List of religions and worldviews
It is difficult to systematize a number of the world's religions and worldviews , as diverse elements interact and there are different understandings of what constitutes a religion or worldview (this is the subject of religious studies , among others ). The systematisation of religion is shaped by the occidental, and even if the classification is applied to currents in other cultures, there is sometimes no comparable term there.
Indian origin
Hinduism
- Advaita Vedanta or Satsang movement
- Brahma Kumaris
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
- Neohinduism
- Radhasoami Satsang / Ruhani Satsang / Unity of Man
- Sathya Sai Baba Sai religion
- Shaktism
- Shaivism
- Sri Chinmoy Center
- Vedanta movement / Ramakrishna mission
- Vishnuism
- Vishva Hindu Parishad
Buddhism
Other religions of Indian origin
- Jainism
- Osho Rajneesh movement
- Sikhism
- Sant Mat movement
Abrahamic Religions
Judaism
- Humanistic Judaism
- Jewish Renewal
- Jewish small groups
- Donme
- Haymanot Judaism (the faith practice of the Ethiopian Beta of Israel )
- Karaites
- Benei Noah
- Samaritans
- Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism)
- Conservative Judaism
-
Orthodox Judaism
- Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Haredi)
- Reform Judaism
- Reconstructionism
Christianity
-
Catholic communities
-
Roman Catholic Church with different Latin rites
- Eastern Catholic Churches without Latin rite, but in matters of faith, prayer and sacramental communion, therefore: Eastern Catholic Churches called
- Catholic parishes with the Anglican rite
- Sedevacantist groups
- Old Catholic Church
- Anglican communities see themselves as parts of the one, holy, catholic, apostolic church, but contain evangelical and reformed beliefs
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Roman Catholic Church with different Latin rites
-
Evangelical communities
- Adventists
- Baptists
- Brethren Movement
- Community in Christ Jesus (Lorenzians)
- Lutheran
- Methodists
- Pentecostal Movement
- Pietists
- Quaker
- Inspired
- Reformed
- Restoration Movement
- baptist
- Hussites
- Uniate
- Waldenses
- Aramaic Free Church
- Armenian Evangelical Church
- Assyrian Evangelical Church
- Assyrian Pentecostal Church
- Mar Thoma Church
- Mekane Yesus Church
- other free churches
- Spiritual Christianity
- Apostolic Communities
- Unitarians
-
Orthodox churches
- Orthodox churches West : with the Latin rite , but in matters of faith, prayer and sacramental communion with the Orthodox Church , therefore Orthodox Church with Western rite called
- Old Orthodox
- Ancient oriental churches
- Bible Students Movement
- Gnostic churches
- Jewish Christians
- Messianic Jews
- Revealer
- Sabbatians
- Non-denominational communities
Islam
Sunnis
Shiites
Kharijites
Popular Islam
- contains different manifestations and extensions of the Islamic faith and is particularly widespread in Africa and Asia
Religions of Islamic Origin
Bahai
Ethnic religions, folk religions, and religions of ethnic-religious groups
Local, non-scripted religions of indigenous peoples , (smaller) folk religions and religions of ethnic-religious groups (mainly main articles due to the large number here)
Oriental religions
Central Asian and Far Eastern religions
- Bon (Tibet)
- Chinese popular belief
-
Three lessons
- Daoism
- Confucianism
- Buddhism (see above about Indian origin )
- Falun Gong
- Heavenly Master Daoism
- Kalash religion (Pakistan)
- Lingbao Pai
- Mohism (China)
- Neidan ( Chinese alchemy )
- Neoconfucianism
- Ōmu Shinrikyō
- Shangqing Daoism
- Shintō (Japan)
- Siberian shamanism
- Sindo (Korean shamanism)
- Sukyo Mahikari
- Tengrism
- Tenrikyō (Japan)
- Yi Guan Dao
African religions
American religions
Oceania
Ethnic Religions of Europe
- "Classical shamanism" of the Nenets (largely preserved)
- Religion of the Mari of Russia (today, however, often more folkloric )
Neo-ethnic religions of Europe
- Ásatrúarfélagið , the Icelandic-New-Germanic paganism, the "best preserved" and recognized Asatru religion
- Hellenismos
- Sámic shamanism of Northern Europe (fragments and possible revitalization )
- Revived Baltic Pagan Traditions:
Syncretism
African American religions
Indian Christian religions
Buddhist-Christian Religions
Buddhist-Shinto religions
Further
Gnosticism and esotericism
- Adonism
- Fraternitas Saturni
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Hermetic
- Kawwana - Church of the New Aeon
- Mazdaznan
- Ordo Templi Orientis
- Rosicrucians
- Satanism
- Solar templar
- spiritism
- Theosophical Society
- Universal White Brotherhood
- Universal life
European paganism and neo-paganism
- Ariosophy
- Order of the Armies
- Art community - Germanic faith community with a way of life in keeping with the nature
- Celtoi (Gallic polytheism)
- Druidism
- Germanic Faith Community (Géza von Neményi)
- Germanic neo-paganism
- Gylfiliten-Guild
- Iglesia del Pueblo Guanche
- Kemetism
- Rodism (Slavic neo-paganism)
- Wicca
Others
Worldviews
Historical religions and mythologies
- Egyptian mythology and ancient Egyptian religion
- Aztec mythology
- Baltic mythology
- Basque mythology
- Berber mythology
- Bogomils
- Germanic mythology , Germanic religion , North Germanic religion , Anglo-Saxon religion and Nordic mythology
- Greek mythology
- Hypsistarians
- Cathars
- Celtic Mythology and Celtic Religion
- Manichaeism
- Mazdakites
- Mithraism
- Roman mythology and religion
- Sabier from Harran
- Sumerian religion
- Slavic mythology
- Ugaritic religion
- Wuism
Religious parodies
- Discordianism
- Flying spaghetti monster / pastafarianism
- Iglesia Maradoniana
- Intelligent falling
- Jediism
- Russell's teapot
- Unintelligent design
- Invisible pink unicorn
literature
- Gerhard J. Bellinger : Knaurs Great Religious Leader . 670 religions, churches and cults, ideological and religious movements and societies as well as schools of religious philosophy. Weltbild Verlag Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-4818-9
- Michael Klöcker and Udo Tworuschka : Handbuch der Religionen (loose-leaf work with 4 supplements annually), Olzog Verlag, 1997ff., (Currently EL 31: April 2012), ISBN 3-7892-9900-6
- Georg Schmid and Georg Otto Schmid: Churches, Sects, Religions , Zurich, TVZ, 2003, ISBN 3-290-17215-5
- Monika Tworuschka and Udo Tworuschka : The World of Religions, Gütersloh / Munich 2006.
Web links
- REMID: Religions in Germany: Membership Numbers
- Düsseldorf Virtual Library Theology
- Religio information system
- Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions
- relinfo.ch - ev. information point on churches, sects, religions
- Lecture African Religions (Overview) by Hans Hödl (PDF; 1.4 MB)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Gerald Hödl: Lecture: African Religions I (General Overview), winter semester 2002/2003 ( Memento from August 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 689 kB), Institute for Religious Studies, University of Vienna.
- ↑ “For him, before all other sources of law, the Koran , followed by [...] Sunnah and [...] Hadith . […] If the three sources of law did not lead to any knowledge, Ghulam Ahmad referred to the legal tradition of the Hanafi school of law prevailing in South Asia . ”Dietrich Reetz (ed.): Islam in Europe: Religiöses Leben heute. A portrait of selected Islamic groups and institutions . Waxmann, Münster 2010, p. 95 .