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. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.
, Christianity, Islam, Baháʼí Faith, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Slavic neopaganism, Celtic polytheism, Heathenism, Semitic neopaganism, Wicca, Kemetism, Hellenism, Italo-Roman neopaganism.
Classification
Demographics
List of religions
Religion by region
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
- Mysticism
- Mythology
- Pain and Suffering
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Religious cosmology
- * Creation myth
- Religious naturalism
- 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
Approaches to the beliefs of others
- Exclusivism
- Inclusivism
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
Anitism topics
- Anito
- Philippine shamans
- Bathala
- Dambana
Ayyavazhi topics
- Ayyavazhi scriptures
- History of Ayyavazhi
- List of Ayyavazhi-related topics
Baháʼí Faith topics
- ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
- The Báb
- Baháʼí history
- Baháʼí teachings
- Baháʼu'lláh
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
- * Dhamma
- * Sangha
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 applied to animals
Judaism topics
- Israel
- Jew
- Jewish
- Jewish religious movements
- Jewish vegetarianism
- Judaism by country
- List of Jewish history topics
- Origins of Judaism
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
Tenrikyo topics
- Joyous Life
- Ofudesaki
- Osashizu
- Oyasama
- Tenri-O-no-Mikoto
Unitarian Universalism topics
Vegetarianism and religion topics
Indian religions- Indian religions
- * Hinduism
- * Jainism
- * Buddhism
- * Sikhism
- Abrahamic religions
- * Judaism
- * Christianity
- **monasticism
- **Bible Christian Church
- **Seventh-day Adventists
- **Christian Vegetarian Association
- **Christian anarchists
- **universal veganism
- **atonement
- **Eastern Christianity
- *** fasts 210 days out of the year
- *** fasting during the Great Lent
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- * Islam
- ** Islam and animals
- * Rastafari
- * Baháʼí Faith
- Other religions
- * Manichaeism
- * Zoroastrianism
- ** Mazdakism
- * Nation of Islam
- * Taoism
- * Faithist/Oahspe
- * Neopaganism
- * Meher Baba's teachings
- * Creativity movement
- 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
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
Religion and religious ideas in fiction
- Religion in fantasy
- Religion in science fiction