List of religions and spiritual traditions
The following is a partial list of religions and spiritual traditions.
Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Christianity
Catholicism
- Anglicanism (website)
- Assyrian Church of the East (website)
- Eastern Orthodox Church (website)
- Oriental Orthodox Church (website)
- Roman Catholic Church (website)
Protestantism
Other groups
- Bible Student movement
- Christian Universalism
- Latter Day Saint movement
- Nontrinitarianism
- Swedenborgianism
- Unitarianism
- The Creativity Movement
Gnosticism
- Christian Gnosticism
- Ebionites
- Cerdonians
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Colorbasians
- Simonians
- Early Gnosticism
- Medieval Gnosticism
- Persian Gnosticism
- Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Islam
- Kalam Schools
- Kharijite
- Shia Islam
- Sufism
- Bektashi
- Chishti
- Mevlevi
- Mujaddediyah
- Naqshbandi
- Nimatullahi
- Tariqah
- Quadiriyyah
- Sufi Order International
- Sufism Reoriented
- Suhrawardiyya
- Tijani
- Universal Sufism
- Sunni Islam
- Other Islamic Groups
- Ahl-e Hadith or Salafi
- Ahl-e Haqq or Yarsan
- Ahl-e Quran
- Ahmadiyya
- Al-Fatiha Foundation
- Canadian Muslim Union
- Druze
- European Islam
- Five Percenters
- Ittifaq al-Muslimin
- Jamaat al-Muslimeen
- Jadid
- Liberal Muslims
- Muslim Canadian Congress
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- Mahdavia
- Nation of Islam
- Nuwaubianism
- Progressive British Muslims
- Progressive Muslim Union
- Qur'an Alone
- Tolu-e-Islam
- United Submitters International
- Wahabi
- Zikri
Judaism
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Karaite Judaism
- Modern Non-Rabbinic Judaism
- Alternative Judaism
- Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
- Jewish Renewal
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Historical groups
- Essenes
- Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
- Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism)
- Zealots
- Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
Rastafari movement
Mandaeans and Sabians
Samaritanism
Unitarian Universalism
Indian religions
Religions that originated in India and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.
Ayyavazhi
Bhakti Movement
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
- Burmese Thudhamma Nikaya
- Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
- Burmese Shwekyin Nikaya
- Burmese Dvaya Nikaya
- Thai Maha Nikaya
- Thai Thammayut Nikaya
- Thai Forest Tradition
- Tradition of Ajahn Chah
- Thai Forest Tradition
- Theravada
- Mahayana
- Humanistic Buddhism
- Madhyamaka
- Prāsangika
- Svatantrika
- Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
- Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
- Nichiren
- Pure Land
- Tathagatagarbha
- Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
- Huayan school (Avataṃsaka)
- Tiantai
- Yogācāra
- Cittamatra in Tibet
- Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
- Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
- Caodong
- Linji
- Rinzai
- Ōbaku
- Fuke Zen
- Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
- Kwan Um School of Zen
- Sanbo Kyodan
- Vajrayana
- New Buddhist movements
Din-i-Ilahi
Hinduism
- Swaminarayan
- Shrauta
- Lingayatism
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Tantrism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
- Hindu reform movements
- Hinduism in Indonesia
- Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
- Nyaya
- Purva mimamsa
- Samkhya
- Vaisheshika
- Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
- Yoga
Jainism
Sikhism
- Khalsa
- Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
- Sahajdhari Sikh
- Ravidasi
Iranian religions
Manichaeism
Mazdakism
Mithraism
Yazdânism
Zoroastrianism
East Asian religions
Confucianism
Shinto
Taoism
Other
- Caodaism
- Chinese folk religion
- Chondogyo
- Falun Gong
- Hoa Hao
- I-Kuan Tao
- Jeung San Do
- Legalism
- Mohism
- Oomoto
- Seicho-No-Ie
- Tenrikyo
African diasporic religions
African diasporic religions are 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. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.
- Batuque
- Candomblé
- Dahomey mythology
- Haitian mythology
- Kumina
- Macumba
- Mami Wata
- Obeah
- Oyotunji
- Quimbanda
- Santería (Lukumi)
- Umbanda[7]
- Vodou
Indigenous traditional religions
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".
African
- West Africa
- Akan mythology
- Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
- Dahomey (Fon) mythology
- Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
- Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
- Central Africa
- Bushongo mythology (Congo)
- Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
- Lugbara 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
- Abenaki mythology
- Anishinaabe
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Cherokee mythology
- Chickasaw mythology
- Choctaw mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Ghost Dance
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology (aka: Winnebago)
- Hopi mythology
- Inca mythology
- Indian Shaker Church
- Inuit mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Keetoowah Nighthawk Society
- Kuksu
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Leni Lenape mythology
- Longhouse religion
- Mapuche mythology
- Maya mythology
- Midewiwin
- Miwok
- Native American Church
- Navajo mythology
- Nootka mythology
- Ohlone mythology
- Olmec mythology
- Pomo mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Salish mythology
- Selk'nam religion
- Seneca mythology
- Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
- Sun Dance
- Tsimshian mythology
- Urarina
- Ute mythology
- Wyandot religion
- Zuni mythology
Eurasian
- Asian
- European
- Estonian mythology
- Eskimo religion
- Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
- Hungarian folk religion
- Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
- Tadibya
Oceania/Pacific
Cargo cults
Historical polytheism
Ancient Near Eastern
Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
- Baltic polytheism
- Celtic polytheism
- Germanic polytheism
- Greek polytheism
- Finnish polytheism
- Hungarian polytheism
- Roman polytheism
- Slavic polytheism
Hellenistic
Neopaganism
New Age, esotericism, mysticism
New Age
Esotericism and mysticism
- Anthroposophy
- Christian mysticism
- Esoteric Christianity
- Hindu mysticism
- Martinism
- Meher Baba[8]
- Rosicrucian
- Sufism
- Theosophy
- Wicca
Occult and magical
- Ceremonial magic
- Chaos magick
- Hoodoo (Rootwork)
- Kulam – Filipino witchcraft
- National Socialism and Occultism
- Pow-wow
- Seiðr – Norse sorcery
- Thelema
- Witchcraft
Left-Hand Path
New religious movements
Creativity
New Thought
Shinshukyo
Fictional religions
Parody or mock religions
- Church of Euthanasia
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Church of the SubGenius
- Iglesia Maradoniana
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Last Thursdayism
Others
- Deism
- Discordianism
- Eckankar
- Ethical Culture
- Fellowship of Reason
- Fourth Way
- Humanism
- Jediism[10]
- Juche
- Meher Baba
- Naturalistic Pantheism
- Pantheism
- Scientology
- Secular Humanism
- Subud
- Universal Life Church
- Unitarian Universalism
Other categorisations
By demographics
By area
- Religion in Africa
- Religion in Asia
- Religion in Australia
- Religion in Europe
- Religion in North America
- Oceania / Pacific
- Religion in South America
- Religion by country
- Buddhism by region
See also
- Civil religion
- List of Catholic rites and churches
- List of religious organizations
- Lists of people by belief
- Mythology
- Shamanism
- Totemism
- Western esotericism
References
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1073. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1112. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1001. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 997. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1004. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ a b c d http://www.jainworld.com/societies/jainsects.asp
- ^ Smith, Christian; Joshua Prokopy (1999). Latin American Religion in Motion. New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-0-4159-2106-0
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 991. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 841. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
- ^ Church of Jediism