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More of the World's Religious Traditions

Here are some important Traditions that help fill in the big picture - ancient religions, indigenous religions, non-religious "systems", and some additional traditions related to the Major Traditions in the main Patheos Library.

Ancient Religions

Ancient indigenous Egyptian religion can be traced by to the 4th millennium B.C.E. These...

Ancient Germanic religion refers to the complex system of beliefs, practices, stories, and...

Ancient Greek religion refers to the religious beliefs, practices, and philosophy of the...

Ancient Israelite Religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Israel...

Ancient Meso-American Religion refers to variety of beliefs, practices, and rituals of the...

Ancient Mesopotamian Religion refers to the various religions traditions of the people who...

Ancient Roman Religion refers to the indigenous religious beliefs and practices of the people...

Indigenous South American religions are as varied as the 1,500 languages they represent. Like...

Buddhism Related

Buddhism in America

Buddhism in America has taken a different trajectory compared to other areas and regions...

Soka Gakkai (also spelled Sōka-Gokkai, meaning "Society for Creating Values") is a lay...

Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is a distinct form of Mahayana Buddhism that formed in Tibet after it was...

Christianity Related

The Black Church is a term applied to the predominately African-American Christian churches...

Christian Fundamentalism

Christian Fundamentalism is a conservative movement within American Protestantism which aims...

Christian Mysticism

Christian Mysticism refers to the Christian religious traditions in which believers strive to...

Eastern Rite Catholicism

Eastern Rite Catholicism, also known as the Eastern Catholic Church or Uniat(e) Churches,...

Evangelicalism generically refers to a conservative branch of Protestant Christianity, but...

Gnosticism (derived from Greek gnōsis meaning "knowledge") refers to a philosophical and...

Old Catholicism

Old Catholicism, also commonly called the Old Catholic Church, refers to any groups of...

Roman Catholic Orders

Roman Catholic Orders are associations of men and women within the Roman Catholic Church who...

The Shakers (the common name for the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second...

World Marian Movement

The World Marian Movement (also commonly referred to as "devotion to Mary" or the "cult of...

Indigenous Religions

African Indigenous Religion refers to the vast number and diversity of religions native to...

Indigenous Afro-Brazilian Religion refers to the unique religious traditions in Brazil due to...

Indigenous Afro-Caribbean Religion refers to the new religious movements within the Caribbean...

Indigenous Australian Religion refers to the beliefs and practices of the Aborigines native...

Indigenous Korean Religion refers to the ancient native agricultural and shamanistic...

Indigenous North American religions include a multiplicity of localized traditions determined...

Indigenous Oceania Religion refers the various beliefs and practices of the people in the...

Indigenous South American religions are as varied as the 1,500 languages they represent. Like...

Islam Related

Islamic Fundamentalism

Islamic Fundamentalism refers to the philosophy or theological approach of certain groups...

Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam refers to an African American movement founded in 1930 by Wallace D. Fard...

Wahhābī Islam (also called Muwahhidūn meaning "Unitarians") is a puritan movement within...

Judaism Related

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism (also called Chasidic Judaism or Hasidism) refers to an orthodox Jewish...

Kabbalah (also spelled Qabbalah, Cabbalah, or Kabala) is an esoteric Jewish mysticism which...

Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism (also known as Reconstructionism) is a 20th century CE American...

Ultra Orthodox Judaism

Jewish Fundamentalism refers to three different strands of Judaism that stress the necessity...

Near East/Indian

Tantra represents any of a great variety of texts containing the esoteric beliefs and...

Zoroastrianism is the ancient Iranian, pre-Islamic religion of the followers of the Persian...

Non-Religious Paths

Agnosticism (from the Greek agnōstos meaning "unknowable") refers to the doctrine or ideology...

Atheism generally refers to a critical ideology that rejects metaphysical beliefs in God.

Secular Humanism

Secular Humanism refers to an ideology which bases its morality and decision-making on the...

Other New Religions

Cao Dai (also known as Caodaism or Dao Cao Dai) meaning "High Tower" is a modern,...

Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa - Falun Gong refers to the practice where Falun Dafa...

Juche (also known as Kimilsungism) is the only government-recognized ideology within North...

Unification Church

The Unification Church, byname of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World...

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