List of religions and spiritual traditions
Religions, sects and denominations
- Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible. This system uses a filter effect for categorization. A group will be listed in a category as close to the top of the page as the definitions for the category allow. Even if multiple definitions are applicable a religion will only be listed once. The definition of religion for this page is fairly liberal.
Believers in the One God, Yahweh; also called desert monotheism.
- Babism
- Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)
- Druzism
- Gnosticism
- Basilidians
- Bogomils
- Borborites
- Cainites
- Carpocratians
- Cathars
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Ophites
- Valentinians (see: Valentinius)
- Islam
- Judaism (see also: Jew; The 613 Commandments; Hebrews)
- Biblical era:
- Second Temple era:
- Early Middle Ages:
- Later Middle Ages:
- Lurianic mysticism
- Halakhic Judaism
- Ashkenazic Judaism (European)
- Sephardic Judaism (e.g. Spain, North Africa, Turkey)
- Mizrahi Judaism (e.g. Yemenite, Iraqi, Persian)
- The Modern era:
- Orthodox Judaism
- Haredi Judaism
- Modern Hasidism
- Modern Mitnagdim
- Mussar movement
- Torah im Derech Eretz
- Lithuanian Yeshiva world (now mainly in Israel, the USA, and UK)
- Neturei Karta
- Modern Orthodox Judaism
- Religious Zionism
- Baal Teshuva Movement
- Haredi Judaism
- Conservative Judaism
- Humanistic Judaism
- Reform Judaism
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Orthodox Judaism
- Falasha Judaism
- Hellenistic Judaism
- Noahidism (Noahism) (see Noahide Laws)
- Judeo-Christian (Sects that seek to mesh the role of Jesus/Yeshu and Christianity with Judaism)
- Crypto-Judaism (Jews who secretly practiced Judaism, while outwardly Christian, during the Inquisition)
- Judeo-Islamic
- Christo-Islamic
- Samaritanism
- Mandaeanism
- Rastafarianism
Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, also major religions of historical India
- Hinduism (see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
- Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
- Swaminarayan sect
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
- Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
- Buddhism (see Schools of Buddhism)
- Jainism
- Sikhism
Beliefs of the former African slaves
Indigenous and/or tribal religions
The orally transmitted cannon of the indigenous peoples
- African religions
- European religions
- Native American religions
- Abenaki mythology
- Aztec mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Chippewa mythology
- Creek mythology
- Crow mythology
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Huron mythology
- Ibo mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Kwakiutl mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Lenape mythology
- Navaho mythology
- Nootka mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Salish mythology
- Seneca mythology
- Tsimshian mythology
- Ute mythology
- Zuni mythology
- Middle Eastern religions of pre-history
- Northern indigenous religions
- Oceanic religions
Religions which value the spiritual advancement of the self over other goals
- Demonolatry
- Dragon Rouge
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Satanism
- Setianism also spelled Sethianism
- Thelema
Revival religions
Alien-based religions
Belivers in extraterrestrial involvement on Earth of some kind
- The Aetherius Society [1]
- Raelism
- Scientology
- Unarius society (Unarius Academy of Science) [2]
- Urantia, Book of
Spirit religions
Faiths that are primarily concerned with the existence of spirits
Faiths that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same
- Arès Pilgrim Movement
- Cao Dai
- Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
- Huna
- Konkokyo
- Law of One
- Mahikari [3]
- Manichaeism
- Unitarian Universalism
- Universal Life Church
- Tenrikyo
- Theosophy
- Seicho-No-Ie
Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general
- Church of God the Utterly Indifferent
- Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
- Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)
- Elvis religions
- Fictional religions turned Parody
- Bokononism
- Jedi (The 2001 Census reported more Jedi in England than Sikhs)
- The First Church of the Last Laugh [5]
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Universal Church of Google
- Roshambo
- Shatnerology
- Text editor religions
Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances
- Peyotism
- THC Ministry
- Ayahuasca-based beliefs
White supremacy religions
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
- Carvaka
- Confucianism
- Deism
- Fellowship of Reason
- Spiritual Humanism
- Juche
- Mohism
- Prometheism [8]
- Taoism
- Virus, The Church of
- Yoism
Various new religious movements
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings
- Ananda Marga
- Anthroposophy
- Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
- Breatharianism (Air cult)
- Brianism
- Cargo cults
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- Eckankar
- Elan Vital
- Faithists of Kosmon
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Rajneeshism
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- Subud
- The Unification Church (Moonies)
Various ancient religions
These are very old religions that fail to be easily classified in the above categories
- Bön (Bön was completely independent until 776 CE)
- Yezidis
- Zoroastrianism
Fictional religions
See List of fictional religions
Forms of religion
- Agnosticism
- Animism
- Atheism
- Ditheism (Dualism)
- Henotheism
- Humanism
- Kathenotheism
- Maltheism
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
- Polytheism
- Shamanism
- Suitheism
- Universism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices
- Christian mysticism
- Hindu mysticism
- Martinism
- Meditation
- Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
- Spirituality
- Sufism
- Theosophy
- Astrology
- Divination
- Exorcism
- Faith healing
- Feng Shui
- Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
- Magick
- Miracles
- Seid (shamanic magic)
- Witchcraft
Organizations promoting Ecumenism
- Interfaith.org a cooperative association of organizations and clergy persons who have joined together to establish a greater spiritual presence on the World Wide Web.
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- The Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO)
- Temple of Understanding
- simplified kundalini yoga an organisation founded by Vethathiri maharishi to establish world peace and happiness.
See also
- List of organizations
- List of religious organizations
- New religious movements
- List of purported cults
- List of people by belief
- Sacred text
- Mythology