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
- 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
- Ietsism
- Karma
- Life after death
- Mysticism
- Mythology
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Religious cosmology
- Religious Naturalism
- Sin
- Soul
- Spirituality
- Shamanism
- Supernaturalism
- Tao
- Transcendence
Approaches to the beliefs of others
Religious behaviour and experiences
- Meditation
- Nonviolence
- Pilgrimage
- Prayer
- Places of worship
- Religious experience
- Memes in religion
- 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
- Index of Buddhism-related articles
- Glossary of Buddhism
- History of Buddhism
- Gautama Buddha
- Buddhist texts
- Branches of Buddhism
- Three Jewels
- Basic concepts
- Practice
- Attainment
- Buddhist monasticism
- Buddhist philosophy
- Cultural elements of Buddhism
- List of Buddhists
- Buddhism by country
Cao Dai topics
Christianity topics
Main articles: Outline of Christianity and Christianity
- History of Christianity
- List of Jesus-related articles
- Religious texts
- List of Christian denominations
- Roman Catholicism
- 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
Islam topics
Main articles: Outline of Islam and Islam
- Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
- History of Islam
- Muhammad
- Religious texts
- Islamic schools and branches
- Glossary of Islam
- Allah
- Islam by country
- zakat
- salat
- Hajj
Jainism topics
Main articles: Index of Jainism-related articles and Jainism
Judaism topics
Main articles: Judaism and Outline of Judaism
- Origins of Judaism
- List of Jewish history topics
- Jewish religious movements
- Israel
- Jew
- Jewish
- Judaism by country
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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