Outline of religion

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.

Classification

Demographics

List of religions

Religion by region

Religion by continent

Africa • Antarctica • Asia • Europe • North America • Oceania (includes Australia) • South America

Religion by political division, arranged alphabetically

Religions by country

Religion by political division, arranged by continent or major geopolitical region

Religion in Africa

Religion in West Africa

Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo

Religion in North Africa

Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • South Sudan •Tunisia

Religion in Central Africa

Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe

Religion in East Africa

Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia (Somaliland) • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe

Religion in Southern Africa

Botswana • Eswatini • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa

Religion in Antarctica

Religion in Asia

Religion in Central Asia

Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan

Religion in East Asia

China

Tibet

Hong Kong • Macau

Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan

Religion in North Asia

Russia

Religion in Southeast Asia

Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia • East Timor (Timor-Leste) • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam

Religion in South Asia

Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka

Religion in India

States of India: Andhra Pradesh • Arunachal Pradesh • Assam • Bihar • Chhattisgarh • Goa • Gujarat • Haryana • Himachal Pradesh • Jammu and Kashmir • Jharkhand • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Meghalaya • Mizoram • Nagaland • Odisha • Punjab • Rajasthan • Sikkim • Tamil Nadu • Telangana • Tripura • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarakhand • West Bengal

Religion in West Asia

Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • State of Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen

Religion in the Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

Religion in North Caucasus

Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)

Religion in South Caucasus

Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

Religion in Europe

Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • North Macedonia • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia •

Spain

Autonomous communities of Spain: Catalonia

Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine

United Kingdom

England (Birmingham, Cornwall, London, Sussex) • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales

Vatican City

Religion in the European Union

North America

Canada

Religion in Provinces of Canada: • Alberta • British Columbia • Manitoba • New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario (Toronto) • Prince Edward Island • Quebec • Saskatchewan

Religion in Territories of Canada: Northwest Territories • Nunavut • Yukon

Greenland • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

United States

Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • Religion in Washington, D.C. • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming

Mexico

Religion in Central America

Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama

Religion in the Caribbean

Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands

Religion in Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)

Religion in Australasia

Australia

Religion in Dependencies/Territories of Australia

Christmas Island • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • Norfolk Island

New Zealand

Religion in Melanesia

Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •

Religion in Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (USA) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • Wake Island (USA) •

Religion in Polynesia

American Samoa (USA) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Adamstown • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)

Religion in South America

Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

Religious studies

• Anthropology of religion
• Cognitive science of religion
• Comparative religion
• Evolutionary origin of religions
• Evolutionary psychology of religion
• History of religion
• Nonviolence
• Philosophy of religion
• Suffering
• Psychology of religion
• Sociology of religion
• Vegetarianism and religion

Religious concepts

Religious belief

• Acosmism
• Angel
  • Demon
    • Demonology
    • List of theological demons
• Animism
• Doctrine
• Eschatology
• Esotericism
• Faith
• Free will
• Gnosticism
• Goodness and evil
• Holy Land
• Humanism
• Ietsism
• Karma
• Religion and LGBT people
• Life after death
• Magic
• Mysticism
• Mythology
• Pain and Suffering
• Prophet
• Reincarnation
• Religious cosmology
  • Creation myth
• Religious naturalism
• Sacred
• Sacred space
• Sacred time
• Shamanism
• Sin
• Soul
• Spirituality
  • List of spirituality-related topics
• Supernaturalism
• Tao
• Theology
  • Agnosticism
  • Antitheism
  • Atheism
  • Deism
  • Deity
    • List of deities
  • Dualism
  • God
  • Henotheism
  • Immanence
  • Monism
  • Monolatrism
  • Monotheism
  • Nondualism
  • Nontheistic religions
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Pantheism
  • Polytheism
  • Post-theism
  • Theism
• Transcendence
• Divination
• Prophecy

Approaches to the beliefs of others

• Exclusivism
• Inclusivism

Religious behaviour and experiences

• Asceticism
• Meditation
• Memes in religion
• Nonviolence
• Pilgrimage
• Places of worship
• Prayer
• Religious experience
• Religious war
• Ritual

Religion-specific topics

African traditional and diasporic topics

Anitism topics

• Anito
• Philippine shamans
• Bathala
• Dambana

Ayyavazhi topics

• Ayyavazhi scriptures
• List of Ayyavazhi-related topics

Bábism topics

Baháʼí Faith topics

• ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
• The Báb
• Baháʼí teachings
• Baháʼu'lláh
• History of the Baháʼí Faith

