Topic outline of religion

: "For a more comprehensive list, see List of religious topics"

Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that (generally) involve a faith in a "spiritual nature" and a study of inherited ancestral "traditions, knowledge and wisdom" related to understanding human life. The term "religion" refers to both personal practices related to faith as well as to the larger shared systems of belief.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to religion and religious beliefs:

Major religious concepts

* Angels
* Approaches to the beliefs of others
** Exclusivism
** Inclusivism
* Cosmology
* Doctrine
* Deity
** List of deities
* Demon
** List of demons
* Eschatology
* Faith
* Free will
* God
* Goodness and evil
* Holy Land
* Life after death
* Creation myth
* Nonviolence
* Pilgrimage
* Places of worship
* Prayer and Meditation
* Prophet
* Reincarnation
* Ritual
* Sin
* Soul
* Supernaturalism
* Theism
** Atheism
** Deism
** Monotheism
** Polytheism
* Theology
* Theosophy

Religion-specific topics

African traditional and diasporic topics

Ayyavazhi topics

Bahá'í Faith topics

*Bahá'u'lláh
*The Báb
*`Abdu'l-Bahá
*Bahá'í teachings

Buddhism topics

* Buddhism by country
* Buddhist terms and concepts
* List of Buddhist topics

Tenrikyo topics

Cao Dai topics

Christianity topics

* Christian denominations
* Jesus-related articles
* Roman Catholicism
* Mormonism
* Protestantism
* Oriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, Mormons and other Christians
* Popes
* Saints
* Christianity by country
* Protestantism by country
* Roman Catholicism by country
* Timeline of Christian missions

Falun Gong topics

Hinduism topics

* Hinduism related topics

Ayyavazhi topics

* Ayyavazhi related topics

Islam topics

* Allah
* Muhammad
* Qur'an
* Islamic terms
* Ninety-nine names of Allah
* Islam by country
* zakat
* salah
* Hajj (Pilgrimage)

Jainism topics

Juche topics

Judaism topics

* Israel
* Jew
* Jewish
* Messianic Religious Practices
* Judaism by country

Neopaganism topics

* Asatru
* Neoshamanism
* Wicca
* Witchcraft

Primal indigenous topics

Rasta topics

Secular/irreligious/agnostic/atheist/antitheistic/antireligious topics

* No Faith by Country

Shintō topics

Sikhism topics

Spiritism topics

* Spiritually-related topics

Unitarian Universalism topics

Zoroastrianism topics

External links

* [http://www.islamicbulletin.org The Islamic Bulletin] - A One Stop For All Your Islamic Needs! The Islamic Bulletin offers many valuable and free services such as a complete list of Islamic resources, a one-page Hajj guide, e-books, Islamic Last Will and Testament, prayer schedule, mosque list, Quran studies, Islamic articles, and more.
* [http://www.as.ua.edu/rel/studyingreligion.html Studying Religion] - Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion
* [http://www.bahai-studien.de/recherche/ Full-text search engine] - Searchable sacred texts of the major World Religions
* [http://www.religionfacts.com Guide to World Religions]
* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm#05 A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right] - Marx's original reference to religion as the "opium of the people".
* [http://www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm Religious tolerance]
* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss16/gunn.shtml 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)
* [http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents] by Adherents.com (August 28, 2005) Retrieved December 22, 2005
* [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pvosta/pcrhum.htm Philosophy and religion] - an overview