This page provides a list of religions categorised according to a series of traditions, each of which share similarities in practices and subjects of belief. These categorisations are made according to Astronist scholarship.

The ten traditions recognised in Astronist scholarship are the following: Abrahamic, Astronic, Dharmic, Indigenous, Iranian, Neoreligion, Pagan, Secularistic, Spiritualistic, and Taoic.

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List of religions by tradition

Abrahamic (Abrahamism):

Major groups:

• Christianity (Major groups: Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Protestantism), (Minor groups: Christian Universalism, Church of the East, Ecclesia Gnostica, Esoteric Christianity, Eastern Lightning, Nontrinitarianism, Proto-Protestantism, Reformed Eastern Christianity, Spiritual Christianity, and Unification Church), (Fringe movements: Christian Identity, Christian Science, Indian Shaker Church, Native American Church).

• Islam (Major groups: Shia Islam, Sufism, and Sunni Islam), (Minor groups: Ahmadiyya, Ali-Illahism, Five-Percent Nation, Khawarij, European Islam, Jamaat al Muslimeen, Mahdavism, Moorish Science Temple of America, Nation of Islam, Quranism, and Xidaotang).

• Judaism (Denominations: Haymanot, Karaite, Kabbalah, Jewish Science, Noahidism, Rabbinic, Samaritanism, and Subbotniks).

Minor groups:

• Black Hebrew Israelites

• Druze 

• Gnosticism 

• Rastafarianism 

• Satanism (Denominations: Black Order, Church of Satan, LaVeyan Satanism, Luciferianism, Order of Nine Angles, Temple of Set, Theistic Satanism, The Satanic Temple. 

• Shabakism

Astronic religions (Astronicism):

Astronomical religions (Astronomism): 

Extant:

• Astronism (astrony) (Major groups: Institutional Astronism) (Minor groups: Astronist Church)

• Astrolatrism (astrolatry)

• Astrology (astromancy) 

• Russian cosmism 

• Planet worship 

Non-extant:

• Archaeoastronism (List of branches)

• Proto-astralism

• North Star cult

• Solar religion

• Star-cults

• Stonehenge religion

• Asteria

• Astraea

• Astraeus 

• Moon temple

• Moon worship

• Sun temple

• Sun worship

• Morning Star

• Sabaism

• Stellar deity (List)

Nature religions (Naturism):

• Animism

• Dark Green religion

• Earth religion

• Ecospirituality

• Gaianism 

• Green religion 

• Naturalism 

• Neopaganism 

• New Age 

• Religious naturalism

• Totemism

• Wicca

Humanic religions (Humanicism): 

• Anthroposophy 

• Ethical movement 

• Freethought 

• Humanism

• Nontheism

• Omnism

• Religious humanism

• Transhumanism

• Singularitarianism

• Unitarian Universalism

• Yoism

Astronic-related religions:

• Ancient Egyptian religion

• Anthroposophy

• Aztec religion

• Babylonian religion

• Mandaeism

• Mayan religion

• Mesopotamian religion

• Native American religion

• Neopaganism

• Shamanism

• Shang-Zhou theology

• Sumerian religion

• Zoroastrianism

• Zuni religion

Dharmic religions (Dharmism):

Major groups:

• Hinduism (Major groups: Ayyavazhi, Shaivism, Shaktism, Smartism, Śrauta, Trantrism, and Vaishnavism) (Minor groups: Bhakti movement and Neo-Hinduism)

• Buddhism (Major groups: Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana) (Minor groups: American Buddhism, Humanistic Buddhism, Neo-Buddhist movement, and Nikaya Buddhism)

• Jainism (Digambara and Śvētāmbara)

• Sikhism 

Minor groups:

• Bön

• Kiratism

• Meivazhi

• Sarnaism

Indigenous religions (Indigenism)

African Traditional religions:

• Akan religion

• Akamba religion

• Baluba mythology

• Bantu mythology

• Berber religion

• Bushongo mythology

• Dinka religion

• Efik mythology

• Fon and Ewe religion

• Igbo religion

• Ik religion

• Lotuko mythology

• Lozi mythology

• Lugbara mythology

• Maasai mythology

• Mbuti mythology

• San religion

• Serer religion

• Tumbuka mythology

• Urhobo people

• Waaq

• Yoruba religion

Afro-American religions:

• Abakuá

• Candomblé

• Comfa

• Convince

• Cuban Vodú

• Dominican Vudú

• Espiritismo

• Haitian Vodou

• Hoodoo

• Jamaican Maroon religion

• Kélé

• Kumina

• Louisiana Voodoo

• Montamentu

• Myal

• Obeah

• Palo

• Quimbanda

• Santería

• Tambor de Mina

• Trinidad Orisha

• Umbanda

• Winti

Altaic religions

• Evenki shamanism

• Manchu shamanism

• Turkic-Mongolic religion (Denominations: Burkhanism, Tengrism, and Vattisen Yaly)

Native American religions:

• Abenaki mythology

• Anishinaabe traditional beliefs

• Blackfoot mythology

• Californian religions

• Cherokee mythology

• Chilote mythology

• Choctaw mythology

• Creek mythology

• Guarani mythology

• Haida mythology

• Ho-Chunk mythology

• Hopi mythology

• Iroquois mythology

• Jivaroan religion

• Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology

• Lakota mythology

• Lenape mythology

• Mapuche religion

• Mesoamerican religion

• Midewiwin

• Muisca mythology

• Navajo religion

• Nuu-chah-nulth mythology

• Pawnee mythology

• Tsimshian mythology

• Ute mythology

• Zuni mythology

Austronesian religions:

