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 system 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.
A discussion of the the ways in which "major religions" have historically been seperated from the list of all religions can be found in the article Major world religions.
Believers in the One God, YHWH; also called desert monotheism.
- Babism
- Bahá'í
- 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; Hebrews)
- Contemporary Divisions
- Historical Sects
- Heritical sects that believed Christ was a prophet
- Crypto-Judaism
- Jewish messianic movements
- 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
Other revealed religions
These are broadly similar to Abrahamic religions in scope and nature, but follow a separate history of prophesy and belief
Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and most defunct
- African religions
- European religions
- Asian religions
- Babylonian and Assyrian religion
- Bön (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
- Chinese mythology
- Shinto
- Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
- 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
- Northern indigenous religions
- Oceanic religions
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices
- Asatru
- Church of All Worlds
- Dievturiba
- Neo-druidism
- Judeo-Paganism
- Hellênismos
- Orisha religions (Beliefs of the former African slaves)
- Rodoverie (Slavic paganism)
- Summum
- Wicca
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
Religions which value the spiritual advancement of the self over other goals
- Demonolatry
- Dragon Rouge
- Illuminates of Thanateros
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Satanism
- Setianism also spelled Sethianism
- Thelema
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 [2]
- Manichaeism
- Unitarian Universalism
- Universal Life Church
- Tenrikyo
- Theosophy
- Seicho-No-Ie
Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances
- Peyotism
- THC Ministry
- Ayahuasca-based beliefs
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings
- Alien-based religions
- Ananda Marga
- Anthroposophy
- Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
- Breatharianism (Air cult)
- Brianism
- Cargo cults
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- Eckankar
- Elan Vital
- Faithists of Kosmon
- Juche (The personality cult of North Korean leaders)
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Racist religions
- Rajneeshism
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- Spiritualism (Spiritism)
- Subud
- The Unification Church (Moonies)
- Virus, The Church of
- Yoism
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 [12]
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Universal Church of Google
- Roshambo
- Shatnerology
- Text editor religions
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
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
- 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
- Major world religions
- List of organizations
- List of religious organizations
- New religious movements
- List of purported cults
- List of people by belief
- Sacred text
- Mythology