Post by Zombie on Dec 15, 2006 16:23:44 GMT -5
Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Bábism
* Bayani
Bahá'í
* Bahá'í Faith
o Orthodox Bahá'í Faith
Christianity
* Adamites
o Brethren of the Free Spirit
o Picards
* Arianists
o Arian Catholicism
* Eastern Christianity
o Assyrian Church of the East
+ Nestorianism
# Church of the East & Abroad
o Armenian Apostolic Church
o Eastern Orthodoxy
+ Western Orthodoxy
+ Other Eastern Orthodox Churches
# Greek Old Calendarists
# Macedonian Orthodox Church
# Russian Old Believers
# Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
# Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
# Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy
o Oriental Orthodoxy (Miaphysitism doctrine, related to Monophysitism)
+ Antiochian Catholic Church in America
* Messianic Judaism (Only identified as Judaism by adherents and Christian missionaries; actually Jewish-rite Christianity)
* Western Christianity
o Catholicism
+ Eastern Rite
+ Latin Rite (Roman Catholicism)
# Catholic Charismatic Renewal
# Hebrew catholics
+ Catholics not in communion with Rome
# American Catholic Church in the United States
# Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil
# Catholic Apostolic Church
# Celtic Catholic Church
# Charismatic Episcopal Church
# Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
# Free Catholic Church
# Liberal Catholic Church
# Mariavite Church
# Old Catholic Church
# Palmarian Catholic Church
# Philippine Independent Church
# Polish National Catholic Church
# Sedevacantism
# Society of Saint Pius X
# true Catholic Church
o Protestantism
+ Early Protestantism
# Pre-Lutheran Protestants
* Hussites
o Moravians
o Taborites
o Unity of the Brethren
o Utraquists
* Lollards
* Waldensians
# Puritans
* Hebrew Christians
+ High Protestantism
# Anglican Communion
* Continuing Anglican Movement
# Calvinist sects
* Presbyterian
* Reformed
# Lutherans
+ Low Protestantism
# Baptists (from the Calvinists)
# Methodists (from the Anglicans)
# Radical Low Protestantism
* Anabaptists
o Amish
o Hutterites
+ Bruderhof Communities
o Mennonites
* Apostolic Churches
* Brethren Denominations
o Church of the United Brethren in Christ
o Plymouth Brethren
o River Brethren
o Schwarzenau Brethren
o Social Brethren
* Evangelicalism
o Salvation Army
* Pentecostals and Charismatic
o Oneness Pentecostalism
+ True Jesus Church
* Pietists and Holiness Churches
* Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
+ Restorationism
# Adventism
# Christadelphians
# Iglesia ni Cristo
# Jehovah's Witnesses
# Latter Day Saints or Mormons
* Aaronic Order
* Apostolic United Brethren
* Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
* Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
* Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
* Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
* Community of Christ
* Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Restoration Church of Jesus Christ
* Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Restored Church of Jesus Christ
* Sons Aumen Israel
* True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
# Millerites
* Seventh-day Adventist
# Restoration movement (Campbell)
* Churches of Christ
o Swedenborgianism
Gnosticism
* Christian Gnosticism
o Ebionites
o Cerdonians
+ Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
o Colorbasians
o Simonians
* Early Gnosticism
o Borborites
o Cainites
o Carpocratians
o Ophites
* Hermeticism
* Medieval Gnosticism
o Cathars
o Bogomils
o Paulicianism
* Persian Gnosticism
o Mandaeanism
o Manichaeism
+ Bagnolians
* Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
o Sethians
+ Basilidians
+ Thomasines
+ Valentinians
# Bardesanites
Islam
* Ghulat including
o Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
o Ahmadi
o Druze
o Yazidi
* Kalam Schools
o Ash'ari
o Kalam
o Maturidi
o Murji'ah
o Mu'tazili
* Kharijite
o Ibadi
o Harūriyya
o Azraqi
o Sufri
* Shi'a
o Alawites
o Alevi / Bektashi
o Ismailis
o Jafari
o Mustaali / Bohra
o Zaiddiyah
* Sufism
o Bektashi
o Chishti
o Mevlevi
o Naqshbandi
o Tariqah
o Quadiriyyah
o Suhrawardiyya
o Tijani
* Sunni
o Berailvi
o Deobandi
o Hanafi
o Hanbali
o Madhab
o Maliki
o Mu'tazili
o Shafi'i
o Wahhabi
* Zikri
Judaism
* Contemporary divisions
o Conservative Judaism (Masorti/Conservadox)
+ Union for Traditional Judaism
o Humanistic Judaism (atheistic, not always identified as a religion)
o Karaite Judaism
o Orthodox Judaism
+ Modern Orthodox Judaism
+ Haredi Judaism
+ Hassidic Judaism
o Reconstructionist Judaism (claims Judaism is a culture, not always identified as a religion)
o Reform Judaism
* Historical groups
o Essenes
o Pharisees (became Rabbinic/Orthodox Judaism)
o Sadducees
o Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
+ Ebionites
+ Elkasites
+ Nazarenes
o Zealots
+ Sicarii
Samaritanism
Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, including major religions of historical India and religions descended from them.
