East Asian religions

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

Chinese folk religion
  • Ancestor Worship
  • Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia
  • Faism
  • Mazu worship
  • Northeast China folk religion
  • Nuo folk religion
  • Queen Mother worship
  • Shangdiism
  • Shenism
  • Wang Ye worship
  • Wuism

Chinese philosophy schools
Main article: Hundred Schools of Thought
  • Taojia ("School of the Tao")
  • Fajia ('School of Law")
    • Zonghengjia ("School of Diplomacy")
  • Huang–Lao
  • Mojia ("School of Mo")
    • Mingjia ("School of Names")
  • Nongjia ("School of Agrarianism")
  • Ruijia ("School of Scholars")
  • Yangism
  • Yinyangjia ("School of Yin Yang")
  • Zajia ("School of Syncretism")

Confucianism
Main article: Confucianism
  • Han Learning
  • Korean Confucianism
    • Donghak
  • Lingnan Confucianism
  • Neo-Confucianism
    • Yangmingism
    • Edo Neo-Confucianism
  • New Confucianism
  • New Text
  • Old Text
  • Progressive Confucianism

Japonic religions
Main articles: Shinto and Religion in Japan
  • Shinto
    • Izumo-taishakyo
    • Koshintō (Historical)
    • Shinbutsu-shugo
      • Konkōkyō
      • Shugendō
    • Yoshida Shintō
  • Matagi spirituality
  • Ryukyuan religion

Koreanic religions
  • Muism
    • Gasin faith

Taoism
Main article: Taoism
  • Korean Taoism
  • Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue")
  • Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity")
  • Vietnamese Taoism
  • Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
    • Way of the Celestial Masters
      • Lijiadao ("Way of the Li Family") (Historical)
      • Way of the Northern Celestial Masters (Historical)
      • Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness")
  • Way of the Taiping (Historical)
Syncretic Taoism
  • Chongxuan School
  • Dragon Gate Taoism
  • Kōshin
  • Lingbao School ("School of the Numinous Treasure")
  • Wuliupai ("School of Wu-Liu")
  • Xuanxue ("Neo-Taoism")
  • Yao Taoism ("Meishanism")

Vietnamese religions
  • Dao Luong
    • Đạo Mẫu

Middle Eastern religions

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

Baháʼí Faith
Main article: Baháʼí Faith

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

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

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

Druze
Main article: Druze

Islam
Main article: Islam
See also: Islamic schools and branches, Ilm al-Kalam, Ahl al-Hadith, and Islamism
Khawarij
Main article: Khawarij
  • Azraqi (Historical)
  • Haruriyyah (Historical)
  • Ibadi
  • Sufri (Historical)
Shia Islam
Main article: Shia Islam
  • Alevism
    • Alians
    • Bektashism
    • 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
      • Satpanth
  • Twelver
    • Ja'fari jurisprudence
      • Akhbari
      • Shaykhism
      • Usuli
  • Zaidiyyah
    • Jarudiyah
    • Batriyya
  • Khurramites (Historical)
Sufism
Main articles: Sufism and Islamic Mysticism
  • Bektashi Order
  • Chishti Order
  • Kubrawiya
    • Khufiyya
  • Mevlevi Order
  • Mouride
  • Naqshbandi
    • Jahriyya
  • Ni'matullāhī
  • Qadiriyya
  • Roshani
  • Shadhili
  • Suhrawardiyya
  • Sufi Order International
  • Tijaniyyah
  • Universal Sufism
    • Dances of Universal Peace
Sunni Islam
Main article: Sunni Islam
Other

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

Mandaeism
Main article: Mandaeism

Manichaeism
Main article: Manichaeism
  • Athinganoi (Historical)
  • Chinese Manichaeism
  • Denawars (Historical)
  • Miqlāsiyya (Historical)
  • Mihriyya (Historical)

