List of religions and spiritual traditions

While the word religion is difficult 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, or ultimate concerns.[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, liturgies, 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

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

Buddhism

Pre-sectarian Buddhism (theorized)

Mahayana
Ari Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism
Tiantai
Tendai
Cheontae
Huayan school
Daśabhūmikā
Chan Buddhism
Seon Buddhism
Thiền Buddhism
Trúc Lâm (syncretic)
Japanese Zen
Zen Buddhism
Caodong school
Sōtō
Keizan line
Jakuen line
Giin line
Linji school
Otokan line
Rinzai
Ōbaku
Fuke-shū
Sanbo Kyodan
Madhyamaka
Sanlun
Jonang
Prasaṅgika
Svatantrika
Nichiren Buddhism
Honmon Butsuryū-shū
Kempon Hokke
Nichiren Shōshū
 Nichiren Shū
Pure Land Buddhism
Jōdo Shinshū
Honganji-ha
Ōtani-ha
Yuzu Nembutsu
Seizan
Jōdo-shū
Yogācāra
East Asian Yogācāra
Nikaya Buddhism (incorrectly called "Hinayana")
Theravada
Sangharaj Nikaya
Mahasthabir Nikaya
Dwara Nikaya
Shwegyin Nikaya
Thudhamma Nikaya
Amarapura–Rāmañña Nikāya
Galduwa Forest Tradition
Siam Nikaya
Sri Lankan Forest Tradition
Dhammayuttika Nikaya
Thai Forest Tradition
Maha Nikaya (Thailand)
Dhammakaya Movement
Vipassana movement (United States)
Vajrayana
Azhaliism
Bongthingism
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Newar Buddhism
Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
Shingon Buddhism
Southern Esoteric Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Bon (syncretic)
Gelug
Yellow Shamanism (syncretic)
Kagyu
Dagpo Kagyu
 Karma Kagyu
Drukpa Kagyu
Shangpa Kagyu
Nyingma
Sakya
Jonang
Bodongpa
Navayana

Dharmic philosophy schools

Āstika (Orthodox schools)
Nyaya
Mimamsa
Samkhya
Vaisheshika
Vedanta
Advaita Vedanta
Akshar-Purushottam Darshan
Bhedabheda
Achintya Bheda Abheda
Dvaitadvaita
Dvaita Vedanta
Pratyabhijna
Shaiva Siddhanta
Shiva Advaita
Shuddhadvaita
Vishishtadvaita
Yoga (philosophy)
Nāstika (Heterodox schools)
Ajivika
Ajñana
Akiriya
Buddhism
Charvaka[7]
Jainism
Sassatavada

Hinduism
Sant Mat
Dadupanth
Kabir panth
 Ravidassia religion
Sadh
Shaivism[8]
Aghori
Kapalika
Kashmir Shaivism
Kaumaram
Nath
Adinath Sampradaya
Inchegeri Sampradaya
Pashupata Shaivism
Shaiva Siddhanta
Veerashaivism
Lingayatism
Shaktism[8]
Srikula
Smartism
Śrauta
Tantra
Kaula
Vaishnavism/Krishnaism[8][9]
Balmikism
Bhagavata tradition
Brahma Sampradaya
Madhva tradition
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
Manipuri Vaishnavism
Haridasa
Ekasarana Dharma
Kapadi Sampradaya
Mahanubhava
Nimbarka Sampradaya
Pranami/Pranami Sampraday
Radha Vallabh Sampradaya
Ramsnehi Sampradaya
Rudra Sampradaya
Pushtimarg
Sri Vaishnavism
Ramanandi Sampradaya
Thenkalais
 Manavala Mamunigal Sabha
Vaishnava-Sahajiya
Warkari
Zunism (disputedly hindu)

Syncretic Hinduism

Banjara Hinduism
Baul
Bhil Hinduism
Dyaoism
Indonesian Hinduism
Aluk Todolo
Balinese Hinduism
Javanese Hinduism
Tenggerese Hinduism
Kaharingan
Naurus
Nuaulu religion
Tolotang

Jainism
Digambara

Kanji Panth[10]
Taran Panth
Śvētāmbara
Murtipujaka
Sthānakavāsī

Sikhism

Sects such as the Nirankari, Ramraiya and Namdhari are not accepted within the Sikh Rehat Maryada
(Sikh Code of Conduct) as they believe in a current human Satguru which goes against Guru Gobind
Singh Ji's Dohra in Ardaas.

