Answer on: Im christian by: Ally
> Countless? list them all, study them, then come back with
> a sensible question.
You asked for it:
Abrahamic religions
A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
- Bábísm
- Bahá'í
o Bahá'í Faith
o Orthodox Bahá'í Faith
- Islam
o Kharijites
o Nation of Islam
o Shiite
+ Alawites
+ Ismailis
+ Jafari
+ Zaiddiyah
o Ghulat including
+ Alevi / Bektashi
+ Ahl-e Haqq
+ Yazidi
+ Druze
+ Ahmadi
o Sunni
+ Berailvi
+ Deobandi
+ Hanafi
+ Hanbali
+ Maliki
+ Mu'tazili
+ Shafi'i
+ Wahhabi
o Sufism
+ Naqshbandi
+ Bektashi
+ Chishti
+ Mevlevi
o Zikri
- Judaism (see also: Jew; Hebrews)
o Contemporary divisions
+ Karaite Judaism
+ Rabbinic Judaism
- Orthodox Judaism
- Haredi Judaism
- Hassidic Judaism
- Modern Orthodox Judaism
- Reform Judaism
- Conservative Judaism (Masorti)
- Reconstructionist Judaism
+ Humanistic Judaism
o Historical Sects
+ Hasmoneans
+ Essenes
+ Pharisees
+ Sadducees
+ Zealots
- Sicarii
o Heretical sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
+ Ebionites
+ Elkasites
+ Nazarenes
o Crypto-Jews
+ Marranos
+ Conversos
o Jewish messianic movements
+ Frankists
+ Sabbatians
- Donmeh
- Christianity (see List of Christian denominations)
o Eastern Orthodoxy
o Roman Catholicism
o Oriental Orthodoxy (Monophysitism)
o Nestorianism
o Protestantism
+ Anabaptists
+ Anglicans
+ Baptists
+ Lutherans
+ Methodists
+ Pentecostals
+ Reformed
- Calvinism
- Presbyterian
+ Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
+ Unitarians
+ Waldensians
o Latter-day Saints
+ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
+ Community of Christ
+ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
o Seventh-day Adventist
o Jehovah's Witnesses
- Samaritans
- Mandaeanists
- Rastafarians
- Black Hebrews
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Dharmic religions
Religions with a concept of Dharma, also major religions of historical India
- Hinduism (see also Contemporary Hindu movements)
o Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
o Shaivism
o Shaktism
o Smartism
o Vaishnavism
+ Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
- Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
o Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
+ Samkhya
+ Nyaya
+ Vaisheshika
+ Purva mimamsa
+ Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
- Advaita Vedanta
- Integral Yoga
+ Yoga
- Ashtanga Yoga
- Hatha yoga
- Siddha Yoga
- Tantric Yoga
- Ayyavazhi
- Shramana Religions
o Buddhism (see Schools of Buddhism)
+ Mahayana
+ Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
- Theravada
+ Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism)
o Jainism
+ Digambara
+ Shvetambara
- Panth Religions
o Sikhism
o Kabir Panth
o Dadu Panth
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Revealed religions
Believers in one God, also called classical monotheism, who follow an Indo-European culture of belief, philosophy and angelology.
