Outline of religion

See also: Index of religion-related articles

The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, religion and religious beliefs:

This is a structured index of religion-related articles, Wikipedia articles on the general topic of religion.

Religious studies

Main article: Religious studies

• Evolutionary origin of religions
• Evolutionary psychology of religion
• Anthropology of religion
• Cognitive science of religion
• History of religion
• Philosophy of religion
• Psychology of religion
• Sociology of religion

Religious concepts

Religious belief

• Theology
  • God
  • Agnosticism
  • Antitheism
  • Atheism
  • Deism
  • Deity
    • List of deities
  • Dualism
  • Henotheism
  • Immanence
  • Monism
  • Monolatrism
  • Nondualism
  • Monotheism
  • Nontheistic religions
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Pantheism
  • Polytheism
  • Post-theism
  • Theism
• Acosmism
• Angel
  • Demon
    • List of theological demons
    • Demonology
• Animism
• Doctrine
• Eschatology
• Esotericism
• Faith
• Free will
• Goodness and evil
• Gnosticism
• Holy Land
• Humanism
• Karma
• Mysticism
• Life after death
• Mythology
• Prophet
• Reincarnation
• Religious cosmology
  • Creation myth
• Religious Naturalism
• Sin
• Soul
• Spirituality
  • List of spirituality-related topics
• Shamanism
• Supernaturalism
• Tao
• Transcendence

Approaches to the beliefs of others

• Exclusivism
• Inclusivism

Religious behaviour and experience

• Meditation
• Nonviolence
• Pilgrimage
• Prayer
• Places of worship
• Ritual

Religion-specific topics

African traditional and diasporic topics

Main articles: African traditional religion and Afro-American religion

Ayyavazhi topics

Main article: Ayyavazhi

• List of Ayyavazhi-related topics
• History of Ayyavazhi
• Ayyavazhi scriptures

Bahá'í Faith topics

Main article: Bahá'í Faith

• Bahá'í history
• Bahá'u'lláh
• The Báb
• `Abdu'l-Bahá
• Bahá'í teachings

Buddhism topics

Main articles: Outline of Buddhism and Buddhism

• Index of Buddhism-related articles
• Glossary of Buddhism
• History of Buddhism
• Gautama Buddha
• Buddhist texts
  • Pāli Canon
  • Mahayana sutras
• Branches of Buddhism
  • Theravada
  • Mahayana
  • Vajrayana
• Three Jewels
  • Buddha (the Teacher)
  • Dhamma (the Teaching)
  • Sangha (the Community)
• Basic concepts
  • Four Noble Truths
  • Five Aggregates
  • Three marks of existence
  • Dependent Origination
  • Karma
  • Rebirth
  • Saṃsāra
  • Nirvana
  • Noble Eightfold Path
• Practice
  • Morality
  • Meditation
  • Wisdom
• Attainment
  • Buddha
  • Bodhisattva
  • Arahant
• Buddhist monasticism
  • Monk
  • Nun
• Buddhist philosophy
• Cultural elements of Buddhism
• List of Buddhists
• Buddhism by country

Cao Dai topics

Main article: Cao Dai

Christianity topics

Main articles: Outline of Christianity and Christianity

• History of Christianity
• List of Jesus-related articles
• Religious texts
  • Bible
    • Old Testament
    • Deuterocanonical books
    • New Testament
    • Gospels • Epistles * Antilegomena
  • Book of Mormon
• List of Christian denominations
• Roman Catholicism
  • List of popes
  • List of saints
  • Roman Catholicism by country
• Eastern Christianity
• Protestantism
  • Protestantism by country
• List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
• Christianity by country
• Timeline of Christian missions

Falun Gong topics

Main article: Falun Gong

• History of Falun Gong
• Teachings of Falun Gong

Hinduism topics

Main articles: Outline of Hinduism and Hinduism

• List of Hinduism-related articles
• History of Hinduism
• Hindu denominations

Islam topics

Main articles: Outline of Islam and Islam

• Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
• History of Islam
• Muhammad
• Religious texts
  • List of Islamic texts
  • Quran - Sura - Ayat
    • Tafsir Qudsi - tafsir
    • Quranic literalism
    • Naskh
    • Asbab al-nuzul
  • Hadith
    • isnad - Ilm ar-rijal - Narrators of hadith
    • Matn
    • Hadith Qudsi
    • Hadith collections
      • Sahih Bukhari
      • Nahj al-Balagha
• Islamic schools and branches
  • Sunni
  • Shia
  • Sufi
  • Ahmadiyya
• Glossary of Islam
• Allah
  • Ninety-nine names of Allah
• Islam by country
• zakat
• salah
• Hajj

Jainism topics

Main articles: Index of Jainism-related articles and Jainism

• History of Jainism

Judaism topics

Main article: Judaism

• Origins of Judaism
• List of Jewish history topics
• Jewish religious movements
• Israel
• Jew
• Jewish
• Judaism by country

Neopaganism topics

Main article: Neopaganism

• List of Neopagan movements
• Asatru
• Neoshamanism
• Wicca
• Witchcraft

New Age topics

Main article: List of New Age topics

New religious movement topics

Main article: New religious movement

• List of new religious movements

Rasta topics

Main article: Rastafari Movement

• Mansions of Rastafari

Satanism topics

Main article: Satanism

• LaVeyan Satanism
• Theistic Satanism
  • Black mass
  • Conjuration
  • Deal with the Devil
  • Demonolatry

Shintō topics

Main article: Shinto

• Shinto sects and schools

Sikhism topics

Main articles: List of Sikhism-related topics and Sikhism

• History of Sikhism
• Sikh Gurus
• Sikh scriptures
  • Guru Granth Sahib
  • Dasam Granth
  • Bani - Gurbani
  • Chaupai (Sikhism)
  • Jaap Sahib
  • Japji Sahib
  • Mul Mantra
  • Sukhmani

Spiritism topics

Main article: Spiritism

• History of Spiritism

Tenrikyo topics

Main article: Tenrikyo

• Joyous Life
• Ofudesaki
• Osashizu
• Oyasama
• Tenri-O-no-Mikoto

Unitarian Universalism topics

Main article: Unitarian Universalism

Zoroastrianism topics

Main article: Zoroastrianism

• Zoroaster
• Avesta

Irreligion topics

Main article: Irreligion

• Agnosticism
• Antireligion
• Atheism
• Freethought
• Ignosticism
• Nontheism
• Religious skepticism
• Secular humanism

External links

• Studying Religion - Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion
• Full-text search engine - Searchable sacred texts of the major World Religions
• Patheos.com - Offers a comprehensive library with essays written by prominent religious scholars
• Guide to World Religions
• A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people.
• Religious tolerance
• The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College(2003)
• Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents.com (August 28, 2005) Retrieved December 22, 2005