Tat Khalsa
Udasi
Nanakpanthi
Nirankari
Nirmala
Sewapanthi
Nihang
Taksali
 Mina
Ramraiya
Namdhari
Akhand Kirtani
3HO
Sanatan Sikh

Yoga
Ananda Yoga
Bhakti yoga
Hatha yoga
Bihar School of Yoga
Integral Yoga
Jivamukti Yoga
Jnana yoga
Karma yoga
Kripalu Yoga
Kriya Yoga
Kundalini yoga
Raja yoga
Sahaja Yoga
Siddha Yoga
Sivananda yoga
Surat Shabd Yoga
Tantric Yoga

East Asian religions

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

Chinese folk religion

Ancestor Worship
Benzhuism
Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia
Faism
Kam religion
Maonan traditional religion
Mazu worship
Mo religion
Northeast China folk religion
Nuo folk religion
Qiang folk religion
 Queen Mother worship
Shangdiism
Shenism
Sui religion
Then
Wang Ye worship
Wuism

Chinese philosophy schools

Taojia ("School of the Tao")
Fajia ('School of Law")
Zonghengjia ("School of Diplomacy")
Huang–Lao
Mojia ("School of Mo")
Mingjia ("School of Names")
Nongjia ("School of Agrarianism")
Ruijia ("School of Scholars")
Yangism
Yinyangjia ("School of Yin Yang")
Zajia ("School of Syncretism")

Confucianism
Confucian ritual religion
Han Learning
Korean Confucianism
Donghak
Lingnan Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism
Cheng-Zhu school
Edo Neo-Confucianism
Yangmingism
New Confucianism
Progressive Confucianism
New Text
Changzhou school
Old Text

Japanese religions
Shinto
Izumo-taishakyo
 Koshintō (Historical)
Shinbutsu-shugo
Konkōkyō
Shugendō
State Shinto
Yoshida Shintō
Matagi spirituality
Ryukyuan religion

Korean religions
Muism
Gasin faith

Taoism
Japanese Taoism
Korean Taoism
Quanzhen School ("School of the Fulfilled Virtue")
Shangqing School ("School of the Highest Clarity")
Vietnamese Taoism
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
Way of the Celestial Masters
Lijiadao ("Way of the Li Family") (Historical)
Way of the Northern Celestial Masters (Historical)
Zhengyi Dao ("Way of the Right Oneness")
Way of the Taiping (Historical)

Syncretic Taoism

Chongxuan School
Dragon Gate Taoism
Kōshin
Lingbao School ("School of the Numinous Treasure")
Wuliupai ("School of Wu-Liu")
Xuanxue ("Neo-Taoism")
Yao Taoism ("Meishanism")

Southeast Asian religions

Religions that originated in Southeast Asia, namely Vietnamese folk religion, Muong ethnic religion,
Philippine folk religions, and animistic indigenous religions.

Filipinos religions

Philippine folk religions

Rizalista

Vietnamese religions
Đạo Lương
Đạo Mẫu
Four Palaces
Thánh Trần worship
Nội Đạo Tràng
Muong ethnic religion
Ta Oi animism
Then

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

Christianity

Early Christianity

Arianism
Proto-Gnosticism
Gnosticism
Bogomilism
Catharism
Cerdonians
Cerinthus
Ecclesia Gnostica
Johannite Church
Paulicianism
Sethianism
Basilideans
Valentinianism
 Bardesanite School
Simonians
Marcionism
Nicene Christianity
Thomasine Christianity

Eastern Christianity

Church of the East (called "Nestorianism")

Ancient Church of the East
Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Syrian Church
Eastern Catholic Churches
Albanian Greek Catholic Church
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
Byzantine Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
Chaldean Catholic Church
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (a.k.a. the "Italo-Greek Catholic Church")
Macedonian Catholic Church
Maronite 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
Syriac Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
(Independent Eastern Catholic Churches)
Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church (officially the "Orthodox Catholic Church")
Albanian Orthodox Church
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Georgian Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church
Hesychasmism
Palamism
Romanian Orthodox Church
 Russian Orthodox Church
Belarusian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(Noncanonical/Independent Eastern Orthodox Churches)
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
Lollardy (Historical)
Strigolniki (Historical)
Waldensians
Protestantism
Anabaptists (Radical Protestants)
Amish
Hutterites
Mennonites
River Brethren
Schwarzenau Brethren
Anglicanism
 Anglo-Catholicism
Anglican Papalism
Broad church
Continuing Anglican movement
English Dissenters
Evangelical Anglicanism
Nonconformists
Puritans
Fifth Monarchists
Radical orthodoxy
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
Emerging church
German Christians (movement)
Neo-charismatic movement
Neo-Evangelicalism
New Apostolic Reformation
Plymouth Brethren
Exclusive Brethren
Open Brethren
Progressive Christianity
Protestant fundamentalism
Jesuism
Lutheranism
Evangelical Catholic
Laestadianism
Neo-Lutheranism
Pietism
Methodism
 Calvinistic Methodists
Holiness movement
Church of the Nazarene
The Salvation Army
Wesleyanism
Pentecostalism
Church of God
Latter Rain movement
Oneness Pentecostalism
Word of Faith
Quakers ("Friends")
Shakers
Reformed churches
Amyraldism (a.k.a."four-point Calvinism")
Arminianism
Remonstrants
Christian reconstructionism
Congregational churches
Continental Reformed churches
Swiss Reformed
Dutch Reformed
French Huguenot
Neo-Calvinism
New Calvinism
Presbyterianism
Zwinglianism
Reformed Eastern Christianity
Restoration movement
Adventism
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Christadelphians
Churches of Christ
Cooneyites
Iglesia ni Cristo
Bible Student movement
Jehovah's Witnesses
Free Bible Students
Friends of Man
Latter Day Saint movement
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Community of Christ
 Mormon fundamentalism
Millerism (Historical)
Stone-Campbell movement (a.k.a. "Campbellites")
Two by Twos (a.k.a. "No name church" and "Workers and Friends")[11]
Swedenborgianism (a.k.a. "The New Church")
Unitarianism
Roman Catholic Church/Latin Church (a.k.a. "Roman Catholicism" or "Catholicism")
Anglican Ordinariate 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
Sedeprivationism
Ultramontanism