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
(see Schools of Buddhism)
* Mahayana
o Madhyamika
o Nichiren
+ Soka Gakkai
o Pure Land
o Tathagatagarbha
o Tiantai
o Yogacara
o Zen
* Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
o Theravada
+ Amarapura Nikaya
+ Vijja Dhammakaya
+ Mahasthabir Nikaya
+ Ramañña Nikaya
+ Sangharaj Nikaya
+ Siam Nikaya
+ Thai Forest Tradition
+ Thammayut Nikaya
* Vajrayana
o Shingon Buddhism
o Tibetan Buddhism
+ Bön
+ Gelukpa
+ Kagyupa
+ Nyingmapa
+ Sakyapa
# Jonangpa
Hinduism
(see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
* Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
* Lingayatism
* Reform movements
o Arya Samaj
o Brahmo Samaj
* Shaivism
* Shaktism
* Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
o Nyaya
o Purva mimamsa
o Samkhya
o Vaisheshika
o Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
+ Advaita Vedanta
+ Integral Yoga
+ Dvaita Vedanta
o Yoga
+ Ashtanga Yoga
+ Bhakti Yoga
+ Hatha yoga
+ Siddha Yoga
+ Tantric Yoga
* Smartism
* Vaishnavism
o Gaudiya Vaishnavism
+ ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
+ Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
Jainism
* Digambara
* Shvetambara
Sikhism
Is the religion created by the Ten Sikh Gurus and whose current Guru (spiritual leader) is Guru Granth Sahib
* Khalsa
o Nihang
* Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
* Sahajdhari Sikh
Other Dharmic religions
* Panth Religions
o Dadu Panth
o Kabir Panth
o Nirankari
* Other Shramana Religions
o Ajivika
Other revealed religions
Religions with one God, also called classical monotheism
Atenism
Zoroastrianism
* Zurvanism
* Magus (see Three Wise Men)
Mithraism
Manichaeism
Yazdânism
Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct
African Traditional Religion
* Akamba mythology
* Akan mythology
* Ashanti mythology
* Bambuti mythology
* Bushongo mythology
* Dahomey mythology
* Dinka mythology
* Efik mythology
* Igbo mythology
* Isoko mythology
* Khoikhoi mythology
* Lotuko mythology
* Lozi mythology
* Lugbara mythology
* Masai mythology
* Pygmy mythology
* Tumbuka mythology
* Yoruba mythology
* Zulu mythology
European Religion
* Baltic mythology
o Estonian mythology
o Latvian mythology
o Lithuanian mythology
* Celtic mythology
o Gallo-Roman religion
o Irish mythology
o Scottish mythology
o Welsh mythology
* Etruscan mythology
* English mythology
* Finnish mythology
* French mythology
* Germanic paganism
o Anglo-Saxon mythology
o Norse mythology
o Swiss mythology
* Greek religion
o Albanian mythology (Illyrian gods)
o Greek mythology
+ Roman religion
# Roman mythology
# Romanian mythology
o Mystery religions
+ Eleusinian Mysteries
+ Mithraism
+ Pythagoreanism
* Lusitanian mythology
* Slavic mythology
* Spanish mythology
o Basque mythology
o Catalan mythology
Near Eastern religions
* Ancient Egyptian religion
o Atenism
* Ancient Semitic religions
* Mesopotamian mythology
o Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
o Babylonian and Assyrian religion
+ Babylonian mythology
+ Chaldean mythology
o Canaanite mythology
+ Canaanite religion
o Hittite mythology
o Persian mythology
+ Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
o Sumerian mythology
* Turkic mythology
o Tatar mythology
o Tengriism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
Native American religions
* Abenaki mythology
* Blackfoot mythology
* Chickasaw mythology
* Choctaw mythology
* Chippewa mythology
* Creek mythology
* Crow mythology
* Guarani mythology
* Haida mythology
* Ho-Chunk mythology
* Hopi mythology
* Huron mythology
* Inca mythology
* Inuit mythology
* Iroquois mythology
* Kwakiutl mythology
* Lakota mythology
* Leni Lenape mythology
* Mesoamerican mythology
o Aztec mythology
o Maya mythology
o Olmec mythology
* Navaho mythology
* Nootka mythology
* Pawnee mythology
* Salish mythology
* Seneca mythology
* Tsimshian mythology
* Urarina ayahuasca shamanism and animism
* Ute mythology
* Zuni mythology
Pacific religions
* Australian Aboriginal mythology
* Austronesian beliefs
o Balinese mythology
o Javanese beliefs
o Melanesian mythology
o Micronesian mythology
+ Modekngei
+ Nauruan indigenous religion
o Philippine mythology
+ Anito
+ Gabâ
+ Kulam
o Polynesian mythology
+ Hawaiian mythology
+ Maori mythology
# Maori religion
+ Moai
* Chinese mythology
* Japanese mythology
o Shinto
+ Oomoto
Neopagan religions
Reconstructionist Pagan religions
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices
* Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism
* Dievturiba
* Germanic neopaganism
o Ásatrú
o Heathenry
o Odinism
o Theodism
o Wotanism
* Hellenic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)
* Judeo-Paganism
* Kemetic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)
* Romuva
* Stregheria
Syncretic and eclectic Pagan religions
* Church of All Worlds
