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List of religions and spiritual traditions

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Religious symbols in clock-wise order from top: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baháʼí Faith, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Slavic neopaganism, Celtic polytheism, Heathenism (Germanic paganism), Semitic neopaganism, Wicca, Kemetism (Egyptian paganism), Hellenism (Greek paganism), Italo-Roman neopaganism.

While the word religion is hard to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as a

[…] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.[1]

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws, or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, which at some point in the future will be countless.[2]

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with the words "faith" or "belief system", but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect. Most religions have organized behaviours, including clerical hierarchies, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, congregations of laity, regular meetings or services for the purposes of veneration of a deity or for prayer, holy places (either natural or architectural) or religious texts. Certain religions also have a sacred language often used in liturgical services. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a God or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, rites, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture. Religious beliefs have also been used to explain parapsychological phenomena such as out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences and reincarnation, along with many other paranormal and supernatural experiences.[3][4]

Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; indigenous religions, which refers to smaller, culture-specific or nation-specific religious groups; and new religious movements, which refers to recently developed faiths.[5] One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings,[6] and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures that are not based upon such systems, or in which these systems are a substantially simpler construct.

Eastern religions

East Asian religions

Religions that originated in East Asia, also known as Taoic religions; namely Taoism, Confucianism, Shenism and Shintoism, and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Confucianism

Main page: Philosophy:Confucianism
  • Confucian churches
    • Holy Confucian Church
    • Indonesian Confucian Church
    • Shanrendao
    • Shengdao
    • Taigu school
    • Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition
    • Xuanyuanism

Shinto

  • Koshintō
  • Yoshida Shintō

Taoism

Main page: Philosophy:Taoism
  • Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
    • Way of the Celestial Masters
      • Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness")
  • Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity")
  • Lingbao School ("School of the Numinous Treasure")
  • Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue")
    • Dragon Gate Taoism
  • Wuliupai ("School of Wu-Liu")
  • Yao Taoism (a.k.a. "Meishanism")
  • Faism (a.k.a. "Redhead Taoism")
  • Xuanxue (a.k.a. "Neo-Taoism")

Other

Chinese
  • Benzhuism
  • Chinese folk religion
    • Northeast China folk religion
  • Chinese salvationist religions
  • Luoism
  • Mohism
  • Nuo folk religion
  • Wang Hao-te
  • Xiantiandao
  • Yao folk religion
  • Yiguandao
  • Zhuang Shigongism
Japanese
  • Ryukyuan religion
  • Shugendō
Korean
Vietnamese
  • Đạo Mẫu
  • Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương
  • Đạo Dừa
  • Caodaism
  • Hòa Hảo

Indian religions

The three main religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Buddhism

  • Mahayana
    • Tiantai
      • Tendai
      • Cheontae
    • Buddha-nature
      • Daśabhūmikā
      • Huayan school
        • Hwaeom
        • Kegon
    • Chan Buddhism
  • Seon Buddhism
      • Caodong school
      • Zen
        • Sōtō
          • Keizan line
          • Jakuen line
          • Giin line
      • Linji school
        • Rinzai school
        • Ōbaku
        • Fuke-shū
        • Won Buddhism
      • Kwan Um School of Zen
      • Sanbo Kyodan
    • Madhyamaka
      • East Asian Mādhyamaka (a.k.a. the "Three Treatise school")
      • Jonang
      • Prasaṅgika
      • Svatantrika
    • Nichiren Buddhism
      • Nichiren Shōshū
      • Nichiren Shū
      • Soka Gakkai
    • Pure Land Buddhism
      • Jōdo Shinshū
      • Jōdo-shū
    • Yogācāra
      • East Asian Yogācāra
  • Nikaya Buddhism (incorrectly called "Hinayana" in the West)
    • Humanistic Buddhism
    • Theravada
      • Sangharaj Nikaya (Bangladesh)
      • Mahasthabir Nikaya (Bangladesh)
      • Dwara Nikaya (Burma)
      • Shwegyin Nikaya (Burma)
      • Thudhamma Nikaya (Burma)
        • Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
      • Amarapura Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Ramañña Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Siam Nikaya (Sri Lanka)
      • Dhammayuttika Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Thai Forest Tradition
          • Tradition of Ajahn Chah
      • Maha Nikaya (Thailand)
        • Dhammakaya Movement
    • Vipassana movement
  • Vajrayana
    • Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
    • Newar Buddhism (Nepal)
    • Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
    • Shingon Buddhism
    • Tantric Theravada
    • Tendai Buddhism
    • Tibetan Buddhism
      • Bon (Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal)
      • Gelug
      • Kagyu
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Barom Kagyu
          • Drukpa Lineage
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingma
      • Sakya
      • Jonang
      • Bodongpa
      • Rimé movement
  • Navayana (India; also called Neo-Buddhism or Ambedkarite Buddhism)
    • Dalit Buddhist movement
  • Kirat Mundhum (Nepal)
Neo-Buddhism
Main page: Philosophy:Buddhist modernism
  • Dalit Buddhist movement
  • Shambhala Buddhism
  • Diamond Way Buddhism
  • Triratna Buddhist Community
  • New Kadampa Tradition[7]
  • Share International
  • True Buddha School
    • Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga
  • Hòa Hảo

