How many religions are out there, and what are they?

Question

From the top of my head, all I can think of is
(Atheism, Agnostic)
Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hindus... ah, that's it.

Have a good day! [or what's left of it :)]
EyeSpeck
~Christian

Answer 1

1 Abrahamic religions
1.1 Bábism
1.2 Bahá'í
1.3 Christianity
1.4 Gnosticism
1.5 Islam
1.6 Judaism
1.7 Samaritanism
2 Dharmic religions
2.1 Ayyavazhi
2.2 Buddhism
2.3 Hinduism
2.4 Jainism
2.5 Sikhism
2.6 Other Dharmic religions
3 Taoic religions
3.1 Taoism
3.2 Confucianism
3.3 Shinto
3.4 Yiguandao
3.5 Chondogyo
3.6 Caodaism
4 Other revealed religions
4.1 Atenism
4.2 Zoroastrianism
4.3 Mithraism
4.4 Manichaeism
4.5 Yazdânism
5 Indigenous religions
5.1 African Traditional Religion
5.2 European Religion
5.3 Near Eastern religions
5.4 Native American religions
5.5 Pacific religions
6 Neopagan religions
6.1 Reconstructionist Pagan religions
6.2 Syncretic and eclectic Pagan religions
7 Left-Hand Path religions
8 African diasporic religions
9 Non-revealed religions
10 Syncretic religions
11 Entheogen religions
12 New religious movements
12.1 Monotheistic NRMs
12.2 Indigenous NRMs
12.3 Buddhist-oriented NRMs
12.4 Christian-oriented NRMs
12.5 Hindu-oriented NRMs
12.6 Islam-rooted NRMs
12.7 Judaism-oriented NRMs
12.8 Chinese-oriented NRMs
12.9 Filipino-oriented NRMs
12.10 Japanese-rooted NRMs
12.11 Korean-oriented NRMs
12.12 Malaysian-oriented NRMs
12.13 Indonesian-oriented NRMs
12.14 Vietnamese-oriented NRMs
12.15 Western magical / esoteric groups
12.16 White-supremacist religions
12.17 Black-supremacist religions
12.18 Alien-based religions
12.19 Other NRMs
13 Parody or mock religions
14 Other religions or belief systems
15 Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements and practices
15.1 Esotericism
15.2 Mysticism
15.3 Magic (religion)
15.4 Organizations promoting Ecumenism
15.5 Non-theistic systems
15.6 Systems claiming not to be religions, but which have characteristics of religion

Answer 2

Bobby missed Deism

Answer 3

According to the Christian Encyclopedia of World Religions there are some 15,000religions in the world and about 33,800 Christian denominations.

See:
http://www.ywam.org/books/wce.htm

Interesting, huh ???

Answer 4

Cultural anthropologists have identified approximately 3,000 religions which exist or have existed in the past 2000 years.

Answer 5

Of the known religions there are more than 10,000. This does not include specific denominations

Answer 6

www.adherents.com

if you break it down by any point of differentiation, there are over 43,870 religions.
They differentiate by any church that does not consider itself part of some other, such as Baptists do not consider the episcopalians part of them, so they show as 2 different religions.

Answer 7

Probably ~3000 or so. Seriously.

Answer 8

Close to 6.5 billion, if you think about it.

Answer 9

http://wri.leaderu.com/