* Neo-druidism (some eclectic, some reconstructionist)
o Alexandrian Wicca
o Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)
o Faery Wicca
o Feri Tradition
o Gardnerian Wicca
o Seax-Wica
Left-Hand Path religions
Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it
* Dragon Rouge
* Luciferianism
* Satanism
o LaVeyan Satanism
+ Church of Satan
o Order of Nine Angles
* Setianism also spelled Sethianism
o Temple of Set
o The Storm
African diasporic religions
Religions originating but not entirely located in Africa
* African Initiated Church
* Anago
* Batuque
* Candomblé
* Kumina
* Macumba
* Obeah
* Oyotunji
* Quimbanda
* Rastafari Movement
* Santería (Lukumi)
* Umbanda
* Vodou (Haitian mythology)
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
* Carvaka
* Confucianism
* Deism
* Ethical Culture
* Fellowship of Reason (This organization does not consider itself religious.)
* Kejawen
* Mohism
* Spiritual Humanism
* Selk'nam religion
* Taoism
Syncretic religions
Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same
* Arès Pilgrim Movement
* Bwiti
* Cao Dai
* Church Universal and Triumphant
* Huna
* Konkokyo
* Manichaeism
* Modekngei
* Santo Daime
* Seicho-No-Ie
* Tenrikyo
* Universal Life Church
* Unitarian Universalism
Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances
* Ayahuasca-based beliefs
* Church of the Universe
* Peyotism
* THC Ministry
New religious movements
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings
See list of new religious movements for a list based on other sources
Monotheistic NRMs
* Direct Worship of the Actual God
* The Urantia Book movement
Indigenous NRMs
* Burkhanism
* Cargo cults
* Ghost Dance
* Johnson cult
* Longhouse religion
* Mungiki
* Native American Church
* União do Vegetal
* Vailala Madness
Buddhist-oriented NRMs
* Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
* Hoa Hao
* Jewish Buddhists
* Share International
* Soka Gakkai
* Won Buddhism
Christian-oriented NRMs
* Aaronic Order
* Church of the Lord (Aladura)
* Branch Davidians
* Branhamism
* Body of Christ
* Calvary Chapel
* Christian City Church ("CCC" or "C3i")
* Christian Conventions (aka Two by Twos, The Truth, The Way) and its offshoot Cooneyites
* Catholic Mariavite Church
* Children of God
o The Family International
* Christian and Missionary Alliance
* Christian and Missionary Alliance - Began around 1887, but was not a denomination until 1965.
* Christian Coalition - A movement of right-wing Christians rather than a specific Christian denomination.
* Christian Identity
* Christian Reconstructionism
* Christian Science
o Eschatology
* Church of Christ, Instrumental (Kelleyites)
* Church of the Last Testament
* Concerned Christians
* Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen
* Destiny Church, New Zealand
* Divine Science
* Doukhobor
* Endeavor Academy
* Eternal Grace
* Evangelical Covenant Church of America ("Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant")
* Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA)
* Exclusive Brethren
* Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches
* Foundation for A Course In Miracles
* Grail Movement
* Grace Movement Churches
* Great Commission Association
* Greater Grace World Outreach
* Holiness movement
* Holy Spirit Movement
* House of David
* Indian Shakers
* International Churches of Christ
* Jesus Fellowship Church
* Jesus is Lord Movement
* Jesus Miracle Crusade
* Jesus Movement
* Kardecist Spiritism
* Legio Maria
* Love Holy Trinity Blessed Mission
* Love Israel
* Lumpa Church
* Mama Tata
* Members Church of God International
* Metropolitan Community Churches
* Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
* New Frontiers (formerly New Frontiers International)
* Peoples Temple
* Process Church of the Final Judgement
* Schwenkfelder Church
* Spirit-Spirit Sect
* The Way International
* Understanding Principles for Better Living Church
* Unification Church
* Westboro Baptist Church
Hindu-oriented NRMs
* Ananda Marga
* Brahma Kumaris
* Divine Light Mission
* Eckankar
* Osho/Rajneeshism
* Oneness University
* Sahaja Yoga
* Sai Baba/Sathya Sai Organisation
* Sant Mat
* Savitri Era
* Self-Realization Fellowship
* Swaminarayan
* Transcendental Meditation
* Vedanta Society
Islam-rooted NRMs
* Dances of Universal Peace
* Ha-Mim's religion
* Fourth Way
* Moorish Science Temple of America
* Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
o Nation of Gods and Earths
+ Faradian Islam
* Subud
* Universal Sufism
Judaism-oriented NRMs
* House of Yahweh
* Black Hebrews
Chinese-oriented NRMs
* Falun Gong ("Dharma Wheel Work," a qigong meditation group)
* Way of Former Heaven sects, including
o Daoyuan ("Sanctuary of the Tao"),
o I-Kuan Tao ("Way of Unity"),
o T'ung-shan She ("Society of Goodness"),
o Tien-te Sheng-chiao ("Sacred Religion of Celestial Virtue"),
o Tz'u-hui Tang ("Compassion Society").
