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This page provides a list of religions categorised according to a series of traditions, each of which share similarities in practices and subjects of belief. These categorisations are made according to Astronist scholarship and Astronist theory.
The ten traditions recognised in Astronist scholarship are the following: Abrahamic, Astronic, Dharmic, Indigenous, Iranian, Neoreligion, Pagan, Secularistic, Spiritualistic, and Taoic.
List of religions by tradition[]
Abrahamic (Abrahamism):[]
Major groups:[]
- Baha'i Faith
- Christianity (Major groups: Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Protestantism), (Minor groups: Christian Universalism, Church of the East, Ecclesia Gnostica, Esoteric Christianity, Eastern Lightning, Nontrinitarianism, Proto-Protestantism, Reformed Eastern Christianity, Spiritual Christianity, and Unification Church), (Fringe movements: Christian Identity, Christian Science, Indian Shaker Church, Native American Church).
- Islam (Major groups: Shia Islam, Sufism, and Sunni Islam), (Minor groups: Ahmadiyya, Ali-Illahism, Five-Percent Nation, Khawarij, European Islam, Jamaat al Muslimeen, Mahdavism, Moorish Science Temple of America, Nation of Islam, Quranism, and Xidaotang).
- Judaism (Denominations: Haymanot, Karaite, Kabbalah, Jewish Science, Noahidism, Rabbinic, Samaritanism, and Subbotniks).
Minor groups:[]
- Black Hebrew Israelites
- Druze
- Gnosticism
- Rastafarianism
- Satanism (Denominations: Black Order, Church of Satan, LaVeyan Satanism, Luciferianism, Order of Nine Angles, Temple of Set, Theistic Satanism, The Satanic Temple.
- Shabakism
Astronic religions (Astronicism):[]
Astronomical religions (Astronomism): []
Extant:
- Astronism (astrony) (Major groups: Institutional Astronism) (Minor groups: Astronist Church)
- Astrolatrism (astrolatry)
- Astrology (astromancy)
- Russian cosmism
- Planet worship
Non-extant:
- Archaeoastronism (List of branches)
- Proto-astralism
- North Star cult
- Solar religion
- Star-cults
- Stonehenge religion
- Asteria
- Astraea
- Astraeus
- Moon temple
- Moon worship
- Sun temple
- Sun worship
- Morning Star
- Sabaism
- Stellar deity (List)
- New Age (not millenarian)
- Mormonism (not the Latter-Day Saints)
Nature religions (Naturism):[]
- Animism
- Dark Green religion
- Earth religion
- Ecospirituality
- Gaianism
- Green religion
- Naturalism
- Neopaganism
- New Age
- Religious naturalism
- Totemism
- Wicca
Humanic religions (Humanicism): []
- Anthroposophy
- Ethical movement
- Freethought
- Humanism
- Nontheism
- Omnism
- Religious humanism
- Transhumanism
- Singularitarianism
- Unitarian Universalism
- Yoism
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- Ancient Egyptian religion
- Anthroposophy
- Aztec religion
- Babylonian religion
- Mandaeism
- Mayan religion
- Mesopotamian religion
- Native American religion
- Neopaganism
- Shamanism
- Shang-Zhou theology
- Sumerian religion
- Zoroastrianism
- Zuni religion
Dharmic religions (Dharmism):[]
Major groups:[]
- Hinduism (Major groups: Ayyavazhi, Shaivism, Shaktism, Smartism, Śrauta, Trantrism, and Vaishnavism) (Minor groups: Bhakti movement and Neo-Hinduism)
- Buddhism (Major groups: Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana) (Minor groups: American Buddhism, Humanistic Buddhism, Neo-Buddhist movement, and Nikaya Buddhism)
- Jainism (Digambara and Śvētāmbara)
- Sikhism
Minor groups:[]
Indigenous religions (Indigenism)[]
African Traditional religions:[]
- Akan religion
- Akamba religion
- Baluba mythology
- Bantu mythology
- Berber religion
- Bushongo mythology
- Dinka religion
- Efik mythology
- Fon and Ewe religion
- Igbo religion
- Ik religion
- Lotuko mythology
- Lozi mythology
- Lugbara mythology
- Maasai mythology
- Mbuti mythology
- San religion
- Serer religion
- Tumbuka mythology
- Urhobo people
- Waaq
- Yoruba religion
Afro-American religions:[]
- Abakuá
- Candomblé
- Comfa
- Convince
- Cuban Vodú
- Dominican Vudú
- Espiritismo
- Haitian Vodou
- Hoodoo
- Jamaican Maroon religion
- Kélé
- Kumina
- Louisiana Voodoo
- Montamentu
- Myal
- Obeah
- Palo
- Quimbanda
- Santería
- Tambor de Mina
- Trinidad Orisha
- Umbanda
- Winti
Altaic religions[]
- Evenki shamanism
