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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

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
  • 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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