Syncretic

Aymara spirituality
Bagnolians (Historical)
Esoteric Christianity
Martinism
Christian Theosophy
Christopaganism
Christian Wicca
God Worshipping Society (Historical)
Judaizers (Judeo-Christian)
Christian Kabbalah
Hebrew Roots
Makuya
Messianic Judaism
Sacred Name Movement
Subbotniks
Yehowists
 Lisu
Raramuri religion
Spiritual Baptist
Xueta
Yaqui religion

Other

American Civil Religion

Bosnian Church (Historical)
Christian Universalism
Nondenominational Christianity
Nontrinitarianism
Tolstoyan movement

Islam

Khawarij

Azraqi (Historical)
Haruriyyah (Historical)
Ibadi
Najdat (Historical)
Sufri (Historical)

Shia Islam

Alevism
Alians
Bektashism
Kurdish Alevism
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
Twelver
 Ja'fari jurisprudence
Akhbari
Shaykhism
Usuli
Zaidiyyah
Jarudiyah
Batriyya

Sufism

Bektashi Order
Chishti Order
Kubrawiya
Khufiyya
Mevlevi Order
Mouride
Naqshbandi
Jahriyya
Ni'matullāhī
Qadiriyya
Roshani
Shadhili
Suhrawardiyya
Sufi Order International
Tijaniyyah
Universal Sufism

Sunni Islam

Kalam/Fiqh
Ash'ari
Maliki
Shafi'i
Hanbali
Maturidi
Hanafi
Barelvi
Deobandi
Gedimu
Athari
Salafi
Madkhalism
 Wahhabism
Ahle Hadith
Islamism
Islamic Modernism
Muʿtazila

Syncretic

Ali-Illahism
Din-i Ilahi
Kafirism
Wetu Telu
Satpanth

Other

Ahmadiyya
European Islam
Jadid
Liberal movements within Islam
Mahdavia
Mahdist movement
Quranism
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Messiah Foundation International

Judaism

Kabbalah

Non-Rabbinic Judaism

Haymanot
Karaite Judaism
Qemant Judaism
Samaritanism

Rabbinic Judaism

Conservative Judaism (a.k.a. Masorti Judaism)

Humanistic Judaism
Jewish Renewal
Orthodox Judaism
Haredi Judaism (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox)
Dor Daim
Hardal
 Hasidic Judaism
Misnagdim
Sephardic Haredi
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Open Orthodox Judaism
Neo-Orthodox Judaism
Neo-Hasidic Judaism
Orthoprax Judaism
Zionism
Religious Zionism
Reconstructionist Judaism
Reform Judaism

Historical Judaism

Essenes
Bana'im
Hemerobaptists (possible ancestor of Mandaeism)
Maghāriya
Nasoraeans (possible ancestor of Mandaeism)
Hypsistarianism
Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism)
Zealots (Judea)
Sicarii
Messianic sects
Ebionites
Elcesaites
Nazarenes
Sabbateans
Frankism
Second Temple Judaism
Frankism

Other Abrahamic
Bábism
Azali
Baháʼí Faith
Caravan of East and West
Free Baháʼís
Orthodox Baháʼí Faith
 Druze faith
Mandaeism

Iranian religions

Manichaeism
Athinganoi (Historical)
Chinese Manichaeism

Yazdânism
Ishikism
Shabakism
Yarsanism
Yazidism

Zoroastrianism
Behafaridians (Historical)
Ilm-e-Khshnoom
Khurramites (Historical)
Mazdakism (Historical)
Mazdaznan
Zurvanism

