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Abrahamic religions
Babism[edit]
Main article: Bábism
Azali
Bahá'í Faith[edit]
Main article: Bahá'í Faith
See also: Bahá'í divisions
Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant
Orthodox Bahá'í Faith
Christianity[edit]
Main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations
Western Christianity
Main article: Roman Catholic Church
Main article: Protestantism
Anabaptists
Anglicanism
Baptists
Calvinism
Congregational churches
Lutheranism
Methodism
Moravians
Nonconformism
Pentecostalism
Pietism
Presbyterianism
Quakerism
Waldensians
Eastern Christianity
Ancient Church of the East
Assyrian Church of the East
Eastern Catholics (In full communion with Rome, but retaining a diverse array of Eastern liturgical rites; including the Maronites and Chaldean Catholics)
Eastern Orthodox Church (Includes the Greek Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox, and several other autocephalous churches and Patriarchates)
Russian Orthodox Old Believers
Eastern Orthodox Old Calendarists
Oriental Orthodox (Includes the Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Syriac Orthodox, as well as a portion of the St. Thomas Christians)
Other groups related to Christianity[edit]
Some of these groups consider themselves to be Christian, or to be derived from Christianity, but they are considered heterodox or heretical by mainstream Christianity. Some of them are no longer extant.
Arianism
Christadelphians
Christian Gnosticism
Christian Identity
Christian Science
Christian Universalism
Ebionites (no longer extant)
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesuism
Latter Day Saint movement
Millerites
Nontrinitarianism
Messianic Judaism
Marcionism (no longer extant)
Rastafarianism
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Spiritual Baptists
Swedenborgianism
The Aquarian Church
Unification Church
Unitarianism (see also Unitarian Universalism)
Gnosticism[edit]
Many Gnostic groups were closely related to early Christianity, for example, Valentinism. Irenaeus of Lyons wrote polemics against them from the standpoint of the then-unified Catholic Church.[7]
Main article: Gnosticism
See also: List of Gnostic sects
Cerdonians (no longer extant)
Colorbasians (no longer extant)
Simonians (no longer extant)
Bogomils (no longer extant)
Cathars (no longer extant)
The Yazidis are a syncretic Kurdish religion with a Gnostic influence:
Yazidism
Persian Gnosticism
Mandaeanism
Manichaeism (no longer extant)
Bagnolians (no longer extant)
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
None of these religions are still extant.
Main article: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Sethians
Basilidians
Valentinians
Bardesanite
Neo-Gnostic Groups
Ecclesia Gnostica
Islam[edit]
Main article: Islam
See also: Islamic schools and branches
Kalam Schools
Main article: Kalam
Ash'ari
Kalam
Maturidi
Murji'ah
Mu'tazili
Kharijite
Main article: Kharijite
Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
Azraqi
Haruriyya
Sufri
Shia Islam
Main article: Shia Islam
Ismailism
Mustaali / Bohra
Nizari
Jafari
Twelvers
Akhbari
Shaykhi
Usuli
Alawites
Alevi / Bektashi
Zaidiyyah
Sufism
Main article: Sufism
Bektashi
Chishti
Mevlevi
Mujaddediyah
Naqshbandi
Jahriyya
Khufiyya
Nimatullahi
Tariqah
Quadiriyyah
Sufi Order International
Sufism Reoriented
Suhrawardiyya
Tijani
Universal Sufism
Dances of Universal Peace
Sunni Islam
Main article: Sunni Islam
Hanafi
Barelvi
Deobandi
Gedimu
Yihewani
Xidaotang
Hanbali
Maliki
Shafi'i
Ahl-e Hadith or Salafi
Quraniyoon
Main article: Quranism
Ahle Quran
Tolu-e-Islam
United Submitters International
Black Muslims
Main article: Black Muslims
American Society of Muslims
Five-Percent Nation
Moorish Orthodox Church of America
Moorish Science Temple of America
Nation of Islam
United Nation of Islam
Ahmadiyya
Main article: Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
Other Islamic groups
Ahl-e Haqq or Yarsan
Al-Fatiha Foundation
Canadian Muslim Union
European Islam
Ittifaq al-Muslimin
Jamaat al Muslimeen
Jadid
Liberal Muslims
Muslim Canadian Congress
Mahdavia
Gohar Shahi
Messiah Foundation International
International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam
Progressive British Muslims
Progressive Muslim Union
Wahabi
Zikri
Religions related to Islam[edit]
These religions are either descended from Sufi Islam, or consider themselves Islamic, but are regarded as heretical or heterodox by other Muslims.
