how many different kinds of religions are there in the world and which is the biggest ?

Answer 1

list of religions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions

chart of major religions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

Answer 2

Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.3 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/... 1.1 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
primal-indigenous: 300 million
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million
Baha'i: 7 million
Jainism: 4.2 million
Shinto: 4 million
Cao Dai: 4 million
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
Tenrikyo: 2 million
Neo-Paganism: 1 million
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
Scientology: 500 thousand

Answer 3

There maybe well over thousands of different religion of which most are pagan orientated. The relegion with the greatest number of followers are the christians followed by islam the hinduism, bhuddism, sihkism and so on.

The fastest growing religion is Islam and the most powerfull religion is judaism.

The only monoethsthetic religiond where the belief is based on one god and share similar histories are christianity, Islam and judaism.

Answer 4

Christianity, Islam, and Hindu are probably the three largest, there are many kinds generally Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism are referred to as the Big 5. But there is Jainism, Sikhism, Shamanism (tribal), Shintoism, Daoism, and many more that can be found in unknown places

Answer 5

Animism is the largest, and includes most of the world religions such as Christianity, Shinto, Paganism, and many many more.

Answer 6

Don't dwell on the biggest...dwell on pure worship. The one that God wants to be his people. What is his name?
He said he would take out of the nations a people for his name. And they would be witnesses of me he said to the most distant parts of the earth

Answer 7

There are many, almost as many as human groups!
As for size, Christianity is the largest.

Answer 8

According to Jesus there are only two kinds of religions (people) in this world;

One is following Christ, other opposing Christ. There is no third kind.

Answer 9

It's hard to say there's still a lot of people groups that haven't really been researched but christians are the biggest.
http://bibleanswers.wordpress.com/

Answer 10

My guess is that the order (in terms of population) goes something like this...

1) Christianity
2) Budism
3) Islam

Answer 11

Here's a good site to show you:

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

Christianity is the largest if all factions are included.