Outline of religion
See also: Index of religion-related articles
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to religion:
Religion – organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.
Religious studies
- Evolutionary origin of religions
- Evolutionary psychology of religion
- Anthropology of religion
- Cognitive science of religion
- History of religion
- Philosophy of religion
- Psychology of religion
- Sociology of religion
Religious concepts
Religious belief
- Theology
- Acosmism
- Angel
- Animism
- Doctrine
- Eschatology
- Esotericism
- Faith
- Free will
- Goodness and evil
- Gnosticism
- Holy Land
- Humanism
- Karma
- Mysticism
- Life after death
- Mythology
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Religious cosmology
- Religious Naturalism
- Sin
- Soul
- Spirituality
- List of spirituality-related topics
- Shamanism
- Supernaturalism
- Tao
- Transcendence
Approaches to the beliefs of others
Religious behaviour and experience
- Meditation
- Nonviolence
- Pilgrimage
- Prayer
- Places of worship
- Religious war
- Ritual
Religion-specific topics
African traditional and diasporic topics
Main articles: African traditional religion and Afro-American religion
Ayyavazhi topics
- List of Ayyavazhi-related topics
- History of Ayyavazhi
- Ayyavazhi scriptures
Bahá'í Faith topics
Main articles: Outline of Bahá'í Faith and Bahá'í Faith
- Bahá'í history
- Bahá'u'lláh
- The Báb
- `Abdu'l-Bahá
- Bahá'í teachings
Buddhism topics
Main articles: Outline of Buddhism and Buddhism
- Index of Buddhism-related articles
- Glossary of Buddhism
- History of Buddhism
- Gautama Buddha
- Buddhist texts
- Pāli Canon
- Mahayana sutras
- Branches of Buddhism
- Three Jewels
- Basic concepts
- Practice
- Attainment
- Buddha
- Bodhisattva
- Arahant
- Buddhist monasticism
- Buddhist philosophy
- Cultural elements of Buddhism
- List of Buddhists
- Buddhism by country
Cao Dai topics
Cao Dai
Christianity topics
Main articles: Outline of Christianity and Christianity
- History of Christianity
- List of Jesus-related articles
- Religious texts
- Bible
- Old Testament
- Deuterocanonical books
- New Testament
- Gospels • Epistles * Antilegomena
- Book of Mormon
- Bible
- List of Christian denominations
- Roman Catholicism
- List of popes
- List of saints
- Roman Catholicism by country
- Eastern Christianity
- Protestantism
- List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
- Christianity by country
- Timeline of Christian missions
Hinduism topics
Main articles: Outline of Hinduism and Hinduism
- List of Hinduism-related articles
- History of Hinduism
- Hindu denominations
Islam topics
Main articles: Outline of Islam and Islam
- Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
- History of Islam
- Muhammad
- Religious texts
- List of Islamic texts
- Quran - Sura - Ayat
- Tafsir Qudsi - tafsir
- Quranic literalism
- Naskh
- Asbab al-nuzul
- Hadith
- isnad - Ilm ar-rijal - Narrators of hadith
- Matn
- Hadith Qudsi
- Hadith collections
- Sahih Bukhari
- Nahj al-Balagha
- Islamic schools and branches
- Sunni
- Shia
- Sufi
- Ahmadiyya
- Glossary of Islam
- Allah
- Ninety-nine names of Allah
- Islam by country
- zakat
- salat
- Hajj
Jainism topics
Main articles: Index of Jainism-related articles and Jainism
Judaism topics
Main article: Outline of Judaism
- Origins of Judaism
- List of Jewish history topics
- Jewish religious movements
- Israel
- Jew
- Jewish
- Judaism by country
Modern Paganism topics
Modern Paganism
- List of Modern pagan movements
- Asatru
- Neoshamanism
- Wicca
- Witchcraft
New Age topics
New religious movement topics
Open source religion topics
Open source religion
Rasta topics
Rastafari Movement
Satanism topics
- LaVeyan Satanism
- Theistic Satanism
- Black mass
- Conjuration
- Deal with the Devil
- Demonolatry
Shintō topics
Sikhism topics
See also: Outline of Sikhism
- History of Sikhism
- Sikh Gurus
- Sikh scriptures
- Guru Granth Sahib
- Dasam Granth
- Bani - Gurbani
- Chaupai (Sikhism)
- Jaap Sahib
- Japji Sahib
- Mul Mantra
- Sukhmani
Spiritism topics
- History of Spiritism
Tenrikyo topics
- Joyous Life
- Ofudesaki
- Osashizu
- Oyasama
- Tenri-O-no-Mikoto
Unitarian Universalism topics
Zoroastrianism topics
Irreligion topics
- Agnosticism
- Antireligion
- Atheism
- Freethought
- Ignosticism
- Nontheism
- Religious skepticism
- Secular humanism
See also
External links
- Studying Religion - Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion
- Full-text search engine - Searchable sacred texts of the major World Religions
- Patheos.com - Offers a comprehensive library with essays written by prominent religious scholars
- Guide to World Religions
- A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people.
- Religious tolerance
- The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College(2003)
- Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents.com (August 28, 2005) Retrieved December 22, 2005
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