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LIST OF RELIGION and SPIRITUAL TRADITION OF THE WORLD

List of religions and spiritual traditions
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The following is a partial list of religions and spiritual traditions.
Contents [hide]
1 Abrahamic religions
1.1 Bábism
1.2 Bahá'í Faith
1.3 Christianity
1.3.1 Catholicism
1.3.2 Protestantism
1.3.3 Other groups
1.4 Gnosticism
1.5 Islam
1.6 Judaism
1.7 Rastafari movement
1.8 Mandaeans and Sabians
1.9 Samaritanism
1.10 Unitarian Universalism
2 Indian religions
2.1 Ayyavazhi
2.2 Bhakti Movement
2.3 Buddhism
2.4 Din-i-Ilahi
2.5 Hinduism
2.6 Jainism
2.7 Sikhism
3 Iranian religions
3.1 Manichaeism
3.2 Mazdakism
3.3 Mithraism
3.4 Yazdânism
3.5 Zoroastrianism
4 East Asian religions
4.1 Confucianism
4.2 Shinto
4.3 Taoism
4.4 Other
5 African diasporic religions
6 Indigenous traditional religions
6.1 African
6.2 American
6.3 Eurasian
6.4 Oceania/Pacific
6.4.1 Cargo cults
7 Historical polytheism
7.1 Ancient Near Eastern
7.2 Indo-European
7.3 Hellenistic
8 Neopaganism
9 New Age, esotericism, mysticism
9.1 New Age
9.2 Esotericism and mysticism
9.3 Occult and magical
9.4 Left-Hand Path
10 New religious movements
10.1 Creativity
10.2 Shinshukyo
11 Fictional religions
12 Parody or mock religions
13 Others
14 Other categorisations
14.1 By demographics
14.2 By area
15 See also
16 References
17 External links
[edit]Abrahamic religions

Main article: Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
[edit]Bábism
Main article: Bábism
Azali
[edit]Bahá'í Faith
Main article: Bahá'í Faith
See also: Bahá'í divisions
[edit]Christianity
Main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations
[edit]Catholicism
Main article: Catholicism
Anglicanism
Assyrian Church of the East
Eastern Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
[edit]Protestantism
Main article: Protestantism
[edit]Other groups
Bible Student movement
Christian Universalism
Latter Day Saint movement
Nontrinitarianism
Swedenborgianism
Unitarianism
The Creativity Movement
[edit]Gnosticism
Main article: Gnosticism
See also: List of Gnostic sects
Christian Gnosticism
Ebionites
Cerdonians
Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
Colorbasians
Simonians
Early Gnosticism
Borborites
Cainites
Carpocratians
Ophites
Hermeticism
Medieval Gnosticism
Cathars
Bogomils
Paulicianism
Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
Mandaeanism
Manichaeism
Bagnolians
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Main article: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Sethians
Basilidians
Valentinians
Bardesanites
[edit]Islam
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
Berailvi
Deobandi
Gedimu
Yihewani
Xidaotang
Hanbali
Maliki
Shafi'i
Other Islamic Groups
Ahl-e Hadith or Salafi
Ahl-e Haqq or Yarsan
Ahl-e Quran
Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
Al-Fatiha Foundation
Canadian Muslim Union
Druze
European Islam
Five Percenters
Ittifaq al-Muslimin
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
Jadid
Liberal Muslims
Muslim Canadian Congress
Moorish Science Temple of America
Mahdavia
Nation of Islam
Nuwaubianism
Progressive British Muslims
Progressive Muslim Union
Qur'an Alone
Tolu-e-Islam
United Submitters International
Wahabi
Zikri
[edit]Judaism
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
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
[edit]Rastafari movement
Main article: Rastafari movement
[edit]Mandaeans and Sabians
Main articles: Mandaeism and Sabians
Mandaeism
Sabians
Sabians of Harran
Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans
[edit]Samaritanism
Main article: Samaritanism
[edit]Unitarian Universalism
Main article: Unitarian Universalism
[edit]Indian religions

