All Faiths

171 faiths · 52 families · 1500 BCE → today
171 FAITHS
All families

Shinto

a family of 2 Enter →

~100M worldwide

The kami are everywhere — Japan's way of the spirits.

1838 CE · ~1M worldwide

Sweep the dust from the heart, and live the Joyous Life.

Yoruba Religion

a family of 2 Enter →

~5M worldwide

The orisha ride the world — ashe moves through everything.

1800 CE · ~5M worldwide

The orisha crossed the ocean wearing saints' faces.

Pantheism

a family of 2 Enter →

God is not in the universe. God is the universe.

Founded on Panfaith

Dave Steves is the physical manifestation of the Universe.

Love Has Won

stands alone Enter →

dissolved

An online ascension movement centered on Amy Carlson as Mother God.

A founder-led online movement teaching divine partnership, inner healing, and Unionism.

Vedic Religion

a family of 23 · since 1500 BCE Enter →

c. 1500 BCE · no longer practised

The fire-altar religion of the oldest hymns — the root of the Indian lines.

Hinduism

~1.2B worldwide

A family of paths sharing dharma, karma, and liberation — not a single creed.

~600M worldwide

Vishnu preserves — and comes down when the world needs him.

1966 CE

Chant the names, and Krishna is present in the sound.

~250M worldwide

Shiva: destroyer, dancer, and the yogi's god.

~30M worldwide

The Goddess is not a consort. She is the power itself.

800 CE · ~30M worldwide

Five deities, one Brahman — worship any, arrive at the same place.

800 CE

Not two. The self and the absolute are one.

1250 CE

Self and God: eternally, gloriously distinct.

1955 CE

Self-realisation and service, and neither one on its own.

1958 CE

Twenty minutes, twice a day, with a sound that is only yours.

c. 550 BCE · ~5M worldwide

Non-violence taken to its logical end.

c. 480 BCE · ~500M worldwide

A path out of suffering, open to anyone, requiring no god.

c. 250 BCE · ~150M worldwide

The way of the elders — the oldest surviving school.

100 CE · ~300M worldwide

The Great Vehicle — awakening, for everyone.

400 CE · ~30M worldwide

When the path is too steep, call the Name.

Zen

520 CE · ~5M worldwide

Direct pointing at the mind. Sudden awakening. Sitting.

1191 CE · ~1M worldwide

The kōan school — awakening arrives like a shout.

1227 CE · ~5M worldwide

Just sitting. That is the whole of it.

Founded on Panfaith

One hour of silence a day, kept together, apart.

Founded on Panfaith

One day a week with no screen in it.

1253 CE · ~10M worldwide

The whole teaching, chanted: Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō.

700 CE · ~20M worldwide

The diamond path — enlightenment at full speed.

Zoroastrianism

stands alone · since 1200 BCE Enter →

c. 1200 BCE · ~150K worldwide

Good thoughts, good words, good deeds — the oldest war on evil.

Judaism

a family of 80 · since 1000 BCE Enter →

c. 1000 BCE · ~15M worldwide

One God, one covenant, one long argument with history.

c. 500 BCE

The other Israel — the Torah kept on Mount Gerizim.

30 CE · ~2.4B worldwide

God became human, died under empire, and did not stay dead.

~1.4B worldwide

One, holy, catholic, apostolic — with Peter's successor at the center.

1517 CE · ~900M worldwide

Scripture alone. Faith alone. Every believer a priest.

1457 CE

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things love — and a hundred-year prayer meeting.

1517 CE · ~70M worldwide

Law and gospel, rightly divided.

1525 CE

Baptism is for believers — and the sword is not for us.

1528 CE · ~58K worldwide

Nobody owns anything. That is not a policy — it is the article of faith.

1536 CE · ~2M worldwide

The largest Anabaptist body, and the one that stopped being plain.

1693 CE · ~411K worldwide

The Ordnung is not a costume — it is a fence, and the district votes on where it runs.

1708 CE · ~81K worldwide

No force in religion, no creed but the New Testament, and the full love feast.

1778 CE

Anabaptist bones, Pietist heart, Wesleyan pulse — and it argues with itself about which is load-bearing.