Yazdânism

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

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

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

Traditional African
  • ǃKung religion
  • Abwoi religion
  • Acholi religion
  • Akan religion
  • Azande religion
  • Bantu religion
    • Abagusii religion
    • Akamba religion
    • Badimo
    • Balondo religion
    • Baluba religion
    • Bamileke religion
    • Bamum religion
    • Bubi religion
    • Bushongo religion
    • Bwiti
    • Chaga religion
    • Chokwe religion
    • Duala religion
    • Fipa religion
    • Herero religion
    • Traditional Kikuyu religion
    • Kongo religion
    • Kwe religion
    • Lozi religion
    • Makua religion
    • Ovambo religion
    • Pedi religion
    • Rutara religion
    • Swazi religion
    • Tsonga religion
    • Tumbuka religion
    • Xhosa religion
    • Zulu traditional religion
  • Bari religion
  • Bassa religion
  • Berber religion
  • Bori
  • Bwa religion
  • Dahomean religion
  • Damara religion
  • Dinka religion
  • Dogon religion
  • Ebira religion
  • Edo religion
  • Efik religion
  • Ekoi religion
  • Esan religion
  • Gbagyi religion
  • Hadza religion
  • Hyel
  • Idoma religion
  • Ijaw traditional religion
  • Ik religion
  • Inam
  • Jola religion
  • Kalenjin religion
  • Khoekhoen religion
  • Kissi religion
  • Lotuko religion
  • Lugbara religion
  • Maasai religion
  • Madi religion
  • Manjak religion
  • Mbuti religion
  • Nuer religion
  • Nyongo Society
    • Bakossi religion
  • Odinala / Odinani
  • San religion
  • Serer religion
  • Sidama religion
  • Surma religion
  • Temne religion
  • Turkana religion
  • Urhobo religion
  • Vodun
  • Waaqeffanna
  • Yoruba religion
  • Indigenous religion in Zimbabwe

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

Altaic
  • Evenki shamanism
  • Manchu shamanism
  • Turko-Mongolic religion
    • Altaic shamanism
      • Burkhanism
    • Mongolian shamanism
    • Nanai shamanism
    • Oroqen shamanism
    • Shor shamanism
    • Soyot shamanism
    • Ulch religion
    • Yakut Shamanism

American
Main article: Native American religion
  • Abenaki religion
  • Achuar religion
  • Akawaio religion
  • Alaska Native religion
    • Inuit religion
    • Yupik religion
      • Yuit religion
      • Sirenik religion
  • Ancestral Pueblo religion (Basketmaker III) (Pueblo II) (Pueblo III) (Pueblo IV)
  • Andoque religion
  • Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
  • Apache religion
  • Arhuaco religion
  • Aymara spirituality
  • Blackfoot religion
  • Caddo religion
  • Californian religions
    • Kuksu
    • Miwok religion
    • Ohlone religion
    • Pomo religion
  • Chaná religion
  • Cherokee folk religion
  • Choctaw religion
  • Creek religion
  • Crow religion
  • Fuegian religion
    • Selk'nam religion
  • Garifuna spirituality
  • Guarani religion
  • Guayupe religion
  • Gwich'in religion
  • Haida religion
  • Ho-Chunk religion
  • Hopi religion
  • Huaorani religion
  • Hupda religion
  • Incan religion
    • Atacama religion
  • Iroquois religion
    • Mohawk religion
    • Seneca religion
    • Wyandot religion
  • Jivaroan religion
  • Kalinago religion
  • Kogi religion
  • Kwakwakaʼwakw religion
  • Lakota religion
  • Lenape religion
  • Lokono religion
  • Mapuche religion
  • Marajoara religion
  • Mesoamerican religion
  • Midewiwin
  • Mi'kmaq religion
  • Miskito religion
  • Muisca religion
  • Muzo religion
  • Navajo religion
  • Nuu-chah-nulth religion
  • Pawnee religion
  • Piaroa religion
  • Quechua religion
  • Quileute religion
  • Salish religion
  • Shuar religion
  • Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (religion of the Mississippian culture)
  • Taino spirituality
  • Tairona religion
  • Talamancan religion
  • Tehuelche religion
  • Ticuna shamanism
  • Toba religion
  • Tlingit religion
  • Tsimshian religion
  • Ute religion
  • Warao religion
  • Wayuu religion
  • Yaruro religion
  • Zuni religion

Austroasiatic
  • Bru religion
  • Ka Niam Khasi
  • Muong ethnic religion
  • Nicobarese folk religion
  • Santal religion
  • Sarnaism
  • Tampuan religion
  • Vietnamese folk religion