Filipino-oriented NRMs
* Pulajans
* Union Espiritista Cristiana de Filipinas, Inc.
Japanese-rooted NRMs
* Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
* Church of World Messianity
* Ho No Hana
* Johrei (Johrei Movement - Sekai Kyusei Kyo Izunome Kyodan)
* Kofuku no Kagaku
* Makuya
* Pana Wave
* Reiki
* Seicho no Ie
* Shinreikyo
* Soka Gakkai
* Sukyo Mahikari
* Tenrikyo
Korean-oriented NRMs
* Chondogyo
* Jeung San Do
Malaysian-oriented NRMs
* Sky Kingdom
Indonesian-oriented NRMs
* Parmalim
* Kejawen
* Kaharingan
Vietnamese-oriented NRMs
* Cao Dai
* Hoa Hao
* Quan Yin Method
Western magical / esoteric groups
* Agni Yoga
* Association for Research and Enlightenment
* Church Universal and Triumphant
* Eckankar
* Gurdjieff Work
* Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
* Kardecist Spiritism
* Order of the Solar Temple
* Process Church of the Final Judgement
* Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
* Spiritualism
* Thelema
o Argenteum Astrum
o Fraternitas Saturni
o Ordo Templi Orientis
o Ordo Templi Orientis (Typhonian)
* Theosophy
White-supremacist religions
* Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations)
* Kingdom Identity Ministries
* Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
* LaPorte Church of Christ
* World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)
Black-supremacist religions
* Nation of Yahweh
* Nuwaubianism
* Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
o Nation of Gods and Earths
+ Faradian Islam
* Subud
Alien-based religions
* Aetherius Society
* Chen Tao
* Heaven's Gate
* Raelism
* Scientology
o Church of Scientology
+ Free Zone (Scientology)
* Universe people
* Unarius Academy of Science
Other NRMs
* Antoinism
* Breatharianism (Air cult)
* Dievturība
* Digitalism
* Elan Vital
* Faithists of Kosmon
* Join Me/Karma Army
* Kenja
* Koreshanity
* Process Church of the Final Judgment
* Silva Mind Control
* Summum
* Church of Synanon
* The Brethren
* World Pantheist Movement
* Zendik farm
Parody or mock religions
Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general
* Church of Emacs
* Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
* Church of the SubGenius (The cult of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs)
* Church of Last Thursday of Queen Maeve
* Fictional religions turned Parody
o Bokononism
o Jedi census movement
o Iglesia Maradoniana (The cult of former Argentinian soccer player Diego Maradona)
* Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism)
* Invisible Pink Unicorn
* Kibology
* Landover Baptist Church
* McMahonism
Other religions or belief systems
* Ancestor worship
* Animism
* Discordianism
* Ditheism (Dualism)
o Monolatrism
* Legalism
* Maltheism
* Monism
* Monotheism
* Mystery religion
* Non-theistic belief system
o Humanism
+ Secular Humanism
o Objectivism
o Rationalism
* Omnism
* Pandeism
* Panendeism
* Panentheism
* Pantheism
o Cosmotheism
* Polytheism
o Henotheism
o Kathenotheism
o Polydeism
* Psychonautics
* Shamanism
* Suitheism
* Totemism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements and practices
Esotericism
* Alchemy
* Anthroposophy
* Astrology
* Divination
* Esoteric Christianity
* Numerology
* Occultism
* Rosicrucian
o Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
o Confraternity of the Rose Cross
o Rosicrucian Fellowship
* Surat Shabda Yoga
Mysticism
* Christian mysticism
* Dark Spirituality
* Hindu mysticism
o Tantra
+ Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
* Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
o Kabbalah Centre
* Martinism
* Merkabah (also part of Judaism)
* Meher Baba
Magic (religion)
* Feng Shui
* Hoodoo (Rootwork)
o New Orleans Voodoo
* Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
* Magick
o Chaos magic
o Enochian magic
o Goetia
* Pow-wow
* Seid (shamanic magic)
* Tarot
* Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
* Witchcraft
Organizations promoting Ecumenism
* Dances of Universal Peace
* Interreligious organisations
o Focolare Movement
o Humanity's Team
* Subud
Non-belief systems (lack of religion)
* Agnosticism
* Atheism
o Strong atheism
o Weak atheism
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Bábism
* Bayani
Bahá'í
* Bahá'í Faith
o Orthodox Bahá'í Faith
Christianity
* Adamites
o Brethren of the Free Spirit
o Picards
* Arianists
o Arian Catholicism
* Eastern Christianity
o Assyrian Church of the East
+ Nestorianism
# Church of the East & Abroad
o Armenian Apostolic Church
o Eastern Orthodoxy
+ Western Orthodoxy