Hinduism

Bhakti movements
Hindu philosophy schools
Main page: Philosophy:Hindu philosophy
Yoga
Main page: Philosophy:Yoga
Neo Vedanta Movements
  • Ananda
  • Ananda Ashrama
  • Ananda Marga[13]
  • Anandamayee Sangha
  • Arya Samaj[14]
  • Brahma Kumaris
  • Chinmaya Mission
  • Hindutva
  • Mahima Dharma
  • Matua Mahasangha
  • Narayana Dharm
  • Oneness Movement
  • Ramakrishna Mission (Vedanta Society)
  • Satsang
  • Sathya Sai Baba movement
  • Satya Dharma
  • Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres
  • Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Sri Ramana Ashram

Jainism

Main page: Philosophy:Jainism
  • Digambara
    • Bispanthi[15]
    • Digambar Terapanth
    • Kanji Panth[15]
    • Taran Panth
  • Śvētāmbara
    • Murtipujaka
    • Sthānakavāsī
    • Svetambar Terapanth

Sikhism

Middle Eastern religions

Religions that originated in the Middle East; namely Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and religions and traditions related to, and descended from them.

Abrahamic religions

Bábism

  • Bábism
    • Azali
  • Baháʼí Faith
    • Baháʼís Under the Provisions of the Covenant
    • Caravan of East and West
    • Free Baháʼís
    • Orthodox Baháʼí Faith

