Outline of religion
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to religion:
Religion – organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.
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
- Acosmism
- Angel
- Animism
- Doctrine
- Eschatology
- Esotericism
- Faith
- Free will
- Goodness and evil
- Gnosticism
- Holy Land
- Humanism
- Ietsism
- Karma
- Life after death
- Mysticism
- Mythology
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Religious cosmology
- Religious Naturalism
- Sin
- Soul
- Spirituality
- Shamanism
- Supernaturalism
- Tao
- Transcendence
Approaches to the beliefs of others
Religious behaviour and experiences
- Meditation
- Nonviolence
- Pilgrimage
- Prayer
- Places of worship
- Religious experience
- Memes in religion
- Religious war
- Ritual
Religion-specific topics
African traditional and diasporic topics
Ayyavazhi topics
Bahá'í Faith topics
Buddhism topics
- Index of Buddhism-related articles
- Glossary of Buddhism
- History of Buddhism
- Gautama Buddha
- Buddhist texts
- Branches of Buddhism
- Three Jewels
- Basic concepts
- Practice
- Attainment
- Buddhist monasticism
- Buddhist philosophy
- Cultural elements of Buddhism
- List of Buddhists
- Buddhism by country
Cao Dai topics
Christianity topics
- History of Christianity
- List of Jesus-related articles
- Religious texts
- List of Christian denominations
- Roman Catholicism
- Eastern Christianity
- Protestantism
- List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
- Christianity by country
- Timeline of Christian missions
Hinduism topics
Islam topics
- Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
- History of Islam
- Muhammad
- Religious texts
- Islamic schools and branches
- Glossary of Islam
- Allah
- Islam by country
- zakat
- salat
- Hajj
Jainism topics
Judaism topics
- Origins of Judaism
- List of Jewish history topics
- Jewish religious movements
- Israel
- Jew
- Jewish
- Judaism by country
Modern Paganism topics
New Age topics
New religious movement topics
Open source religion topics
Rasta topics
Satanism topics
Shintō topics
Sikhism topics
Spiritism topics
Tenrikyo topics
Unitarian Universalism topics
Zoroastrianism topics
Irreligion topics
- Agnosticism
- Antireligion
- Atheism
- Freethought
- Ignosticism
- Nontheism
- Religious skepticism
- Secular humanism
Religion and religious ideas in fiction
See also
External links
Religion at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- 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