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
- Anthropology of religion
- Cognitive science of religion
- Evolutionary origin of religions
- Evolutionary psychology of religion
- History of religion
- Philosophy of religion
- Psychology of religion
- Sociology of religion
Religious concepts
Religious belief
- Acosmism
- Angel
- Animism
- Doctrine
- Eschatology
- Esotericism
- Faith
- Free will
- Gnosticism
- Goodness and evil
- Holy Land
- Humanism
- Ietsism
- Karma
- Life after death
- Mysticism
- Mythology
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Religious cosmology
- Religious Naturalism
- Shamanism
- Sin
- Soul
- Spirituality
- Supernaturalism
- Tao
- Theology
- Transcendence
Approaches to the beliefs of others
Religious behaviour and experiences
- Meditation
- Memes in religion
- Nonviolence
- Pilgrimage
- Places of worship
- Prayer
- Religious experience
- Religious war
- Ritual
Religion-specific topics
African traditional and diasporic topics
Ayyavazhi topics
Bahá'í Faith topics
Buddhism topics
- Attainment
- Basic concepts
- Branches of Buddhism
- Buddhism by country
- Buddhist monasticism
- Buddhist philosophy
- Buddhist texts
- Cultural elements of Buddhism
- Gautama Buddha
- Glossary of Buddhism
- History of Buddhism
- Index of Buddhism-related articles
- List of Buddhists
- Practice
- Three Jewels
Cao Dai topics
Christianity topics
- Christianity by country
- Eastern Christianity
- History of Christianity
- List of Christian denominations
- List of Jesus-related articles
- List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
- Roman Catholicism
- Protestantism
- Religious texts
- Timeline of Christian missions
Hinduism topics
Islam topics
- Allah
- Glossary of Islam
- Hajj
- History of Islam
- Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
- Islam by country
- Islamic schools and branches
- Muhammad
- Religious texts
- Salat
- Zakat
Jainism topics
Judaism topics
- Israel
- Jew
- Jewish
- Jewish religious movements
- Judaism by country
- List of Jewish history topics
- Origins of Judaism
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