The true religion.

In response to the hell-fire threat in this thread:

Here is a partial list of religions. Many others have existed in the past and will exist in the future.

In some only believers are saved, in others good people are saved, in others all people go to some kind of spirit realm, in others the soul is reincarnated, in others the ancestors live among us and can speak to us through the shamens,
and in some... all are doomed.

Take your pick. Just remember: the fate of your soul depends on your answer.

Abrahamic religions
Main article: Abrahamic religions

A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.

[edit] Bábism
Main article: Bábism

* Azali

[edit] Bahá'í Faith
Main article: Bahá'í Faith

[edit] Christianity
Main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations

[edit] Catholicism
Main article: Catholicism

Western

* Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

* Independent Catholic Churches
o Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
o Heenum Catholic Church
o Philippine Independent Church (In communion with the Anglican Church and the Union of Utrecht)
o Polish National Catholic Church
o Union of Utrecht (In communion with the Anglican Church)

* Old Catholicism
o Liberal Catholic Church

* Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite)
o Sui iuris (Including Byzantine Rite churches)
o Traditionalist Catholicism

Eastern

* Eastern Catholicism (Eastern Churches in Communion with Rome)

* Eastern Orthodoxy
o Eastern Orthodox Church
+ Bulgarian Orthodox Church
+ Georgian Orthodox Church
+ Greek Orthodox Church
+ Romanian Orthodox Church
+ Russian Orthodox Church
+ Serbian Orthodox Church
+ Ukrainian Orthodox Church


* Oriental Orthodoxy
o Armenian Apostolic Church
o Coptic Orthodox Church
o Ethiopian Orthodox Church

* Syriac Christianity
o Assyrian Church of the East
o Indian Orthodox Church
+ Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (In full communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
+ Syriac Orthodox Church (In full communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
o Mar Thoma Church (In full communion with the Anglican Church in India)
o Syriac Catholic Church (In full communion with Rome)

[edit] Protestantism
Main article: Protestantism

* Anglicanism (via media between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism)
o Anglican Communion
+ Church of England
+ Church of Ireland
+ Church of Wales
+ Episcopal Church (United States)
+ Scottish Episcopal Church
* Pre-Lutheran Protestants
o Hussites
o Lollards
o Waldensians
* Anabaptists
o Amish
o Brethren in Christ
o Church of the Brethren
o Hutterites
o Mennonites
o Old German Baptist Brethren
* Baptists
* Brethren
* Catholic Apostolic Church
* Charismatic movement
* Christadelphians
* Christian Israelite Church
* Unification Church
* Christian Science
* Dispensationalism
* Elitism
* Esoteric Christianity
* Evangelicalism
* Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
* Lutheranism
* Methodism
* Messianic Judaism
* Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
* New Thought
* Pentecostalism
o Oneness Pentecostalism
* Pietism
o Holiness movement
* Quakerism
* Reformed churches
o Puritans
o Presbyterianism
o Congregational church
* Religious Society of Friends
* Spiritism
o Espiritismo
* Swedenborgianism
o Christian Spiritualism
* United and uniting churches
* Unitarianism
* Universalism

[edit] Restorationism
Main article: Restorationism

* Adventism
o Millerites
o Sabbatarianism
o 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)
o The 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)
o The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
* Iglesia ni Cristo
* Jehovah's Witnesses
* Restoration Movement

[edit] Gnosticism
Main article: List of Gnostic sects

Christian Gnosticism

* Ebionites
* Cerdonians
o Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
* Colorbasians
* Simonians

Early Gnosticism

* Borborites
* Cainites
* Carpocratians
* Ophites
* Hermeticism

Medieval Gnosticism

* Cathars
* Bogomils
* Paulicianism
* Tondrakians

Persian Gnosticism

* Mandaeanism
* Manichaeism
o Bagnolians

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

Main article: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

* Sethians
o Basilidians
o Thomasines
o Valentinians
+ Bardesanites

[edit] Islam
See also: Islam and Divisions of Islam

Kalam Schools

Main article: Kalam

* Ash'ari
* Kalam
* Maturidi
* Murji'ah
* Mu'tazili

Kharijite

Main article: Kharijite

* Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
* Azraqi
* Harūriyya
* Sufri