Sufi and Shia Sects[edit]
Alevi
Bektashi
Moorish Orthodox Church of America
Druze[edit]
Main article: Druze
Judaism and Related Religions[edit]
Main article: Judaism
See also: Jewish Denominations
Rabbinic Judaism
Main article: Rabbinic Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
Haredi Judaism
Hasidic Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Conservative Judaism
Masorti
Conservadox Judaism
Union for Traditional Judaism
Reform Judaism
Progressive Judaism
Liberal Judaism
Karaite Judaism
Main article: Karaite Judaism
Samaritanism
Samaritans use a slightly different version of the Pentateuch as their Torah, worshiping at Mount Gerizim instead of Jerusalem, and are possibly the descendants of the lost Northern Kingdom. They are definitely of ancient Israelite origin, but their status as Jews is disputed.[8]
Main article: Samaritanism
Falasha or Beta Israel
Modern Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Alternative Judaism
Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
Jewish Renewal
Reconstructionist Judaism
Historical groups
Essenes
Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism)
Zealots
Sicarii
Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
Ebionites
Elkasites
Nazarenes
Sabbateans
Frankists
Black Hebrew Israelites[edit]
Main article: Black Hebrew Israelites
Rastafari movement[edit]
Main article: Rastafari movement
Mandaeans and Sabians[edit]
Main articles: Mandaeism and Sabians
Mandaeism
Sabians
Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans
Sabians of Harran
Shabakism[edit]
Main article: Shabak people
Indian religions[edit]
Main article: Indian religions
Indian religions religions are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.
Ayyavazhi[edit]
Main article: Ayyavazhi
Bhakti movement[edit]
Main article: Bhakti movement
Kabir Panth
Ravidassia Religion
Sant Mat
Buddhism[edit]
Main article: Schools of Buddhism
Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
Theravada
Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
Burmese Thudhamma Nikaya
Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
Burmese Shwekyin Nikaya
Burmese Dvaya Nikaya
Thai Maha Nikaya
Dhammakaya Movement
Thai Thammayut Nikaya
Thai Forest Tradition
Tradition of Ajahn Chah
Mahayana
Humanistic Buddhism
Madhyamaka
Prāsangika
Svatantrika
Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
Sanron
Jonangpa(Maha-Madhyamaka)
Nichiren
Nichiren Shū
Nichiren Shōshū
Nipponzan Myōhōji
Soka Gakkai
Pure Land
Jodo Shu
Jodo Shinshu
Tathagatagarbha
Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
Huayan school (Avataṃsaka)
Hwaeom
Kegon
Tiantai
Tendai
Cheontae
Yogācāra
Cittamatra in Tibet
Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
Beopsang
Hossō
Zen (also known as Seon, Thien or Chan)
Caodong
Sōtō
Keizan line
Jakuen line
Giin line
Linji
Rinzai
Ōbaku
Fuke Zen
Won Buddhism or Korean Reformed Buddhism
Kwan Um School of Zen
Sanbo Kyodan
Vajrayana
Shingon Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Bön
Gelukpa
Kagyupa
Dagpo Kagyu
Karma Kagyu
Barom Kagyu
Drukpa Kagyu
Shangpa Kagyu
Nyingmapa
Sakyapa
Jonangpa
New Buddhist movements
Shambhala Buddhism
Diamond Way
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
New Kadampa Tradition[9]
Share International
True Buddha School
Vipassana movement
The Osho or Rajneesh movement
Global Variants of Buddhism
Buddhism in the United States
Din-i-Ilahi[edit]
Din-i-Ilahi
Hinduism[edit]
See also: Hindu denominations
Swaminarayan
Shrauta
Lingayatism
Shaivism
Shaktism
Tantrism
Ananda Marga[10]
Smartism
Vaishnavism
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
ISKCON (Hare Krishna)[11]
Hindu reform movements
Arya Samaj[12]
Brahmo Samaj
Ramakrishna Mission
Satya Dharma
Satsang of Thakur Anukulchandra
Matua Mahasangha
Hinduism in Indonesia
Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
Main article: Hindu philosophy
Nyaya
Purva mimamsa
Samkhya
Vaisheshika
Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
Advaita Vedanta
Integral Yoga
Vishishtadvaita
Dvaita Vedanta
Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga
Bhakti Yoga
Raja yoga
Karma yoga
Jnana yoga
Kundalini yoga
Hatha yoga
Siddha Yoga
Surat Shabd Yoga
Tantric Yoga
Sahaja Yoga
Jainism[edit]
Main article: Jainism
Digambara
Bisapanthi[13]
Digambar Terapanth
Kanji Panth[13]
Taran Panth
Shvetambara
Murtipujaka or Deravasi
Sthanakvasi
Svetambar Terapanth
Meivazhi[edit]
Meivazhi
Sikhi[edit]
Main article: Sikhi
Amritdhari original Sikhs
Khalsa
Nihang
Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
Ravidasi
Sahajdhari Sikh
Iranian religions[edit]
Main article: Iranian religions
Zoroastrianism[edit]
Main article: Zoroastrianism
Zurvanism
Mazdakism
Khurramites (syncretism with Shi'a Islam)
Behafaridians
Gnostic religions[edit]
Mandaeism
Manichaeism
Mithraism
Bábí movement[edit]
Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Azali
Yazdânism[edit]
Main article: Yazdânism
Alevi (this is contested; most Alevi consider themselves to be Shia or Sufi Muslims, but a minority adhere to the Yazdani interpretation)
Yarsani
Yazidi
East Asian religions[edit]
Main article: East Asian religions
Confucianism[edit]
Main article: Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism
New Confucianism
Shinto[edit]
Main articles: Shinto and Shinto sects and schools
Koshintō
Shugendō
Yoshida Shintō
Shinto-inspired religions[edit]
Konkokyo
Oomoto
Seicho-no-Ie
Shinmei Aishinkai
Tenrikyo (renounced classification as Shinto sect)
Zenrinkyo
Taoism[edit]
Main article: Taoism
Wudoumi Taoism ("Way of the Five Pecks of Rice")
Tianshi Taoism ("Way of the Celestial Masters")
Zhengyi Taoism ("Way of the Right Oneness")
Taiping Taoism ("Way of the Great Peace")
Shangqing Taoism ("School of the Highest Clarity")
Lingbao Taoism ("School of the Numinous Treasure")
Quanzhen Taoism ("Way of the Fulfilled Virtue")
Longmen Taoism ("Dragon Gate")
Wuliu Taoism ("School of Wu-Liu")
Yao Taoism (Meishanism)
Faism (Redhead Taoism)
Xuanxue (Neo-Taoism)
Contemporary Taoism-inspired religions[edit]
Yiguandao
Dudeism
Zenarchy
Other[edit]
Chinese[edit]
Chan Buddhism
Chinese folk religion
Falun Gong
Yiguandao (I Kuan-Tao)
Mohism
Xiantiandao
Korean[edit]
Chondogyo
Daejongism
Daesun Jinrihoe
Gasin faith
Jeung San Do
Juche
Sinism (or Muism)
Suwunism
Vietnamese[edit]
Cao Đài
Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương
Đạo Dừa
Đạo Mẫu
Hòa Hảo
African diasporic religions[edit]
See also: African diasporic religions
African diasporic religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.
Batuque
Candomblé
Dahomey mythology
Haitian mythology
Kumina
Macumba
Mami Wata
Obeah
Oyotunji
Palo
Quimbanda
Santería (Lukumi)
Umbanda[14]
Vodou
Indigenous traditional religions[edit]
See also: Paganism and Folk religion
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".
African[edit]
Main article: African traditional religions
West Africa
Akan mythology
Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
Dahomey (Fon) mythology
Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
Central Africa
Bushongo mythology (Congo)
Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
Lugbara mythology (Congo)
East Africa
Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
Dinka mythology (Sudan)
Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
Southern Africa
Khoisan religion
Lozi mythology (Zambia)
Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
Zulu mythology (South Africa)
American[edit]
Main article: Native American mythology
Abenaki mythology
Anishinaabe
Aztec mythology
Blackfoot mythology
Cherokee mythology
Chickasaw mythology
Choctaw mythology
Creek mythology
Crow mythology
Ghost Dance
Guarani mythology
Haida mythology
Ho-Chunk mythology (aka: Winnebago)
Hopi mythology
Inca mythology
Indian Shaker Church
Inuit mythology
Iroquois mythology
Keetoowah Nighthawk Society
Kuksu
Kwakiutl mythology
Lakota mythology
Leni Lenape mythology
Longhouse religion
Mapuche mythology
Maya mythology
Midewiwin
Miwok
Native American Church
Navajo mythology
Nootka mythology
Ohlone mythology
Olmec mythology
Pomo mythology
Pawnee mythology
Salish mythology
Selk'nam religion
Seneca mythology
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Sun Dance
Tsimshian mythology
Urarina
Ute mythology
Wyandot religion
Zuni mythology
Eurasian[edit]
Asian
Benzhuism (indigenous religion of the Bai people)
Bimoism (indigenous religion of the Yi people)
Bon (indigenous religion of Tibet)
Chinese mythology
Japanese mythology
Korean shamanism
Koshintō
Manchu Shamanism
Mun (Lepcha)
Siberian Shamanism
Tengrism
Ua Dab (indigenous religion of the Hmong people)
Vietnamese folk religion
European
Asatru
Estonian mythology
Eskimo religion
Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
Marla faith
Odinism
Hungarian folk religion
Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
Wotanism
Oceania/Pacific[edit]
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Austronesian beliefs
Balinese mythology
Javanese beliefs
Melanesian mythology
Micronesian mythology
Modekngei
