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Taxonomy of Belief Systems and Traditions
Major Organized Religions
- Christianity
- Islam
- Buddhism
- Hinduism
- Sikhism
- Judaism
- Baha'i
- Zoroastrianism
- Shintoism
Denominations / Sects
- Lutheranism
- Anglicanism
- Evangelicalism
- Non-Denominational Christianity
- Baptist / Baptism
- Calvinism
- Adventism
- Anabaptism
- Pentecostalism
- Catholicism (Roman Catholicism)
- Orthodox Christianity
- Greek Orthodox Church
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Romanian Orthodox Church
- Antiochian Orthodox Church
- Armenian Orthodox Church
- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Syriac Orthodox Church
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Jehovah’s Witnesses
- FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints)
- Mormonism (LDS)
- Christian Identity
- Branch Davidianism
- Kimbanguism
- Moonies (Unification Church)
- King James Only / Sedevacantism
- Reform Judaism
- Conservative Judaism
- Messianic Judaism
- Heradi Judaism
- Isma’ilism
- Ahmadiyya
- Sunni
- Shia
- Quranism
- Wahhabism
- Nichiren Buddhism
- Zen Buddhism
- Dzogchen
- Vajrayana
- Pure Land
- Chan Buddhism
- Shingon
- True Buddha School
- Soka Gakkai
- Kammatthana
- Navayana
- Kagyu
- Ayyavazhi
- Sri Vaishnavism
- Swaminarayan
- Kashmir Shaivism
- Shaivism (general)
- Vaishnavism (general)
Philosophical Schools
- Taoism
- Gnosticism
- Theosophy
- Stoicism (not in list but comparable)
- Traditionalism
- Atheistic Satanism
- Veganism (as ideology)
- Immortalism
- Cosmotheism
- Creativity Movement
- CTMU
New Religious Movements / Syncretic Systems
- Matrixism
- Discordianism
- Pastafarianism
- Jedism
- Thelema
- Wicca
- Druidism
- Rastafarianism
- Scientology
- Heaven’s Gate
- Urantia
- Eckankar
- Falun Gong
- Happy Science
- Universe People
- Raelism
- Aetherius Society
- FIGU
- I AM Activity
- Asatru
- Rodnovery
- Mexicayotl
- Konkokyo
- Tenrikyo
- CaoDaism
- Osho / Rajneesh Movement
- Yiguandao
- Nuwuabianism
- SubGenius
- Haruhiism
- Kompimism
- Kek Cult
- Final Fantasy House
- Otherkin movement
Traditional or Tribal Spiritualities
- Animism
- Aboriginal Religions
- Native American Religions
- African Tribal Religions
- Inca Religion
- Tengrism
- Yazidism
Esoteric or Mystical Traditions
- Sufism
- Kabbalah
- Bon Po
- Kriya Yoga
- Neo-Advaita
- Bhagavata Society
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Meher Baba Movement
- Nathism
- Aghori
- Sai Baba Movement
- Dzogchen
- Buddhist Modernism
- Esoteric Hitlerism
- Typhonianism
- Temple of Set
- Order of Nine Angles
- Process Church
Spiritual Ideologies
- Thelema
- Traditionalism
- Nationalist Paganisms (Nova Roma, etc.)
- Nazism-influenced (Esoteric Hitlerism, Ortho-Fascism, Judeo-Fascism)
- Actual Idealism
- Vysasentaya Granata
- Prometheism
- Syncretic “Churches” (e.g., Johnimite Church)