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

African

Traditional African
ǃKung religion
Abwoi religion
Acholi religion
Afizere traditional religion
Akan religion
Asante religion
Azande traditional religion
Bafia religion
Baka traditional religion
Bantu religion
Abagusii religion
Akamba traditional religion
AmaMpondomise traditional religion
Badimo
Balondo religion
Baluba religion
Bamileke religion
Bamum traditional religion
Banyole traditional beliefs
Bubi spirituality
Bushongo religion
Bwiti
Chaga faith
Chokwe spiritual beliefs
Duala traditional religion
Fipa religion
Furiiru traditional religion
Giriama traditional religion
Herero traditional faith
Himba religion
Kikuyu traditional religion
Kongo religion
Kwe faith
Lozi religion
Luvale religion
Makua traditional religion
Mbole religion
Nyakyusa religion
Ovambo traditional religion
Pedi traditional religion
Songye religion
Suku religion
Swazi traditional religion
Tonga religion
Tsonga traditional religion
Tumbuka religion
Xhosa traditional religion
Zulu traditional religion
Baoule traditional religion
Bari traditional religion
Bassa traditional religion
Biri traditional religion
Bobo religion
Bori
Bwa religion
Chamba traditional religion
Dahomean religion
Damara religion
Dan religion
Dinka religion
Dogon religion
Ebira traditional religion
Edo traditional religion
Efik religion
Ekoi religion
Esan traditional religion
Fali traditional religion
Frafra beliefs
Gbagyi traditional religion
Hadza religion
Hyel
Idoma traditional religion
Ijaw traditional religion
Inam
Jola traditional religion
Asisian religion
Khoekhoen religion
Kissi traditional religion
Kono traditional religion
Koore religion
Krahn religion
Kuku traditional beliefs
Lobi animism
Lotuko ethnic religion
Lugbara religion
Maasai religion
Madi traditional religion
Manjak religion
Mbuti religion
Moba ethnic religion
Mursi animism
Nso religion
Nuer religion
Nyongo Society
Bakossi beliefs
Odinala / Odinani
Oropom religion
Safwa religion
 Samburu religion
San religion
Serer religion
Sidama religion
Surma religion
Tammari traditional religion
Temne traditional religion
Traditional Berber religion
Turkana traditional religion
Urhobo traditional religion
Vodun
Waaqeffanna
Yoruba religion
Ifá
Indigenous religion in Zimbabwe
Shona traditional religion

Diasporic African
Abakuá
Arara religion
Candomblé
Candomblé Bantu
Candomblé Jejé
Candomblé Ketu
Comfa
Convince
Cuban Vodú
Dominican Vudú
Espiritismo
Haitian Vodou
Hoodoo
Kélé
Kumina
Louisiana Voodoo
Montamentu
Myal
Obeah
Palo
Quimbanda
Santería
Tambor de Mina
Trinidad Orisha
Umbanda
 Winti
Saramaka religion

Altaic
Evenki shamanism
Manchu shamanism
Turko-Mongolic religion
Altaic shamanism
Burkhanism
Dukha shamanism
Mongolian shamanism
Black Shamanism
Tengrism
Aiyy
Tengir Ordo
Vattisen Yaly
Nanai shamanism
Oroqen shamanism
Shor shamanism
Soyot shamanism
Ulch shamanism
Yakut Shamanism

American
Ache traditional tribal religion
Achuar religious beliefs
Acoma traditional religion
Aguaruna traditional beliefs
Akawaio religion
Alaska Native religion
Inuit religion
Tanana shamanism
Yupik shamanism
Yuit shamanism
Sirenik shamanism
Ancestral Pueblo religion (Basketmaker III) (Pueblo II) (Pueblo III) (Pueblo IV)
Andoque religion
Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
Ojibwe spirituality
Apache traditional tribal religion
Arhuaco spirituality
Atacama religious culture
Blackfoot religion
Bororo totemism
Caddo religion
Californian traditional religions
Achomawi religion
Acjachemen religion
Cahuilla religion
Kuksu
Cahto religion
Esselen spirituality
Miwok religion
Ohlone spirituality
Pomo religion
Northern Paiute shamanism
Mohave religion
Wiyot spirituality
Calusa native religion
Chaná religion
Cherokee spiritual beliefs
Chilote religion
Choctaw religion
Creek religion
Croatan religious beliefs
Crow religion
Fuegian spirituality
Selk'nam religion
Garifuna spirituality
Guarani religion
Guarayos traditional religious beliefs
Guayupe traditional religion
Gwich'in traditional beliefs
Haida religion
Ho-Chunk religion
Hopi religion
Huaorani traditional animism
Hupda cosmgony
Incan religion
Chauvin religion
Nazca religious beliefs
Wari' beliefs
Illinois religion
Innu religion
Iroquois religion
Mohawk traditional religion
Seneca religion
Wyandot religion
Jivaroan religion
Karankawa indigenous religion
Kayabi traditional tribal religion
Kalapalo beliefs
Kalinago religion
Kichwa religion
Kogi traditional religion
Kuikoro religion
Kwakwakaʼwakw religion
Lakota religion
Lenape religion
Lokono animist spirituality
Maleku animism
Mandan religion
Mapuche religion
Marajoara religion
Matses animism
Mesoamerican religion
Aztec religion
Classical Veracruz religion
Cora religion
Huichol traditional religion
Maya religion
Chuj traditional beliefs
Huastec religion
Lacandon traditional beliefs
Mazatec traditional religion
Maximon
Mopan traditional religion
Pech traditional religion
Q'eqchi' religion
Tzeltal religion
Tzotzil native religion
Tzʼutujil traditional religion
Mixe religion
Nagualism
Olmec religion
Purépecha religion
 Teotihuacan religion
Tepehuan religious beliefs
Tlapanec religion
Totonac traditional religion
Zapotec religion
Midewiwin
Abenaki religious beliefs
Mi'kmaq traditional religion
Old Miskito religion
Muisca religion
Muzo traditional religion
Navajo spirituality
Nuu-chah-nulth religion
Omaha religion
Osage traditional spirituality
Pawnee religion
Parakanã shamanism
Pech traditional religion
Pemon traditional tribal religion
Penobscot spirituality
Pericues religion
Piaroa traditional religion
Powhatan native religion
Puruhá traditional religion
Q'ero spirituality
Quechua traditional beliefs
Rikbaktsa traditional beliefs
Salish narratives
Seminole traditional native religion
Seri religion
Shuar shamanism
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (religion of the Mississippian culture)
Taensa native tribal religion
Taino spirituality
Tairona religion
Talamancan religion
Tapirape shamanism
Tehuelche beliefs
Ticuna shamanism
Toba belief system
Tlingit religion
Tsimshian religion
Ute religion
Wai-Wai religion
Wapishana religion
 Warao traditional beliefs
Wayuu religion
Yaruro traditional tribal religion
Zuni religion

