Religion Types in the World Latest Update
You will surprise after knowing how big the list is and how many types of believers around the world on same Almighty.
79 entries are listed here. It is simply impossible to list all varieties ofreligion1. Items in lower case are classes of religion and not actual religions. For example, "theism" is any religion that contains god(s), and "polytheism" is a form of theism.
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Description
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God(s)?
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Afterlife?
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Holy
Texts?
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agnosticism
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Belief that (1) God, if it exists,
is by nature unknowable and will always be unknowable, or, (2) that the
individual being asked cannot conclude if god exists or not for lack of
evidence one way or the other
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Atheiaast/monotheist
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Not defined
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None
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Amish
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Peaceful Christian fundamentalist
group famous for its rejection of technology and strict adherence to OT and
NT laws
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Heaven or hell
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ancestor worship
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Belief that good relations need to
be kept with tribal ancestor spirits. Often a form of Shamanism
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Not defined
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Yes
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None
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animism
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The belief that all objects
contain spirits. More a traditional form of belief that a
"religion" in the Western sense
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Not defined
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Not defined
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None
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Asatrú
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A modern uptake of Nordic religion
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Polytheist
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Other
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None
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Either (1) the active and
extrinsic disbelief that God exists, or (2) an intrinsic lack of belief due
to lack of knowledge about god(s) in local culture
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Not defined
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None
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Dangerous and violent religious
community responsible for the 1995 Sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway and
other crimes. Eventually they apologized, stopped using the Bible, and formed
the more prosaic group called Aleph
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Theist
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Yes
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The Bible and other
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Bahá'í Faith
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Belief that a series of prophets
have come from God, and that Bahá'í is the latest religion founded by God. A
liberal offshoot of Islam, but persecuted in Iran
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Yes
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Writings of founder and leaders
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Brahma Kumari
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This group are preparing to rule
the world after a coming apocalypse, and embrace many practices which are now
called New Age
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Writings of founder and leaders
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Apocalyptic suicide cult famed for
its dramatic armed fight against authorities in the town of Waco, USA, in
1993
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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The belief that meditation and
good living can break the cycle of reincarnation and result in enlightenment
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Reincarnation until escape
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Multifaceted
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Modern reconstructions of Celtic
paganism form part of the neo-pagan range of religions
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Not known
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None
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A series of civilisations on Earth
have arisen but destroyed themselves in nuclear war. Each time, some faithful
believers were rescued by flying saucers and put back on Earth
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Theist
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Yes
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Chinese religion
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A varied cultural religion
practiced traditionally on a town-by-town and region-by-region basis
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Reincarnation until escape
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None
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Christadelphians
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Bible-based Christianity
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Heaven or hell
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Fundamentalist Anti-science
flat-earth Christian cult, who also predicted the End of the World would
occur 4 different times
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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Belief that a single creator god
had a son, Jesus Christ, born to a human mother, and that Jesus' crucifixion
by the Romans brings salvation
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Heaven or hell
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Fundamentalist Christians active
in USA, Israel and Greece who expected the end of the world in year 2000,
starting with a nuclear attack on the USA, which they appeared to be trying
to instigate themselves
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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Confucianism
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A collection of ethical and moral
teachings
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None
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A millenarian cult based on the
belief that Jesus would return to judge survivors in 1999. Suspected of being
on the verge of mass suicide after predictions of the end of the world failed
in year 2000
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Theist
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Yes
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Belief in a single creator god who
is not "personal" and does not have human emotions, and which many
believers say does not interact with the world
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Not defined
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None
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Divine Lightmission
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A self-help religious group
involving meditation, with few fixed beliefs
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Hard to tell
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None
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Druidism
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Celtic religion in prehistoric
England, famous for building Stonehenge. Modern reconstructed Druidism is
part of the neo-pagan range of religions
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Not known
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Not known
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None
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Druze
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A semi-secretive esoteric religion
with features of a Mystery Religion
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Qur'an,
Rasa'il al-hikma (Epistles of Wisdom)
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dualism
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Belief that either (1) There is a
good and evil god of equal, or almost-equal power, or (2) there are two gods,
such as a male and female one
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Dualist
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Not defined
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Multifaceted
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1st century Jewish Christians,
possibly the earliest form of Christianity to exist
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Early version of the Gospel of Matthew
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New Age religion, a mix of Sant
Mat, Theosophy and Scientology
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Reincarnation until escape
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Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad2
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The belief that we must escape
from this world, which was created and is ruled by an inferior and unworthy
god, and reunite with the true god
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Polytheist
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Multifaceted
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Hare Krishna
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The embracing of Krishna through
correct living, honesty, spiritual life and austerity
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Polytheist
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Reincarnation until escape
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Various Indian scriptures
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Modern uptake of Nordic religion.
Part of the neo-pagan range of religions
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Polytheist
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None
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Apocalyptic suicide cult who
combined Biblical eschatology with New Age and ideas about UFOs. All 39
members committed suicide in San Diego, USA in 1997
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Theist
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Yes
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Cultural religion of India which
was historically decentralized and disparate and not a single belief system.
Western influence made it into a single religion, an identity which Hindus
now accept.