Christianity

Eastern Christianity
  • Church of the East (incorrectly called "Nestorianism")
    • Ancient Church of the East
    • Assyrian Church of the East
      • Chaldean Syrian Church
    • Chaldean Catholic Church
  • Eastern Catholic Churches
    • Albanian Greek Catholic Church
    • Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
    • Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
    • Byzantine Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
    • Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
    • Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church
    • Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Italo-Greek Catholic Church")
    • Macedonian Catholic Church
    • Melkite Greek Catholic Church
    • Romanian Catholic Church
    • Russian Greek Catholic Church
    • Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Byzantine Catholic Church" in the United States)
    • Slovak Greek Catholic Church
    • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
    • Chaldean Catholic Church
    • Syriac Catholic Church
    • Maronite Church
    • Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
    • Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
    • (Independent Eastern Catholic Churches)
      • Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church
  • Eastern Orthodox Church (officially the "Orthodox Catholic Church")
    • Greek Orthodox Church
    • Serbian Orthodox Church
    • Russian Orthodox Church
    • Romanian Orthodox Church
    • Bulgarian Orthodox Church
    • Georgian Orthodox Church
    • Albanian Orthodox Church
    • Ukrainian Orthodox Church
    • (Noncanonical/Independent Eastern Orthodox Churches)
      • Greek Old Calendarists (a.k.a. "Genuine Orthodox" or "True Orthodox")
      • Russian Old Believers (a.k.a. "Old Ritualists")
        • Bezpopovtsy
        • Popovtsy
  • Oriental Orthodox Churches (a.k.a. "Non-Chalcedonian" or "Miaphysite"/"Monophysite")
    • Armenian Apostolic Church
    • Coptic Orthodox Church
    • Syriac Orthodox Church
      • Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church (of the St. Thomas Christians in India)
    • Ethiopian Orthodox Church
    • Eritrean Orthodox Church
    • Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (of the St. Thomas Christians in India)
  • Spiritual Christianity
    • Doukhobor
    • Khlyst
    • Molokan
    • Skoptsy
Western Christianity
  • Proto-Protestantism
    • Brethren of the Free Spirit (Historical)
    • Hussites (Historical)
      • Czech Brethren
      • Moravians
    • Strigolniki (Historical)
    • Waldensians
  • Protestantism
    • Anabaptists (Radical Protestants)
      • Amish
      • Hutterites
      • Mennonites
      • River Brethren
      • Schwarzenau Brethren
      • Shakers
    • Anglicanism
      • Anglo-Catholicism
      • Broad church
      • Continuing Anglican movement
      • English Dissenters
        • Nonconformists
      • High church
      • Low church
      • Open Evangelicals
      • Puritans
    • Baptists
      • General Baptists
        • Free Will Baptists
      • Landmarkism
      • Missionary Baptists
      • Primitive Baptists
      • Strict Baptists
        • Reformed Baptists
    • Black church
      • Black theology
    • Christian deism
    • Confessing Movement
    • Evangelicalism
      • Charismatic movement
      • Dispensationalist Christian Zionism
      • Emerging church
      • German Christians (movement)
      • Neo-charismatic movement
      • Neo-Evangelicalism
      • Plymouth Brethren
        • Exclusive Brethren
        • Open Brethren
      • Progressive Christianity
      • Protestant fundamentalism
    • Jesuism
    • Lollardy (Historical)
    • Lutheranism
      • Laestadianism
      • Pietism
    • Methodism
      • Calvinistic Methodists
      • Holiness movement
        • Church of the Nazarene
      • The Salvation Army
      • Wesleyanism
    • Pentecostalism
      • Church of God
      • Latter Rain movement
      • Word of Faith
    • Quakers ("Friends")
    • Reformed churches
      • Amyraldism (a.k.a."four-point Calvinism")
      • Arminianism
        • Remonstrants
      • Calvinism
      • Christian Reconstructionism
      • Congregational churches
      • Continental Reformed churches
        • Swiss Reformed
        • Dutch Reformed
        • French Huguenot
      • Neo-Calvinism
      • Presbyterianism
      • Zwinglianism (Historical)
    • Restoration movement
      • Adventism
        • Branch Davidians
        • Seventh-day Adventist Church
      • Christadelphians
      • Christian Science
      • Churches of Christ
      • Iglesia ni Cristo
      • Bible Student movement
        • Jehovah's Witnesses
        • Free Bible Students
        • Friends of Man
      • Latter Day Saint movement
        • Mormon fundamentalism
        • Community of Christ
      • Millerism (Historical)
      • Stone-Campbell movement (a.k.a. "Campbellites")
    • Swedenborgianism (a.k.a. "The New Church")
    • Unitarianism
    • Unity Church
  • Roman Catholic Church/Latin Church (a.k.a. "Roman Catholicism" or "Catholicism")
    • Affirming Catholicism
    • Anglican Ordinariate Catholics
    • Breakaway Catholics
    • Charismatic Catholics
    • Civil Constitution of the Clergy
    • Gallicanism
    • Hebrew Catholics
    • Independent Catholic churches
      • Old Catholic Church (Union of Utrecht)
        • Polish National Catholic Church (Union of Scranton)
    • Liberal Catholicism
    • Liberation theology
    • Modernist Catholics
    • Traditionalist Catholics
      • Sedevacantism
        • Palmarian Catholic Church
    • Ultramontanism
Other

Certain Christian groups difficult to classify as "Eastern" or "Western." Many Gnostic groups were closely related to early Christianity, for example, Valentinism. Irenaeus wrote polemics against them from the standpoint of the then-unified Catholic Church.[16]