Shi'a Islam

Main article: Shi'a Islam

* Ismailis
o Mustaali / Bohra
* Jafari
o Twelvers
o Alawites
o Alevi / Bektashi
* Zaiddiyah

Sufism

Main article: Sufism

* Bektashi
* Chishti
* Mevlevi
* Naqshbandi
* Tariqah
* Quadiriyyah
* Suhrawardiyya
* Tijani
* Universal Sufism
o Dances of Universal Peace

Sunni Islam

Main article: Sunni Islam

* Hanafi
o Berailvi
o Deobandi
* Hanbali
* Maliki
* Shafi'i

Groups sometimes considered non-Islamic
These religious traditions are not recognized as parts of Islam by mainstream Islamic fiqh, but consider themselves to be Muslim.

* Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
* Ahmadiyya
* Druze
* Nation of Islam
* Moorish Science Temple of America
* United Submitters International
* Zikri

[edit] Judaism
See also: Judaism and Jewish Denominations

Rabbinic Judaism

Main article: Rabbinic 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

Karaite Judaism

Main article: Karaite Judaism

Modern Non-Rabbinic Judaism

* Alternative Judaism
* Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
* Jewish Renewal
* Reconstructionist Judaism

Historical groups

* Essenes
* Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
* Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism)
* Zealots
o Sicarii

Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet

* Ebionites
* Elkasites
* Nazarenes
* Sabbateans
o Frankists

[edit] Rastafari movement
Main article: Rastafari movement

[edit] Mandaeans and Sabians
Main articles: Mandaeism and Sabians

* Mandaeism
* Sabians
o Sabians of Harran
o Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans

[edit] Samaritanism
Main article: Samaritanism

[edit] Unitarian Universalism
Main article: Unitarian Universalism

[edit] Indian religions
Main article: Indian religions

Religions that originated in Greater India and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.

[edit] Ayyavazhi
Main article: Ayyavazhi

[edit] Buddhism
Main article: Schools of 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
+ Burmese Thudhamma Nikaya
# Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
+ Burmese Shwekyin Nikaya
+ Burmese Dvaya Nikaya
+ Thai Maha Nikaya
# Dhammakaya Movement
+ Thai Thammayut Nikaya
# Thai Forest Tradition
* Tradition of Ajahn Chah
* Mahayana
o Humanistic Buddhism
o Madhyamaka
+ Prāsangika
+ Svatantrika
+ Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
# Sanron
+ Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
o Nichiren
+ Nichiren Shū
+ Nichiren Shōshū
+ Nipponzan Myōhōji
+ Soka Gakkai
o Pure Land
+ Jodo Shu
+ Jodo Shinshu
o Tathagatagarbha
+ Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
+ Huayan (Avataṃsaka)
# Hwaeom
# Kegon
o Tiantai
+ Tendai
+ Cheontae
o Yogācāra
+ Cittamatra in Tibet
+ Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
# Beopsang
# Hossō
o Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
+ Caodong
# Sōtō
* Keizan line
* Jakuen line
* Giin line
+ Linji
# Rinzai
# Ōbaku
# Fuke Zen
# Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
+ Kwan Um School of Zen
+ Sanbo Kyodan
* 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

[edit] Hinduism
See also: Hindu denominations and Contemporary Hindu movements

* Agama Hindu Dharma
* Hindu revivalism
* Lingayatism
* Hindu reform movements
o Arya Samaj
o Brahmo Samaj
* Shaivism
* Shaktism
* Tantrism
* Smartism
* Vaishnavism
o Gaudiya Vaishnavism
+ ISKCON (Hare Krishna)

Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy

Main article: Hindu philosophy

* Nyaya
* Purva mimamsa
* Samkhya
* Vaisheshika
* Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
o Advaita Vedanta
o Integral Yoga
o Vishishtadvaita
o Dvaita Vedanta
* Yoga
o Ashtanga Yoga
o Bhakti Yoga
o Hatha yoga
o Siddha Yoga
o Tantric Yoga