• Batak Parmalim

• Dayak religion

• Javanese Kejawèn

• Karo Pemena

• Malaysian folk religion

• Philippine Dayawism

• Polynesian mythology

• Sumbese Marapu

• Sundanese Wiwitan

Tibetic religions:

• Burmese folk religion

• Benzhuism

• Bimoism

• Bathouism

• Bongthingism

• Donyi-Polo

• Qiang folk religion

• Sanamahism

Uralic religions:

• Mari Native Religion

• Mordvin Native Religion

• Sámi shamanism

• Udmurt Vos

Other indigenous religions:

• Adyghe Habze

• Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

• Dravidian folk religion

• Inuit religion

• Papuan mythology

• Santa Muerte

• Siberian shamanism

Iranian religions: 

Extant groups:

• Assianism

• Bábism

• Bahá’i Faith

• Ishik Alevism

• Yarsanism

• Yazidism

• Zoroastrianism

Historical/Extinct groups:

• Behafaridians

• Khurramites

• Mandaeism

• Manichaeism

• Mazdakism 

• Mithraism

• Yazdânism

• Zurvanism 

Neopagan religions (Neopaganism):

Ethnic neopaganism:

• Abkhaz neopaganism

• Armenian neopaganism

• Baltic neopaganism

• Caucasian neopaganism

• Celtic neopaganism

• Dievturība

• Estonian neopaganism

• Finnish neopaganism

• Heathenry

• Hellenism

• Hungarian neopaganism

• Italo-Roman neopaganism

• Kemetism

• Romuva

• Semitic neopaganism

• Slavic neopaganism

• Zalmoxianism

• Zuism

Syncretic neopaganism:

• Adonism

• Church of All Worlds

• Church of Aphrodite

• Feraferia

• Goddess movement

• Neo-Druidism

• Neoshamanism

• Pow-wow

• Radical Faeries

• Summum

• Technopaganism

• Wicca

Neoreligions:

Neoreligions or new religious movements are religions that hold their origins after 1850 and that do not belong to any other recognised religious tradition. Only extant groups are listed here as short-lived religions, parody religions, cults, and cargo cults are not included.

Entheogenic religions:

• Church of the Universe

• Neo-American Church

• Santo Daime

• Temple of the True Inner Light

• Tensegrity

• THC Ministry

• União do Vegetal

Fringe religions:

Fringe religions in the neoreligious category are religions which cannot be categorised into any of the subcategories of neoreligion and are therefore considered to exist on the fringes of neoreligion.

• Adidam

• Brahmoism

• Eckankar

• Fourth Way

• Rajneesh movement

• The Family International

• The Circle of Reason

Neo-ethnic religions:

• Ariosophy

• Creativity

• Mexicayotl

• Neo-völkisch movements

• Nuwaubian Nation

New Thought:

• Church of Divine Science

• Church Universal and Triumphant

• Religious Science

• Seicho-no-Ie

• Unity Church

Post-theistic religions:

• God-Building

• Ietsism

• Moorish Orthodox Church of America

• Syntheism

• Universal Life Church

UFO religions:

• Aetherius Society

• Heaven's Gate

• Raëlism

• Scientology

• Unarius Academy of Science

• Universe people

Western esotericism:

• Builders of the Adytum

• Chaos magic

• Fraternitas Saturni

• Fraternity of the Inner Light

• Hermeticism

• Illuminates of Thanateros

• New Acropolis

• Ordo Aurum Solis

• Rosicrucianism

• Servants of the Light

• Thelema

• Theosophy

Secularistic religions:

• Anarchism 

• Capitalism 

• Civil religion 

• Communism

• Cult of Reason 

• Cult of the Supreme Being 

• Fascism 

• Juche 

• Kemalism 

• Maoism 

• Marxism-Leninism 

• Nationalism 

• Nazism

• Religion of Humanity

• Scientism

• Stalinism

• State atheism

• Statolatry

Spiritualistic religions:

Major groups:

• New Age movement (including Mind, Body, Spirit)

• Shamanism / Neoshamanism

• Spiritism

• Spiritualism

 Minor groups:

• Ausar Auset Society

• Subud 

Taoic religions:

Major groups:

• Chinese salvationist religions

• Confucianism

• Shenism (Luoism, Nuo folk religion, and Yao folk religion)

• Shintoism

• Taoism

Minor groups: 

• Benzhuism

• Caodaism 

• Cheondoism

• Church of Perfect Liberty

• Church of World Messianity

• Daesun Jinrihoe

• Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương

• Đạo Dừa

• Falun Gong 

• Happy Science

• Hòa Hảo

• Jeung San Do

• Konkokyo

• Korean shamanism (Daejongism and Gasin faith)

• Manchu folk religion

• Miao folk religion

• Mohism (historical)

• Moism

• Oomoto

• Ryukyuan religion

• Seicho-no-le

• Shinmeiaishinkai

• Suwunism

• Tenrikyo

• Xiantiandao

• Zenrinkyo