  • Arianism (Historical)
  • Bagnolians (Historical)
  • Bogomilism (Historical)
  • Bosnian Church (Historical)
  • Catharism (Historical)
  • Cerdonians (Historical)
  • Esoteric Christianity
    • Behmenism
    • Christian Kabbalah
    • Martinism
  • Christian Universalism
  • Christopaganism
    • Christian Wicca
  • Eastern Lightning
  • Ecclesia Gnostica
  • Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
  • God Worshipping Society (Historical)
  • Judaizers (Judeo-Christian)
    • Hebrew Roots
    • Makuya
    • Messianic Judaism
    • Sacred Name Movement
    • Yehowists
    • Ebionites (Historical)
  • Nondenominational Christianity
  • Nontrinitarianism
    • Unitarianism
    • Bible Student movement
    • Christadelphians
    • Oneness Pentecostalism
    • Spiritual Christianity
    • Tolstoyan movement
  • Marcionism (Historical)
  • Unification Church (Family Federation for World Peace and Unification)
    • World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church
  • Reformed Eastern Christianity
  • Sethianism (Historical)
    • Basilideans (Historical)
    • Valentinianism (Historical)
      • Bardesanite School (Historical)
  • Simonians (Historical)
  • Theosophy

Druze

Main page: Philosophy:Druze

Islam

Khawarij
  • Azraqi (Historical)
  • Haruriyyah (Historical)
  • Ibadi
  • Sufri (Historical)
Shia Islam
  • Alevism
    • Alians
    • Bektashi Order
  • Alawites (Nusayris)
  • Isma'ilism
    • Mustaali
      • Dawoodi Bohra
        • Alavi Bohra
        • Atba-i-Malak
          • Atba-i-Malak Badar
          • Atba-i-Malak Vakil
        • Hebtiahs Bohra
        • Progressive Dawoodi Bohra
      • Sulaymani
    • Nizari
      • Satpanth
  • Twelver
    • Ja'fari jurisprudence
      • Akhbari
      • Shaykhism
      • Usuli
  • Zaidiyyah
    • Jarudiyah
    • Batriyya
  • Khurramites (Historical)
Sufism
  • Bektashi Order
  • Chishti Order
  • Mevlevi Order
  • Naqshbandi
    • Jahriyya
  • Kubrawiya
    • Khufiyya
  • Ni'matullāhī
  • Qadiriyya
  • Shadhili
  • Suhrawardiyya
  • Sufi Order International
  • Tijaniyyah
  • Universal Sufism
Sunni Islam
Other
  • Ahmadiyya
    • Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
  • Al-Fatiha Foundation
  • Ali-Illahism
  • Din-i Ilahi
  • European Islam
  • Ittifaq al-Muslimin
  • Jadid
  • Jamaat al Muslimeen
  • Liberal movements within Islam
    • Muslim Canadian Congress
      • Canadian Muslim Union
    • Progressive British Muslims
    • Progressive Muslim Union
  • Mahdavia
  • Mahdist State
  • Quranism
    • Tolu-e-Islam
    • United Submitters International
  • Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
    • Messiah Foundation International
  • Xidaotang

Judaism

Kabbalah
Main pages: Social:Kabbalah and Social:Jewish mysticism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
  • Haymanot
  • Karaite Judaism
  • Samaritanism
Rabbinic Judaism
  • Conservative Judaism (a.k.a. Masorti Judaism)
  • Humanistic Judaism
  • Jewish Renewal
  • Orthodox Judaism
    • Haredi Judaism (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox)
      • Hardal
      • Hasidic Judaism
      • Misnagdim
      • Sephardic Haredi
    • Modern Orthodox Judaism
      • Religious Zionism
  • Reconstructionist Judaism
  • Reform Judaism
Others
Historical Judaism
  • Essenes
  • Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism) (Historical)
  • Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism) (Historical)
  • Zealots (Judea)
    • Sicarii
  • Messianic sects
    • Ebionites
    • Elcesaites
    • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
  • Second Temple Judaism
  • Frankism

Mandaeism

Main page: Unsolved:Mandaeism
  • Sabians

Iranian religions

Yazdânism

  • Shabakism
  • Yarsanism
  • Yazidi

Zoroastrianism

  • Behafaridians (Historical)
  • Mazdakism (Historical)
  • Zurvanism (Historical)

Indigenous (ethnic, folk) religions

Religions that consist of the traditional customs and beliefs of particular ethnic groups, refined and expanded upon for thousands of years, often lacking formal doctrine.