Austroasiatic
Asur religion
Birhor traditional religion
Bru religion
Ka Niam Khasi
Mon religion
Nicobarese traditional religion
Ka Niamtre
Paoch animism
Santal religion
Sarnaism
Senoi ethnic religion
Sora traditional beliefs
Tampuan animism

Austronesian
Amis native religion
Aliran Kepercayaan/Mythology of Indonesia
Adat Pu'un
Aluk
Batak Parmalim
Dayak religion
Kaharingan
Jingi Tiu
Kejawèn
Kapitayan
Kangeanese religion
Karo Pemena
Kendayan religion
Marapu
Rejang religion
Rotenese religion
Saminism Movement
Sangirese religion
Sumbawa religion
Sundanese Wiwitan
Tolotang
 Wai Apu religion
Dayawism
Batak folk religion
Bicolano religion
Blaan folk religion
Capiznon folk religion
Cuyunon folk religion
Gaddang folk religion
Ifugao folk religion
Ilocano folk religion
Itneg folk religion
Kalinga folk religion
Kankanaey folk religion
Karay-a folk religion
Mangyan folk religion
Palawan folk religion
Pangasinan folk religion
Sama Bajau folk religion
Sambal folk religion
Subanon folk religion
Tagalog folk religion
Tagbanwa folk religion
Tboli folk religion
Teduray folk religion
Visayan folk religion
Fomba Gasy
Jarai religion
Kanakanavu native religion
Malaysian folk religion
Datuk Keramat
Jakun religion
Pengarap Iban
Melanau religion
Momolianism
Murut religion
Orang Kanaq religion
Orang Seletar religion
Semai religion
Semaq Beri religion
Temuan religion
Micronesian religion
Carolinian religion
Chamorro religion
Chuukese religion
 Nauruan indigenous religion
Polynesian narrative
Cook Islands narrative
Hawaiian religion
Mangarevan narrative
Māori religion
Niuean narrative
Rapa Nui narrative
Samoan narrative
Tahitian narrative
Tongan narrative
Tuvaluan narrative
Paiwan shamanism
Sakizaya native religion
Taivoan animism
Tao native religion

Caucasian
Khabzeism
Vainakh religion

Dravidian
Khond traditional religion
Kota religion
Koyapunem
Sauria Paharia religion
Tamil religion
Toda religion

Indo-European
Kalashism
Nagpuria religion
Ossetian native religion
Punjabi folk religion
Tharu religion

Melanesian and Aboriginal

Australian Aboriginal spirituality
Gamilaraay dreaming
Larrakia dreaming
 Tasmanian Aboriginal spirituality
Yolnu religion
Fijian ancient religion
Kanak traditional beliefs
Papuan religion
Dumo spirituality
Fore traditional beliefs
Kaluli religion
Korowai religion
Trobriand traditional beliefs
Urapmin traditional beliefs

Negrito
Aeta religion
Ati animism
Onge native religion
Semang animism
Vedda original religion

Paleosiberian
Ainu religion
Koryak religion
Itelmen religion
Nivkh traditional religion
Yukaghir shamanism

