For Those Of You With Deep Theological Questions
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:02 pm
... I can't tell you who's right, but I will tell you who's wrong. I hope this helps you on your spiritual quest:
Bábism
Azali
Bahá'í Faith
Catholicism
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
Philippine Independent Church
Polish National Catholic Church
Union of Utrecht (In communion with the Anglican Church)
Liberal Catholic Church
Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite)
Sui iuris (Including Byzantine Rite churches)
Coptic Orthodox Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Brethren
Charismatic movement
Christadelphians
Christian Israelite Church
Christian New Religious Movements
Unification Church (Moonies)
Christian Science
Children of God
Peoples Temple
Esoteric Christianity
Messianic Judaism
Pietism
Religious Society of Friends
Spiritism
Espiritismo
Swedenborgianism
Christian Spiritualism
United and uniting churches
Unitarianism
Universalism
Restorationism
Millerites
Sabbatarianism
Seventh-day Adventists
Christadelphians
Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism)
o Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
o Community of Christ
o Rigdonites
o The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
oThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. LDS)
+ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. FLDS)
oThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
Iglesia ni Cristo
Jehovah's Witnesses
Restoration Movement
Christian Gnosticism
Ebionites
Cerdonians
Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
Colorbasians
Simonians
Borborites
Cainites
Carpocratians
Ophites
Hermeticism
Medieval Gnosticism
Cathars
Bogomils
Paulicianism
Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
Mandaeanism
Manichaeism
Bagnolians
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Sethians
o Basilidians
o Thomasines
o Valentinians
+ Bardesanites
Islam
Kalam Schools
* Ash'ari
* Kalam
* Maturidi
* Murji'ah
* Mu'tazili
Kharijite
Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
* Azraqi
* Harūriyya
* Sufri
Shi'a Islam
Ismailis
o Mustaali / Bohra
* Jafari
o Twelvers
o Alawites
o Alevi / Bektashi
* Zaiddiyah
Sufism
Bektashi
* Chishti
* Mevlevi
* Naqshbandi
* Tariqah
* Quadiriyyah
* Suhrawardiyya
* Tijani
* Universal Sufism
Sunni Islam
Hanafi
o Berailvi
o Deobandi
* Hanbali
o Wahhabi
* Maliki
* Shafi'i
Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
* Ahmadiyya
* Druze
* Nation of Islam
* Moorish Science Temple of America
* United Submitters International
* Zikri
Judaism
Rabbinic JudaismRabbinic Judaism
Conservative Judaism
o Masorti
o Conservadox Judaism
+ Union for Traditional Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
o Haredi Judaism
o Hasidic Judaism
o Modern Orthodox Judaism
* Reform Judaism
* Progressive Judaism
o Liberal Judaism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Alternative Judaism
* Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
* Jewish Renewal
* Karaite Judaism
* Reconstructionist Judaism
* Essenes
* Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
* Sadducees
* Zealots
o Sicarii
* Ebionites
* Elkasites
* Nazarenes
* Sabbateans
o Frankists
Rastafari movement
Mandaeans and Sabians
Mandaeism and Sabians
Mandaeism
* Sabians
o Sabians of Harran
o Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans
Samaritanism
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
* Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
o Theravada
+ Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
+ Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
+ Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
+ Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
+ Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
+ Thai Maha Nikaya
# Dhammakaya Movement
+ Thai Thammayut Nikaya
+ Thai Forest Tradition
* Mahayana
o Humanistic Buddhism
o Madhyamika
o Nichiren Buddhism
+ Soka Gakkai
o Pure Land
o Tathagatagarbha
o Tiantai
+ Tendai
o Yogacara
o Zen
+ Caodong
+ Fuke Zen
+ Kwan Um School of Zen
+ Sanbo Kyodan
+ Sōtō
+ Ōbaku (school of Buddhism)
+ Rinzai
* Vajrayana
o Shingon Buddhism
o Tibetan Buddhism
+ Bön
+ Gelukpa
+ Kagyupa
# Dagpo Kagyu
* Karma Kagyu
* Barom Kagyu
* Tsalpa Kagyu
* Phagdru Kagyu
* Drikung Kagyu
* Drukpa Kagyu
# Shangpa Kagyu
+ Nyingmapa
+ Sakyapa
# Jonangpa
* New Buddhist movements
o Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)
o Diamond Way
o Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
o New Kadampa Tradition
o Share International
o True Buddha School
o Vipassana movement
