World Religions

Abrahamic religions

A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.



Bábism

Bayani



Bahá'í

Bahá'í Faith



Christianity



Adamites

Brethren of the Free Spirit

Picards

Arianists

Arian Catholicism

Eastern Christianity

Assyrian Church of the East

Nestorianism

Church of the East & Abroad

Armenian Apostolic Church

Eastern Catholicism

Eastern Orthodoxy

Western Orthodoxy

Other Eastern Orthodox Churches

Greek Old Calendarists

Macedonian Orthodox Church

Russian Old Believers

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy

Oriental Orthodoxy (Miaphysitism doctrine, related to Monophysitism)

Antiochian Catholic Church in America

Messianic Judaism (Only identified as Judaism by adherents and Christian missionaries; actually Jewish-rite Christianity)

Western Christianity

Catholicism

Latin Rite (Roman Catholicism)

Catholic Charismatic Renewal

Hebrew catholics

Catholics not in communion with Rome

American Catholic Church in the United States

Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil

Catholic Apostolic Church

Celtic Catholic Church

Charismatic Episcopal Church

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

Free Catholic Church

Liberal Catholic Church

Mariavite Church

Old Catholic Church

Palmarian Catholic Church

Philippine Independent Church

Polish National Catholic Church

Sedevacantism

true Catholic Church

Protestantism

Early Protestantism

Pre-Lutheran Protestants

Hussites

Moravians

Taborites

Unity of the Brethren

Utraquists

Lollards

Waldensians

Puritans

Hebrew Christians

High Protestantism

Anglicanism

Anglican Communion

Continuing Anglican Movement

Calvinist sects

Presbyterian

Reformed

Lutherans

Low Protestantism

Baptists (from the Calvinists)

Methodists (from the Anglicans)

Radical Low Protestantism

Anabaptists

Amish

Hutterites

Bruderhof Communities

Mennonites

Apostolic Churches

Brethren Denominations

Church of the United Brethren in Christ

Plymouth Brethren

River Brethren

Schwarzenau Brethren

Social Brethren

Evangelicalism

Salvation Army

Pentecostals and Charismatic

Oneness Pentecostalism

True Jesus Church

Pietists and Holiness Churches

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Restorationism

Adventism

Christadelphians

Iglesia ni Cristo

Jehovah's Witnesses

Latter Day Saints or Mormons

Aaronic Order

Apostolic United Brethren

Church of Christ (Temple Lot)

Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)

Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)

Church of Christ with the Elijah Message

Community of Christ

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Restoration Church of Jesus Christ

Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Restored Church of Jesus Christ

Sons Aumen Israel

True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days

Millerites

Seventh-day Adventist

Restoration movement (Campbell)

Churches of Christ

Swedenborgianism



Gnosticism



Christian Gnosticism

Ebionites

Cerdonians

Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)

Colorbasians

Simonians

Early Gnosticism

Borborites

Cainites

Carpocratians

Ophites

Hermeticism

Medieval Gnosticism

Cathars

Bogomils

Paulicianism

Persian Gnosticism

Mandaeanism

Manichaeism

Bagnolians

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

Sethians

Basilidians

Thomasines

Valentinians

Bardesanites



Islam



Ghulat including

Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)

Druze (sometimes considered separate)

Yazidi

Kalam Schools

Ash'ari

Kalam

Maturidi

Murji'ah

Mu'tazili

Kharijite

Ibadi

Harūriyya

Azraqi

Sufri

Submission

Shi'a

Alawites

Alevi / Bektashi

Jafari

Mustaali / Bohra

Zaiddiyah

Sufism

Bektashi

Chishti

Mevlevi

Naqshbandi

Tariqah

Quadiriyyah

Suhrawardiyya

Tijani

Sunni

Berailvi

Deobandi

Hanafi

Hanbali

Maliki

Mu'tazili

Shafi'i

Wahhabi

Zikri



Judaism



Contemporary divisions

Conservative Judaism (Masorti/Conservadox)

Union for Traditional Judaism

Humanistic Judaism (atheistic, not always identified as a religion)

Karaite Judaism

Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism

Haredi Judaism

Hasidic Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism (regards Jewish identity as primarily cultural, not religious)

Reform Judaism

Historical groups

Essenes

Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic/Orthodox Judaism)

Sadducees

Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet

Ebionites

Elkasites

Nazarenes

Zealots

Sicarii



Samaritanism






Dharmic religions

Religions with a concept of Dharma, including major religions of historical India and religions descended from them.