Sino-Tibetan
Banrawat religion
Bathouism
Biate animism
Bimoism
Bon
Dongba
Hangui
Burmese folk religion
Lisu religion
Chang Naga animism
Chutia religion
Daba
Dingba
Donyi-Polo
 Sangsarek
Gurung shamanism
Hani religion
Hnam Sakhua
Kan Khwan
Karbi animism
Karen animism
Jingpo religion
Kiratism
Maring beliefs
Miji animism
Mizo religion
Mro religion
Nyezi-No
Reang religion
Sanamahism
Tangsa Naga animism
Toto nature religion
Zahv

Tai and Miao

Hlai animism
Kev Dab Kev Qhuas
Pa Then religion
Qabiao religion
Satsana Phi
Ahom religion
Giay animism
Lamet religion
Nung religion
Saek religion

Uralic
Komi shamanism
Mari Native Religion

Other
Beduin shamanism

New religious movements

Religions that cannot be classed as either world religions or traditional folk religions, and are usually recent
in their inception.[12]

Cargo cults
John Frum
Johnson cult
Prince Philip Movement
Vailala Madness

New ethnic religions

Black
African Zionism
Ausar Auset Society
Black Muslims
American Society of Muslims
Dini Ya Msambwa
Five-Percent Nation
Godianism
Igbe religion
Moorish Science Temple of America
Moorish Orthodox Church of America
Mumboism
Nation of Islam
United Nation of Islam
Nuwaubian Nation

Black Hebrew Israelites

African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

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

Rastafari

Bobo Ashanti
Nyabinghi
 Twelve Tribes of Israel

White
Ariosophy
British Israelism
Christian Identity
Creativity
French Israelism
Nordic Israelism
Wotansvolk

Native American
Ghost Dance
Indian Shaker Church
Longhouse Religion
Mexicayotl
peyote meetings
Wasshat religion

World Religion-derived new religions

Abrahamic-derived
Antoinism
Beili Wang
Branch Davidians
Chrislam
Eastern Lightning
The Family International
Gafatar
Grail Movement
Holy Spirit of Blood and Water Church
Lalpa Kohran Thar
Mama Tada
Mentuhui
Modekngei

Noahidism
Pai Marire
Pilgrims of Ares
Rātana
Ringatu
Spiritism
 Unification Church
Unification Church of the United States
World Elijah Evangelical Mission
Zhushenjiao

Chinese salvationist religions

Baguadao ("Way of the Eight Trigrams")
Dejiao ("Teaching of Virtue")
Huangjidao ("Way of the Imperial Pole")
Huangtiandao ("Way of the Yellow Sky")
Huazhaidao ("Way of Flowers and Fasting")
Jiugongdao ("Way of the Nine Palaces")
Luandao ("Phoenix Way")
Luoism ("Way of Luo")
Chinese religions of fasting
Xiantiandao ("Way of Former Heaven")
Guiyidao ("Way of the Return to the One")
Shengdao ("Holy Way")
Yaochidao ("Way of the Mother of Pearl Lake")
Yiguandao ("Persistent Way")
Haizidao
Yixin Tiandao ("Heart-bound Heavenly Way")
Dacheng
Hongyangism
Maitreyanism
Sanyiism
Shanrendao ("Way of the Virtuous Man")
Taigu school
Tiandihui
Tiandiism
Tianguangdao ("Way of the Heavenly Light")
Tianxian Miaodao ("Way of the Temple of the Heavenly Immortals")
Weixinism
White Lotus
Xuanyuandao ("Way of Xuanyuan")
Yellow Sand Society
Zailiism ("Way of the Abiding Principle)
Zhongyongdao ("Way of the Golden Mean")

Hindu reform movements

Adidam
 Adi Dharm
Brahmoism
Brahmo Samaj
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
Ananda
Ananda Ashrama
Ananda Marga[13]
Arya Samaj[14]
Ayyavazhi
Chinmaya Mission
Hare Krishna[15]
Mahanam Sampraday
Mahima Dharma
Matua Mahasangha
Oneness Movement
Rajneesh movement
Satsang
Shirdi Sai Baba movement
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Sri Ramana Ashram
Neo-Advaita
Swaminarayan Sampradaya
Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha
Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi
International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal
Swaminarayan Gurukul
Nar Narayan Dev Gadi
International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation
Narnarayan Dev Yuvak Mandal
Swaminarayan Gadi (Maninagar)
Swaminarayan Mandir Vasna Sanstha
Transcendental Meditation

Muist-derived
Cheondoism
Jeungsanism
Daesun Jinrihoe
Jeung San Do
Bocheonism
 Suwunism
Daejongism

Neo-Buddhism
Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương
Hòa Hảo
Tứ Ân Hiếu Nghĩa
Diamond Way Buddhism
Falun Gong
Guanyin Famen
Humanistic Buddhism
Navayana
New Kadampa Tradition[16]
Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga
PL Kyodan
Reiyūkai
Risshō Kōsei Kai
Rimé movement
Shambhala Buddhism
Shinnyo-en
Soka Gakkai
Triratna Buddhist Community
True Buddha School
Won Buddhism