+ Other Eastern Orthodox Churches
# Greek Old Calendarists
# Macedonian Orthodox Church
# Russian Old Believers
# Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
# Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
# Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy
o Oriental Orthodoxy (Miaphysitism doctrine, related to Monophysitism)
+ Antiochian Catholic Church in America
* Messianic Judaism (Only identified as Judaism by adherents and Christian missionaries; actually Jewish-rite Christianity)
* Western Christianity
o Catholicism
+ Eastern Rite
+ Latin Rite (Roman Catholicism)
# Catholic Charismatic Renewal
# Hebrew catholics
+ Catholics not in communion with Rome
# American Catholic Church in the United States
# Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil
# Catholic Apostolic Church
# Celtic Catholic Church
# Charismatic Episcopal Church
# Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
# Free Catholic Church
# Liberal Catholic Church
# Mariavite Church
# Old Catholic Church
# Palmarian Catholic Church
# Philippine Independent Church
# Polish National Catholic Church
# Sedevacantism
# Society of Saint Pius X
# true Catholic Church
o Protestantism
+ Early Protestantism
# Pre-Lutheran Protestants
* Hussites
o Moravians
o Taborites
o Unity of the Brethren
o Utraquists
* Lollards
* Waldensians
# Puritans
* Hebrew Christians
+ High Protestantism
# Anglican Communion
* Continuing Anglican Movement
# Calvinist sects
* Presbyterian
* Reformed
# Lutherans
+ Low Protestantism
# Baptists (from the Calvinists)
# Methodists (from the Anglicans)
# Radical Low Protestantism
* Anabaptists
o Amish
o Hutterites
+ Bruderhof Communities
o Mennonites
* Apostolic Churches
* Brethren Denominations
o Church of the United Brethren in Christ
o Plymouth Brethren
o River Brethren
o Schwarzenau Brethren
o Social Brethren
* Evangelicalism
o Salvation Army
* Pentecostals and Charismatic
o Oneness Pentecostalism
+ True Jesus Church
* Pietists and Holiness Churches
* Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
+ Restorationism
# Adventism
# Christadelphians
# Iglesia ni Cristo
# Jehovah's Witnesses
# Latter Day Saints or Mormons
* Aaronic Order
* Apostolic United Brethren
* Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
* Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
* Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
* Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
* Community of Christ
* Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Restoration Church of Jesus Christ
* Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Restored Church of Jesus Christ
* Sons Aumen Israel
* True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
# Millerites
* Seventh-day Adventist
# Restoration movement (Campbell)
* Churches of Christ
o Swedenborgianism
Gnosticism
* Christian Gnosticism
o Ebionites
o Cerdonians
+ Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
o Colorbasians
o Simonians
* Early Gnosticism
o Borborites
o Cainites
o Carpocratians
o Ophites
* Hermeticism
* Medieval Gnosticism
o Cathars
o Bogomils
o Paulicianism
* Persian Gnosticism
o Mandaeanism
o Manichaeism
+ Bagnolians
* Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
o Sethians
+ Basilidians
+ Thomasines
+ Valentinians
# Bardesanites
Islam
* Ghulat including
o Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
o Ahmadi
o Druze
o Yazidi
* Kalam Schools
o Ash'ari
o Kalam
o Maturidi
o Murji'ah
o Mu'tazili
* Kharijite
o Ibadi
o Harūriyya
o Azraqi
o Sufri
* Shi'a
o Alawites
o Alevi / Bektashi
o Ismailis
o Jafari
o Mustaali / Bohra
o Zaiddiyah
* Sufism
o Bektashi
o Chishti
o Mevlevi
o Naqshbandi
o Tariqah
o Quadiriyyah
o Suhrawardiyya
o Tijani
* Sunni
o Berailvi
o Deobandi
o Hanafi
o Hanbali
o Madhab
o Maliki
o Mu'tazili
o Shafi'i
o Wahhabi
* Zikri
Judaism
* Contemporary divisions
o Conservative Judaism (Masorti/Conservadox)
+ Union for Traditional Judaism
o Humanistic Judaism (atheistic, not always identified as a religion)
o Karaite Judaism
o Orthodox Judaism
+ Modern Orthodox Judaism
+ Haredi Judaism
+ Hassidic Judaism
o Reconstructionist Judaism (claims Judaism is a culture, not always identified as a religion)
o Reform Judaism
* Historical groups
o Essenes
o Pharisees (became Rabbinic/Orthodox Judaism)
o Sadducees
o Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
+ Ebionites
+ Elkasites
+ Nazarenes
o Zealots
+ Sicarii
Samaritanism
Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, including major religions of historical India and religions descended from them.