Austronesian
  • Amis native religion
  • Aliran Kepercayaan/Mythology of Indonesia
    • Aluk
    • Balinese Hinduism
    • Batak Parmalim
    • Dayak religion
      • Kaharingan
    • Javanese Kejawèn
    • Kapitayan
    • Karo Pemena
    • Sangirese religion
    • Jingi Tiu
    • Sumbawa religion
    • Marapu
    • Rejang religion
    • Rotenese religion
    • Sundanese Wiwitan
    • Saminism Movement
  • Dayawism
    • Bicolano religion
    • Blaan folk religion
    • Pangasinan folk religion
    • Sama Bajau folk religion
    • Sambal religion
    • Tagalog folk religion
    • Tagbanwa folk religion
    • Ilocano folk religion
    • Tboli folk religion
    • Visayan folk religion
  • Fomba Gasy
  • Jarai religion
  • Malaysian folk religion
    • Datuk Keramat
    • Pengarap Iban
    • Melanau religion
    • Momolianism
    • Murut religion
  • Micronesian religion
    • Carolinian religion
    • Chamorro religion
    • Chuukese religion
    • Nauruan indigenous religion
  • Polynesian narrative
    • Cook Islands narrative
    • Hawaiian religion
    • Mangarevan narrative
    • Māori religion
    • Rapa Nui narrative
    • Samoan narrative
    • Tahitian narrative
    • Tongan narrative
    • Tuvaluan narrative
  • Paiwan shamanism
  • Sakizaya native religion
  • Tao native religion

Caucasian
  • Khabzeism
  • Vainakh religion

Dravidian

Indo-European
  • Kalashism
  • Nagpuria religion
  • Ossetian native religion
  • Tharu religion

Melanesian
  • Fijian religion
  • Kanak religion
  • Papuan religion

Paleosiberian

Sino-Tibetan
  • Bathouism
  • Benzhuism
  • Bimoism
  • Bon
    • Dongba
  • Bongthingism
  • Burmese folk religion
  • Chutia religion
  • Daba
  • Donyi-Polo
  • Sangsarek
  • Gurung shamanism
  • Hani religion
  • Hnam Sakhua
  • Kan Khwan
  • Karbi religion
  • Karen religion
  • Lisu religion
  • Jingpo religion
  • Kiratism
  • Mizo religion
  • Qiang folk religion
  • Sanamahism
  • Zahv

Tai and Miao
  • Hlai religion
  • Kev Dab Kev Qhuas
  • Sui religion
  • Satsana Phi
    • Ahom religion
    • Lamet religion
    • Mo religion
    • Nung religion

Uralic
  • Komi shamanism
  • Mari Native Religion

Other Indigenous

New religious movements
Main article: New religious movement

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

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

Black
  • African Zionism
  • Ausar Auset Society
  • Black Muslims
    • American Society of Muslims
  • Dini Ya Msambwa
  • Five-Percent Nation
  • Godianism
  • Igbe religion
  • Moorish Science Temple of America
    • Moorish Orthodox Church of America
  • Mumboism
  • Nation of Islam
    • United Nation of Islam
  • Nuwaubian Nation
Black Hebrew Israelites
Main article: 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
Main article: Rastafari
  • Bobo Ashanti
  • Nyabinghi
  • Twelve Tribes of Israel

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

Native American

Neo-Buddhism
  • Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương
    • Hòa Hảo
  • Diamond Way Buddhism
  • Falun Gong
  • Humanistic Buddhism
  • Navayana
  • New Kadampa Tradition[18]
  • 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

Chinese salvationist religions
  • Baguadao ("Way of the Eight Trigrams")
  • 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")
  • 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
        • Yixin Tiandao ("Heart-bound Heavenly Way")
    • Dacheng
    • Hongyangism
  • Maitreyanism
  • Sanyiism
  • Shanrendao ("Way of the Virtuous Man")
  • Taigu school
  • Tiandihui (Historical)
  • Tiandiism
  • Tianguangdao ("Way of the Heavenly Light")
  • Tianxian Miaodao ("Way of the Temple of the Heavenly Immortals")
  • Weixinism
  • White Lotus
  • Xuanyuandao ("Way of Xuanyuan")
  • Yellow Sand Society
  • Zailiism ("Way of the Abiding Principle)
  • Zhongyongdao ("Way of the Golden Mean")

