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
Main article: Religious studies
- Anthropology of religion
- Cognitive science of religion
- Evolutionary origin of religions
- Evolutionary psychology of religion
- History of religion
- Philosophy of religion
- Psychology of religion
- Sociology of religion
Religious concepts
Religious belief
- Acosmism
- Angel
- Animism
- Doctrine
- Eschatology
- Esotericism
- Faith
- Free will
- Gnosticism
- Goodness and evil
- Holy Land
- Humanism
- Ietsism
- Karma
- Life after death
- Mysticism
- Mythology
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Religious cosmology
- Religious Naturalism
- Shamanism
- Sin
- Soul
- Spirituality
- Supernaturalism
- Tao
- Theology
- Transcendence
Approaches to the beliefs of others
Religious behaviour and experiences
- Meditation
- Memes in religion
- Nonviolence
- Pilgrimage
- Places of worship
- Prayer
- Religious experience
- Religious war
- Ritual
Religion-specific topics
African traditional and diasporic topics
Main articles: African traditional religion and Afro-American religion
Ayyavazhi topics
Main article: Ayyavazhi
Bahá'í Faith topics
Main articles: Outline of Bahá'í Faith and Bahá'í Faith
Buddhism topics
Main articles: Outline of Buddhism and Buddhism
- Attainment
- Basic concepts
- Branches of Buddhism
- Buddhism by country
- Buddhist monasticism
- Buddhist philosophy
- Buddhist texts
- Cultural elements of Buddhism
- Gautama Buddha
- Glossary of Buddhism
- History of Buddhism
- Index of Buddhism-related articles
- List of Buddhists
- Practice
- Three Jewels
Cao Dai topics
Christianity topics
Main articles: Outline of Christianity and Christianity
- Christianity by country
- Eastern Christianity
- History of Christianity
- List of Christian denominations
- List of Jesus-related articles
- List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
- Roman Catholicism
- Protestantism
- Religious texts
- Timeline of Christian missions
Hinduism topics
Main articles: Outline of Hinduism and Hinduism
Islam topics
Main articles: Outline of Islam and Islam
- Allah
- Glossary of Islam
- Hajj
- History of Islam
- Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
- Islam by country
- Islamic schools and branches
- Muhammad
- Religious texts
- Salat
- Zakat
Jainism topics
Main articles: Index of Jainism-related articles and Jainism
Judaism topics
Main articles: Judaism and Outline of Judaism
- Israel
- Jew
- Jewish
- Jewish religious movements
- Judaism by country
- List of Jewish history topics
- Origins of Judaism
Modern Paganism topics
Main article: Modern Paganism
New Age topics
New religious movement topics
Main article: New religious movement
Open source religion topics
Main article: Open source religion
Rasta topics
Main article: Rastafari
Satanism topics
Main article: Satanism
Shintō topics
Main article: Shinto
Sikhism topics
Main articles: Outline of Sikhism and Sikhism
Spiritism topics
Main article: Spiritism
Tenrikyo topics
Main article: Tenrikyo
Unitarian Universalism topics
Main article: Unitarian Universalism
Zoroastrianism topics
Main article: Zoroastrianism
Irreligion topics
Main article: Irreligion
- Agnosticism
- Antireligion
- Atheism
- Freethought
- Ignosticism
- Nontheism
- Religious skepticism
- Secular humanism
Religion and religious ideas in fiction
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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