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BábismBahá'í FaithChristianityCatholicism
  • Anglicanism
  • Assyrian Church of the East
  • Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Oriental Orthodox Church
  • Roman Catholic Church

Protestantism

  • Pre-Lutheran Protestant
    • Hussites
    • Waldensians
  • Adventism
  • African Initiated Church
  • Anabaptists
  • Baptists
  • Brethren
  • British Israelism
  • Catholic Apostolic Church (Irvingites)
  • Charismatic movement
  • Christian Israelite Church (Southcottites)
  • Congregational Church
  • Lutheranism
  • Methodism
  • Pentecostalism
  • Pietism and Holiness movement
  • Presbyterianism
  • Reformed Churches
  • Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • Restoration Movement
  • United and uniting churches

Other groups

  • Bible Student movement
  • Christian Universalism
  • Latter Day Saint movement
  • Nontrinitarianism
  • Swedenborgianism
  • Unitarianism

Gnosticism

Christian Gnosticism

  • Ebionites
  • Cerdonians
    • Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
  • Colorbasians
  • Simonians
Early Gnosticism
  • Borborites
  • Cainites
  • Carpocratians
  • Ophites
  • Hermeticism
Medieval Gnosticism
  • Cathars
  • Bogomils
  • Paulicianism
  • Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
  • Mandaeanism
  • Manichaeism
    • Bagnolians
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
  • Sethians
    • Basilidians
    • Thomasines
    • Valentinians
      • Bardesanites

Islam

Kalam Schools

  • Ash'ari
  • Kalam
  • Maturidi
  • Murji'ah
  • Mu'tazili
Kharijite
  • Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
  • Azraqi
  • Harūriyya
  • Sufri
Shia Islam
  • Ismailism
    • Mustaali / Bohra
    • Nizari
  • Jafari
    • Twelvers
    • Alawites
    • Alevi / Bektashi
  • Zaidiyyah
Sufism
  • Bektashi
  • Chishti
  • Mevlevi
  • Naqshbandi
  • Tariqah
  • Quadiriyyah
  • Suhrawardiyya
  • Tijani
  • Universal Sufism
    • Dances of Universal Peace
Sunni Islam
  • Hanafi
    • Berailvi
    • Deobandi
  • Hanbali
  • Maliki
  • Shafi'i
Other Islamic Groups
  • Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
  • Ahmadiyya
  • Druze
  • Moorish Science Temple of America
  • Nation of Islam
  • United Submitters International
  • Zikri

Judaism

Rabbinic Judaism

  • Orthodox Judaism
    • Haredi Judaism
    • Hasidic Judaism
    • Modern Orthodox Judaism
  • Conservative Judaism
    • Masorti
    • Conservadox Judaism
      • Union for Traditional Judaism
  • Reform Judaism
  • Progressive Judaism
    • Liberal Judaism
Karaite Judaism

Modern Non-Rabbinic Judaism

  • Alternative Judaism
  • Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
  • Jewish Renewal
  • Reconstructionist Judaism
Historical groups
  • Essenes
  • Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
  • Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism)
  • Zealots
    • Sicarii
Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet
  • Ebionites
  • Elkasites
  • Nazarenes
  • Sabbateans
    • Frankists

Rastafari movement

Mandaeans and Sabians

  • Mandaeism
  • Sabians
    • Sabians of Harran
    • Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans

Samaritanism

Unitarian Universalism

Indian religions

Hinduism

  • Lingayatism
  • Shaivism
  • Shaktism
  • Tantrism
    • Ananda Marga
  • Smartism
  • Vaishnavism
    • Gaudiya Vaishnavism
      • ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
  • Hindu reform movements
    • Arya Samaj
    • Brahmo Samaj
  • Hinduism in Indonesia
Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
  • Nyaya
  • Purva mimamsa
  • Samkhya
  • Vaisheshika
  • Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
    • Advaita Vedanta
    • Integral Yoga
    • Vishishtadvaita
    • Dvaita Vedanta
  • Yoga
    • Ashtanga Yoga
    • Bhakti Yoga
    • Hatha yoga
    • Siddha Yoga
    • Surat Shabd Yoga
    • Tantric Yoga
    • Sahaja Yoga

