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Abrahamic Religions [Edit] Abrahamic religions [edit] Main article: Abrahamic religions A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham. Babism [edit] Main article: Bábism • Azali Bahá'í Faith [edit] Main article: Bahá'í Faith Christianity [edit] Main article: Christianity See also: List of Christian denominations Catholicism Main article: Catholic Church Protestantism Main article: Protestantism Eastern Orthodoxy Main article: Eastern Orthodox Church Other Eastern Churches • Oriental Orthodox Church • Assyrian Church of the East Other groups [edit] • Bible Student movement • Christian Universalism • Latter Day Saint movement • Nontrinitarianism • Swedenborgianism • Unitarianism Druze [edit] Main article: Druze Gnosticism [edit] Main article: Gnosticism See also: List of Gnostic sects 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 Main article: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism • Sethians • Basilidians • Valentinians • Bardesanites Islam [edit] Main article: Islam See also: Islamic schools and branches Kalam Schools Main article: Kalam • Ash'ari • Kalam • Maturidi • Murji'ah • Mu'tazili Kharijite Main article: Kharijite • Ibadi (Only surviving sect) • Azraqi • Haruriyya • Sufri Shia Islam Main article: Shia Islam • Ismailism • Mustaali / Bohra • Nizari • Jafari • Twelvers • Akhbari • Shaykhi • Usuli • Alawites • Alevi / Bektashi • Zaidiyyah Sufism Main article: Sufism • Bektashi • Chishti • Mevlevi • Mujaddediyah • Naqshbandi • Jahriyya • Khufiyya • Nimatullahi • Tariqah • Quadiriyyah • Sufi Order International • Sufism Reoriented • Suhrawardiyya • Tijani • Universal Sufism • Dances of Universal Peace Sunni Islam Main article: Sunni Islam • Hanafi • Barelvi • Deobandi • Gedimu • Yihewani • Xidaotang • Hanbali • Maliki • Shafi'i • Ahl-e Hadith or Salafi Quraniyoon Main article: Quranism • Ahle Quran • Tolu-e-Islam • United Submitters International Black Muslims • Nation of Islam • Moorish Science Temple of America • 5 percenters Ahmadiyya • Ahmadiyya Muslim Community • Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement Other Islamic Groups • Ahl-e Haqq or Yarsan • Al-Fatiha Foundation • Canadian Muslim Union • European Islam • Ittifaq al-Muslimin • Jamaat al-Muslimeen • Jadid • Liberal Muslims • Muslim Canadian Congress • Mahdavia • Gohar Shahi • Messiah Foundation International • International_Spiritual_Movement_Anjuman_Serfaroshan-e-Islam • Progressive British Muslims • Progressive Muslim Union • Wahabi • Zikri Judaism [edit] Main article: Judaism See also: Jewish Denominations Rabbinic Judaism Main article: 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 Main article: Karaite Judaism Falasha or Beta Israel 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 [edit] Main article: Rastafari movement Black Hebrew Israelites [edit] Main article: Black Hebrew Israelites Mandaeans and Sabians [edit] Main articles: Mandaeism and Sabians • Mandaeism • Sabians • Sabians of Harran • Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans Samaritanism [edit] Main article: Samaritanism Shabakism [edit] Main article: Shabak people Indian religions [edit] Main article: Indian religions Indian religions, also known as dharmic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them. Ayyavazhi [edit] Main article: Ayyavazhi Bhakti movement [edit] Main article: Bhakti movement • Kabir Panth • Sant Mat • Ravidassia Religion Buddhism [edit] Main article: Schools of 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 • Drukpa Kagyu • Shangpa Kagyu • Nyingmapa • Sakyapa • Jonangpa • New Buddhist movements • Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)[6] • Diamond Way • Friends of the Western Buddhist Order • New Kadampa Tradition[7] • Share International • True Buddha School • Vipassana movement • The Osho or Rajneesh movement Din-i-Ilahi [edit] • Din-i-Ilahi Hinduism [edit] See also: Hindu denominations • Swaminarayan • Shrauta • Lingayatism • Shaivism • Shaktism • Tantrism • Ananda Marga[8] • Smartism • Vaishnavism • Gaudiya Vaishnavism • ISKCON (Hare Krishna)[9] • Hindu reform movements • Arya Samaj[10] • Brahmo Samaj • Ramakrishna Mission • Satya Dharma • Satsang of Thakur Anukulchandra • Matua Mahasangha • Hinduism in Indonesia Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy Main article: Hindu philosophy • Nyaya • Purva mimamsa • Samkhya • Vaisheshika • Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa) • Advaita Vedanta • Integral Yoga • Vishishtadvaita • Dvaita Vedanta • Yoga • Ashtanga Yoga • Bhakti Yoga • Raja yoga • Karma yoga • Jnana yoga • Kundalini yoga • Hatha yoga • Siddha Yoga • Surat Shabd Yoga • Tantric Yoga • Sahaja Yoga Jainism [edit] Main article: Jainism • Digambara • Bisapanthi[11] • Digambar Terapanth • Taran Panth • Kanji Panth[11] • Shvetambara • Svetambar Terapanth • Murtipujaka or Deravasi • Sthanakvasi Meivazhi [edit] • Meivazhi Sikhism [edit] Main article: Sikhism • Khalsa • Nihang • Amritdhari original and real Sikhs • Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs • Sahajdhari Sikh • Ravidasi Iranian religions [edit] Main article: Iranian religions • Bábism • Bahá'í Faith • Mandaeism Manichaeism [edit] • Manichaeism Mazdakism [edit] • Mazdakism Mithraism [edit] • Mithraism Yazdânism [edit] Main article: Yazdânism • Alevi • Yarsani • Yazidi Zoroastrianism / Parsi [edit] Main article: Zoroastrianism • Zurvanism East Asian religions [edit] Main article: East Asian religions Confucianism [edit] Main article: Confucianism • Neo-Confucianism • New Confucianism Shinto [edit] Main articles: Shinto and Shinto sects and schools Taoism [edit] Main article: Taoism Other [edit] • Caodaism • Chinese folk religion • Chondogyo • Falun Gong • Hoa Hao • I-Kuan Tao • Jeung San Do • Mohism • Oomoto • Seicho-No-Ie • Tenrikyo African diasporic religions [edit] See also: African diasporic religions African diasporic religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular. • Batuque • Candomblé • Dahomey mythology • Haitian mythology • Kumina • Macumba • Mami Wata • Obeah • Oyotunji • Quimbanda • Santería (Lukumi) • Umbanda[12] • Vodou • Palo Indigenous traditional religions [edit] See also: Paganism and Folk religion Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions". African [edit] Main article: African traditional religions 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 • Khoisan religion • Lozi mythology (Zambia) • Tumbuka mythology (Malawi) • Zulu mythology (South Africa) American [edit] Main article: Native American mythology • Abenaki mythology • Anishinaabe • Aztec mythology • Blackfoot mythology • Cherokee mythology • Chickasaw
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