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This is a list I had started to construct before I found this one. The Anome

Here is a list of some religions, past and present.

Present

• Judaism
  • Orthodox Judaism -- Hasidic Judaism -- Ultra-Orthodox Judaism -- Modern Orthodox Judaism
  • Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism outside of the USA)

• • Reform Judaism (also known as Progressive Judaism outside of the USA)
  • Reconstructionist Judaism (For all practical purposes, this new movement only exists in the USA.)
• Christianity
  • Orthodox Christianity
  • Catholicism
    • Roman Catholic Church
  • Protestantism
    • Anglicanism
    • Baptist church
• Islam
  • Sunni Islam
  • Shi'ite Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
  • Theravada Buddhism
  • Mahayana Buddhism
• Jainism
• Shinto
• Zoroastrianism

Past

• Egyptian mythology
• Sumerian mythology
• Finnish pre-Christian religion
• Greek mythology
• Celtic mythology
• Norse mythology
• Prussian Baltic Pre-Christian religion
• Roman mythology
• Ancient Sardinian religion

Regarding the African Methodist denominations just added... is it the intent to add every single Methodist denomination to the list? When I last checked a few years ago (when I was a Free Methodist), there were more than forty. Do we want every single Protestant denomination? I think there are at least 20,000. Where to draw the line? Wesley 11:42 Sep 3, 2002 (PDT)

Any objections to sorting the entries within each group (indent level) chronologically instead of alphabetically? (It seems strange to list Christianity before Judaism and Buddhism before Hinduism, when in each case the former evolved from the latter.) Mkweise 19:52 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

I think the sacred texts should be taken out, and replaced with a link to sacred text. It seems like an unnecessary duplication. I'm also not sure the mythologies should be listed here, as there is a more complete list at mythology and they aren't practiced anymore -- if they've been revived in some way, they should be at the Pagan and Polytheistic religion section (as dievturiba, goddess worship and others are now). Tuf-Kat

I've got no prob with eliminating this duplication. I just happened to bump into this article when I recently added the 2 Mormon texts to the list. B

How about getting Christianity back to rthodox - Catholic - Protestant? As it is, Christianity takes much more space than the other religions, which is also a sort of bias? And then create a separage article Christian denominations which can be as fine tuned as editors want? -- Irmgard 20:15 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)

That's true, but the larger list of Christian religions is simply because, well, there are so many Christian denominations. Depending on how you define a denomination, movement and sect, there are said to be over 10,000 distinct types of Christianity worldwide. However, for purposes of producing an easy to read article, there is much merit in your proposal. Over time this list could become very long, and swamp the entry. We could have this entry discuss only the religions, and their major sub-divisions, but not all the splinter groups, sub-denominations, etc. RK

Shouldn't this be on List of religions or something similar? -- goatasaur

list of religions makes sense to me.

After fixing my wiki I realize that the list redirects here. Shouldn't it be the other way around? -- goatasaur