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
(see Schools of Buddhism)
* Mahayana
o Madhyamika
o Nichiren
+ Soka Gakkai
o Pure Land
o Tathagatagarbha
o Tiantai
o Yogacara
o Zen
* Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
o Theravada
+ Amarapura Nikaya
+ Vijja Dhammakaya
+ Mahasthabir Nikaya
+ Ramañña Nikaya
+ Sangharaj Nikaya
+ Siam Nikaya
+ Thai Forest Tradition
+ Thammayut Nikaya
* Vajrayana
o Shingon Buddhism
o Tibetan Buddhism
+ Bön
+ Gelukpa
+ Kagyupa
+ Nyingmapa
+ Sakyapa
# Jonangpa
Hinduism
(see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
* Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
* Lingayatism
* Reform movements
o Arya Samaj
o Brahmo Samaj
* Shaivism
* Shaktism
* Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
o Nyaya
o Purva mimamsa
o Samkhya
o Vaisheshika
o Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
+ Advaita Vedanta
+ Integral Yoga
+ Dvaita Vedanta
o Yoga
+ Ashtanga Yoga
+ Bhakti Yoga
+ Hatha yoga
+ Siddha Yoga
+ Tantric Yoga
* Smartism
* Vaishnavism
o Gaudiya Vaishnavism
+ ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
+ Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
Jainism
* Digambara
* Shvetambara
Sikhism
Is the religion created by the Ten Sikh Gurus and whose current Guru (spiritual leader) is Guru Granth Sahib
* Khalsa
o Nihang
* Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
* Sahajdhari Sikh
Other Dharmic religions
* Panth Religions
o Dadu Panth
o Kabir Panth
o Nirankari
* Other Shramana Religions
o Ajivika
Other revealed religions
Religions with one God, also called classical monotheism
Atenism
Zoroastrianism
* Zurvanism
* Magus (see Three Wise Men)
Mithraism
Manichaeism
Yazdânism
Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct
African Traditional Religion
* Akamba mythology
* Akan mythology
* Ashanti mythology
* Bambuti mythology
* Bushongo mythology
* Dahomey mythology
* Dinka mythology
* Efik mythology
* Igbo mythology
* Isoko mythology
* Khoikhoi mythology
* Lotuko mythology
* Lozi mythology
* Lugbara mythology
* Masai mythology
* Pygmy mythology
* Tumbuka mythology
* Yoruba mythology
* Zulu mythology
European Religion
* Baltic mythology
o Estonian mythology
o Latvian mythology
o Lithuanian mythology
* Celtic mythology
o Gallo-Roman religion
o Irish mythology
o Scottish mythology
o Welsh mythology
* Etruscan mythology
* English mythology
* Finnish mythology
* French mythology
* Germanic paganism
o Anglo-Saxon mythology
o Norse mythology
o Swiss mythology
* Greek religion
o Albanian mythology (Illyrian gods)
o Greek mythology
+ Roman religion
# Roman mythology
# Romanian mythology
o Mystery religions
+ Eleusinian Mysteries
+ Mithraism
+ Pythagoreanism
* Lusitanian mythology
* Slavic mythology
* Spanish mythology
o Basque mythology
o Catalan mythology
Near Eastern religions
* Ancient Egyptian religion
o Atenism
* Ancient Semitic religions
* Mesopotamian mythology
o Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
o Babylonian and Assyrian religion
+ Babylonian mythology
+ Chaldean mythology
o Canaanite mythology
+ Canaanite religion
o Hittite mythology
o Persian mythology
+ Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
o Sumerian mythology
* Turkic mythology
o Tatar mythology
o Tengriism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
Native American religions
* Abenaki mythology
* Blackfoot mythology
* Chickasaw mythology
* Choctaw mythology
* Chippewa mythology
* Creek mythology
* Crow mythology
* Guarani mythology
* Haida mythology
* Ho-Chunk mythology
* Hopi mythology
* Huron mythology
* Inca mythology
* Inuit mythology
* Iroquois mythology
* Kwakiutl mythology
* Lakota mythology
* Leni Lenape mythology
* Mesoamerican mythology
o Aztec mythology
o Maya mythology
o Olmec mythology
* Navaho mythology
* Nootka mythology
* Pawnee mythology
* Salish mythology
* Seneca mythology
* Tsimshian mythology
* Urarina ayahuasca shamanism and animism
* Ute mythology
* Zuni mythology
Pacific religions
* Australian Aboriginal mythology
* Austronesian beliefs
o Balinese mythology
o Javanese beliefs
o Melanesian mythology
o Micronesian mythology
+ Modekngei
+ Nauruan indigenous religion
o Philippine mythology
+ Anito
+ Gabâ
+ Kulam
o Polynesian mythology
+ Hawaiian mythology
+ Maori mythology
# Maori religion
+ Moai
* Chinese mythology
* Japanese mythology
o Shinto
+ Oomoto
Neopagan religions
Reconstructionist Pagan religions
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices
* Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism
* Dievturiba
* Germanic neopaganism
o Ásatrú
o Heathenry
o Odinism
o Theodism
o Wotanism
* Hellenic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)
* Judeo-Paganism
* Kemetic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)
* Romuva
* Stregheria
Syncretic and eclectic Pagan religions
* Church of All Worlds
* Neo-druidism (some eclectic, some reconstructionist)
o Alexandrian Wicca
o Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)
o Faery Wicca
o Feri Tradition
o Gardnerian Wicca
o Seax-Wica
Left-Hand Path religions
Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it
* Dragon Rouge
* Luciferianism
* Satanism
o LaVeyan Satanism
+ Church of Satan
o Order of Nine Angles
* Setianism also spelled Sethianism
o Temple of Set
o The Storm
African diasporic religions
Religions originating but not entirely located in Africa
* African Initiated Church
* Anago
* Batuque
* Candomblé
* Kumina
* Macumba
* Obeah
* Oyotunji
* Quimbanda
* Rastafari Movement
* Santería (Lukumi)
* Umbanda
* Vodou (Haitian mythology)
Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
* Carvaka
* Confucianism
* Deism
* Ethical Culture
* Fellowship of Reason (This organization does not consider itself religious.)