Hinduism
* Agama Hindu Dharma
* Hindu revivalism
* Lingayatism
* Reform movements
o Arya Samaj
o Brahmo Samaj
* Shaivism
* Shaktism
* Tantrism
* Smartism
* Vaishnavism
o Gaudiya Vaishnavism
+ ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
* Nyaya
* Purva mimamsa
* Samkhya
* Vaisheshika
* Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
o Advaita Vedanta
o Integral Yoga
o Vishishtadvaita
o Dvaita Vedanta
Jainism
* Digambara
* Shvetambara
Sikhism
* Khalsa
o Nihang
* Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
* Sahajdhari Sikh
* Manichaeism
* Mazdakism
* Yazdânism
o Alevi
o Yarsani
o Yazidi
o Zurvanism
Confucianis
* Neo-Confucianism
* New Confucianism
Shinto
Taoism
* Caodaism
* Chondogyo
* Chinese folk religion
* Falun Gong
* I-Kuan Tao
* Jeung San Do
* Legalism
* Mohism
African diasporic religions
* Batuque
* Candomblé
* Dahomey mythology
* Haitian mythology
* Kumina
* Macumba
* Mami Wata
* Obeah
* Oyotunji
* Quimbanda
* Santería (Lukumi)
* Umbanda
* Vodou
* Akan mythology
* Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
* Dahomey (Fon) mythology
* Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
* Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
* Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
* Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
* Bushongo mythology (Congo)
* Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
* Lugbara mythology (Congo)
* Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
* Dinka mythology (Sudan)
* Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
* Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
* Khoikhoi mythology
* Lozi mythology (Zambia)
* Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
* Zulu mythology (South Africa)
* Abenaki mythology
* Aztec mythology
* Blackfoot mythology
* Cherokee mythology
* Chickasaw mythology
* Choctaw mythology
* Creek mythology
* Crow mythology
* Ghost Dance
* Guarani mythology
* Haida mythology
* Ho-Chunk mythology
* Hopi mythology
* Huron mythology
* Inca mythology
* Inuit mythology
* Iroquois mythology
* Kwakiutl mythology
* Lakota mythology
* Leni Lenape mythology
* Longhouse religion
* Maya mythology
* Midewiwin
* Native American Church
* Navajo mythology
* Nootka mythology
* Olmec mythology
* Pawnee mythology
* Salish mythology
* Seneca mythology
* Selk'nam religion
* Tsimshian mythology
* Urarina
* Ute mythology
* Zuni mythology
* Bön
* Chinese mythology
* Japanese mythology
* Koshinto
* Siberian Shamanism
* Tengriism
* Estonian mythology
* Eskimo religion
* Hungarian folk religion
* Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
* Tadibya
* Australian Aboriginal mythology
* Austronesian beliefs
o Balinese mythology
o Javanese beliefs
o Melanesian mythology
o Micronesian mythology
+ Modekngei
+ Nauruan indigenous religion
o Philippine mythology
+ Anito
+ Gabâ
+ Kulam
o Polynesian mythology
+ Hawaiian mythology
+ Maori mythology
# Maori religion
+ Rapa Nui mythology
# Moai
# Tangata manu
* John Frum
* Johnson cult
* Prince Philip Movement
* Vailala Madness
* Ancient Egyptian religion
* Ancient Semitic religions
* Mesopotamian mythology
o Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
o Babylonian and Assyrian religion
+ Babylonian mythology
+ Chaldean mythology
o Canaanite mythology
+ Canaanite religion
o Hittite mythology
o Persian mythology
o Sumerian mythology
o Historical Vedic religion
o Brythonic mythology
* Hungarian polytheism
* Finnish polytheism
o Eleusinian Mysteries
o Mithraism
o Orphism
* Pythagoreanism
* Anthroposophy
* Christian mysticism
* Esoteric Christianity
* Hindu mysticism
* Martinism
* Meher Baba
* Nazi mysticism
* Occultism
* Rosicrucian
o Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
o Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians
o Rosicrucian Fellowship
* Surat Shabd Yoga
o Tantra
+ Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
* Sufism
* Thelema
* Luciferianism
* Satanism
* Setianism
* Hoodoo (Rootwork)
o New Orleans Voodoo
* Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
* Magick
o Chaos magic
o Enochian magic
o Demonolatry
+ Goetia
* Pow-wow
* Seid (shamanic magic)
* Vaastu Shastra
* Witchcraft
Shinshukyo
* Church of World Messianity
* PL Kyodan
* Seicho-No-Ie
[edit] Parody or mock religions
* Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
* Church of Euthanasia
* Church of the SubGenius
* Flying Spaghetti Monster
* Invisible Pink Unicorn
* Kibology
* Landover Baptist Church
* Discordianism
* Ethical Culture
* Fellowship of Reason
* Humanism
* Secular Humanism
* Juche
* Objectivism
* Subud