- Zoroastrianism
o Magus (see Three Wise Men)
- Gnosticism
o Basilidians
o Bogomils
o Borborites
o Cainites
o Carpocratians
o Cathars
o Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
o Ophites
o Valentinians (see Valentinius)
- Hinduism (Vaishnavism)
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Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct
- African religions
o Akamba mythology
o Akan mythology
o Ashanti mythology
o Bushongo mythology
o Bwiti
o Dahomey mythology
o Dinka mythology
o Efik mythology
o Egyptian mythology
o Ibo mythology
o Isoko mythology
o Khoikhoi mythology
o Lotuko mythology
o Lugbara mythology
o Pygmy mythology
o Tumbuka mythology
o Yoruba mythology
o Zulu mythology
+ African religions in the New World
- Kumina
- Obeah
- Santería (Lukumi)
- Vodou
- Candomblé
- Macumba
- Umbanda and Quimbanda
- Xango
- European religions
o Anglo-Saxon mythology
o Basque mythology
o Druidry (Celtic Religion)
o Finnish mythology
o Greek religion
+ Greek mythology
+ Mystery religions
- Eleusinian Mysteries
- Mithraism
- Pythagoreanism
o Norse mythology
o Roman religion
+ Roman mythology
o Slavic mythology
- Asian religions
o Babylonian and Assyrian religion
+ Babylonian mythology
+ Chaldean mythology
+ Sumerian mythology
o Bön (Indigenous Tibetan belief)
o Chinese mythology
o Shinto
+ Oomoto
o Tengrism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)
o Yezidis (Modified indigenous Kurdish belief)
- Native American religions
o Abenaki mythology
o Aztec mythology
o Blackfoot mythology
o Chippewa mythology
o Creek mythology
o Crow mythology
o Guarani mythology
o Haida mythology
o Ho-Chunk mythology
o Huron mythology
o Inuit mythology
o Iroquois mythology
o Kwakiutl mythology
o Lakota mythology
o Lenape mythology
o Navaho mythology
o Nootka mythology
o Pawnee mythology
o Salish mythology
o Seneca mythology
o Tsimshian mythology
o Ute mythology
o Zuni mythology
- Oceanic religions
o Australian Aboriginal mythology
o Balinese mythology
o Maori mythology
o Modekngei (Republic of Palau)
o Nauruan indigenous religion
o Polynesian mythology
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Neopagan or revival religions
Modern religions seeking to recreate indigenous, usually pre-Christian, beliefs and practices
- Church of All Worlds
- Dievturiba
- Germanic Neopaganism also called Ásatrú or Odinism
- Hellęnismos
- Judeo-Paganism
- Neo-druidism
- Summum
- Wicca
o Alexandrian Wicca
o Dianic Wicca (Feminist Wicca)
o Gardnerian Wicca
o Faery Wicca
o Feri Tradition
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Non-revealed religions
Philosophies not transmitted by a divine prophet
- Carvaka
- Confucianism
- Deism
- Fellowship of Reason
- Spiritual Humanism
- Mohism
- Taoism
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Left-Hand Path religions
Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it
- Dragon Rouge
- Satanism
o LaVeyan Satanism
+ Church of Satan
o Order of Nine Angles
- Setianism also spelled Sethianism
o Temple of Set
o The Storm
- Quimbanda
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Syncretic religions
Faiths created from blending earlier religions or that consider all or some religions to be essentially the same
- Arčs Pilgrim Movement
- Cao Dai
- Falun Dafa (Falun Gong)
- Huna
- Konkokyo
- Law of One
- Manichaeism
- Matrixism: The Path of The One
- Unitarian Universalism
- Universal Life Church
- Tenrikyo
- Theosophy
- Seicho-No-Ie
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Entheogen religions
Religions based around divinely inspiring substances
- Ayahuasca-based beliefs
- Church of the Universe (marijuana sacrament)
- Peyotism
- THC Ministry
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New religious movements
See List of new religious movements for a list based on other sources
See hereunder for religions founded since 1850 with small followings
Monotheistic NRMs
- Direct-Worship of the Actual God
Indigenous NRM's
- Burkhanism
- Cargo cults
- Ghost Dance
- Native American Church
African Diaspora / Latin American NRM's
- Rastafari movement
- Umbanda
- Candomble
- Kardecist Spiritism
Hindu-oriented NRM's
- Sai Baba/Sathya Sai Organisation
- Hare Krishna
- Transcendental Meditation
- Sant Mat
- Swaminarayan
- Vedanta Society
- Osho/Rajneeshism
- Meher Baba (actually a Zoroastrian)
- Oneness University
- Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
- Eckankar
NRM's with Islamic Roots
- Subud
- Ahmadi
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
Christian-oriented NRM's
- Unification Church
- Jesus People
- Children of God
- People's Temple
- Pentecostalism
- Holiness movement
- Iglesia ni Cristo
Buddhist-oriented NRM's
- Soka Gakkai
- Won Buddhism
- Hoa Hao
- Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
Chinese-oriented NRM's
- Way of Former Heaven sects, including
o I-Kuan Tao ("Way of Unity"),
o T'ung-shan She ("Society of Goodness"),
o Tien-te Sheng-chiao ("Sacred Religion of Celestial Virtue"),
o Daoyuan ("Sanctuary of the Tao"),
o Tz'u-hui Tang ("Compassion Society").