Perennial and interfaith

Anandamayee Sangha
Bell religion
Brahma Kumaris
Caodaism
Đạo Dừa
Meivazhi
Omnism
Open-source religion
Satya Dharma
Sathya Sai Baba movement
Share International
Subud

Shinshukyo
Aum Shinrikyo
 Aleph
Hikari no Wa
Happy Science
Ijun
Konkokyo
Kurozumikyō
Oomoto
Church of World Messianity
Mahikari
Seicho-no-Ie
Shōroku Shintō Yamatoyama
Shumei
Sekai Shindokyo
Shinmeiaishinkai
Tenrikyo
Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō
Zenrinkyo

Sikh-derived
Contemporary Sant Mat movements
Advait Mat
Radha Soami
Radha Soami Satsang Beas
Radha Soami Satsang Dayagbal
Radha Swami Satsang, Dinod
Ruhani Satsang
Manavta Mandir
Science of Spirituality (a.k.a. Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission)
Radha Soami-influenced[17]
Ancient Teachings of the Masters
Dera Sacha Sauda
Eckankar
Elan Vital (formerly Divine Light Mission)
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
Ravidassia

Modern paganism

Ethnic neopaganism

Hetanism
Baltic neopaganism
 Dievturība
Romuva
Caucasian neopaganism
Abkhaz neopaganism
Assianism
Celtic neopaganism
Celtic reconstructionist paganism
Druidry
Heathenry (a.k.a. Germanic neopaganism)
Hellenism
Heraka
Italo-Roman neopaganism
Nova Roma
Roman Traditional Movement
Kemetism
Kemetic Orthodoxy
Semitic neopaganism
Rodnovery (a.k.a. Slavic neopaganism)
Native Polish Church
Peterburgian Vedism
Rodzima Wiara
Rodnover Confederation
Sylenkoism
Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities
Ynglism
Uralic neopaganism
Estonian neopaganism
Suomenusko
Hungarian neopaganism
Mastorava
Udmurt Vos
Zalmoxianism
Zuism

Syncretic neopaganism
Adonism
Christopaganism
Christian Wicca
Church of All Worlds
Church of Aphrodite
Cochrane's Craft
 Maria Lionza
Druidry
Ár nDraíocht Féin
Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids
Reformed Druids of North America
El Tio
Feraferia
Goddess movement
Huna
Ivanovism
Krama
Neoshamanism
Pow-wow
Radical Faeries
Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
Santa Muerte
Stregheria
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
Church of the Universe
Neo-American Church
Santo Daime
 Temple of the True Inner Light
Tensegrity
THC Ministry
União do Vegetal

New Age Movement

A Course in Miracles
Association for Research and Enlightenment
Chaos Magic
Conversations with God
Eckankar
Love Has Won
Rainbow Family
The Family

New Thought
Christian Science
Church of Divine Science
Church of the Truth
Church Universal and Triumphant
Home of Truth
Jewish Science
Psychiana
Religious Science
Seicho-no-Ie
The Infinite Way
Unity Church
Universal Foundation for Better Living

Parody religions and fiction-based religions

The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters
Bokononism
Church of Euthanasia
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (a.k.a. "Pastafarianism")
Church of the SubGenius
The Cult of Kek
Dinkoism
Discordianism
Dudeism
Earthseed
Terasem
Eventualism
 First Church of the Last Laugh
Gadgetology
Googlism
Iglesia Maradoniana
Igreja Evangélica Pica das Galáxias
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Jediism
Kibology
Kopimism
Landover Baptist Church
Last Thursdayism
Matrixism
The Nine Divines
'Pataphysics
Silinism
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Tarvuism
United Church of Bacon
Zone Theory

Post-theistic and naturalistic religions

Abrahamites
Cosmism
Cult of Reason
Cult of the Supreme Being
Deism
Christian Deism
Ethical movement
Freethought
North Texas Church of Freethought
God-Building
Humanism
Ietsism
Moorish Orthodox Church of America
Pandeism
Pantheism
Naturalistic pantheism
Religion of Humanity
Church of Humanity
Saint-Simonianism
Syntheism
Theophilanthropy
 Unitarian Universalism
Universal Life Church

UFO religions
Aetherius Society
Ashtar Galactic Command
Chen Tao ("True Way")
Fiat Lux
Ground Crew Project
Heaven's Gate
Industrial Church of the New World Comforter
Mark-Age
Nuwaubian Nation
Order of the Solar Temple
Raëlism
Scientology
Independent Scientology
The Seekers
Unarius Academy of Science
Universe people
Urantia movement