Note: Some adherents do not consider their ways to be "religion," preferring other cultural terms.

African

Traditional African

  • Akan religion
  • Akamba religion
  • Baluba mythology
  • Bantu mythology
    • Kongo religion
    • Zulu traditional religion
  • Berber religion
  • Bushongo mythology
  • Dinka religion
  • Efik mythology
  • Fon and Ewe religion
  • Odinala / Odinani
  • Ik religion
  • Lotuko mythology
  • Lozi mythology
  • Lugbara mythology
  • Maasai mythology
  • Mbuti mythology
  • San religion
  • Serer religion
  • Tumbuka mythology
  • Urhobo people
  • Waaqeffanna
  • Yoruba religion
    • Ifá

Diasporic African

  • Abakuá
  • Candomblé
    • Candomblé Bantu
    • Candomblé Jejé
    • Candomblé Ketu
  • Comfa
  • Convince
  • Cuban Vodú
  • Dominican Vudú
  • Espiritismo
  • Haitian Vodou
  • Hoodoo
  • Jamaican Maroon religion
    • Kromanti dance
  • Kélé
  • Kumina
  • Louisiana Voodoo
  • Montamentu
  • Myal
  • Obeah
  • Palo
  • Quimbanda
  • Santería
  • Tambor de Mina
  • Trinidad Orisha
  • Umbanda
  • Winti

Altaic

American

  • Abenaki mythology
  • Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
  • Blackfoot mythology
  • Californian religions
    • Miwok mythology
    • Ohlone mythology
    • Pomo religion
  • Cherokee mythology
  • Chilote mythology
  • Choctaw mythology
  • Creek mythology
  • Guarani mythology
  • Haida mythology
  • Ho-Chunk mythology
  • Hopi mythology
  • Inca mythology
  • Iroquois mythology
    • Seneca mythology
    • Wyandot religion
    • Longhouse Religion
  • Jivaroan religion
  • Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology
  • Lakota mythology
  • Lenape mythology
  • Mapuche religion
  • Mesoamerican religion
    • Aztec religion
    • Maya religion
    • Purépecha religion
  • Midewiwin
  • Muisca religion
  • Navajo religion
  • Nuu-chah-nulth mythology
  • Pawnee mythology
  • Powhatan religion
  • Tsimshian mythology
  • Ute mythology
  • Zuni mythology

Austroasiatic

  • Sarnaism
  • Vietnamese folk religion

Austronesian

Indo-European

  • Kalash religion
  • Ossetian religion

Tai and Miao

Main pages: Unsolved:Tai folk religion and Unsolved:Miao folk religion

Tibeto-Burmese

  • Bon
  • Burmese folk religion
  • Benzhuism
  • Bimoism
  • Bathouism
  • Bongthingism
  • Donyi-Polo
  • Heraka
  • Kiratism
  • Qiang folk religion
  • Sanamahism

Uralic

  • Mari Native Religion
  • Mordvin Native Religion
  • Sámi shamanism
  • Udmurt Vos

Other indigenous

New religious movements

Cargo cults

  • John Frum
  • Johnson cult
  • Prince Philip Movement
  • Vailala Madness

New ethnic religions

Black

Rastafari

Main page: Unsolved:Rastafari
  • Bobo Ashanti
  • Nyabinghi
  • Twelve Tribes of Israel

Black Hebrew Israelites

  • African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
  • Church of God and Saints of Christ
  • Commandment Keepers
  • Nation of Yahweh
  • One West Camp
  • Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ
  • Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge