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
      • Burmese Thudhamma Nikaya
        • Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
      • Burmese Shwekyin Nikaya
      • Burmese Dvaya Nikaya
      • Thai Maha Nikaya
        • Dhammakaya Movement
      • Thai Thammayut Nikaya
        • Thai Forest Tradition
          • Tradition of Ajahn Chah
  • Mahayana
    • Humanistic Buddhism
    • Madhyamaka
      • Prāsangika
      • Svatantrika
      • Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
        • Sanron
      • Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
    • Nichiren
      • Nichiren Shū
      • Nichiren Shōshū
      • Nipponzan Myōhōji
      • Soka Gakkai
    • Pure Land
      • Jodo Shu
      • Jodo Shinshu
    • Tathagatagarbha
      • Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
      • Huayan school (Avataṃsaka)
        • Hwaeom
        • Kegon
    • Tiantai
      • Tendai
      • Cheontae
    • Yogācāra
      • Cittamatra in Tibet
      • Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
        • Beopsang
        • Hossō
    • Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
      • Caodong
        • Sōtō
          • Keizan line
          • Jakuen line
          • Giin line
      • Linji
        • Rinzai
        • Ōbaku
        • Fuke Zen
        • Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
      • Kwan Um School of Zen
      • Sanbo Kyodan
  • Vajrayana
    • Shingon Buddhism
    • Tibetan Buddhism
      • Bön
      • Gelukpa
      • Kagyupa
        • Dagpo Kagyu
          • Karma Kagyu
          • Barom Kagyu
          • Tsalpa Kagyu
          • Phagdru Kagyu
          • Drikung Kagyu
          • Drukpa Kagyu
        • Shangpa Kagyu
      • Nyingmapa
      • Sakyapa
        • Jonangpa
  • 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

Jainism

  • Digambara
  • Shvetambara

Sikhism

  • Khalsa
    • Nihang
  • Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
  • Sahajdhari Sikh
  • Ravidasi

Ayyavazhi

Din-i-Ilahi

Persian religions

  • Bábism
  • Bahá'í Faith
  • Mandaeism
  • Manichaeism
  • Mazdakism
  • Yazdânism
    • Alevi
    • Yarsani
    • Yazidi
  • Zoroastrianism
    • Zurvanism

East Asian religions

Confucianism

  • Neo-Confucianism
  • New Confucianism

Shinto

Taoism

Other

  • Caodaism
  • Chinese folk religion
  • Chondogyo
  • Falun Gong
  • I-Kuan Tao
  • Jeung San Do
  • Legalism
  • Mohism
  • Oomoto
  • Seicho-No-Ie
  • Tenrikyo

African diasporic religions

  • Batuque
  • Candomblé
  • Dahomey mythology
  • Haitian mythology
  • Kumina
  • Macumba
  • Mami Wata
  • Obeah
  • Oyotunji
  • Quimbanda
  • Santería (Lukumi)
  • Umbanda
  • Vodou

African

West Africa

  • Akan mythology
  • Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
  • Dahomey (Fon) mythology
  • Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
  • Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
Central Africa
  • Bushongo mythology (Congo)
  • Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
  • Lugbara mythology (Congo)
East Africa
  • Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
  • Dinka mythology (Sudan)
  • Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
  • Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
Southern Africa
  • Khoikhoi mythology
  • Lozi mythology (Zambia)
  • Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
  • Zulu mythology (South Africa)

American

  • Abenaki mythology
  • Anishinaabe
  • Aztec mythology
  • Blackfoot mythology
  • Cherokee mythology
  • Chickasaw mythology
  • Choctaw mythology
  • Creek mythology
  • Crow mythology
  • Ghost Dance
  • Guarani mythology
  • Haida mythology
  • Ho-Chunk mythology (aka: Winnebago)
  • Hopi mythology
  • Huron mythology (aka: Wyandot)
  • Inca mythology
  • Inuit mythology
  • Iroquois mythology
  • Kuksu
  • Kwakiutl mythology
  • Lakota mythology
  • Leni Lenape mythology
  • Longhouse religion
  • Mapuche mythology
  • Maya mythology
  • Midewiwin
  • Miwok
  • Native American Church
  • Navajo mythology
  • Nootka mythology
  • Ohlone mythology
  • Olmec mythology
  • Pomo mythology
  • Pawnee mythology
  • Salish mythology
  • Selk'nam religion
  • Seneca mythology
  • Tsimshian mythology
  • Urarina
  • Ute mythology
  • Zuni mythology

Eurasian

Asian

  • Bön
  • Chinese mythology
  • Japanese mythology
  • Koshinto
  • Siberian Shamanism
  • Tengriism
European
  • Estonian mythology
  • Eskimo religion
  • Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
  • Hungarian folk religion
  • Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
  • Tadibya