- Falun Gong ("Dharma Wheel Work," a qigong meditation group)
Japanese-oriented NRM's
- Tenrikyo
- Seicho no Ie
- Johrei (Johrei Movement - Sekai Kyusei Kyo Izunome Kyodan)
- Reiki
- Oomoto
- Soka Gakkai
- Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)
Korean-oriented NRM's
- Chondogyo
- Jeung San Do
- Juche (The personality cult of North Korean leaders)
- Unification Church
Vietnamese-oriented NRM's
Malaysian-Oriented NRM's
Western Magical / Esoteric Groups
- Kardecist Spiritism
- Theosophy
- Agni Yoga
- Anthroposophy
- Arcane School
- Association for Research and Enlightenment
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- Golden Dawn
- Gurdjieff Work
- AMORC
- Spiritualism
- Eckankar
- Discordianism
- Thelema
o Argenteum Astrum
o Fraternitas Saturni
o Ordo Templi Orientis
o Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis
- Process Church of the Final Judgement
- Order of the Solar Temple
White Supremacist Religions
- Church of Jesus Christ Christian
- World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement)
- Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [1]
Black Supremacist Religions
Alien-based religions
- The Aetherius Society [2]
- Raelism
- Scientology
o Church of Scientology
o Free Zone
- Urantia, Book of
- Universe people
Other NRM's
- Antoinism
- Breatharianism (Air cult)
- Brianism
- Elan Vital
- Faithists of Kosmon
- Virus, The Church of
- Tony Samara
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Parody or mock religions
Groups that poke fun at other religions or religion in general
- Church of the SubGenius (The cult of Bob Dobbs)
- Church of Jesus Christ Elvis
- Fictional religions turned Parody
o Bokononism
o Jedi census movement
- Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism)
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Church of Emacs
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Fictional religions
See List of fictional religions
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Forms of religion or alternative beliefs
- Agnosticism
- Animism
- Atheism
- Ditheism (Dualism)
- Henotheism
o Monolatrism
- Humanism
o Secular Humanism
- Kathenotheism
- Maltheism
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
o Cosmotheism
- Polytheism
- Shamanism
- Suitheism
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Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious movements and practices
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Esotericism
- Alchemy
- Anthroposophy
- Esoteric Christianity
- Freemasonry
- Gnosticism
- Kabbalah
- Occultism
- Rosicrucian
o Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
o Confraternity of the Rose Cross
o Rosicrucian Fellowship
- Surat Shabda Yoga
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Mysticism
- Christian mysticism
o Gnosticism
- Hindu mysticism
o Tantra
+ Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
o Yoga
o Bhakti
o Vedanta
- Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
o Kabbalah Centre
- Martinism
- Merkabah (also part of Judaism)
- Meditation
- Spirituality
- Sufism
- Theosophy
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Magic (religion)
- Astrology
- Divination
o Prophecy
- Exorcism
- Faith healing
- Feng Shui
- Hoodoo (Rootwork)
o New Orleans Voodoo
- Magick
o Chaos magick
o Enochian Magic
o Grimoire magick
o Goetic magick
- Miracles
- Pow-wow
- Seid (shamanic magic)
- Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
- Witchcraft
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Ritualism
- Prayer
- Sacrifice
o Animal sacrifice
o Human sacrifice
- Worship
Oh And the religions with more then 500 thousand followers are:
- Christianity: 2.1 billion
- Islam: 1.3 billion
- Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
- Hinduism: 900 million
- Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
- Buddhism: 376 million
- primal-indigenous: 300 million
- African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
- Sikhism: 23 million
- Juche: 19 million
- Spiritism: 15 million
- Judaism: 14 million
- Baha'i: 7 million
- Jainism: 4.2 million
- Shinto: 4 million
- Cao Dai: 4 million
- Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
- Tenrikyo: 2 million
- Neo-Paganism: 1 million
- Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
- Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
- Scientology: 500 thousand
SOURCES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Sensible Question: Excluding Atheism, Agnostism, etc... How can you know Which of these religions is right?
> Are you trying to tell me what other ppl believe (which
> btw is their basic human right) is wrong?
Those religions are almost all contradictory, and all claim to be the "truth". The question has nothing to do with atheism being the chosen one, the question is, how can you settle that particular debate.
Dodge the questions all you want, but if you are going to reply, please make it intelligent.
-WaZ-
