List of religions and spiritual traditions

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This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions. Some entries are written more than once.

Abrahamic religions

See the main article: Abrahamic religions

A group of monotheistic traditions often grouped together because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.

Baha'i Faith

See the main article: Baha'i Faith

Christianity

See the main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations by number of members

Anglicanism and Union of Utrecht

Catholicism

See the main article: Catholicism

Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy

Protestantism

See the main article: Protestantism

Restorationism

See the main article: Restorationism

Gnosticism

See the main article: Gnosticism
Christian Gnosticism
  • Ebionites
  • Cerdonians
  • Colorbasians
  • Simonians
Early Gnosticism
Medieval Gnosticism
  • Cathars
  • Bogomils
  • Paulicianism
  • Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
See the main article: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
  • Sethians

Islam

See the main article: Islam
Kalam Schools
See the main article: Kalam
  • Ash'ari
  • Kalam
  • Maturidi
  • Murji'ah
  • Mu'tazili
Kharijite
See the main article: Kharijite
  • Ibadi
  • Azraqi
  • Harūriyya
  • Sufri

Shi'ism

See the main article: Shi'a Islam
Sufism
See the main article: Sufism

Sunnism

See the main article: Sunni Islam

Restorationism

Groups sometimes considered non-Islamic
These religious traditions are not recognized as parts of Islam by mainstream Islamic fiqh, but consider themselves to be Muslim.

Judaism

See the main article: Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism
See the main article: Rabbinic Judaism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Historical groups
Other sects
  • Samaritanism
  • Ebionites
  • Elkasites
  • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
    • Frankists
  • Melchizedek

Others

African diasporic religions

See the main article: African diasporic religions

These religions are those of African cultures who have settled outside of Africa (diaspora). They are also sometimes called Creole religions. They include 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. The traditions come from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa.

Eastern religion

See the main article: Eastern religion

Dharmic religions

See the main article: Indian religions

Religions that have idea of Dharma.

Buddhism

See the main article: 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
        • Dhammakaya Movement
      • Thai Thammayut Nikaya
      • Thai Forest Tradition
  • Mahayana
    • Humanistic Buddhism
    • Madhyamika
    • Nichiren Buddhism
      • Soka Gakkai
    • Pure Land
    • Tathagatagarbha
    • Tiantai
      • Tendai
    • Zen
      • Caodong
      • Fuke Zen
      • Kwan Um School of Zen
      • Sanbo Kyodan
      • Sōtō
      • Ōbaku (school of Buddhism)
      • Rinzai
  • Vajrayana
    • Shingon Buddhiyupa
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Barom Kagyu
          • Tsalpa Kagyu
          • Phagdru Kagyu
          • Drikung Kagyu
          • Drukpa Kagyu
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingmapa
      • Sakyapa
        • Jonangpa
  • Navayana
    • Shambhala
  • New Buddhist movements
    • Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)
    • Diamond Way
    • Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
    • New Kadampa Tradition
    • Share International
    • True Buddha School
    • Vipassana movement

Hinduism

See the main article: Hinduism
Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
See the main article: Hindu philosophy

Jainism

See the main article: Jainism

Sikhism

Main article: Sikhism

Others

East Asian religions

See the main article: East Asian religions

European religions

Zelda

See the main article: New Age
See also: Henotheism

Other

See the main article: Paganism

Indigenous traditional faiths

See also: Animism, Paganism, and Shamanism

Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified as pagan religions, but modern scholars prefer the terms "indigenous", "primal", "folk", or "ethnic".

African

See the main article: African traditional religions
West Africa
  • Akan mythology
  • Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
  • Dahomey mythology (Fon)
  • Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
  • Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
Central Africa
  • Bushongo mythology (Congo)
  • Lugbara mythology (Congo)
  • Mbuti 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)

American

See the main article: Native American mythology

Traditional religions of the Native American peoples.

  • Abenaki mythology
  • Anishinaabe mythology
  • Aztec mythology
  • Blackfoot mythology
  • Cherokee mythology
  • Chickasaw mythology
  • Choctaw mythology
  • Creek mythology
  • Crow mythology
  • Eskimo religion
  • Ghost Dance
  • Guarani mythology
  • Haida mythology
  • Ho-Chunk mythology
  • Hopi mythology
  • Huron mythology
  • Inca mythology
  • Inuit mythology
  • Iroquois mythology
  • Kwakiutl mythology
  • Lakota mythology
  • Lenape mythology
  • Longhouse religion
  • Maya mythology
  • Midewiwin
  • Native American Church
  • Navajo mythology
  • Nootka mythology
  • Olmec mythology
  • Pawnee mythology
  • Salish mythology
  • Seneca mythology
  • Selk'nam religion
  • Tsimshian mythology
  • Urarina
  • Ute mythology
  • Zuni mythology


Eurasian

Oriental
Siberian
  • Siberian Shamanism
  • Tengriism
  • Chukchi mythology
  • Aleut mythology
  • Evenk mythology
  • Yukaghir mythology
Uralic

Oceania

Cargo cults

See the main article: Cargo cult

Iranian religions

See the main article: Iranian religions

Historical polytheism

Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion

Ancient Near Eastern

  • Ancient Egyptian religion
  • Ancient Semitic religions
  • Mesopotamian mythology
    • Arabian mythology
    • Babylonian and Assyrian religion
      • Babylonian mythology
      • Chaldean mythology
    • Canaanite mythology
      • Canaanite religion
    • Hittite mythology
    • Persian mythology
    • Sumerian mythology

Indo-European

See the main article: Proto-Indo-European religion

Hellenistic

See the main article: Hellenistic religion

Magic

Mystic and esoteric versions of the major religions

Main articles: Esotericism and Mysticism

Neopaganism

See the main article: Neopaganism
  • Kemetism (Egyptian neopaganism)
  • Rodnovery (Slavic neopaganism)
  • Dievturiba (Latvian neopaganism)
  • Germanic neopaganism
  • Hellenic Polytheism (Greco-Roman neopaganism)
  • Druidry
  • Deanism

New Age religions and UFO religions

Occult religions

See the main article: Occultism

Left-hand path occult religions

See the main article: Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path

Satanism

  • Setianism (Temple of Set)
  • Vampirism (Temple of the Vampire)

Parody religions

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