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The following is a list of religions and spiritual traditions, however it excludes modern religions, which can be found in list of new religious movements.
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Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Christianity
See List of Christian denominations.
- Arianism
- Catholicism
- Protestantism
- Pre-Lutheran Protestants
- Lutheranism
- Reformed
- Anabaptists
- Methodism
- Pietism and Holiness movement
- Baptists
- Brethren
- Irvingites
- Pentecostalism
- Charismatics
- African Initiated Churches
- United and uniting churches
- Religious Society of Friends
- Restorationism
- Southcottites
- Adventism and Millerites
- British Israelism
- Latter Day Saints
- Nontrinitarian Groups
- Messianic Judaism
- Christian Spiritualism
- Esoteric Christianity
Gnosticism
- Christian Gnosticism
- Ebionites
- Cerdonians
- Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
- Colorbasians
- Simonians
- Early Gnosticism
- Hermeticism
- Medieval Gnosticism
- Persian Gnosticism
- Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Islam
see Divisions of Islam.
- Ghulat including (considered separate religions)
- Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
- Ahmadi
- Druze
- Submission
Judaism
(see also: Jew; Hebrews; Jewish Denominations; Jewish ethnic divisions)
- Contemporary divisions
- Conservative Judaism (Masorti/Conservadox)
- Humanistic Judaism (atheistic, not always identified as a religion)
- Karaite Judaism
- Orthodox Judaism
- Reconstructionist Judaism (regards Jewish identity as primarily cultural, not religious)
- Reform Judaism
- Historical groups
Rastafarianism
Sabians
Samaritanism
Indian religions
Mostly religions that originated in Greater India that share a number of key concepts, namely Dharma and Karma and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
(see 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
- Thai Maha Nikaya
- Thai Thammayut Nikaya
- Thai Forest Tradition
- Theravada
- Mahayana
- Vajrayana
Hinduism
(see also Hindu denominations, Contemporary Hindu movements)
- Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
- Lingayatism
- Reform movements
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Tantrism
- Smartism
- Vaishnavism
- Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
- Hindu revivalism
Jainism
Sikhism
- Khalsa
- Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
- Sahajdhari Sikh
Iranic religions
Religions originating in Greater Iran
Manichaeism
Mazdakism
Yazdânism
Zoroastrianism
- Zurvanism
- Magus (see Three Wise Men)
Taoic/Far Eastern/East Asian religions
Religions originating in east Asia.
Caodaism
Chondogyo
Confucianism
Shinto
Taoism
Yiguandao
Chinese folk religion
African diasporic religions
Religions originating but not entirely located in Africa
- African Initiated Church
- Anago
- Batuque
- Candomblé
- Kumina
- Macumba
- Mami Wata
- Obeah
- Oyotunji
- Quimbanda
- Santería (Lukumi)
- Umbanda
- Vodou (Dahomey mythology)
- Vodou (Haitian mythology)
"Pagan" religions (Historical Polytheism, Indigenous Traditional)
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan" due to common elements of animism, shamanism and polytheism. However in recent times, scholars have begun to dispute this, preferring the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions", "historical polytheism" and "Neo-Paganism". The number of Pagan adherents is difficult to account for, as many followers worship in solitude. Paganism traditionally encompasses all Polytheistic belief systems as well as those spiritual practices that do not have any particular deities.
Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct
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
- Khoikhoi mythology
- Lozi mythology (Zambia)
- Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
- Zulu mythology (South Africa)
Eurasian
- Asian
- Bön (Tibet)
- Siberian Shamanism (Siberia)
- Tengriism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
- European
- Estonian mythology
- Eskimo religion
- Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
- Hungarian folk religion
- Sami religion (including the Noaidi
- Tadibya
Native American religions
- Abenaki mythology
- Blackfoot mythology
- Chickasaw mythology
- Choctaw 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
- Midewiwin
- Navajo mythology
- Nootka mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Salish mythology
- Seneca mythology
- Selk'nam religion
- Tsimshian mythology
- Urarina ayahuasca shamanism and animism
- Ute mythology
- Zuni mythology
Pacific religions
Cargo cults
Religions appearing in Pacific tribal societies in the wake of Western culture.
Historical Polytheism
- Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion
Ancient Near East
Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian religion
- Baltic polytheism
- Celtic polytheism
- Germanic polytheism
- Greek polytheism
- Hungarian polytheism
- Finnish polytheism
- Roman polytheism
- Slavic polytheism
Hellenism
Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements
Spiritualism
New Age
Esotericism
Mysticism
- Christian mysticism
- Hindu mysticism
- Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
- Martinism
- Merkabah (also part of Judaism)
- Meher Baba
- Sufism
Left-Hand Path
Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it
Magic (religion)
- Hoodoo (Rootwork)
- Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
- Magick
- Pow-wow
- Seid (shamanic magic)
- Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
- Witchcraft
Organizations promoting Ecumenism
Systems claiming not to be religions, but which have characteristics of religion
Others
Other categorisations
By demographics
By area
- Further information: Religion geography
- Religion in Africa
- Religion in North America
- Religion in South America
- Religion in Asia
- Religion in Australia
- Religion in Europe
- Oceania / Pacific
- Religion by country
- Buddhism by region
See also
- Major world religions
- List of religious organizations
- Monotheism
- New religious movements
- List of groups referred to as cults
- List of fictional religions
- List of people by belief
- Sacred text
- Mythology
- Civil religion
- Ancestor worship
- Animism
- Ditheism (Dualism)
- Legalism
- Maltheism
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Mystery religion
- Humanism
- Objectivism
- Rationalism
- Pandeism
- Panendeism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
- Polytheism
- Psychonautics
- Shamanism
- Suitheism
- Totemism
- Deism
- Ethical Culture
- Mohism
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