* Kejawen
* Mohism
* Spiritual Humanism
* Selk'nam religion
* Taoism
Syncretic religions
Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same
* Arès Pilgrim Movement
* Bwiti
* Cao Dai
* Church Universal and Triumphant
* Huna
* Konkokyo
* Manichaeism
* Modekngei
* Santo Daime
* Seicho-No-Ie
* Tenrikyo
* Universal Life Church
* Unitarian Universalism
Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances
* Ayahuasca-based beliefs
* Church of the Universe
* Peyotism
* THC Ministry
New religious movements
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings
See list of new religious movements for a list based on other sources
Monotheistic NRMs
* Direct Worship of the Actual God
* The Urantia Book movement
Indigenous NRMs
* Burkhanism
* Cargo cults
* Ghost Dance
* Johnson cult
* Longhouse religion
* Mungiki
* Native American Church
* União do Vegetal
* Vailala Madness
Buddhist-oriented NRMs
* Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
* Hoa Hao
* Jewish Buddhists
* Share International
* Soka Gakkai
* Won Buddhism
Christian-oriented NRMs
* Aaronic Order
* Church of the Lord (Aladura)
* Branch Davidians
* Branhamism
* Body of Christ
* Calvary Chapel
* Christian City Church ("CCC" or "C3i")
* Christian Conventions (aka Two by Twos, The Truth, The Way) and its offshoot Cooneyites
* Catholic Mariavite Church
* Children of God
o The Family International
* Christian and Missionary Alliance
* Christian and Missionary Alliance - Began around 1887, but was not a denomination until 1965.
* Christian Coalition - A movement of right-wing Christians rather than a specific Christian denomination.
* Christian Identity
* Christian Reconstructionism
* Christian Science
o Eschatology
* Church of Christ, Instrumental (Kelleyites)
* Church of the Last Testament
* Concerned Christians
* Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen
* Destiny Church, New Zealand
* Divine Science
* Doukhobor
* Endeavor Academy
* Eternal Grace
* Evangelical Covenant Church of America ("Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant")
* Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA)
* Exclusive Brethren
* Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches
* Foundation for A Course In Miracles
* Grail Movement
* Grace Movement Churches
* Great Commission Association
* Greater Grace World Outreach
* Holiness movement
* Holy Spirit Movement
* House of David
* Indian Shakers
* International Churches of Christ
* Jesus Fellowship Church
* Jesus is Lord Movement
* Jesus Miracle Crusade
* Jesus Movement
* Kardecist Spiritism
* Legio Maria
* Love Holy Trinity Blessed Mission
* Love Israel
* Lumpa Church
* Mama Tata
* Members Church of God International
* Metropolitan Community Churches
* Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
* New Frontiers (formerly New Frontiers International)
* Peoples Temple
* Process Church of the Final Judgement
* Schwenkfelder Church
* Spirit-Spirit Sect
* The Way International
* Understanding Principles for Better Living Church
* Unification Church
* Westboro Baptist Church
Hindu-oriented NRMs
* Ananda Marga
* Brahma Kumaris
* Divine Light Mission
* Eckankar
* Osho/Rajneeshism
* Oneness University
* Sahaja Yoga
* Sai Baba/Sathya Sai Organisation
* Sant Mat
* Savitri Era
* Self-Realization Fellowship
* Swaminarayan
* Transcendental Meditation
* Vedanta Society
Islam-rooted NRMs
* Dances of Universal Peace
* Ha-Mim's religion
* Fourth Way
* Moorish Science Temple of America
* Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
o Nation of Gods and Earths
+ Faradian Islam
* Subud
* Universal Sufism
Judaism-oriented NRMs
* House of Yahweh
* Black Hebrews
Chinese-oriented NRMs
* Falun Gong ("Dharma Wheel Work," a qigong meditation group)
* Way of Former Heaven sects, including
o Daoyuan ("Sanctuary of the Tao"),
o I-Kuan Tao ("Way of Unity"),
o T'ung-shan She ("Society of Goodness"),
o Tien-te Sheng-chiao ("Sacred Religion of Celestial Virtue"),
o Tz'u-hui Tang ("Compassion Society").