Buddhism topics

• Attainment
  • Arahant
  • Bodhisattva
  • Buddha
• Basic concepts
  • Four Noble Truths
  • Five Aggregates
  • Three marks of existence
  • Dependent Origination
  • Karma
  • Rebirth
  • Saṃsāra
  • Nirvana
  • Noble Eightfold Path
• Branches of Buddhism
  • Theravada
  • Mahayana
  • Vajrayana
• Buddhism by country
• Buddhist monasticism
  • Monk
  • Nun
• Buddhist philosophy
• Buddhist texts
  • Mahayana sutras
  • Pāli Canon
• Cultural elements of Buddhism
• Gautama Buddha
• Glossary of Buddhism
• History of Buddhism
• Index of Buddhism-related articles
• List of Buddhists
• Practice
  • Meditation
  • Buddhist vegetarianism
  • Morality
  • Wisdom
• Three Jewels
  • Buddha (the Teacher)
  • Dhamma (the Teaching)
  • Sangha (the Community)

Cao Dai topics

• Cao Dai

Christianity topics

• Christian vegetarianism
• 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
  • List of popes
  • List of saints
  • Roman Catholicism by country
• Protestantism
  • Protestantism by country
• Religious texts
  • Bible
    • Garden of Eden (references to herbivorous diet)
    • Antilegomena
    • Deuterocanonical books
    • Gospels
    • Epistles
    • New Testament
    • Old Testament
• Timeline of Christian missions

Hinduism topics

• Diet in Hinduism
• Hindu denominations
• History of Hinduism
• List of Hinduism-related articles

Islam topics

• Allah
  • Ninety-nine names of Allah
• Glossary of Islam
• Hajj
• History of Islam
• Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
• Islam by country
• Islamic schools and branches
  • Ahmadiyya
  • Sunni
  • Shia
  • Sufi
• Muhammad
• Religious texts
  • Hadith
    • Hadith collections
      • Nahj al-Balagha
      • Sahih Bukhari
    • Hadith Qudsi
    • Isnad – Ilm ar-rijal – Narrators of hadith
    • Matn
  • List of Islamic texts
  • Quran – Sura – Ayat
    • Asbab al-nuzul
    • Naskh
    • Quranic literalism
    • Tafsir Qudsi – tafsir
• Salat
• Zakat

Jainism topics

• History of Jainism
• Jain vegetarianism
• Nonviolence (Ahimsa) applied to animals

Judaism topics

• Israel
• Jew
• Jewish
• Jewish religious movements
• Jewish vegetarianism
• Judaism by country
• List of Jewish history topics
• Origins of Judaism

Mandaeism topics

• Mandaeans
• Mandaean priest
  • List of Mandaean priests
• Mandaean cosmology
• Mandaean calendar
• List of Mandaic manuscripts

Modern Paganism topics

• Asatru
• Kemetism
• List of Modern pagan movements
• Neoshamanism
• Wicca
• Witchcraft

New Age topics

• List of New Age topics

New religious movement topics

• List of new religious movements

Open source religion topics

Rasta topics

• Mansions of Rastafari

Satanism topics

• LaVeyan Satanism
• Theistic Satanism
  • Black mass
  • Conjuration
  • Deal with the Devil
  • Demonolatry

Shintō topics

• Shinto sects and schools

Sikhism topics

• Diet in Sikhism
• History of Sikhism
• Sikh gurus
• Sikh scriptures
  • Bani – Gurbani
  • Chaupai
  • Dasam Granth
  • Guru Granth Sahib
  • Jaap Sahib
  • Japji Sahib
  • Mul Mantra
  • Sukhmani Sahib

Spiritism topics

• History of Spiritism

Taoism topics

• History of Taoism
• Taoist schools
• Taoist meditation
• Taoist scripture

Tenrikyo topics

• Joyous Life
• Ofudesaki
• Osashizu
• Oyasama
• Tenri-O-no-Mikoto

Unitarian Universalism topics

Vegetarianism and religion topics

• Philosophic issues in topics in religion and vegetarianism
  • Exogenous criticism of other religions where there may be vegetarianism
  • Endogenous criticism of behaviors within one's own religion
  • Epistemological concerns about relative legitimacy of religious grounds for vegetarian practice in light of modern science grounds for vegetarian practice

In Indian religions

• Indian religions
  • Hinduism
  • Jainism
  • Buddhism
  • Sikhism

In Abrahamic religions

• Abrahamic religions
  • Judaism
  • Christianity
    • Bible Christian Church
    • Seventh-day Adventists
    • Christian Vegetarian Association
    • universal veg(etari)anism
    • atonement
    • Eastern Christianity
      • fasts 210 days out of the year
      • fasting during the Great Lent
    • Sarx
    • CreatureKind
  • Islam
    • Animals in Islam
  • Mandaeism
  • Rastafari
  • Baháʼí Faith

In other religions

• Zoroastrianism
  • Mazdakism
• Nation of Islam
• Taoism
• Faithist/Oahspe
• Neopaganism
• Meher Baba's teachings

Zoroastrianism topics

• Avesta
• Zoroaster

Irreligion topics

• Agnosticism
• Anarchism and animal rights
• Antireligion
• Atheism
• Freethought
• Ignosticism
• Metaphysical realism
• Metaphysical naturalism
• Nontheism
• Pessimism
• Religious skepticism
• Secular humanism

References

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)