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List of religions

Table of contents
1 Religions, sects and denominations
2 Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices
3 Areligious or meta-religious points of view
4 Parody or mock religions
5 Fictional religions
6 See also
7 External links

Religions, sects and denominations

\n:Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible. Some entries are listed more than once.

Abrahamic religions

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Bahá'í Faith\n*Orthodox Bahai Faith\n*Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)\n**Catholicism\n**Christian Gnosticism\n**Eastern Orthodoxy\n**Oriental Orthodoxy\n**Protestantism\n**Restorationism\n***Mormonism \n*Druzism\n*Islam\n**Sunni\n***Shafi'i\n***Hanafi\n***Maliki\n***Hanbali\n**Shiite\n***Alawites\n***Ismailis\n**Wahhabi\n**Sufism (a form of Islamic mysticism)\n**Nation of Islam\n**Ibadhiyya\n**Ahmadiyya\n*Judaism\n**Pre-Rabbinic sects\n***Essenes\n***Hebrew religion\n***Pharisaism\n***Sadducees\n**Rabbinic Judaism\n***Conservative Judaism\n***Orthodox Judaism\n****Ultra-Orthodox Judaism\n****Modern Orthodox Judaism\n****Hasidic Judaism\n***Reconstructionist Judaism\n***Reform Judaism\n**Falasha Judaism\n**Karaite Judaism\n*Mandaeanism \n*Rastafarianism\n*Samaritanism

Religions of South Asian (Indian subcontinental) Origin

Persian Religions

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Manichaeism\n*Zoroastrianism\n*Bahá'í Faith

Religions of East Asian Origin

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Confucianism \n*Konkokyo\n*Mohism\n*Shinto\n**Oomoto\n*Taoism\n*Tenrikyo

African-American religions

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Candomblé\n*Haitian Voudun\n*Macumba\n*Santería\n*Umbanda

Pagan faiths of indigenous peoples

\n*African religions\n**
Akamba mythology\n**Akan mythology\n**Ashanti mythology\n**Bushongo mythology\n**Dahomey mythology\n**Dinka mythology\n**Efik mythology\n**Egyptian mythology\n**Isoko mythology\n**Khoikhoi mythology\n**Lotuko mythology\n**Lugbara mythology\n**Pygmy mythology\n**Tumbuka mythology\n**Voudun (Voodoo)\n**Yoruba mythology\n**Zulu mythology\n*European religions\n**Anglo-Saxon mythology\n**Basque mythology\n**Chukchi mythology\n**Druidry\n**Finnish mythology\n**Greek religion\n***Hellênismos\n***Roman religion\n**Norse mythology\n**Slavic mythology\n*Middle Eastern religions\n**Yezidis\n*Native American religions\n**Abenaki mythology\n**Aztec mythology\n**Blackfoot mythology\n**Chippewa mythology\n**Creek mythology\n**Crow mythology\n**Guarani mythology\n**Haida mythology\n**Ho-Chunk mythology\n**Huron mythology\n**Ibo mythology\n**Iroquois mythology\n**Kwakiutl mythology\n**Lakota mythology\n**Lenape mythology\n**Navaho mythology\n**Nootka mythology\n**Pawnee mythology\n**Salish mythology\n**Seneca mythology\n**Tsimshian mythology\n**Ute mythology\n**Zuni mythology\n*Northern indigenous religions\n**Aleut mythology\n**Evenk mythology\n**Inuit mythology\n**Yukaghir mythology\n*Oceanic religions\n**Australian Aboriginal mythology\n**Cargo cults (Jon Frum, etc.)\n***Asatru\n***Dievturiba\n**Huna (traditional Hawaiian religion)\n**Micronesian mythology\n**Maori mythology\n**Modekngei (Republic of Palau)\n**Nauruan indigenous religion\n**Polynesian mythology\n**Tuvaluan mythology\nSee also: Animism, Goddess Worship, Paganism, Shamanism

