List of Religions

LIST OF RELIGIONS
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MONISTIC RELIGIONS

              Hinduism: Devotional (bhakti)
                              Philosophical (jnana)
                               Duty-based (dharma)
                               Meditational (raja)
                 Western adaptations of selected Hindu ideas:
                               New Age movement
                               Hare Krishna
                               Transcendental Meditation

              Buddhism: Theraveda (example: Vietnamese)
                               Mahayana (example: Chinese, Japanese)
                               Tantric (example: Tibetan)
                               Zen Buddhism
                               Newer Japanese schools (like Sokka Gakkai)

Jainism

MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS

                Judaism: Orthodox
                             Conservative
                             reform
                             reconstructionist
                             Hasidic
                             mystical (Kabballah)

                 Islam: Orthodox (Sunni and Shi’a)
                            repristine (like Wahhabbism)
                            mystical (like Sufism)
                            Folk Islam (mixed with original traditions of host country)

                  Derived from Christianity
                            Jehovah's Witnesses
                            Christian Science

MORE THAN ONE SPIRIT: animism in general

African tribal religion

Native American religion

Hmong religion

Shinto (Japanese)

Chinese traditional religion

Korean religion

Taoism (religious, not philosophical)

Rastafarianism

Wicca

Mormonism

RELIGIONS THAT DO NOT EMPHASIZE SUPERNATURAL

Confucianism

COMBINED RELIGIONS

Baha’i

Sikkhism

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