Filipino-oriented NRMs
* Pulajans
* Union Espiritista Cristiana de Filipinas, Inc.
Japanese-rooted NRMs
* Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
* Church of World Messianity
* Ho No Hana
* Johrei (Johrei Movement - Sekai Kyusei Kyo Izunome Kyodan)
* Kofuku no Kagaku
* Makuya
* Pana Wave
* Reiki
* Seicho no Ie
* Shinreikyo
* Soka Gakkai
* Sukyo Mahikari
* Tenrikyo
Korean-oriented NRMs
* Chondogyo
* Jeung San Do
Malaysian-oriented NRMs
* Sky Kingdom
Indonesian-oriented NRMs
* Parmalim
* Kejawen
* Kaharingan
Vietnamese-oriented NRMs
* Cao Dai
* Hoa Hao
* Quan Yin Method
Western magical / esoteric groups
* Agni Yoga
* Association for Research and Enlightenment
* Church Universal and Triumphant
* Eckankar
* Gurdjieff Work
* Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
* Kardecist Spiritism
* Order of the Solar Temple
* Process Church of the Final Judgement
* Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
* Spiritualism
* Thelema
o Argenteum Astrum
o Fraternitas Saturni
o Ordo Templi Orientis
o Ordo Templi Orientis (Typhonian)
* Theosophy
White-supremacist religions
* Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations)
* Kingdom Identity Ministries
* Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
* LaPorte Church of Christ
* World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)
Black-supremacist religions
* Nation of Yahweh
* Nuwaubianism
* Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
o Nation of Gods and Earths
+ Faradian Islam
* Subud
Alien-based religions
* Aetherius Society
* Chen Tao
* Heaven's Gate
* Raelism
* Scientology
o Church of Scientology
+ Free Zone (Scientology)
* Universe people
* Unarius Academy of Science
Other NRMs
* Antoinism
* Breatharianism (Air cult)
* Dievturība
* Digitalism
* Elan Vital
* Faithists of Kosmon
* Join Me/Karma Army
* Kenja
* Koreshanity
* Process Church of the Final Judgment
* Silva Mind Control
* Summum
* Church of Synanon
* The Brethren
* World Pantheist Movement
* Zendik farm
Parody or mock religions
Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general
* Church of Emacs
* Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
* Church of the SubGenius (The cult of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs)
* Church of Last Thursday of Queen Maeve
* Fictional religions turned Parody
o Bokononism
o Jedi census movement
o Iglesia Maradoniana (The cult of former Argentinian soccer player Diego Maradona)
* Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism)
* Invisible Pink Unicorn
* Kibology
* Landover Baptist Church
* McMahonism
Other religions or belief systems
* Ancestor worship
* Animism
* Discordianism
* Ditheism (Dualism)
o Monolatrism
* Legalism
* Maltheism
* Monism
* Monotheism
* Mystery religion
* Non-theistic belief system
o Humanism
+ Secular Humanism
o Objectivism
o Rationalism
* Omnism
* Pandeism
* Panendeism
* Panentheism
* Pantheism
o Cosmotheism
* Polytheism
o Henotheism
o Kathenotheism
o Polydeism
* Psychonautics
* Shamanism
* Suitheism
* Totemism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements and practices
Esotericism
* Alchemy
* Anthroposophy
* Astrology
* Divination
* Esoteric Christianity
* Numerology
* Occultism
* Rosicrucian
o Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
o Confraternity of the Rose Cross
o Rosicrucian Fellowship
* Surat Shabda Yoga
Mysticism
* Christian mysticism
* Dark Spirituality
* Hindu mysticism
o Tantra
+ Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
* Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
o Kabbalah Centre
* Martinism
* Merkabah (also part of Judaism)
* Meher Baba
Magic (religion)
* Feng Shui
* Hoodoo (Rootwork)
o New Orleans Voodoo
* Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
* Magick
o Chaos magic
o Enochian magic
o Goetia
* Pow-wow
* Seid (shamanic magic)
* Tarot
* Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
* Witchcraft
Organizations promoting Ecumenism
* Dances of Universal Peace
* Interreligious organisations
o Focolare Movement
o Humanity's Team
* Subud
Non-belief systems (lack of religion)
* Agnosticism
* Atheism
o Strong atheism
o Weak atheism
