List of religions and spiritual traditions
A number of religions and philosophies of the world can be difficult to systematize, as diverse elements into each other play and there are different views on what constitutes a religion or worldview ( this issue is concerned, among other things, the study of religion ). The systematization of religion is dominated occidental, and even if the classification is applied to flows in other cultures, there are some no comparable term.
- 2.1 Judaism
- 2.2 Christianity
- 2.3 Islam 2.3.1 Sunnis
- 2.3.2 Shiites
- 2.3.3 Kharijites
- 2.3.4 religions Islamic origin
- 3.1 Oriental religions
- 3.2 Eastern Religions
- 3.3 African-American religions
- 3.4 Oceania
- 4.1 Indian Subcontinent
- 4.2 Asia
- 4.3 America
- 4.4 Europe
- 4.5 Worldwide faith with regional differences
- 4.6 Gnosticism and Esoteric
- 4.7 Other
Indian origin
Hinduism
- Shaivism
- Vaishnavism
- Shaktism
- Tantrayana
- Advaita Vedanta or Satsang movement
- Vishwa Hindu Parishad
- Neohinduismus
- Bhakti Yoga
- Brahma Kumaris
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON )
- Osho Rajneesh movement
- Sathya Sai Baba Sai Religion
- Sri Chinmoy Centre
- Vedanta movement / Ramakrishna Mission
- Radhasoami Satsang / Ruhani Satsang / Unity of Man
Buddhism
Other Religions of Indic origin
- Jainism Digambaras
- Svetambaras
- Healthy- Happy- Holy Organization ( Kundalini Yoga) ( 3HO )
Abrahamic religions
Judaism
- Orthodox Judaism Ultraorthodoxes Judaism and Haredi Hasidic Judaism
- Samaritans
- Karaites
- Dönme
Christianity
- Catholic Communities Roman Catholic Church Catholic Eastern Churches: called without the Latin rite, but in faith, prayer and sacramental communion, therefore, Uniate Churches
- Sedisvakantistische groups
- Waldensian
- Hussites
- Lutheran
- Reformed
- Baptist
- Baptists
- Quaker
- Pietists
- Methodists
- Uniate
- Restoration Movement
- Adventists
- Brethren movement
- Pentecostalism
- Community in Christ Jesus ( Lorenzianer )
- More free churches
- Doukhobors
- Molokans
- Aramaic free - church
- Mar Thoma Church
- Assyrian Evangelical Church
- Assyrian Pentecostal Church
- Armenian Evangelical Church
- Mekane Yesus
- New Apostolic Church
- United Apostolic Church
- Old Apostolic Church
- Orthodox Western churches: with the Latin rite, but in faith, prayer and sacramental communion with the Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church, therefore, also called with Western Rite
- Altorthodoxe
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Free Bible Students
- Serious Bible Students
- Amateur home missionary movement
- New Church ( Swedenborgian )
- Johan niche church
- Mormonism / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints
- Community of Christ
- Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
Islam
Sunnis
- Shafi'i
- Hanbali
- Maliki
- Hanafi
- Salafi
- Wahhabis
- Ahl -i hadith
- Sufi communities (→ List of Sufi orders ) Qadiriyyah
- Mevlevi
- Bektashi
- Naqshbandi
- Halveti
Shiites
- Imamites Schaichismus
- Nizaris ***
Kharijites
- Ibadis
Religions Islamic origin
- Abangan
- Xidaotang
- Babism
- Alevis
- Alawites ( Alawite )
- Ahl -e Haqq
- Schabak
- Bajwan
- Sarli ( religion)
- Ahmadiyya
Bahaitum
- Baha'i community
Ethnic religions
Smaller religions, which belong primarily or exclusively in certain ethnic groups.
Oriental religions
- Mandaeans
- Zoroastrianism
- Yazidis
Eastern Religions
- Bon
- Cao Dai
- Daoism
- Falun Gong
- Skymaster
- Confucianism
- Lingbao Pai
- Mahikari
- Mohism
- Neidan
- Shangqing
- Shinto
- Tengriasm
- Tenrikyo
- Omu Shinrikyo
African American Religions
- Barquinha
- Candomblé
- Hoodoo
- Macumba
- Rastafari
- Santeria
- Santo Daime
- Umbanda
- Voodoo
Oceania
- Cargo cults
- Ngara Modekngei
More
Indian Subcontinent
- Kalasha Pantheon
Asia
- Chinese Folk Beliefs
America
Europe
- Paganism and neo-paganism Hellenismos ( religion)
- Dievturība
- Druidism
- Wicca
- Germanic Neopaganism
- Armanenorden
- Gylfiliten Guild
- Germanic Faith - Community ( Géza von Nemenyi )
- Germanic Faith - Community ( Artgemeinschaft )
Worldwide faith with regional differences
- Animism
Gnosticism and Esoteric
- Adonism
- Anthroposophy
- Fraternity of Saturn
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Hermeticism
- Mazdaznan
- Ordo Templi Orientis
- Rosicrucians
- Satanism Church of Satan
- Temple of Set
- Order of Nine Angles
Other
- Ancestor worship
- Nature worship
- Totemism
- African religions
- Shamanism Nagualism
Worldviews
- Agnosticism
- Anarchism
- Anthroposophy
- Apatheismus
- Atheism
- Determinism
- Discordianism
- Fatalism
- Freethinkers
- Freemasonry
- Free Religious Movement
- Humanism
- Huna
- Objectivism
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Positivism
- Posthumanism
- Skeptic movement
- Thelema
- Transhumanism
- Unitarian
Syncretism
Historical religions and mythologies
- Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian religion
- Aztec mythology
- Baltic Mythology
- Basque mythology
- Bogomils
- Germanic mythology, Germanic Religion, North Germanic religion, religion Anglo-Saxon and Norse Mythology
- Greek Mythology
- Cathars
- Celtic Mythology and Celtic Religion
- Manichaeism
- Mazdakiten
- Mithraism
- Roman mythology and Roman religion
- Sabians of Harran
- Sumerian religion
- Slavic mythology
- Ugaritic religion
Religious parodies
- Discordianism
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Intelligent Falling
- Iglesia Maradoniana
- Unintelligent Design
- Russell's Teapot
- Jediism