[edit] Jainism
Main article: Jainism

* Digambara
* Shvetambara

[edit] Sikhism
Main article: Sikhism

* Khalsa
o Nihang
* Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
* Sahajdhari Sikh
* Ravidasi

[edit] Persian religions
Main article: Iranian religions

* Manichaeism
* Mazdakism
* Yazdânism
o Alevi
o Yarsani
o Yazidi
* Zoroastrianism
o Zurvanism

[edit] East Asian religions
Main article: East Asian religions

[edit] Confucianism
Main article: Confucianism

* Neo-Confucianism
* New Confucianism

[edit] Shinto
Main articles: Shinto and Shinto sects and schools

[edit] Taoism
Main article: Taoism

[edit] Other

* Caodaism
* Chondogyo
* Chinese folk religion
* Falun Gong
* I-Kuan Tao
* Jeung San Do
* Legalism
* Mohism

[edit] African diasporic religions

African diasporic religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.
See also: African diasporic religions

* Batuque
* Candomblé
* Dahomey mythology
* Haitian mythology
* Kumina
* Macumba
* Mami Wata
* Obeah
* Oyotunji
* Quimbanda
* Santería (Lukumi)
* Umbanda
* Vodou

[edit] Indigenous traditional religions
See also: Paganism and Folk religion

Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".

[edit] African
Main article: African traditional religions

West Africa

* Akan mythology
* Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
* Dahomey (Fon) mythology
* Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
* Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
* Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
* Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)

Central Africa

* Bushongo mythology (Congo)
* Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
* Lugbara mythology (Congo)

East Africa

* Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
* Dinka mythology (Sudan)
* Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
* Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)

Southern Africa

* Khoikhoi mythology
* Lozi mythology (Zambia)
* Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
* Zulu mythology (South Africa)

[edit] American
Main article: Native American mythology

* 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

[edit] Eurasian
Main article: Eurasian Indigenous Religions

Asian

* Bön
* Chinese mythology
* Japanese mythology
* Koshinto
* Siberian Shamanism
* Tengriism

European

* Estonian mythology
* Eskimo religion
* Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
* Hungarian folk religion
* Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
* Tadibya

[edit] Oceania/Pacific

* 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

[edit] Cargo cults
Main article: Cargo cults

* John Frum
* Johnson cult
* Prince Philip Movement
* Vailala Madness

[edit] Historical polytheism
Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion

[edit] Ancient Near Eastern
Main article: Ancient Near Eastern religions

* 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

[edit] Indo-European
Main article: Proto-Indo-European religion

* Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
o Zoroastrianism
o Historical Vedic religion
* Baltic polytheism
* Celtic polytheism
o Brythonic mythology
o Gaelic mythology
* Germanic polytheism
o Anglo-Saxon religion
o Norse religion
o Continental Germanic religion
* Greek polytheism
* Hungarian polytheism
* Finnish polytheism
* Roman polytheism
* Slavic polytheism

[edit] Hellenistic
Main article: Hellenistic religion

* Mystery religions
o Eleusinian Mysteries
o Mithraism
o Orphism
* Pythagoreanism
* Early Christianity
* Gallo-Roman religion

[edit] Neopaganism
Main article: List of Neopagan movements

[edit] New Age, Esotericism, Mysticism
Main articles: New Age, Esotericism, and Mysticism

* 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

[edit] Left-Hand Path
Main article: Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path

* Luciferianism
* Satanism
* Setianism

[edit] Magic
Main article: Magic (religion)

* 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

[edit] New religious movements
Main article: List of new religious movements

[edit] Shinshukyo
Main article: Shinshūkyō

* Church of World Messianity
* PL Kyodan
* Seicho-No-Ie

[edit] Fictional religions
Main article: List of fictional religions

[edit] Parody or mock religions

* Church of Euthanasia
* Church of the SubGenius
* The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
* Invisible Pink Unicorn
* Kibology
* Landover Baptist Church
* Church of Milesology

[edit] Others

* Unitarian Universalism
* Discordianism
* Ethical Culture
* Fellowship of Reason
* Humanism
* Secular Humanism
* Juche
* Subud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ual_traditions