Religions and spiritual movements of modern origin

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ACIM (A Course In Miracles)\n*Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)\n*Left-Hand Path religions\n**Neopaganism (some forms)\n**Satanism\n**Temple of Set\n**Thelema\n*Neopaganism\n**Neo-druidism\n**Judeo-Paganism\n**Wicca\n***Alexandrian Wicca\n***Dianic Wicca\n***Gardnerian Wicca\n***Seax-Wica\n***Faery Wicca\n***Feri Tradition\n*Process Church of the Final Judgement\n*Raelism\n*Scientology\n*Spiritualism (Spiritism) \n**Kardecist Spiritism\n*Eclectic unification religions\n**Cao Dai\n**Arès Pilgrim Movement\n**Law of One\n**Unitarian Universalism\n**Universal Life Church\n**THC Ministry\n**Theosophy\n*Summum

Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices

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Esotericism

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Alchemy\n*Freemasonry\n*Gnosticism\n*Kabbalah\n*Occultism\n*Rosicrucian\n**Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis\n**Confraternity of the Rose Cross

Mysticism

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Christian mysticism \n**Gnosticism\n*Hindu mysticism\n**Tantra\n**Yoga\n**Bhakti\n**Vedanta\n*Martinism\n*Meditation\n*Kabbalah \n*Spirituality\n*Sufism\n*Theosophy

Magic (religion)

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Astrology\n*Divination\n**Prophecy\n*Exorcism\n*Faith healing\n*Feng Shui\n*Magick\n**Chaos magick\n**Enochian magick\n**Grimoire magick\n**Goetic magick\n*Miracles\n*Seid (shamanic magic)\n*Witchcraft

Ritualism

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Prayer\n*Sacrifice\n**Animal sacrifice\n**Human sacrifice\n*Worship

Organizations promoting Ecumenism

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Interfaith.org a cooperative association of organizations and clergy persons who have joined together to establish a greater spiritual presence on the World Wide Web. \n* Dances of Universal Peace \n* Sathya Sai Organisation \n* The Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO)\n* Temple of Understanding\n* simplified kundalini yoga an organisation founded by Vethathiri maharishi to establish world peace and happiness.

Areligious or meta-religious points of view

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Agnosticism\n*Atheism\n*Brianism\n*Church of Virus\n*Cosmotheism\n*Deism\n*Dialectical materialism (Marxist ideology)\n*Fellowship of Reason\n*Generalism\n*Humanism\n**Secular Humanism\n**Religious (Spiritual) Humanism\n**New Humanism\n*Juche and Chondogyo (government personality cults)\n*Panentheism\n*Pantheism\n*Quantum Pantheism\n*Church of Neo Cigol

Parody or mock religions

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Bokononism\n*Brianism\n*Church of Beavis Christ\n*Church of Dolcett\n*Church of Emacs\n*Church of God the Utterly Indifferent\n*Church of Jesus Christ Elvis\n*Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)\n*Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)\n*The First Church of the Last Laugh\n*The First Preslyterian Church of Elvis the Divine (Let he who has not sinned cast the first rhinestone. - Elvis)\n*Invisible Pink Unicorn\n*Kibology\n*Roshambo\n*Shatnerology\n*Tapism

Fictional religions

\n*Amalgamated Church, (
Futurama)\n*Appliantology, from the Frank Zappa album Joe's Garage\n*Avantism, from the Harvest of Stars novels by Poul Anderson\n*Bajoran religion (Star Trek)\n*Bokononism, from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut\n*Church of All Worlds, from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein\n*Church of Artifical Intelligence, from Otherworld\n*The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent, from The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut\n*Church of the New Revelation, (aka Fosterite Church) from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein\n*Church of the Shrike, from Hyperion by Dan Simmons\n*Cthulhu Mythos\n*Jedi (Star Wars)\n*Klingon religion (Star Trek)\n*Mercerism, from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick\n*Mind Head, from the Steve Martin movie Bowfinger\n*Movementarianism, from "The Joy of Sect" episode of The Simpsons\n*"The Necromonger Way," from The Chronicles of Riddick\n*Oprahism (Futurama)\n*Robotology (Futurama)\n*Selfosophy, from the "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" episode of tv series Millennium\n*Sith (Star Wars)\n*Space Catholicism (Futurama)

See also

External links

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Statistics on religious belief or adherence\n*Sacred Texts Category:Religion\n\n\n\nnds:Religionens vun de Welt\n\n

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