Main article: Indian religions
Religions that originated in India and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.
[edit]Ayyavazhi
Main article: Ayyavazhi
[edit]Bhakti Movement
Main article: Bhakti Movement
Kabir Panth
Sant Mat
[edit]Buddhism
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
Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
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
Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
Caodong
Sōtō
Keizan line
Jakuen line
Giin line
Linji
Rinzai
Ōbaku
Fuke Zen
Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
Kwan Um School of Zen
Sanbo Kyodan
Vajrayana
Shingon Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Bön
Gelukpa
Kagyupa
Dagpo Kagyu
Karma Kagyu
Barom Kagyu
Tsalpa Kagyu
Phagdru Kagyu
Drikung Kagyu
Drukpa Kagyu
Shangpa Kagyu
Nyingmapa
Sakyapa
Jonangpa
New Buddhist movements
Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)[1]
Diamond Way
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
New Kadampa Tradition[2]
Share International
True Buddha School
Vipassana movement
[edit]Din-i-Ilahi
Din-i-Ilahi
[edit]Hinduism
See also: Hindu denominations
Swaminarayan
Shrauta
Lingayatism
Shaivism
Shaktism
Tantrism
Ananda Marga[3]
Smartism
Vaishnavism
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
ISKCON (Hare Krishna)[4]
Hindu reform movements
Arya Samaj[5]
Brahmo Samaj
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
Hatha yoga
Siddha Yoga
Surat Shabd Yoga
Tantric Yoga
Sahaja Yoga
[edit]Jainism
Main article: Jainism
Digambara
Bisapanthi[6]
Digambar Terapanth
Taran Panth
Kanji Panth[6]
Gumanapantha[6]
Totapantha[6]
Shvetambara
Svetambar Terapanth
Murtipujaka or Deravasi
Sthanakvasi
[edit]Sikhism
Main article: Sikhism
Khalsa
Nihang
Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
Sahajdhari Sikh
Ravidasi
[edit]Iranian religions

Main article: Iranian religions
Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Mandaeism
[edit]Manichaeism
Manichaeism
[edit]Mazdakism
Mazdakism
[edit]Mithraism
Mithraism
[edit]Yazdânism
Main article: Yazdânism
Alevi
Yarsani
Yazidi
[edit]Zoroastrianism
Main article: Zoroastrianism
Zurvanism
[edit]East Asian religions

Main article: East Asian religions
[edit]Confucianism
Main article: Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism
New Confucianism
[edit]Shinto
Main articles: Shinto and Shinto sects and schools
[edit]Taoism
Main article: Taoism
[edit]Other
Caodaism
Chinese folk religion
Chondogyo
Falun Gong
Hoa Hao
I-Kuan Tao
Jeung San Do
Legalism
Mohism
Oomoto
Seicho-No-Ie
Tenrikyo
[edit]African diasporic religions

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
Quimbanda
Santería (Lukumi)
Umbanda[7]
Vodou
[edit]Indigenous traditional religions

See also: Paganism and Folk religion
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".
[edit]African
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
Khoikhoi mythology
Lozi mythology (Zambia)
Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
Zulu mythology (South Africa)
[edit]American
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
[edit]Eurasian
Main article: Eurasian Indigenous Religions
Asian
Bön
Chinese mythology
Japanese mythology
Koshinto
Siberian Shamanism
Tengriism
European
Estonian mythology
Eskimo religion
Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
Hungarian folk religion
Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
Tadibya
[edit]Oceania/Pacific
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
Rapa Nui mythology
Moai
Tangata manu
[edit]Cargo cults
Main article: Cargo cults
John Frum
Johnson cult
Prince Philip Movement
Vailala Madness
[edit]Historical polytheism

Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion
[edit]Ancient Near Eastern
Main article: Ancient Near Eastern religions
Ancient Egyptian religion
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
Sumerian mythology
[edit]Indo-European
Main article: Proto-Indo-European religion
Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
Historical Vedic religion
Zoroastrianism
Baltic polytheism
Celtic polytheism
Brythonic mythology
Gaelic mythology
Germanic polytheism
Anglo-Saxon religion
Continental Germanic religion
Norse religion
Greek polytheism
Finnish polytheism
Hungarian polytheism
Roman polytheism
Slavic polytheism
[edit]Hellenistic
Main article: Hellenistic religion
Mystery religions
Eleusinian Mysteries
Mithraism
Orphism
Pythagoreanism
Gallo-Roman religion
[edit]Neopaganism

Main article: List of Neopagan movements
[edit]New Age, esotericism, mysticism

[edit]New Age
Main article: New Age
Neoshamanism
Reiki
[edit]Esotericism and mysticism
Main articles: Esotericism and Mysticism
Anthroposophy
Christian mysticism
Esoteric Christianity
Hindu mysticism
Tantra
Vaastu Shastra
Martinism
Meher Baba[8]
Rosicrucian
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis[9]
Rosicrucian Fellowship
Sufism
Theosophy
Wicca
[edit]Occult and magical
Main articles: Occultism, Magic (paranormal), and Magick
Ceremonial magic
Enochian magic
Goetic magic
Chaos magick
Hoodoo (Rootwork)
New Orleans Voodoo
Kulam – Filipino witchcraft
National Socialism and Occultism
Pow-wow
Seiðr – Norse sorcery
Thelema
Witchcraft
[edit]Left-Hand Path
Main article: Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path
Demonolatry
Luciferianism
Satanism
Church of Satan
Setianism
[edit]New religious movements

Main article: List of new religious movements
[edit]Creativity
Creativity (religion)
[edit]Shinshukyo
Main article: Shinshūkyō
Church of World Messianity
Konkokyo
Oomoto
PL Kyodan
Seicho-No-Ie
Tenrikyo
[edit]Fictional religions

Main article: List of fictional religions
[edit]Parody or mock religions

Church of Euthanasia
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Church of the SubGenius
Iglesia Maradoniana
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Kibology
Landover Baptist Church
Last Thursdayism
[edit]Others

Deism
Discordianism
Eckankar
Ethical Culture
Fellowship of Reason
Humanism
Jediism[10]
Juche
Meher Baba
Pantheism
Scientology
Secular Humanism
Subud
Universal Life Church
Unitarian Universalism
The Fourth Way
[edit]Other categorisations

[edit]By demographics
Main article: Religious demographics
List of religious populations
[edit]By area
Further information: Religion geography
Religion in Africa
Religion in Asia
Religion in Australia
Religion in Europe
Religion in North America
Oceania / Pacific
Religion in South America
Religion by country
List of state-established religions
Buddhism by country
Christianity by country
Roman Catholicism by country
Protestantism by country
Hinduism by country
Islam by country
Judaism by country, Jewish population
Sikhism by country
Buddhism by region
[edit]See also

Civil religion
List of Catholic rites and churches
List of religious organizations
Lists of people by belief
Mythology
Shamanism
Totemism
Western esotericism
[edit]References

^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1073. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1112. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1001. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 997. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 1004. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ a b c d http://www.jainworld.com/societies/jainsects.asp
^ Smith, Christian; Joshua Prokopy (1999). Latin American Religion in Motion. New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-0-4159-2106-0
^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 991. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ Melton, J. Gordon (2003). Encyclopedia of American Religions (Seventh edition). Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc., p. 841. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0
^ Church of Jediism
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Bahá'í Faith · Christianity (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestanism) · Druze · Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufi) · Judaism (Conservative, Karaite, Orthodox, Reform) · Mandaeism
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Ayyavazhi · Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana) · Hinduism (Shaktism, Shaivism, Smartism, Vaishnavism) · Jainism · Sikhism
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Ahl-e Haqq · Bahá'í Faith · Manichaeism · Mazdak · Mithraism · Yazidi · Zoroastrianism (Zurvanism)
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