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

Azali

Bahá'í Faith

Christianity

Catholicism

Protestantism

Other groups

Gnosticism

Christian Gnosticism

Ebionites
Cerdonians
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
Colorbasians
Simonians

Early Gnosticism

Medieval Gnosticism

Persian Gnosticism

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

Sethians
- Basilidians
- Valentinians
  - Bardesanites

Islam

Kalam Schools

Kharijite

Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
Azraqi
Haruriyya
Sufri

Shia Islam

Ismailism
- Mustaali / Bohra
- Nizari
Jafari
- Twelvers
  - Akhbari
  - Shaykhi
  - Usuli
- Alawites
- Alevi / Bektashi
Zaidiyyah

Sufism

Bektashi
Chishti
Mevlevi
Mujaddediyah
Naqshbandi
- Jahriyya
- Khufiyya
Nimatullahi
Tariqah
Quadiriyyah
Sufi Order International
Sufism Reoriented
Suhrawardiyya
Tijani
Universal Sufism
- Dances of Universal Peace

Sunni Islam

Hanafi
- Berailvi
- Deobandi
- Gedimu
- Yihewani
- Xidaotang
Hanbali
Maliki
Shafi'i

Other Islamic Groups

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
- Sicarii

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
    - Dhammakaya Movement
  - Thai Thammayut Nikaya
    - Thai Forest Tradition
      - Tradition of Ajahn Chah
Mahayana
- Humanistic Buddhism
- Madhyamaka
  - Prāsangika
  - Svatantrika
  - Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
    - Sanron
  - Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
- Nichiren
- Pure Land
  - Jodo Shu
  - Jodo Shinshu
- Tathagatagarbha
  - Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
  - Huayan school (Avataṃsaka)
    - Hwaeom
    - Kegon
- Tiantai
  - Tendai
  - Cheontae
- Yogācāra
  - Cittamatra in Tibet
  - Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
    - Beopsang
    - Hossō
- Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
  - Caodong
    - Sōtō
      - Keizan line
      - Jakuen line
      - Giin line
  - Linji
    - Rinzai
    - Ōbaku
    - Fuke Zen
    - Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
  - Kwan Um School of Zen
  - Sanbo Kyodan
Vajrayana
- Shingon Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism
New Buddhist movements
- Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)^[1]
- Diamond Way
- Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
- New Kadampa Tradition^[2]
- Share International
- True Buddha School
- Vipassana movement

Din-i-Ilahi

Din-i-Ilahi

Hinduism

Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy

Jainism

Sikhism

Khalsa
- Nihang
Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
Sahajdhari Sikh
Ravidasi

Iranian religions

Yazdânism

Zoroastrianism

Zurvanism

East Asian religions

Confucianism

Shinto

Taoism

Other

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.

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

East Africa

Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
Dinka mythology (Sudan)
Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)

Southern Africa

American

Eurasian

Asian

European

Oceania/Pacific

Cargo cults

Historical polytheism

Ancient Near Eastern

Indo-European

Hellenistic

Neopaganism

New Age, esotericism, mysticism

New Age

Esotericism and mysticism

Occult and magical

Ceremonial magic
- Enochian magic
- Goetic magic
Chaos magick
Hoodoo (Rootwork)
- New Orleans Voodoo
Kulam – Filipino witchcraft
National Socialism and Occultism
Pow-wow
Seiðr – Norse sorcery
Thelema
Witchcraft

Left-Hand Path

New religious movements

Creativity

Creativity (religion)

New Thought

Shinshukyo

Fictional religions

Parody or mock religions

Others

Other categorisations

By demographics

List of religious populations

By area

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

External links

Statistics on religious belief or adherence

[1] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1073. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

[2] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1112. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

[3] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1001. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

[4] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 997. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

[5] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1004. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

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[7] Smith, Christian; Joshua Prokopy (1999). Latin American Religion in Motion. New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-0-4159-2106-0

[8] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 991. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

[9] Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 841. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0

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