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Polytheist
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Reincarnation until escape
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Multifaceted
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Sexually promiscuous group who
fell foul of police suspicion. As is often the case, increasing pressure from
outside resulted in the group retreating even further into insanity, and they
became The Family, predicting the end of the world
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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An organized form of atheism where
moral and ethical goodness is emphasized
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None
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None
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Strict monotheism taught by
Muhammad, the world's 2nd largest religion
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Heaven or hell
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Qur'an
and Hadiths
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Jain
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Beliefs include non-violence and
equality of all living things
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Reincarnation until escape
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Multifaceted
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A campaign saw many put this down
as their religion on the UK census in 2001. Midichlorians exist in all living
beings, which create a 'living force' that can be interacted with
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Animist
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Select few
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None
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Jehovah's Witnesses
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A 140-year-old Christian
fundamentalist/literalist organisation famous for preaching that the world is
about to end (nowadays - because of the existence of the United Nations)
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Other
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Organized Judaism emerged from
Babylonian writings. Belief that God has a special contract with a Hebrew
tribe, involving many specific rules of behaviour
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Yes
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Mennonite
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A Protestant Christian
denomination
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Heaven or hell
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Roman mystery religion that
believed that the Son of the Sun was a saviour who was sacrificed for the
good of all
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Yes
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Not known
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Belief in a single creator god
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Theist
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Not defined
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Multifaceted
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Mysticism
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The belief that God is unknowable
but accessible, and that doctrinal religion hampers spiritual growth
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Not defined
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Not defined
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Multifaceted
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Native American Church
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Beliefs vary from tribe to tribe
and are sometimes noticeably Christian
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None
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A disparate and diverse collection
of popular beliefs and practices
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Not defined
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Other
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None
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The rise secularisation has seen
public and private religion decline throughout the developed world
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Not defined
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Not defined
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None
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occultism
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Normally existing within other
belief systems, occult systems concentrate on esoteric meanings in texts,
often with magical undertones
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Not defined
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Not defined
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Multifaceted
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Apocalyptic suicide cult, with
mass suicides in Switzerland, France and Quebec, in preparation for Jesus'
second coming
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Theist
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Yes
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The Bible and other
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Part of the neo-pagan range of
religions
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Polytheist
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Yes
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None
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pantheism
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God is everywhere, and everything,
but is not transcendent and may have no distinct consciousness
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None
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Apocalyptic suicide cult that
imploded, resulting in the deaths of over 600 adults and 276 children
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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polytheism
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Belief in multiple gods, often in
some form of hierarchy
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Theist
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Not defined
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Multifaceted
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Raja Yoga
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An astika school of Hindu
philosophy based around mastering and quieting the mind, involving meditation
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Polytheist
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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Rastafarian
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God (called Jah) fathered a black
Jesus; marijuana use in rituals
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The Bible (generally)
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Ravidassia
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Souls are part of the divine and
proper living allows us to realize God
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Amritbani Guru Ravidass Ji
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Salvation Army
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Christian organisation of
evangelists organised along military lines, famous for charity work
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Heaven or hell
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Santería
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A combination of West African,
Caribbean beliefs with some elements of Roman Catholicism
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None
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An atheist religion that uses dark
and evil symbology for self-development and anti-religious purposes - Satan
itself is not a real being, just a symbol.
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None
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Writings of founder and leaders
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Scientology
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Derived from the writings of
science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, a series of practices called Dianetics
is used to clear minds of alien influences and attain a state of mental
perfection
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Reincarnation
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Writings of founder and leaders
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Belief that Shamans need to keep
good relations with tribal ancestor spirits for the good fortune of the whole
tribe
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Not defined
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Yes
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None
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Shinto
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Official collection of practices
in Japan, more cultural than religious
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Various
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Sikhism
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Prayer, meditation and self
control to become a soldier of God.
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Reincarnation until escape
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Sri Guru Granth Sahib and others
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Spiritualism
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The belief that the souls of the
dead communicate with the living, mostly through Mediums, but, suffered
serious credibility problems with the original founders admitted to
fraudulently inventing the 'rappings' that formed the communications
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Not defined
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Yes
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None
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Taoism
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A relaxed and peaceful religion
based on following and accepting the flow of life
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None
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Tao Te Ching
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The belief in god(s)
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Multifaceted
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Thelema
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A magical system of discerning
True Will with inspiration from a host of Egyptian gods
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Polytheist
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Book of the Law
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Theosophy
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Mired in fraud arrests and
exposés, the Spiritualism scene had soured, so Madame Blavatsky reinvented
her routine as a new religion, using an Indian theme.
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Yes
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Traditional African Church
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A range of Churches ranging from
mostly Christian, to those mostly encapsulating native African spirituality
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Unification Church
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Sun Myung Moon embodied the Second
Coming of Christ, and his commercialist church runs a media empire
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Heaven or hell
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The Bible and The Exposition of the Divine
Principle
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Unitarianism
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A liberal and non-Trinitarian
Christian church
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Unitarian-Universalism
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A liberal and diverse pluralist
religion accepting of believers without needing them to leave their current
religions
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Not defined
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Heaven or hell
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Multifaceted
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Unitas Fratrum
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A Protestant Christian
denomination
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Heaven or hell
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Belief that all people go to
heaven
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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Multifaceted
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A traditional religion from Haiti
with an ethical focus on combating greed and promoting honour
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None
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Neo-pagan organisation based
around reconstructed elements of folklore
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Dualist
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Not defined
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None
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Witchcraft
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A description of various cultural
practices, which are often part of a parent belief system
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Not defined
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Not defined
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Multifaceted
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An ancient religion. Malek Taus
looks after the world with 6 other angels. Heavily persecuted by Muslims and
accused of Devil Worship.
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Reincarnation
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Yezidi Book of Revelation &
Black Book
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As this group got more and more
excited about establishing a Kingdom of God, in the approach to year 2000,
its leaders were arrested amid fears that it would turn into a suicide cult
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Theist
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Yes
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Zoroastrianism
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An ancient dualistic religion from
Iran with one good god (Ahura Mazda) and one evil one (Ahriman)
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Dualist
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Avesta
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Source: http://www.humanreligions.info
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