Nauruan indigenous religion
Philippine mythology
Anito
Gabâ
Kulam
Polynesian mythology
Hawaiian mythology
Māori mythology
Māori religion
Rapa Nui mythology
Moai
Tangata manu
Cargo cults[edit]
Main article: Cargo cults
John Frum
Johnson cult
Prince Philip Movement
Vailala Madness
Historical polytheism[edit]
Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion
Ancient Near Eastern[edit]
Main article: Ancient Near Eastern religions
Ancient Egyptian religion
Ancient Semitic religions
Canaanite mythology
Canaanite religion
Mesopotamian mythology
Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
Babylonian and Assyrian religion
Babylonian mythology
Chaldean mythology
Sumerian mythology
Indo-European[edit]
Main article: Proto-Indo-European religion
Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
Historical Vedic religion
Iranian mythology
Armenian mythology
Baltic polytheism
Celtic polytheism
Brythonic mythology
Gaelic mythology
Germanic polytheism
Anglo-Saxon religion
Continental Germanic religion
Norse religion
Greek polytheism
Hittite mythology
Persian mythology
Roman polytheism
Slavic polytheism
Hellenistic[edit]
Main article: Hellenistic religion
Mystery religions
Eleusinian Mysteries
Mithraism
Orphism
Pythagoreanism
Gallo-Roman religion
Uralic[edit]
Estonian polytheism
Finnish polytheism
Hungarian polytheism
Mysticism and Occult[edit]
Esotericism and mysticism[edit]
Main articles: Esotericism and Mysticism
Hindu mysticism
Tantra
Vaastu Shastra
Moorish Science Temple of America
Moorish Orthodox Church of America
Neoplatonism
Pythagoreanism
Neopythagoreanism
Theosophy
Sufism
Western mystery tradition[edit]
Hermeticism
Builders of the Adytum
Fraternitas Saturni
Fraternity of the Inner Light
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
Ordo Aurum Solis
Rosicrucian
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis[15]
Rosicrucian Fellowship
Servants of the Light
Thelema[edit]
Main article: Thelema
A∴A∴
Ordo Templi Orientis
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (the ecclesiastical arm of O.T.O.)
Typhonian Order
Christian mysticism and esotericism[edit]
Main articles: Christian mysticism and Esoteric Christianity
Anthroposophy
Archeosophical Society
Behmenism
Christian Kabbalah
Martinism
Occult and magic[edit]
Main articles: Occultism and Magic (paranormal)
Ceremonial magic
Enochian magic
Goetic magic
Chaos magic
Illuminates of Thanateros
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
Hoodoo (Rootwork)
New Orleans Voodoo
Kulam Filipino witchcraft
Pow-wow
Seiðr Norse sorcery
Magick (Thelema)
Wicca
Witchcraft
Neopaganism[edit]
Main article: Paganism (contemporary)
See also: List of Neopagan movements
Syncretic[edit]
Adonism
Church of All Worlds
Church of Aphrodite
Feraferia
Neo-Druidism
Reformed Druids of North America
Neoshamanism
Neo-völkisch movements
Technopaganism
Unitarian Universalist
Ethnic[edit]
Baltic Neopaganism
Celtic Neopaganism
Finnish Neopaganism
Germanic Neopaganism
Hellenic Neopaganism
Kemetism
Roman Neopaganism
Semitic Neopaganism
Slavic Neopaganism
Taaraism
New religious movements[edit]
Main article: List of new religious movements
Creativity
Huna
Native American Church
Raëlism
Scientology
New Thought[edit]
Main article: New Thought
Christian Science
Divine Science
Religious Science
Unity Church
Jewish Science
Seicho-no-Ie
Shinshukyo[edit]
Main article: Japanese new religions
Church of World Messianity
Happy Science
Konkokyo
Oomoto
PL Kyodan
Seicho-No-Ie
Tenrikyo
Left-hand path religions[edit]
Main article: Left-hand path and right-hand path
Satanism
LaVeyan Satanism
Theistic Satanism
Our Lady of Endor Coven (or Ophite Cultus Satanas)
Demonolatry
Luciferianism
Setianism (Temple of Set)
Post-theistic and naturalistic religions[edit]
Discordianism
Ethical Culture
Freethought (e.g. North Texas Church of Freethought)
Jesusism
Naturalistic Pantheism (e.g. World Pantheist Movement)
Secular Humanism
Yoism
Fictional religions[edit]
Main article: List of fictional religions
Parody or mock religions[edit]
Church of Euthanasia
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism)
Church of the SubGenius
Dudeism
Iglesia Maradoniana
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Jediism
Kibology
Landover Baptist Church
Last Thursdayism
Others[edit]
Cult of the Supreme Being
Deism
Eckankar
Fourth Way
Goddess movement
Humanism
The New Message from God
Nuwaubian Nation
Open-source religion
Plurationalism
Spiritism (Spiritualism)
Subud
Unitarian Universalism
Universal Life Church