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RELIGIONES
Religious symbols in clock-wise order: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahá'í Faith, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Slavic neopaganism, Celtic polytheism, Heathenism (German paganism), Semitic neopaganism, Wicca, Kemetism (Egyptian paganism), Hellenism, Italo-Roman neopaganism.

This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions.

Dharmic religions

Main page: Indian religions

Religions that have idea of Dharma.

Jainism

Main page: Jainism

Buddhism

Main page: 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
  • 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

Main page: Hinduism
Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
Main page: Hindu philosophy

Sikhism

Main article: Sikhism

Others

Abrahamic religions

Main page: Abrahamic religions

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

Christianity

Main page: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations by number of members

Catholicism

Main page: Catholicism

Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy

Protestantism

Main page: Protestantism

Restorationism

Main page: Restorationism

Gnosticism

Main page: Gnosticism
Christian Gnosticism
  • Ebionites
  • Cerdonians
  • Colorbasians
  • Simonians
Early Gnosticism
  • Borborites
  • Cainites
  • Carpocratians
  • Ophites
  • Hermeticism
Medieval Gnosticism
  • Cathars
  • Bogomils
  • Paulicianism
  • Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
  • Sethians
    • Basilidians
    • Thomasines
    • Valentinians
      • Bardesanites

Islam

Main page: Islam
Kalam Schools
Main page: Kalam
  • Ash'ari
  • Kalam
  • Maturidi
  • Murji'ah
  • Mu'tazili
Kharijite
Main page: Kharijite
  • Ibadi
  • Azraqi
  • Harūriyya
  • Sufri

Shi'ism

Main page: Shi'a Islam
Sufism
Main page: Sufism

Sunnism

Main page: 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

Main page: Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism
Main page: Rabbinic Judaism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Historical groups
Other sects
  • Samaritanism
  • Ebionites
  • Elkasites
  • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
    • Frankists

Others

Mystic and esoteric versions of the major religions

Main pages: Esotericism and Mysticism

Iranian religions

East Asian religions

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.

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

Main page: African traditional religions
  • Akan mythology
  • Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
  • Dahomey mythology (Fon)
  • Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
  • Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
  • Bushongo mythology (Congo)
  • Lugbara mythology (Congo)
  • Mbuti mythology (Congo)
  • Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
  • Dinka mythology (Sudan)
  • Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
  • Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
  • Khoikhoi mythology
  • Lozi mythology (Zambia)
  • Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
  • Zulu mythology (South Africa)

American

Main page: Native American mythology

Traditional religions of the Native American peoples.


Eurasian

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

Oceania

Historical polytheism

Ancient Near Eastern

Indo-European

Hellenistic

Neopaganism

Main page: Neopaganism

Occult religions

Main page: Occultism

Magic

Main page: Magic (religion)

New Age religions and UFO religions

Main page: New Age

Parody religions

Fictional religions

  • The Singularity Church of the Machine God (Deus Ex: Mankind Divided)
  • Tribunal Temple (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Nine Divines (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Imperial religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Nordic religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Altmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Bosmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Falmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Dunmeri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Yokudan religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Bretony religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Khajiiti religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Kothri religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Orcish religion (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Daedroth worship (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Cthulhu Mythos (H.P. Lovecraft)
  • Jedi (Star Wars)
  • Sith (Star Wars)
  • Je'daii (Star Wars)
  • Prophets of the Dark Side (Star Wars)
  • Cult of the Screaming Blade (Star Wars)
  • Krayt Cult (Star Wars)
  • Mandalorian religion (Star Wars)
  • Voss mysticism (Star Wars)
  • Mind walkers (Star Wars)
  • Faith of the Seven (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Old Gods of the Forest (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Faith of R'hllor (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • White Walkers / The Great Other (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Valyrian religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Ghiscari religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Ironborn Religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Qohorik religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Dothraki religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Lhazarene religion (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Warlocks of Qarth (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • The Lion of Night and the Maiden-Made-of-Light (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Faceless Men (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  • Church of the Fonz (Family Guy)
  • Klingon religion (Star Trek)
  • Robotology (Futurama)
  • Virtology (Godspell)
  • Jashinism (Naruto)
  • The Church of Hanzo (Overwatch)
  • Imperial Cult (Warhammer 40k)
  • Divine Bomb worship (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
  • Pagan gods (The Wicker Man)
  • The Two Great Ones (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)
  • Lords of Kobol (Battlestar Galactica)
  • Cylonian religion (Battlestar Galactica)
  • He Who Walks Behind the Rows (Children of the Corn)
  • Eywa (Avatar)
  • Followers of Mademoiselle (Martyrs)
  • Muad'Dib (Dune)
  • Children of Atom (Fallout)

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