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List of 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) Ahmadi 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 Ismailis 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 Ramańńa 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 Arčs 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 Uniăo 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 |
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ANother good post.......U are going very well
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@rehman pal
very informative indeed. thanks for sharing.
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