Religions of the world

Religions, sects and denominations

Abrahamic religions

• Baha'i Faith
  • Orthodox Bahai Faith

• Christianity
  • Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Oriental Orthodoxy
  • Catholicism
  • Protestantism

• Islam
  • Sunni
    • Shafi'i
    • Hanafi
    • Maliki
    • Hanbali
  • Shiite
    • Alawites[?]
    • Ismailis
  • Wahhabi
  • Sufism
  • Nation of Islam

• Judaism
  • Conservative Judaism
  • Orthodox Judaism
    • Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
    • Modern Orthodox Judaism
    • Hasidic Judaism
  • Reconstructionist Judaism
  • Reform Judaism

• Rastafarianism

Other and related

• Deism
• Druzism
• Mandaeanism
• Manichaeism
• Samaritans
• Universal Life Church
• Zoroastrianism

Vedic Religions

• Buddhism
  • Theravada
    • Mahayana
      • Pure Land
      • Zen
        • Nichiren
      • Vajrayana
        • Tantrayana

• Hinduism
  • Vaishnavism[?]
    • Swaminarayan sect[?]
    • Bhakti Movement[?]
      • ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
  • Saivism[?]
  • Saktism[?]
  • Smartism[?]

Note: Yoga is not a religion, but rather a collective term for various spiritual practices and disciplines common to most branches of Hinduism.

• Jainism
• Sikhism

Religions of Far Eastern origin

• Confucianism
• Mohism
• Shinto
• Taoism
• Tenrikyo
• Other -- Caodaism

Other Religions/Spiritual Cultivation

• Spiritualism (Spiritism)
• Unitarian Universalism
• Falun Dafa[?]
• Ringoism[?]

New religious movements and cults

Some of the following groups are considered cults; a few are even considered dangerous by their opponents. Read the entry on cults for more information on this controversial topic.

• ACIM[?] (A Course In Miracles[?])
• Children of God
• Process Church of the Final Judgement
• Raelism
• Scientology
• Thelema

Pagan and polytheistic faiths

• Animism
  • collective term for hundreds or thousands of largely unrelated religions, including the religions of the following ethnic groups: Abenaki, Akamba, Akan, Aleut[?], Ashanti Australian Aborigine, Aztec, Blackfoot, Bushongo, Chippewa, Chukchi[?], Creek, Crow, Dahomey, Dinka, Efik, Evenk[?], Guarani, Haida, Hawaiian, Huron, Ibo, Inuit, Iroquois, Isoko, Khoikhoi, Kwakiutl, Lakota, Leni Lenape, Lotuko, Lugbara, Maori, Micronesian[?], Navaho, Nootka, Pawnee, Polynesian, Pygmy, Salish, Seneca, Tsimshian, Tumbuka, Ute, Winnebago, Yoruba, Yukaghir[?], Zulu, Zuni
• Cargo cults
• Druidism
• Goddess Worship
• Neopaganism
  • Asatru
  • Dievturiba
  • Wicca (Gardnerian Wicca)
    • Dianic Wicca
• Santeria
• Shamanism
• Voudun (Voodoo)
• Satanism
• Temple of Set
• Yezidis

Mysticism

• Christian mysticism[?]
  • Gnosticism
  • Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis[?] (Rosicrucianism)
• Hindu mysticism[?]
  • Tantra / Tantric yoga[?]
• Kabbalah
• Spirituality
• Sufism
• Theosophy

Non-religious, anti-religious or Meta-Religious

• Agnosticism
• Atheism
• Humanism
  • Secular Humanism
  • Religious (Spiritual) Humanism
  • New Humanism
• Panentheism
• Pantheism
• Quantum Pantheism[?]

Mock Religions

• Church of Emacs
• Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
• Church of Dolcett[?]
• Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)
• Jedi
• Kibology

See also: list of people by belief, sacred text, mythology

External Link

• Statistics on religious belief or adherence - http://www.adherents.com