* Omniquantism - the belief that if one or more omnipotent beings exist and all things are possible, then it is possible that all religions are correct simultaneously.[1]
Bábism
Azali
Bahá'í Faith
Catholicism
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
Philippine Independent Church
Polish National Catholic Church
Union of Utrecht (In communion with the Anglican Church)
Liberal Catholic Church
Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite)
Sui iuris (Including Byzantine Rite churches)
Coptic Orthodox Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Brethren
Charismatic movement
Christadelphians
Christian Israelite Church
Christian New Religious Movements
Unification Church (Moonies)
Christian Science
Children of God
Peoples Temple
Esoteric Christianity
Messianic Judaism
Pietism
Religious Society of Friends
Spiritism
Espiritismo
Swedenborgianism
Christian Spiritualism
United and uniting churches
Unitarianism
Universalism
Restorationism
Millerites
Sabbatarianism
Seventh-day Adventists
Christadelphians
Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism)
o Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
o Community of Christ
o Rigdonites
o The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
oThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. LDS)
+ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. FLDS)
oThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
Iglesia ni Cristo
Jehovah's Witnesses
Restoration Movement
Christian Gnosticism
Ebionites
Cerdonians
Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
Colorbasians
Simonians
Borborites
Cainites
Carpocratians
Ophites
Hermeticism
Medieval Gnosticism
Cathars
Bogomils
Paulicianism
Tondrakians
Persian Gnosticism
Mandaeanism
Manichaeism
Bagnolians
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Sethians
o Basilidians
o Thomasines
o Valentinians
+ Bardesanites
Islam
Kalam Schools
* Ash'ari
* Kalam
* Maturidi
* Murji'ah
* Mu'tazili
Kharijite
Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
* Azraqi
* Harūriyya
* Sufri
Shi'a Islam
Ismailis
o Mustaali / Bohra
* Jafari
o Twelvers
o Alawites
o Alevi / Bektashi
* Zaiddiyah
Sufism
Bektashi
* Chishti
* Mevlevi
* Naqshbandi
* Tariqah
* Quadiriyyah
* Suhrawardiyya
* Tijani
* Universal Sufism
Sunni Islam
Hanafi
o Berailvi
o Deobandi
* Hanbali
o Wahhabi
* Maliki
* Shafi'i
Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
* Ahmadiyya
* Druze
* Nation of Islam
* Moorish Science Temple of America
* United Submitters International
* Zikri
Judaism
Rabbinic JudaismRabbinic Judaism
Conservative Judaism
o Masorti
o Conservadox Judaism
+ Union for Traditional Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
o Haredi Judaism
o Hasidic Judaism
o Modern Orthodox Judaism
* Reform Judaism
* Progressive Judaism
o Liberal Judaism
Non-Rabbinic Judaism
Alternative Judaism
* Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
* Jewish Renewal
* Karaite Judaism
* Reconstructionist Judaism
* Essenes
* Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
* Sadducees
* Zealots
o Sicarii
* Ebionites
* Elkasites
* Nazarenes
* Sabbateans
o Frankists
Rastafari movement
Mandaeans and Sabians
Mandaeism and Sabians
Mandaeism
* Sabians
o Sabians of Harran
o Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans
Samaritanism
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
* Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
o Theravada
+ Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
+ Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
+ Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
+ Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
+ Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
+ Thai Maha Nikaya
# Dhammakaya Movement
+ Thai Thammayut Nikaya
+ Thai Forest Tradition
* Mahayana
o Humanistic Buddhism
o Madhyamika
o Nichiren Buddhism
+ Soka Gakkai
o Pure Land
o Tathagatagarbha
o Tiantai
+ Tendai
o Yogacara
o Zen
+ Caodong
+ Fuke Zen
+ Kwan Um School of Zen
+ Sanbo Kyodan
+ Sōtō
+ Ōbaku (school of Buddhism)
+ Rinzai
* Vajrayana
o Shingon Buddhism
o Tibetan Buddhism
+ Bön
+ Gelukpa
+ Kagyupa
# Dagpo Kagyu
* Karma Kagyu
* Barom Kagyu
* Tsalpa Kagyu
* Phagdru Kagyu
* Drikung Kagyu
* Drukpa Kagyu
# Shangpa Kagyu
+ Nyingmapa
+ Sakyapa
# Jonangpa
* New Buddhist movements
o Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)
o Diamond Way
o Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
o New Kadampa Tradition
o Share International
o True Buddha School
o Vipassana movement
Hinduism
* Agama Hindu Dharma
* Hindu revivalism
* Lingayatism
* Reform movements
o Arya Samaj
o Brahmo Samaj
* Shaivism
* Shaktism
