List of religions
The following is a list of religions. Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible. This system uses 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 only be listed once. The definition of religion for this page is fairly liberal.
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.
Abrahamic religions
Believers in One God also called classical monotheism.
- Babism
- Bahá'í
- Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)
- Druzism
- Gnosticism
- Basilidians
- Bogomils
- Borborites
- Cainites
- Carpocratians
- Cathars
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Ophites
- Valentinians (see: Valentinius)
- Islam
- Judaism (see also: Jew; Hebrews)
- Contemporary divisions
- Historical Sects
- Heretical sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
- Crypto-Jews
- Jewish messianic movements
- Samaritans
- Mandaeanists
- Rastafarians
- Black Hebrews
Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, also major religions of historical India
- Hinduism (see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
- Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
- Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
- Buddhism (see Schools of Buddhism)
- Jainism
- Sikhism
Other revealed religions
These are broadly similar to Abrahamic religions in scope and nature, but follow a separate history of prophesy and belief
Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and most defunct
- African religions
- European religions
- Asian religions
- Babylonian and Assyrian religion
- Assyrian mythology
- Babylonian mythology
- Chaldean mythology
- Sumerian mythology
- Bön (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
- Chinese mythology
- Shinto
- Tengrism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
- Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
- Babylonian and Assyrian religion
- Native American religions
- Abenaki mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Chippewa mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Huron mythology
- Ibo mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Lenape mythology
- Navaho mythology
- Nootka mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Salish mythology
- Seneca mythology
- Tsimshian mythology
- Ute mythology
- Zuni mythology
- Northern indigenous religions
- Aleut mythology
- Evenk mythology
- Inuit mythology
- Yukaghir mythology
- Oceanic religions
- Australian Aboriginal mythology
- Balinese mythology
- Micronesian mythology
- Maori mythology
- Modekngei (Republic of Palau)
- Nauruan indigenous religion
- Polynesian mythology
- Tuvaluan mythology
Neopagan or revival religions
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices
- Ásatrú
- Church of All Worlds
- Dievturiba
- Ghost Dance
- Neo-druidism
- Judeo-Paganism
- Hellênismos
- Orisha religions (beliefs of the former West African slaves in the New World)
- Kongo religions (beliefs of the former South and Central African (Bantu) slaves in the New World
- Rodoverie (Slavic paganism)
- Summum
- Wicca
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
- Carvaka
- Confucianism
- Fellowship of Reason
- Spiritual Humanism
- Mohism
- Prometheism [1]
- Taoism
Left-Hand Path religions
The ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it
- Demonolatry
- Dragon Rouge
- Satanism
- LaVeyan Satanism
- Church of Satan
- First Satanic Church
- Order of Nine Angles
- LaVeyan Satanism
- Setianism also spelled Sethianism
- Quimbanda
Syncretic religions
Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same
- Arès Pilgrim Movement
- Cao Dai
- Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
- Huna
- Konkokyo
- Law of One
- Mahikari [2]
- Manichaeism
- Unitarian Universalism
- Universal Life Church
- Tenrikyo
- Theosophy
- Seicho-No-Ie
Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances
- Ayahuasca-based beliefs
- Santo Daime [3]
- União do Vegetal
- Church of the Universe (marijuana sacrament)
- Peyotism
- THC Ministry
New religious movements
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings
Indigenous NRM's
African Diaspora / Latin American NRM's
Hindu-oriented NRM's
- Sai Baba/Sathya Sai Organisation
- Hare Krishna
- Transcendental Meditation
- Sant Mat
- Swaminarayan
- Vedanta Society
- Osho/Rajneeshism
- Meher Baba (actually a Zoroastrian)
NRM's with Islamic Roots
- Subud
- Ahmadi
- Baha'i
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Said Nursi
- Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
Christian-oriented NRM's
- Unification Church
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Adventism
- Mormonism
- Jesus People
- Children of God
- People's Temple
- Pentecostalism
- Holiness movement
Buddhist-oriented NRM's
Chinese-oriented NRM's
Japanese-oriented NRM's
Korean-oriented NRM's
Vietnamese-oriented NRM's
Western Magical / Esoteric Groups
White Supremacist Religions
- Church of Jesus Christ Christian
- Covenant of the Sword and the Arm of the Lord
- World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)
- Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [4]
- The Aetherius Society [5]
- Raelism
- Scientology
- Unarius society (Unarius Academy of Science) [6]
- Urantia, Book of
Other NRM's
- Anthroposophy
- Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
- Baluan Native Christian United Church
- Breatharianism (Air cult)
- Brianism
- Christian Fellowship Church of New Georgia
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- Eckankar
- Elan Vital
- Faithists of Kosmon
- Juche (The personality cult of North Korean leaders)
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Purtillology
- Racist religions
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- Subud
- Tuka Movement
- The Unification Church (Moonies)
- Virus, The Church of
- Yoism
Parody or mock religions
Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general
- Church of Bill Nye The Science Guy
- Church of God the Utterly Indifferent
- Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
- Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)
- Elvis religions
- Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
- The First Preslyterian Church of Elvis the Divine [7]
- Fictional religions turned Parody
- The First Church of the Last Laugh [8]
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Universal Church of Google
- Roshambo
- Shatnerology
- Text editor religions
- Church of Emacs
- Cult of Vi
- First Church of Pac-Man [9]
Fictional religions
See List of fictional religions
Forms of religion
- Agnosticism
- Animism
- Atheism
- Ditheism (Dualism)
- Henotheism
- Humanism
- Kathenotheism
- Maltheism
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
- Polytheism
- Shamanism
- Suitheism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices
Esotericism
Mysticism
- Christian mysticism
- Hindu mysticism
- Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
- Martinism
- Meditation
- Spirituality
- Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
- Sufism
- Theosophy
Magic (religion)
- Astrology
- Divination
- Exorcism
- Faith healing
- Feng Shui
- Hoodoo (Rootwork)
- Kimbanda
- Magick
- Miracles
- Pow-wow
- Seid (shamanic magic)
- Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
- Witchcraft
Ritualism
Organizations promoting Ecumenism
- Dances of Universal Peace
- The Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO)
- World Community Service Centre an organisation founded by Shri Vethathiri Maharishi to bring about world peace through individual harmony.
See also
- Major world religions
- List of organizations
- List of religious organizations
- New religious movements
- List of purported cults
- List of people by belief
- Sacred text
- Mythology