Oceania/Pacific

  • Australian Aboriginal mythology
  • Austronesian beliefs
    • Balinese mythology
    • Javanese beliefs
    • Melanesian mythology
    • Micronesian mythology
      • Modekngei
      • Nauruan indigenous religion
    • Philippine mythology
      • Anito
      • Gabâ
      • Kulam
    • Polynesian mythology
      • Hawaiian mythology
      • Maori mythology
        • Maori religion
      • Rapa Nui mythology
        • Moai
        • Tangata manu

Cargo cults

  • John Frum
  • Johnson cult
  • Prince Philip Movement
  • Vailala Madness

Ancient Near Eastern

  • Ancient Egyptian religion
  • Ancient Semitic religions
  • Mesopotamian mythology
    • Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
    • Babylonian and Assyrian religion
      • Babylonian mythology
      • Chaldean mythology
    • Canaanite mythology
      • Canaanite religion
    • Hittite mythology
    • Persian mythology
    • Sumerian mythology

Indo-European

  • Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
    • Historical Vedic religion
    • Zoroastrianism
  • Baltic polytheism
  • Celtic polytheism
    • Brythonic mythology
    • Gaelic mythology
  • Germanic polytheism
    • Anglo-Saxon religion
    • Continental Germanic religion
    • Norse religion
  • Greek polytheism
  • Finnish polytheism
  • Hungarian polytheism
  • Roman polytheism
  • Slavic polytheism

Hellenistic

  • Mystery religions
    • Eleusinian Mysteries
    • Mithraism
    • Orphism
  • Pythagoreanism
  • Gallo-Roman religion

New Age, Esotericism, Mysticism

New Age

  • Neoshamanism
  • Reiki

Esotericism and mysticism

  • Anthroposophy
  • Christian mysticism
  • Esoteric Christianity
  • Hindu mysticism
    • Tantra
    • Vaastu Shastra
  • Martinism
  • Meher Baba
  • Rosicrucian
    • Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
    • Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians
    • Rosicrucian Fellowship
  • Sufism
  • Theosophy

Occult and magical (or magickal)

  • Ceremonial magic
    • Enochian magic
    • Goetic magic
  • Chaos magick
  • Hoodoo (Rootwork)
  • Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
  • National Socialism and Occultism
  • Pow-wow
  • Seiðr - Norse sorcery
  • Thelema
  • Witchcraft

Left-Hand Path

  • Demonolatry
  • Luciferianism
  • Satanism
    • Church of Satan
  • Setianism
Shinshukyo
  • Church of World Messianity
  • Konkokyo
  • Oomoto
  • PL Kyodan
  • Seicho-No-Ie
  • Tenrikyo

Parody or mock religions

  • Church of Euthanasia
  • Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  • Church of the SubGenius
  • Iglesia Maradoniana
  • Invisible Pink Unicorn
  • Landover Baptist Church
  • Last Thursday
  • Kibology
Others
  • Deism
  • Discordianism
  • Ethical Culture
  • Fellowship of Reason
  • Humanism
  • Jediism
  • Juche
  • Secular Humanism
  • Subud
  • Unitarian Universalism
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12y ago

There's quite a few religions around the world but here is a list of the major ones:

1. Christianity which includes Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism

2. Judaism

3. Islam

4. Buddhism

5. Hinduism

6. New Age which is growing quite quickly today

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14y ago

The six major religions of the world are:

1. Judaism

2. Christianity

3. Islam

4. Hinduism

5. Buddhism

6. Sikhism

There are many other religions and belief systems as well, including:

Secular,Nonreligious,Agnostic,Atheist,

Scientology,

Taoism.

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There are many different religions. One religion is Christianity. This is divided into 3 other religions. These religions are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Churches. There is also Islam, which is divided into 2 other religions. These are Sunnite and Shiite. Other main religions are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Sikhism. There are also Traditional Religions. I do not know exactly how many religions there are in the world but these are most of them. I do know there are atleast 7 different religions.

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The of the most practiced religions are:

  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • Hinduism
  • Taoism
  • Confucianism
  • Buddhism
  • Sikhism
  • Shinto
  • Judaism
  • Jainism
  • Bahá'í
  • Cao Đài
  • Hòa Hảo
  • Cheondoism
  • Korean shamanism
  • Tenrikyo
  • Church of World Messianity
  • Seicho-no-Ie
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The main 7 religions of the world are Christianity, Judasim. Islam, buddhist, Hindus, Jains

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15y ago

judaism,christianity,shintoism,hinduism,sihkism,

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spell it right then i will answer it, thank you tard

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Christianity,Islam, and Judism

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in chronological order for a timeline

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