* Tantrism
* Smartism
* Vaishnavism
o Gaudiya Vaishnavism
+ ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
* Nyaya
* Purva mimamsa
* Samkhya
* Vaisheshika
* Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
o Advaita Vedanta
o Integral Yoga
o Vishishtadvaita
o Dvaita Vedanta
Jainism
* Digambara
* Shvetambara
Sikhism
* Khalsa
o Nihang
* Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
* Sahajdhari Sikh
* Manichaeism
* Mazdakism
* Yazdânism
o Alevi
o Yarsani
o Yazidi
o Zurvanism
Confucianis
* Neo-Confucianism
* New Confucianism
Shinto
Taoism
* Caodaism
* Chondogyo
* Chinese folk religion
* Falun Gong
* I-Kuan Tao
* Jeung San Do
* Legalism
* Mohism
African diasporic religions
* Batuque
* Candomblé
* Dahomey mythology
* Haitian mythology
* Kumina
* Macumba
* Mami Wata
* Obeah
* Oyotunji
* Quimbanda
* Santería (Lukumi)
* Umbanda
* Vodou
* Akan mythology
* Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
* Dahomey (Fon) mythology
* Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
* Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
* Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
* Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
* Bushongo mythology (Congo)
* Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
* Lugbara mythology (Congo)
* Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
* Dinka mythology (Sudan)
* Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
* Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
* Khoikhoi mythology
* Lozi mythology (Zambia)
* Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
* Zulu mythology (South Africa)
* Abenaki mythology
* Aztec mythology
* Blackfoot mythology
* Cherokee mythology
* Chickasaw mythology
* Choctaw mythology
* Creek mythology
* Crow mythology
* Ghost Dance
* Guarani mythology
* Haida mythology
* Ho-Chunk mythology
* Hopi mythology
* Huron mythology
* Inca mythology
* Inuit mythology
* Iroquois mythology
* Kwakiutl mythology
* Lakota mythology
* Leni Lenape mythology
* Longhouse religion
* Maya mythology
* Midewiwin
* Native American Church
* Navajo mythology
* Nootka mythology
* Olmec mythology
* Pawnee mythology
* Salish mythology
* Seneca mythology
* Selk'nam religion
* Tsimshian mythology
* Urarina
* Ute mythology
* Zuni mythology
* Bön
* Chinese mythology
* Japanese mythology
* Koshinto
* Siberian Shamanism
* Tengriism
* Estonian mythology
* Eskimo religion
* Hungarian folk religion
* Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
* Tadibya
* Australian Aboriginal mythology
* Austronesian beliefs
o Balinese mythology
o Javanese beliefs
o Melanesian mythology
o Micronesian mythology
+ Modekngei
+ Nauruan indigenous religion
o Philippine mythology
+ Anito
+ Gabâ
+ Kulam
o Polynesian mythology
+ Hawaiian mythology
+ Maori mythology
# Maori religion
+ Rapa Nui mythology
# Moai
# Tangata manu
* John Frum
* Johnson cult
* Prince Philip Movement
* Vailala Madness
* Ancient Egyptian religion
* Ancient Semitic religions
* Mesopotamian mythology
o Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
o Babylonian and Assyrian religion
+ Babylonian mythology
+ Chaldean mythology
o Canaanite mythology
+ Canaanite religion
o Hittite mythology
o Persian mythology
o Sumerian mythology
o Historical Vedic religion
o Brythonic mythology
* Hungarian polytheism
* Finnish polytheism
o Eleusinian Mysteries
o Mithraism
o Orphism
* Pythagoreanism
* Anthroposophy
* Christian mysticism
* Esoteric Christianity
* Hindu mysticism
* Martinism
* Meher Baba
* Nazi mysticism
* Occultism
* Rosicrucian
o Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
o Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians
o Rosicrucian Fellowship
* Surat Shabd Yoga
o Tantra
+ Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
* Sufism
* Thelema
* Luciferianism
* Satanism
* Setianism
* Hoodoo (Rootwork)
o New Orleans Voodoo
* Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
* Magick
o Chaos magic
o Enochian magic
o Demonolatry
+ Goetia
* Pow-wow
* Seid (shamanic magic)
* Vaastu Shastra
* Witchcraft
Shinshukyo
* Church of World Messianity
* PL Kyodan
* Seicho-No-Ie
[edit] Parody or mock religions
* Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
* Church of Euthanasia
* Church of the SubGenius
* Flying Spaghetti Monster
* Invisible Pink Unicorn
* Kibology
* Landover Baptist Church
* Discordianism
* Ethical Culture
* Fellowship of Reason
* Humanism
* Secular Humanism
* Juche
* Objectivism
* Subud
* Omniquantism - the belief that if one or more omnipotent beings exist and all things are possible, then it is possible that all religions are correct simultaneously.[1]