Christian-derived new religions
  • Antoinism
  • Mama Tada
  • Modekngei
  • Rātana
  • Ringatu
  • Pai Marire
  • World Elijah Evangelical Mission

Hindu-derived new religions

Muist-derived new religions
  • Cheondoism
    • Jeungsanism
      • Daesun Jinrihoe
      • Jeung San Do
      • Bocheonism
    • Suwunism
  • Daejongism

Shinshukyo (Shinto-derived)
  • Aum Shinrikyo
    • Aleph
    • Hikari no Wa
  • Happy Science
  • Konkokyo
  • Kurozumikyō
  • Oomoto
    • Church of World Messianity
      • Mahikari
    • Seicho-no-Ie
    • Shōroku Shintō Yamatoyama
    • Shumei
  • Sekai Shindokyo
  • Shinmeiaishinkai
  • Tenrikyo
  • Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō
  • Zenrinkyo

Sikh-derived new religions
  • Contemporary Sant Mat movements
    • Advait Mat
    • Radha Soami
      • Radha Soami Satsang Beas
      • Radha Soami Satsang Dayagbal
      • Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod
      • Ruhani Satsang
      • Manavta Mandir
      • Science of Spirituality (a.k.a. Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission)
    • Radha Soami-influenced[19]
      • Ancient Teachings of the Masters
      • Dera Sacha Sauda
      • Eckankar
      • Elan Vital (formerly Divine Light Mission)
      • Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
    • Ravidassia

Interfaith new religions
  • Share International

Modern paganism
Main article: Modern paganism

Ethnic neopaganism
  • Hetanism
  • Baltic neopaganism
  • Caucasian neopaganism
    • Abkhaz neopaganism
    • Assianism
  • Celtic neopaganism
    • Celtic reconstructionist paganism
    • Druidry
  • Heathenry (a.k.a. Germanic neopaganism)
  • Hellenism
  • Italo-Roman neopaganism
    • Nova Roma
    • Roman Traditional Movement
  • Kemetism
    • Kemetic Orthodoxy
  • Semitic neopaganism
  • Rodnovery (a.k.a. Slavic neopaganism)
    • Native Polish Church
    • Peterburgian Vedism
    • Rodzima Wiara
    • Rodnover Confederation
    • RUNVira (a.k.a. Sylenkoism)
    • Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities
    • Ynglism
  • Uralic neopaganism
    • Estonian neopaganism
    • Suomenusko
    • Hungarian neopaganism
    • Mastorava
    • Udmurt Vos
  • Zalmoxianism
  • Zuism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other new
  • Bell religion
  • Caodaism
  • Chrislam
  • Faithism
  • Fourth Way
  • Heraka
  • Ishikism
  • Nontheism
  • Omnism
  • Open-source religion
  • Otherkin[20]
  • Pilgrims of Ares
  • Santa Muerte
  • Singularitarianism
  • Đạo Dừa
  • Spiritualism (Spiritism)
  • Subud
  • Tai Ji Men
  • The Circle of Reason
  • The Family International

Historical religions

Prehistoric Religion
Main article: Prehistoric religion
  • Cucuteni–Trypillia religion
  • Funnelbeaker religion
  • Hemudu religion
  • Hongshan religion
  • Linear Pottery religion
  • Paleolithic religion
    • Urreligion (theorized)
      • Urmonotheismus (theorized)
  • Varna religion

Bronze Age

Classical antiquity

Medieval Period
  • Ainu religion
  • Balinese religion
  • Baltic paganism
    • Prussian paganism
    • Latvian paganism
    • Lithuanian paganism
  • Batak religion
  • Caucasian Albanian paganism
  • Chimor religion
  • Estonian shamanism
  • Finnish shamanism
  • Guanche religion
  • Hungarian shamanism
  • Kafirism
  • Jamaican Maroon religion
  • Lima religion
  • Moche religion
  • Nazca religion
  • Sámi shamanism
  • Slavic paganism
  • Tiwanaku religion
  • Tocharian religion
  • Vainakh religion
  • Wari religion

Other categorisations

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

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

See also

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