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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

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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)
  • Pan-deism (God became All)

  • Monism (There is only one thing at the deepest level) (Vedanta)

  • Dualism (Dvaita Vedanta, Taoism (Yin-Yang))

  • Ignosticism/Igtheism (God is a incomprehensible entity, hence religions are meaningless (e.g. "God created everything except Himself" is meaningless))

  • 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
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