Western esotericism
Anthroposophy
Archeosophical Society
Builders of the Adytum
Cthulhu Mythos cults[18]
Fourth Way
Fraternity of the Inner Light
Hermeticism
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.
Illuminates of Thanateros
Luciferianism
Fraternitas Saturni
Neo-Luciferian Church
New Acropolis
Occultism
Gaianism
Mayanism
Michael Teachings
 Ordo Aurum Solis
Otherkin[19]
Rosicrucian
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Lectorium Rosicrucianum
Rosicrucian Fellowship
Satanism
Non-theistic Satanism
LaVeyan Satanism
Church of Satan
First Satanic Church
The Satanic Temple
Theistic Satanism
Joy of Satan
Order of Nine Angles
Polytheistic Satanism
Our Lady of Endor Coven (Historical)
Temple of the Black Light
Temple of Set
Spiritualism
Faithism
Thelema
A∴A∴
Ordo Templi Orientis
Typhonian Order
Theosophy
Neo-Theosophy
Angi Yoga
Roerichism
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

Historical religions

Prehistoric Religion
Cucuteni–Trypillia religion
Funnelbeaker religion
Hemudu religion
Hongshan religion
Linear Pottery religion
 Paleolithic religion
Urreligion (theorized)
Urmonotheismus (theorized)
Varna religion

Bronze Age
Amorite religion
Ancient Egyptian religion
Atenism
Ancient Mesopotamian religion
Ancient Assyrian religion
Babylonian religion
Sabian religion
Shamsiyah
Sumerian religion
Ancient Semitic religion
Ancient Canaanite religion
Yahwism
Harappan religion
Hattian religion
Hittite religion
Hurrian religion
Liangzhu religion
Longshan religion
Luwian religion
Minoan religion
Mycenaean religion
Nordic Bronze Age religion
Proto-Indo-European religion
Paleo-Balkan religion
Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
Mahabadism
Proto-Uralic religion
Shang religion
Urnfield religion

Classical antiquity
Adena religion
Aksumite religion
Albanian folk beliefs
Proto-Celtic paganism
Ancient Celtic religion
Breton paganism
Cantabrian paganism
Celtic Animism
Cornish paganism
Irish paganism
Manx paganism
Scottish paganism
Hebridean paganism
Welsh paganism
Ancient Greek religion
Greco-Buddhism
Greco-Roman mysteries
Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus
Cult of the Great Gods
Cybele's Cult
Dionysian mysteries
Orphism
Eleusinian mysteries
Mysteries of Isis
Hellenistic religion
Hermeticism
Neoplatonism
Pythagoreanism
Neopythagoreanism
Stoicism
Ancient Iranian religion
Armenian paganism
Basque paganism
Cantabrian religion
Castro religion
Dacian religion
Eblaite religion
Elamite religion
Etruscan religion
Gallaecian religion
Georgian paganism
Germanic paganism
Alpine paganism
Anglo-Saxon paganism
Cimbri religion
 Continental Germanic paganism
Frankish paganism
Gothic paganism
Old Norse religion
Iberian religion
Illyrian religion
Iapydes religion
Ligurian religion
Lusitanian religion
Lydian religion
Nuragic religion
Paeonian religion
Phrygian religion
Punic religion
Religion in ancient Rome
Gallo-Roman religion
Imperial cult
Greco-Roman mysteries
Mithraism
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Nabataean religion
South Arabian paganism
Samnite religion
Scythian religion
Sramana
Thracian religion
Umbrian religion
Marsi religion
Urartu religion
Vedicism

Medieval Period
Arioi
Balinese religion
Baltic paganism
Prussian paganism
Latvian paganism
Lithuanian paganism
Batak religion
Bulgar religion
Caucasian Albanian paganism
 Chimor religion
Estonian shamanism
Finnish shamanism
Guanche religion
Hungarian shamanism
Hunnic religion
Khitan religion
Jamaican Maroon religion
Lima religion
Moche religion
Sámi shamanism
Slavic paganism
Tiwanaku religion
Tocharian religion
Vainakh religion
Wari religion

Other categorisations

By demographics
Major religious groups

By area
Religion in Africa
Religion in Asia
Religion in Oceania
Religion in Europe
Religion in North America
Religion in South America
Religions by country
List of state-established religions
Buddhism by country
Buddhism in the United States
Christianity by country
Roman Catholicism by country
Eastern Orthodoxy by country
Oriental Orthodoxy by country
Protestantism by country
Hinduism by country
Islam by country
Ahmadiyya by country
 Judaism by country, Jewish population by country
Sikhism by country

See also
Alchemy
Ceremonial magic
Chaos magic
Civil religion
Enochian magic
Goetia
History of religion
Juche
List of Catholic rites and churches
List of mythologies
List of pantheons
Lists of people by belief
List of religious organizations
List of religious populations
Magic
Major religious groups
Mythology
Neopagan witchcraft
Religious fundamentalism
Witchcraft

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