Ayyavazhi






Buddhism



Mahayana

Madhyamika

Nichiren

Soka Gakkai

Pure Land

Tathagatagarbha

Tiantai

Yogacara

Zen

Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)

Theravada

Amarapura Nikaya

Vijja Dhammakaya

Mahasthabir Nikaya

Ramañña Nikaya

Sangharaj Nikaya

Siam Nikaya

Thai Forest Tradition

Thammayut Nikaya

Vajrayana

Shingon Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Bön

Gelukpa

Kagyupa

Nyingmapa

Sakyapa

Jonangpa



Hinduism



Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)

Lingayatism

Reform movements

Arya Samaj

Brahmo Samaj

Shaivism

Shaktism

Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy

Nyaya

Purva mimamsa

Samkhya

Vaisheshika

Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)

Advaita Vedanta

Integral Yoga

Dvaita Vedanta

Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga

Bhakti Yoga

Hatha yoga

Siddha Yoga

Tantric Yoga

Smartism

Vaishnavism

Gaudiya Vaishnavism

ISKCON (Hare Krishna)

Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission



Jainism



Digambara

Shvetambara



Sikhism Is the religion created by the Ten Sikh Gurus and whose current Guru (spiritual leader) is Guru Granth Sahib



Khalsa

Nihang

Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs

Sahajdhari Sikh



Other Dharmic religions



Panth Religions

Dadu Panth

Kabir Panth

Nirankari

Other Shramana Religions

Ajivika



Zoroastrianism



Zurvanism

Magus (see Three Wise Men)



Indigenous religions

The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct





African Traditional Religion



Ancient Egyptian religion

Akamba mythology

Akan mythology

Ashanti mythology

Bambuti mythology

Bushongo mythology

Dahomey mythology

Dinka mythology

Efik mythology

Igbo mythology

Isoko mythology

Khoikhoi mythology

Lotuko mythology

Lozi mythology

Lugbara mythology

Masai mythology

Pygmy mythology

Tumbuka mythology

Yoruba mythology

Zulu mythology



European Religion



Baltic mythology

Estonian mythology

Latvian mythology

Lithuanian mythology

Celtic mythology

Gallo-Roman religion

Irish mythology

Scottish mythology

Welsh mythology

Etruscan mythology

English mythology

Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism

French mythology

Germanic paganism

Anglo-Saxon mythology

Norse mythology

Swiss mythology

Greek religion

Albanian mythology (Illyrian gods)

Greek mythology

Roman religion

Roman mythology

Romanian mythology

Mystery religions

Eleusinian Mysteries

Mithraism

Pythagoreanism

Lusitanian mythology

Slavic mythology

Spanish mythology

Basque mythology

Catalan mythology



Near Eastern religions



Atenism

Ancient Semitic religions

Mesopotamian mythology

Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)

Babylonian and Assyrian religion

Babylonian mythology

Chaldean mythology

Canaanite mythology

Canaanite religion

Hittite mythology

Persian mythology

Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)

Sumerian mythology

Turkic mythology

Tatar mythology

Tengriism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)



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

Aztec mythology

Maya mythology

Olmec mythology

Midewiwin

Navaho mythology

Nootka mythology

Pawnee mythology

Salish mythology

Seneca mythology

Tsimshian mythology

Urarina ayahuasca shamanism and animism

Ute mythology

Zuni mythology



Pacific religions



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

Maori mythology

Maori religion

Moai

Chinese mythology

Japanese mythology

Shinto

Oomoto



Neopagan religions






Reconstructionist Pagan religions

Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices



Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism

Dievturiba

Finnish neopaganism

Germanic neopaganism

Ásatrú

Heathenry

Odinism

Theodism

Wotanism

Hellenic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)

Judeo-Paganism

Kemetic polytheism (modern revivalist forms)

Romuva

Stregheria



Syncretic and eclectic Pagan religions



Church of All Worlds

Neo-druidism (Some Neo-druids are eclectic, some are Reconstructionist)

Wicca

Alexandrian Wicca

Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)

Faery Wicca

Feri Tradition

Gardnerian Wicca

Reclaiming (Starhawk is one of the founders)

Seax-Wica (Founded by Raymond Buckland)



Left-Hand Path religions



Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it



Dragon Rouge

Satanism

LaVeyan Satanism

Church of Satan

Theistic Satanism

Luciferianism

Setianism

Temple of Set

Ordo Templi Orientis (Typhonian)



African diasporic religions

Religions originating but not entirely located in Africa



African Initiated Church

Anago

Batuque

Candomblé

Kumina

Macumba

Mami Wata

Obeah

Oyotunji

Quimbanda

Rastafari Movement

Santería (Lukumi)

Umbanda

Vodou (Dahomey mythology)

Vodou (Haitian mythology)



Non-revealed religions

Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet



Carvaka

Confucianism

Deism

Ethical Culture

Fellowship of Reason (This organization does not consider itself religious.)

