Religions of the world

Religions, sects and denominations

Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible.

Abrahamic religions

• Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)
  • Catholicism
  • Christian Gnosticism
  • Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Monophysite Oriental Orthodoxy
  • Nestorianism
  • Protestantism
    • Anabaptists
    • Anglicans
    • Baptists
    • Lutherans
    • Methodists
    • Pentecostals
    • Reformed
      • Presbyterian
    • Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • Restorationism
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • Mormonism
    • Seventh-day Adventist
• Druzism
• Islam
  • Sunni
    • Berailvi
    • Deobandi
    • Hanafi
    • Hanbali
    • Maliki
    • Mu'tazili
    • Shafi'i
    • Wahhabi
  • Shiite
    • Alawites
    • Ismailis
    • Jafari
    • Zaiddiyah
  • Sufism
  • Nation of Islam
  • Kharijites
    • Ibadis
    • Sufris
  • Ahmadiyya
• Judaism
  • Pre-Rabbinic sects
    • Essenes
    • Hebrew religion
    • Pharisaism
    • Sadducees
  • Rabbinic Judaism
    • Conservative Judaism
    • Orthodox Judaism
      • Haredi Judaism
      • Modern Orthodox Judaism
      • Hasidic Judaism
    • Reconstructionist Judaism
    • Reform Judaism
  • Falasha Judaism
  • Karaite Judaism
• Mandaeanism
• Rastafarianism
• Samaritanism

Dharmic/Indic religions

• Hinduism (see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
  • Vaishnavism
    • Swaminarayan sect
    • Gaudiya Vaishnavism
      • ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
  • Shaivism
  • Shaktism
  • Bhakti (devotional Hinduism)
  • Smartism
  • Hindu Tantra
  • Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
  • Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
    • Samkhya
    • Nyaya
    • Vaisheshika
    • Purva mimamsa
    • Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
      • Advaita Vedanta
      • Integral Yoga
    • Yoga
      • Hatha yoga
      • Siddha Yoga
      • Ashtanga Yoga
• Buddhism (see Schools of Buddhism)
  • Mahayana
  • Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
    • Theravada
  • Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism)
• Jainism
  • Digambara
  • Shvetambara
• Sikhism

Non-Revealed religions

• Brianism
• Confucianism
• Deism
• Fellowship of Reason
• Spiritual Humanism
• Juche and Chondogyo (government personality cults)
• Mohism
• Taoism
• Virus, The Church of

Orisha religions

• Candomblé
• Macumba
• Santería
• Umbanda
• Voudun

Neopagan Religions

• Asatru
• Church of All Worlds
• Dievturiba
• Neo-druidism
• Judeo-Paganism
• Summum
• Wicca
  • Alexandrian Wicca
  • Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)
  • Gardnerian Wicca
  • Seax-Wica
  • Faery Wicca
  • Feri Tradition

Left-hand path religions

• Demonolatry
• Satanism
  • Church of Satan
  • Temple of Set
• Thelema

Alien-based religions

• Raelism
• Scientology
  • Church of Scientology
  • Free Zone
• Urantia, Book of

Spirit-based religions

• Shinto
  • Oomoto
• Spiritualism (Spiritism)
  • Kardecist Spiritism

Syncretic unification religions

• Arès Pilgrim Movement
• Babism
  • Bahá'í Faith
  • Orthodox Bahai Faith
• Cao Dai
• Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
• Huna
• Konkokyo
• Law of One
• Manichaeism
• Unitarian Universalism
• Universal Life Church
• THC Ministry
• Tenrikyo
• Theosophy
• Seicho-No-Ie

Uncategorized religions

• Cargo cults (e.g. Jon Frum)
• Eckankar
• Process Church of the Final Judgement
• Rajneeshism (The Sannyasins)
• Yezidis
• Zoroastrianism

