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.
Believers in the One God, Yahweh; 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
Beliefs of the former African slaves
Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and most defunct
- African religions
- European religions
- Asian 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
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices
- Asatru
- Church of All Worlds
- Dievturiba
- Neo-druidism
- Judeo-Paganism
- Hellênismos
- Rodoverie (Slavic paganism)
- Summum
- Wicca
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
- Carvaka
- Confucianism
- Deism
- Fellowship of Reason
- Spiritual Humanism
- Juche
- Mohism
- Prometheism [1]
- Taoism
- Virus, The Church of
- Yoism
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
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 [4]
- 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
Racist religions
Religions holding racial purity as a core tenet of belief
- Creativity Movement (World Church of the Creator)
- Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [6]
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
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Rajneeshism
- Sathya Sai Organisation
- Spiritualism (Spiritism)
- 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
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