Kejawen

Mohism

Selk'nam religion

Taoism



Syncretic religions



Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same



Arès Pilgrim Movement

Bwiti

Cao Dai

Church Universal and Triumphant

Huna

Konkokyo

Manichaeism

Modekngei

Santo Daime

Seicho-No-Ie

Tenrikyo

Universal Life Church

Unitarian Universalism



Entheogen religions

Religions based around divinely inspiring substances



Ayahuasca-based beliefs

Church of the Universe

Peyotism

THC Ministry



New religious movements

Religions founded since 1850 with small followings



Monotheistic NRMs

Direct Worship of the Actual God

The Urantia Book movement



Indigenous NRMs



Burkhanism

Cargo cults

Ghost Dance

Johnson cult

Longhouse religion

Mungiki

Native American Church

União do Vegetal

Vailala Madness



Buddhist-oriented NRMs



Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

Hoa Hao

Jewish Buddhists

Share International

Soka Gakkai

Won Buddhism



Christian-oriented NRMs



Aaronic Order

Church of the Lord (Aladura)

Branch Davidians

Branhamism

Body of Christ

Calvary Chapel

Christian City Church ("CCC" or "C3i")

Christian Conventions (non-denominational) (aka Two by Twos, The Truth, The Way) and its offshoot Cooneyites

Catholic Mariavite Church

Children of God

The Family International

Christian and Missionary Alliance

Christian and Missionary Alliance - Began around 1887, but was not a denomination until 1965.

Christian Coalition - A movement of right-wing Christians rather than a specific Christian denomination.

Christian Identity

Christian Reconstructionism

Christian Science

Eschatology

Church of Christ, Instrumental (Kelleyites)

Church of the Last Testament

Concerned Christians

Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen

Destiny Church, New Zealand

Divine Science

Doukhobor

Endeavor Academy

Eternal Grace

Evangelical Covenant Church of America ("Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant")

Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA)

Exclusive Brethren

Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches

Foundation for A Course In Miracles

Grail Movement

Grace Movement Churches

Great Commission Association

Greater Grace World Outreach

Holiness movement

Holy Spirit Movement

House of David

Indian Shakers

International Churches of Christ

Jesus Fellowship Church

Jesus is Lord Movement

Jesus Miracle Crusade

Jesus Movement

Kardecist Spiritism

Legio Maria

Love Holy Trinity Blessed Mission

Love Israel

Lumpa Church

Mama Tata

Members Church of God International

Metropolitan Community Churches

Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

New Frontiers (formerly New Frontiers International)

Peoples Temple

Process Church of the Final Judgement

Schwenkfelder Church

Spirit-Spirit Sect

The Way International

Two by Two (non-denominational)

Understanding Principles for Better Living Church

Unification Church

Universal Life

Westboro Baptist Church



Hindu-oriented NRMs



Ananda Marga

Brahma Kumaris

Divine Light Mission

Eckankar

Osho/Rajneeshism

Oneness University

Sahaja Yoga

Sathya Sai Baba movement

Sant Mat

Savitri Era

Self-Realization Fellowship

Swaminarayan

Transcendental Meditation

Vedanta Society



Islam-rooted NRMs



Dances of Universal Peace

Ha-Mim's religion

Fourth Way

Moorish Science Temple of America

Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)

Nation of Gods and Earths

Faradian Islam

Subud

Universal Sufism



Judaism-oriented NRMs



House of Yahweh

Black Hebrews



Chinese-oriented NRMs



Falun Gong ("Dharma Wheel Work," a qigong meditation group)

Way of Former Heaven sects, including

Daoyuan ("Sanctuary of the Tao"),

I-Kuan Tao ("Way of Unity"),

T'ung-shan She ("Society of Goodness"),

Tien-te Sheng-chiao ("Sacred Religion of Celestial Virtue"),

Tz'u-hui Tang ("Compassion Society").



Western magical / esoteric groups



Agni Yoga

Association for Research and Enlightenment

Church Universal and Triumphant

Eckankar

Gurdjieff

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Kardecist Spiritism

Order of the Solar Temple

Process Church of the Final Judgement

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment

Spiritualism

Thelema

Argenteum Astrum

Fraternitas Saturni

Ordo Templi Orientis

Ordo Templi Orientis (Typhonian)

Theosophy



White-supremacist religions



Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations)

Kingdom Identity Ministries

Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

LaPorte Church of Christ

World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)



Black-supremacist religions



Nation of Yahweh

Nuwaubianism

Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)

Nation of Gods and Earths

Faradian Islam

Subud



Alien-based religions



Aetherius Society

Chen Tao

Heaven's Gate

Raelism

Scientology

Church of Scientology

Free Zone (Scientology)

Universe people

Unarius Academy of Science