- Manchu shamanism
- Turkic-Mongolic religion (Denominations: Burkhanism, Tengrism, and Vattisen Yaly)
Native American religions:[]
- Abenaki mythology
- Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
- Blackfoot mythology
- Californian religions
- Cherokee mythology
- Chilote mythology
- Choctaw mythology
- Creek mythology
- Guarani mythology
- Haida mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Hopi mythology
- Iroquois mythology
- Jivaroan religion
- Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology
- Lakota mythology
- Lenape mythology
- Mapuche religion
- Mesoamerican religion
- Midewiwin
- Muisca mythology
- Navajo religion
- Nuu-chah-nulth mythology
- Pawnee mythology
- Tsimshian mythology
- Ute mythology
- Zuni mythology
Austronesian religions:[]
- Batak Parmalim
- Dayak religion
- Javanese Kejawèn
- Karo Pemena
- Malaysian folk religion
- Philippine Dayawism
- Polynesian mythology
- Sumbese Marapu
- Sundanese Wiwitan
Tibetic religions:[]
- Burmese folk religion
- Benzhuism
- Bimoism
- Bathouism
- Bongthingism
- Donyi-Polo
- Qiang folk religion
- Sanamahism
Uralic religions:[]
Other indigenous religions:[]
- Adyghe Habze
- Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology
- Dravidian folk religion
- Inuit religion
- Papuan mythology
- Santa Muerte
- Siberian shamanism
Iranian religions: []
Extant groups:[]
Historical/Extinct groups:[]
Neopagan religions (Neopaganism):[]
Ethnic neopaganism:[]
- Abkhaz neopaganism
- Armenian neopaganism
- Baltic neopaganism
- Caucasian neopaganism
- Celtic neopaganism
- Dievturība
- Estonian neopaganism
- Finnish neopaganism
- Heathenry
- Hellenism
- Hungarian neopaganism
- Italo-Roman neopaganism
- Kemetism
- Romuva
- Semitic neopaganism
- Slavic neopaganism
- Zalmoxianism
- Zuism
Syncretic neopaganism:[]
- Adonism
- Church of All Worlds
- Church of Aphrodite
- Feraferia
- Goddess movement
- Neo-Druidism
- Neoshamanism
- Pow-wow
- Radical Faeries
- Summum
- Technopaganism
- Wicca
Neoreligions:[]
Neoreligions or new religious movements are religions that hold their origins after 1850 and that do not belong to any other recognised religious tradition. Only extant groups are listed here as short-lived religions, parody religions, cults, and cargo cults are not included.
Entheogenic religions:[]
- Church of the Universe
- Neo-American Church
- Santo Daime
- Temple of the True Inner Light
- Tensegrity
- THC Ministry
- União do Vegetal
Fringe religions:[]
Fringe religions in the neoreligious category are religions which cannot be categorised into any of the subcategories of neoreligion and are therefore considered to exist on the fringes of neoreligion.
- Adidam
- Brahmoism
- Eckankar
- Fourth Way
- Rajneesh movement
- The Family International
- The Circle of Reason
Neo-ethnic religions:[]
New Thought:[]
- Church of Divine Science
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- Religious Science
- Seicho-no-Ie
- Unity Church
Post-theistic religions:[]
UFO religions:[]
Western esotericism:[]
- Builders of the Adytum
- Chaos magic
- Fraternitas Saturni
- Fraternity of the Inner Light
- Hermeticism
- Illuminates of Thanateros
- New Acropolis
- Ordo Aurum Solis
- Rosicrucianism
- Servants of the Light
- Thelema
- Theosophy
Secularistic religions:[]
- Anarchism
- Capitalism
- Civil religion
- Communism
- Cult of Reason
- Cult of the Supreme Being
- Fascism
- Juche
- Kemalism
- Maoism
- Marxism-Leninism
- Nationalism
- Nazism
- Religion of Humanity
- Scientism
- Stalinism
- State atheism
- Statolatry
Spiritualistic religions:[]
Major groups:
Minor groups:
Taoic religions:[]
Major groups:[]
- Chinese salvationist religions
- Confucianism
- Shenism (Luoism, Nuo folk religion, and Yao folk religion)
- Shintoism
- Taoism
Minor groups: []
- Benzhuism
- Caodaism
- Cheondoism
- Church of Perfect Liberty
- Church of World Messianity
- Daesun Jinrihoe
- Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương
- Đạo Dừa
- Falun Gong
- Happy Science
- Hòa Hảo
- Jeung San Do
- Konkokyo
- Korean shamanism (Daejongism and Gasin faith)
- Manchu folk religion
- Miao folk religion
- Mohism (historical)
- Moism
- Oomoto
- Ryukyuan religion
- Seicho-no-le
- Shinmeiaishinkai
- Suwunism
- Tenrikyo
- Xiantiandao
- Zenrinkyo