Indigenous and/or tribal religions

• African religions
  • Akamba mythology
  • Akan mythology
  • Ashanti mythology
  • Bushongo mythology
  • Dahomey mythology
  • Dinka mythology
  • Efik mythology
  • Egyptian mythology
  • Isoko mythology
  • Khoikhoi mythology
  • Lotuko mythology
  • Lugbara mythology
  • Pygmy mythology
  • Tumbuka mythology
  • Voudun (Voodoo)
  • Yoruba mythology
  • Zulu mythology
• European religions
  • Anglo-Saxon mythology
  • Basque mythology
  • Chukchi mythology
  • Druidry
  • Finnish mythology
  • Greek religion
    • Greek mythology
    • Hellênismos
    • Roman religion
      • Roman mythology
  • Norse mythology
  • Slavic mythology
• 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
  • Aleut mythology
  • Evenk mythology
  • Inuit mythology
  • Yukaghir mythology
• Oceanic religions
  • Australian Aboriginal mythology
  • Micronesian mythology
  • Maori mythology
  • Modekngei (Republic of Palau)
  • Nauruan indigenous religion
  • Polynesian mythology
  • Tuvaluan mythology

Parody or mock religions

• Bokononism
• Church of Beavis Christ
• Church of Dolcett
• Church of Emacs
• Church of God the Utterly Indifferent
• Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
• Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
• Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)
• The First Church of the Last Laugh
• Invisible Pink Unicorn
• Jedi (The 2001 Census reported more Jedi in England than Sikhs)
• Kibology
• Roshambo
• Shatnerology
• Tapism

Fictional religions

• Alvianism (Sealab 2021)
• Amalgamated Church (Futurama)
• Appliantology (the Frank Zappa album Joe's Garage)
• Avantism (the Harvest of Stars novels by Poul Anderson)
• Bajoran religion (The Way of the Prophets) (Star Trek)
• Bokononism (Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Children of the Son (Star Trek)
• Church of All Worlds (Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein)
• Church of Artifical Intelligence (Otherworld)
• The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent (The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Church of the New Revelation (aka Fosterite Church) (Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein)
• Church of the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams)
• Church of the Shrike (Hyperion by Dan Simmons)
• Church of Trek (Futurama)
• Cthulhu Mythos (H. P. Lovecraft)
• Feeders of Vaal (Star Trek)
• Foundationism (Babylon 5)
• Global Standard Deity (the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde)
• Jedi (Star Wars)
• Klingon religion (Star Trek)
• Mechanoid religion, advocating life after deactivation, in Silicon Heaven (Red Dwarf)
• Mercerism (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick)
• Mind Head (the Steve Martin movie Bowfinger)
• Movementarianism ("The Joy of Sect" episode of The Simpsons)
• "The Necromonger Way" (The Chronicles of Riddick)
• Nugganism (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
• Omnianism (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
• Oprahism (Futurama)
• Robotology (Futurama)
• Selfosophy ("Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" episode of Millennium. Adherents would reject the idea that it was a religion, and that all dissenters would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of, but in full accordance with, the law.)
• Sith (Star Wars)
• Space Catholicism (Futurama)
• Wayism (Andromeda)

Forms of Religion

• Agnosticism
• Animism
• Atheism
• Ditheism (Dualism)
• Generalism
• Henotheism
  • Monolatrism
• Humanism
  • Secular Humanism
• Kathenotheism
• Maltheism
• Monism
• Monotheism
• Panentheism
• Pantheism
  • Cosmotheism
• Polytheism
• Shamanism
• Suitheism
• Universism

Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices

Esotericism

• Alchemy
• Freemasonry
• Gnosticism
• Kabbalah
• Occultism
• Rosicrucian
  • Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
  • Confraternity of the Rose Cross

Mysticism

• Christian mysticism
  • Gnosticism
• Hindu mysticism
  • Tantra
  • Yoga
  • Bhakti
  • Vedanta
• Martinism
• Meditation
• Kabbalah
• Spirituality
• Sufism
• Theosophy

Magic (religion)

• Astrology
• Divination
  • Prophecy
• Exorcism
• Faith healing
• Feng Shui
• Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
• Magick
  • Chaos magick
  • Enochian magick
  • Grimoire magick
  • Goetic magick
• Miracles
• Seid (shamanic magic)
• Witchcraft

Ritualism

• Prayer
• Sacrifice
  • Animal sacrifice
  • Human sacrifice
• Worship

Organizations promoting Ecumenism

• 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