Forms of religion
Main Types
- Monotheism: Worship of one god alone. It is different from Pantheism and Pantheistic
- e.g. Abrahamic religions
- Polytheism: Worship of many gods.
- e.g. Egyptian Gods, Greek Gods
- Henotheism: Worship of one supreme god doesn't mean you can't have other gods.
- e.g. Hinduism
- Animism: All entities possess a spiritual essence.
- e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism
- Pantheism: Reality itself is what we call god. It is distinct from Panentheism in that god is not distinct from the world.
- e.g. Hinduism, Taoism, Sikhism, Confucianism
- Pantheistic Animism - The belief that all reality has a single soul and that is god.
- e.g. Giordano Bruno's religion.
- Panentheism: God intersects every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time. It is different from Pantheism in that god is a distinct quality from the world.
- e.g. Hinduism (Advaita Vedanta, Achintya-Bheda-Abheda)
- Monistic Theism: A combination of Pantheism and Panentheism, but does not attribute personality to god. This is the core idea of Hinduism
- Substance monotheism: The belief that there are many different gods, but that they are all essentially forms of the same essence
Notes 2
Theistic Form
Belief in only one god
- Monotheism (God monitors everything)
- Deism (God made everything and left)
Belief in one god and sub-gods
- Henotheism
Belief in many gods
- Monolatry (Worship of only one god)
- Kathenotheism (Worship one god at a time)
- Polytheism (Worship many gods at once)
Don't know what's it exactly
- Agnostic Theism (Whether god exists or not cannot be known)
- Ietsism (Agnostic Atheism, Spiritual but Not Religious) (Tends to be more skeptical about the idea of god itself)
No god
- Atheism
Attribute Form
- Pan-theism (All is God) (Hinduism)
- Pan-en-theism (All is in God) (Hinduism (Brahmaan-Creation) (Achintya Bheda-Abheda, Dvaitadvaita (differential monism), Vishistadvaita (qualified monism)), Kashmir Shaivism, Shakti/Tantra, Kabbalah/Jewish Mysticism)
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Pan-deism (God became All)
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Monism (There is only one thing at the deepest level) (Vedanta)
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Dualism (Dvaita Vedanta, Taoism (Yin-Yang))
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Ignosticism/Igtheism (God is a incomprehensible entity, hence religions are meaningless (e.g. "God created everything except Himself" is meaningless))
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Omnism (Belief in all religions as possible)
- Transtheism (God is not an important aspect of reality)
Philosophical Viewpoints
- Fideism (Faith is unreasonable)
Subtypes
For when you want to put it into more detail. Here are some examples.
- Acosmism
- Agnosticism
- Animism
- Antireligion
- Apatheism
- Atheism
- Creationism
- Dharmism
- Deism
- Divine Command Theory
- Dualism
- Esotericism
- Elite religion
- Exclusivism
- Existentialism (Atheist / Christian)
- Feminist
- Fideism (Faith is unreasonable)
- Folk religion
- Fundamentalism
- Gnosticism
- Henotheism
- Hermeticism
- Humanism (Christian / Religious / Secular)
- Letsism
- Ignosticism
- Inclusivism
- Kathenotheism
- Lived Religion
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Mysticism
- Naturalism (Humanistic / Metaphysical / Religious)
- New Age
- Nondualism
- Nontheism
- Omnism
- Pandeism
- Panentheism
- Pantheism
- Perennialism
- Polytheism
- Process Theology
- Shendao Shejiao
- Spiritualism
- Shamanism
- Taoic
- Theism
- Transcendentalism
- Transtheism
- Unitarianism