how many different religions can you name?

Question

i have found that people who talk about religion in the western world seem to think that there are only a few religions in the world judaism, christianity, islam, hindu, buddist and sikhs then they call everyone else pagans so i would like to see if anyone can name more without using varations on the same religion ie catholic and protestant or zen buddist and tibetan buddist

music g -- norse paganism is heathenism

Answer 1

I really just give the majority of them one name.

Answer 2

Aladura
Asatru
Angelicanism
Buddhism (Mahayana, Nichiren, Tendai, Tibetan, Zen, Theravada)
Taoism
Jehova's Witnesses
Islam/Muslim
Jainism
Judaism
Hinduism
Hellenic Reconstructionism
Kemetic Reconstructionism
Zoroastrianism
Amish
Bon
Cao Dai
Catholicism
Christianity
Scientology
Voodoo
Shinto
Seventh-day
Baptist
Bah'al Faith
Chinese Religion
Chopra Centre
Confucianism
Eckankar
Falun Gong
Heathenism
Greco-Roman
Divine Science
Hare Krishna
Lutheranism
Mayan
Neo-paganism
New Thought
Wicca
Druid
Mithraism
Mormonism
Pure Land
Rastafari
Shaivism
Sikhism
Unification
Vaishnavism
Stoicism
Epicureanism

Answer 3

Ásatrú, Hellênismos, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Bahá'í , Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Santería, Druidry, Wicca, Satanism, Thelema, Raelism, Scientology, Spirtualism, Cao Dai, Jainism, Sikihsm, Atenism, Zoroastrianism, Dievturiba, Kemetic, Romuva, Stregheria, Setianism, Vodun, Celtic Reconstructionalist, Finnish Reconstructionist, Natib Qadish, Tyrrhenia,Keltoi, etc..



Music girl...Norse Paganism is called Ásatrú. ;-)

Answer 4

Atheism, Baha'i, African religions, B*ddhism, Chr*stianity, Esotericism, Evangelicalism, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Islam, Nation of Islam, Judaism, Kemetic, Messianicism, Satanism, Scientology, Shamanism, Unitarian Universalists, Wicca, Witchcraft, Taoism, Shintoism, Jainism, Sikhism...that's about all I can think of right now.

Answer 5

Aladura=approx. 1 million
Asatru=300 Icelandic adherents
Baha'i Faith=5-7 million
Bön=unknown, perhaps around 100,000
Buddhism=360 million
Cao Dai =2-6 million
Chinese Religion= comprised of 4 chinese religions
Chopra Center=unknown
Christianity=2 billion
Christian Science=150,000 - 400,000 worldwide
Confucianism= 5-6 million
Eckankar=50,000.
Epicureanism=?
Falun Gong =3 million
Ancient Greek and Roman Religion=?
Hare Krishna =250,000 devotees plus 10,000 full members
Hinduism=900 million
Islam=1.3 billion
Jainism=4 million
Jehova's Witnesses=6.4 million
Judaism=14 million
Mayan Religion =At one time up to 2 million. Today, several million Maya practice a Roman Catholicism that retains many elements of traditional Mayan religion
Mormonism=12.2 million worldwide
Neopaganism=?
New Thought =?
Rastafari =About 1 million worldwide
Scientology=77,000
Shinto= 3-4 million
Sikhism=23 million
Stoicism=?
Taoism=20 million
Unification Church =?
Unitarian Universalism=800,000 worldwide
Zoroastrianism=150-200,000

Answer 6

Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Taoism, Shinto, Norse Paganism (not sure that's the right term), Wicca, Druidism, Satanism, Scientology, Raelianism, Mithraism, Ba'hai, Confucianism... oh! And Native American religions

Below me... Atheism is not a religion.

Answer 7

There are many branches of religions as well, as you wouldn't want to confuse the Prodestants with the Catholics, especially in Northern Ireland, unless you want to live.

There is also Bahai (don't know the proper spelling, but pronounce baa hi).
Harry Chrishnas (yet again, don't know the proper spelling).

I know how you mean though, they do categorize many religions wrongly and just think the less known ones aren't worth learning the name of.

Good point made :)

Answer 8

There are many more, and having not the slightest inclination to file yet another list, I decline your offer. If however you should have some proof of any supernatural delusion being FACTUAL, I would be more interested. Swedenborgian , ( that`s a good one .)

Answer 9

All religions in the world are the same; just various riffs on the central scheme.

Answer 10

Khabala
Scientology
Jedi power (may the force be with you)
The ones that believe the world was created by Aliens (you can find hundreds of those)
Voodoo

Answer 11

That is all we are taught in school? I suppose there are lots of tribes that have different religions around the world that are not recognised, and there is also spiritualism.