List of Religions, Worldviews, and Belief Systems
This page provides an index to our articles on religions from ancient faiths to new religious movements. It is not comprehensive, of course, and grows regularly. It includes sects and denominations (like Baptists and Zen) along with major religions (like Christianity or Buddhism).
ReligionFacts is very inclusive with what is regarded as a "religion" for purposes of this index and this website. Some of these belief systems may not be "religions" according to traditional definitions (they might better be called "philosophies" or "movements"), and some are even anti-religion. The grounds for a group's inclusion is simply that it offers an explanation of ultimate reality or the purpose of life and has attracted a significant number of followers.
See our Big Religion Chart to compare the basics of over 40 of these faiths.
Table of Contents
- Shinto
- Ahmadiyya
- Aladura
- Amish
- Anglicanism
- Asatru
- Assemblies of God
- Atheism
- Babi Faith
- Baha'i Faith
- Baptists
- Beasts of Satan
- Bon
- Buddhism
- Candomble
- Cao Dai
- Cathari
- Catholicism
- Charismatic movement
- Chinese Religion
- Christadelphians
- Christian Science
- Christianity
- Church of God
- Church of God in Christ
- Church of Satan
- Confucianism
- Conservative Judaism
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Deism
- Donatism
- Dragon Rouge
- Druze
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Ebionites
- Eckankar
- ELCA
- Epicureanism
- Evangelicalism
- Falun Gong
- First Satanic Church
- Foursquare Church
- Franciscans
- Gnosticism
- Grayfriars
- Greek Religion
- Hare Krishna
- Hasidism
- Hellenic Reconstructionism
- Hinduism
- Illuminati
- Intelligent Design
- Islam
- Jainism
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Judaism
- Kabbalah
- Kemetic Reconstructionism
- Lollards
- Luciferianism
- Lutheranism
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Mayan Religion
- Methodism
- Mithraism
- Mormonism
- Nation of Islam
- Neopaganism
- Neoplatonism
- New Age
- New Thought
- Nichiren
- Norse Religion
- Olmec Religion
- Oneness Pentecostalism
- Ophites
- Order of Nine Angles
- Order of the Temple
- Orthodox Judaism
- Our Lady of Endor
- Palladists
- Pentecostalism
- Platonism
- Presbyterianism
- Priory of Sion
- Protestantism
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Quakers
- Rastafarianism
- Reform Judaism
- Rinzai Zen Buddhism
- Roman Religion
- Satanism
- Scholasticism
- Scientology
- Seventh-Day Adventism
- Shaivism
- Shaktism
- Shi'a Islam
- Sikhism
- Soto Zen Buddhism
- Spiritualism
- Stoicism
- Sufism
- Sunni Islam
- Taoism
- Temple of Set
- Tendai Buddhism
- Theravada Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Typhonian Order
- Umbanda
- Unification Church
- Unitarian Universalism
- United Church of Christ
- Vaishnavism
- Vajrayana Buddhism
- Vedanta
- Vineyard Churches
- Voodoo
- Westboro Baptist Church
- Wicca
- Worldwide Church of God
- Yezidi
- Zen
- Zionism
- Zoroastrianism
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Further Reading
- Doniger, Wendy (ed.), Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions (Merriam-Webster, 1998).
- Bowker, John, Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford University Press, USA, 2004).
- Bowker, John (ed.), Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
- The Religions Book (DK, 2013).
- Huston Smith, The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions (HarperOne, 1995).
- Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Basic Books, 2002).
- Gellman, Rabbi Marc; Monsignor Thomas Hartman, Religion For Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2002).
- Lazarus, William P.; Mark Sullivan, Comparative Religion For Dummies (For Dummies, 2008).
- Hinnells, John R. (ed.), Penguin Dictionary of Religions (London: : Penguin Books, 1997).
- Partridge, Christopher, ed., Introduction to World Religions (Fortress Press, 2018).
- Concise History of World Religions: An Illustrated Time Line (National Geographic, 2011).
- Hinnells, John R. (ed.), The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions (Penguin Books, 1228).
- Bowker, John, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford: : Oxford University Press, 1997).
Article Info
Title | List of Religions, Worldviews, and Belief Systems |
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Published | March 17, 2004 |
Last Updated | January 31, 2021 |
URL | religionfacts.com/ |
Short URL | rlft.co/1615 |
MLA Citation | “List of Religions, Worldviews, and Belief Systems.” ReligionFacts.com. 31 Jan. 2021. Web. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021. <religionfacts.com/religions> |