White

Native American

New Hindu derived religions

Japanese new religions

Modern Paganism

Ethnic neopaganism

  • Armenian neopaganism
  • Baltic neopaganism
    • Dievturība
    • Romuva
  • Caucasian neopaganism
    • Abkhaz neopaganism
      • Council of Priests of Abkhazia
    • Vainakh religion
  • Celtic neopaganism
    • Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism
  • Heathenry (a.k.a. Germanic neopaganism)
  • Hellenism
  • Italo-Roman neopaganism
    • Nova Roma
    • Roman Traditional Movement
  • Kemetism
    • Kemetic Orthodoxy
  • Semitic neopaganism
  • Slavic Native Faith (a.k.a. Slavic neopaganism)
    • Native Polish Church
    • Peterburgian Vedism
    • Rodzima Wiara
    • Rodnover Confederation
    • RUNVira (a.k.a. Sylenkoism)
    • Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities
    • Ynglism
  • Uralic neopaganism
    • Estonian neopaganism
    • Finnish neopaganism
    • Hungarian neopaganism
  • Zalmoxianism
  • Zuism

Syncretic neopaganism

  • Adonism
  • Christopaganism
    • Christian Wicca
  • Church of All Worlds
  • Church of Aphrodite
  • Feraferia
  • Goddess movement
  • Huna
  • Ivanovism
  • Neo-Druidism
    • Ár nDraíocht Féin
    • Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids
    • Reformed Druids of North America
  • Neoshamanism
  • Pow-wow
  • Radical Faeries
  • Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
  • Summum
  • Technopaganism
  • Wicca
    • British Traditional Wicca
      • Gardnerian Wicca
      • Alexandrian Wicca
      • Central Valley Wicca
      • Algard Wicca
      • Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca
      • Blue Star Wicca
    • Seax-Wica
    • Universal Eclectic Wicca
    • Celtic Wicca
    • Dianic Wicca
    • Faery Wicca
    • Feri Tradition
    • Georgian Wicca
    • Odyssean Wicca
    • Wiccan church
      • Covenant of the Goddess

Entheogenic religions

Main page: Chemistry:Entheogen

New Age Movement

Main page: Philosophy:New Age

New Thought

Parody religions and fiction-based religions

  • Church of Euthanasia
  • Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (a.k.a. "Pastafarianism")
  • Church of the SubGenius
  • Dinkoism
  • Discordianism
  • Dudeism
  • Iglesia Maradoniana
  • Jediism
  • Kibology
  • Kopimism
  • Landover Baptist Church
  • Last Thursdayism
  • 'Pataphysics
  • Silinism
  • Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
  • United Church of Bacon

Post-theistic and naturalistic religions

Main pages: Philosophy:Post-theism and Philosophy:Religious naturalism

UFO religions

Western esotericism

Other new

Historical religions

Bronze Age

  • Ancient Egyptian religion
    • Atenism
  • Ancient Mesopotamian religion
    • Sumerian religion

Classical antiquity

  • Ancient Semitic religion
  • Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
  • Somali mythology
  • Hurrian religion
  • Urartu religion
  • Luwian religion
  • Etruscan religion
  • Basque mythology
  • Georgian mythology
  • Vainakh religion
  • Proto-Indo-European mythology
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
      • Historical Vedic religion
      • Ancient Iranian religion
        • Mazdaism
  • Hittite mythology and religion
  • Armenian mythology
  • Albanian mythology
  • Thracian religion
  • Ancient Greek Religion
  • Religion in ancient Rome
    • Imperial cult
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References

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  5. ↑ Harvey, Graham (2000). Indigenous Religions: A Companion. (Ed: Graham Harvey). London and New York: Cassell. Page 06.
  6. ↑ Vergote, Antoine, Religion, belief and unbelief: a psychological study, Leuven University Press, 1997, p. 89
  7. ↑ Melton 2003, p. 1112.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Tattwananda, Swami (1984). Vaisnava Sects, Saiva Sects, Mother Worship (1st rev. ed.). Calcutta: Firma KLM Private Ltd.. 
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