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.

Religious studies

Religious concepts

Religious belief

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

Approaches to the beliefs of others

Religious behaviour and experiences

Religion-specific topics

African traditional and diasporic topics

Ayyavazhi topics

Bahá'í Faith topics

Buddhism topics

Index of Buddhism-related articles
Glossary of Buddhism
History of Buddhism
Gautama Buddha
Buddhist texts
- Pāli Canon
- Mahayana sutras
Branches of Buddhism
Three Jewels
- Buddha (the Teacher)
- Dhamma (the Teaching)
- Sangha (the Community)
Basic concepts
Practice
Attainment
Buddhist monasticism
- Monk
- Nun
Buddhist philosophy
Cultural elements of Buddhism
List of Buddhists
Buddhism by country

Cao Dai topics

Cao Dai

Christianity topics

Hinduism topics

Islam topics

Jainism topics

History of Jainism

Judaism topics

Modern Paganism topics

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

Shintō topics

Shinto sects and schools

Sikhism topics

Spiritism topics

History of Spiritism

Tenrikyo topics

Unitarian Universalism topics

Zoroastrianism topics

Irreligion topics

Religion and religious ideas in fiction

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