The Varieties of Religious Tradition

Rate: 3 Flag By Daniel Rigney

Whenever we're tempted to make sweeping generalizations about "religion," as though this were some single monolithic entity, we might do well to consult the “list of religions and spiritual traditions” outlined in the article of that name in Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia). Note that Wikipedia's list includes the intriguing categories "parody," "fictional," and “other.” Religions and spiritual traditions include, according to Wikipedia's sacred scroll, ...

• 1 Abrahamic religions
  • 1.1 Bábism
  • 1.2 Bahá'í Faith
  • 1.3 Christianity
    • 1.3.1 Catholicism
    • 1.3.2 Protestantism
    • 1.3.3 Other groups
  • 1.4 Gnosticism
  • 1.5 Islam
  • 1.6 Judaism
  • 1.7 Rastafari movement
  • 1.8 Mandaeans and Sabians
  • 1.9 Samaritanism
  • 1.10 Unitarian Universalism
• 2 Indian religions
  • 2.1 Ayyavazhi
  • 2.2 Bhakti Movement
  • 2.3 Buddhism
  • 2.4 Din-i-Ilahi
  • 2.5 Hinduism
  • 2.6 Jainism
  • 2.7 Sikhism
• 3 Iranian religions
  • 3.1 Manichaeism
  • 3.2 Mazdakism
  • 3.3 Mithraism
  • 3.4 Yazdânism
  • 3.5 Zoroastrianism
• 4 East Asian religions
  • 4.1 Confucianism
  • 4.2 Shinto
  • 4.3 Taoism
  • 4.4 Other
• 5 African diasporic religions
• 6 Indigenous traditional religions
  • 6.1 African
  • 6.2 American
  • 6.3 Eurasian
  • 6.4 Oceania/Pacific
    • 6.4.1 Cargo cults
• 7 Historical polytheism
  • 7.1 Ancient Near Eastern
  • 7.2 Indo-European
  • 7.3 Hellenistic
• 8 Neopaganism
• 9 New Age, esotericism, mysticism
  • 9.1 New Age
  • 9.2 Esotericism and mysticism
  • 9.3 Occult and magical
  • 9.4 Left-Hand Path
• 10 New religious movements
  • 10.1 Creativity
  • 10.2 New Thought
  • 10.3 Shinshukyo
• 11 Fictional religions
• 12 Parody or mock religions
• 13 Other

So please. No more broad pronouncements regarding the relation between religion and science, or between religion and politics, or between religion and economics. There are more things under heaven and earth than are dreamt of in that simple-minded way of thinking about a profoundly complicated world.

Disclosure:  I live in the religious tradition 1.10. We'll take our wisdom wherever we can find it.

 Danagram

Author tags:

open call, thank you free memes, list of religions and spiritual traditions + wikipedia, relation between religion and ows, just asking, but that's just me, unitarian-universalists, danagram, daniel rigney, religions and spiritual traditions, wikipedia

Your tags:

Add