1920 CE · ~3K worldwide

Community of goods, started again in 1920 by people who had read about it.

1534 CE · ~85M worldwide

Scripture, tradition, and reason — held together by common prayer.

1738 CE

Grace for all, holiness for life, method for both.

1536 CE

Grace chooses first — sovereignty all the way down.

1560 CE

The church governed by elders, reformed by the Word.

1582 CE

The local church answers to Christ and to nobody in between.

1609 CE

A believer's church, a free conscience, an immersed body.

1652 CE

Silence, until the Light speaks.

Founded on Panfaith

Nothing special is happening. Attend to it.

1747 CE · ~3 worldwide

Celibate, communal, and convinced the Second Coming already arrived — in a woman.

1787 CE

The Last Judgment already happened, in 1757, in the spiritual world — and nobody down here noticed.

1809 CE · ~1M worldwide

No creed but Christ, no name but Christian — and no piano.

1979 CE · ~112K worldwide

The Restoration Movement with a discipler assigned to you.

1827 CE

No clergy, no name, no denomination — and the rapture, which they invented.

1848 CE · ~55K worldwide

The doctrine of separation, carried to the point where you cannot eat with your own child.

1830 CE · ~17M worldwide

The heavens are open again — restoration, not reformation.

1935 CE

Keep the covenant the main church let go.

1832 CE · ~278K worldwide

The wing of the Restoration Movement that decided unity mattered more than the pattern.

1848 CE · ~50K worldwide

No Trinity, no immortal soul, no hell, no clergy — and a kingdom coming to Jerusalem, not to the sky.

1863 CE

The Sabbath kept, the Advent awaited.

1955 CE · dissolved

Adventists who read the seals of Revelation as opening now.

1865 CE

A church with ranks, a brass band and no sacraments at all.

1879 CE

God's name known, God's kingdom preached.

1879 CE

Matter is not what is real, so sickness is not what it appears to be.

1906 CE · ~600M worldwide

The Spirit did not retire in the first century.

1908 CE · ~3M worldwide

Wesley's second blessing, kept when the Methodists let it go.

1927 CE

The third stream: instruments yes, denomination no.

1930 CE · ~1M worldwide

Jah lives — and Africa is the promised land.

1954 CE · dissolved

An integrated church in Indiana that ended as a settlement in Guyana.

1961 CE · ~800K worldwide

No creed — seven principles, and the search itself is sacred.

1933 CE

One life, no supervision, and the whole of the responsibility.

1596 CE

Eastern rites, Roman communion — a bridge, not a schism.

410 CE · ~4M worldwide

A church built around a hermit, and a country built around the church.

1552 CE · ~600K worldwide

East Syriac liturgy, Roman communion, Baghdad address.

1599 CE · ~6M worldwide

Thomas Christians in Roman communion — arguing about which way the priest faces.

1742 CE

Armenian rite, Roman communion, and the same 1915.

1782 CE · ~200K worldwide

The West Syriac rite, in communion with Rome, out of Mosul and Aleppo.

1930 CE · ~465K worldwide

A 1930 crossing, with the Qurbana carried over intact.

1870 CE

Catholic — without the infallible pope.

1970 CE

The Latin Mass, kept against the current.

1989 CE · dissolved

A Ugandan Marian movement that kept the commandments by keeping silent.

431 CE · ~400K worldwide

The church that went east when the empire went west.

431 CE · ~323K worldwide

The church that went east — to China, and nearly out of existence.

1968 CE

A calendar quarrel that hardened into a church.

451 CE · ~60M worldwide

The first families of Christendom — parted at Chalcedon.

301 CE · ~9M worldwide

The first nation baptised, and the church that outlived the nation's states.

330 CE · ~36M worldwide

Tewahedo — made one. Its own canon, its own calendar, and the Ark.

451 CE · ~10M worldwide

Saint Mark's see, and the longest fasting year in Christendom.

451 CE · ~2M worldwide

Antioch's church, still praying in Aramaic.

1889 CE · ~1M worldwide

Eastern liturgy, evangelical reform, Anglican friends.

1912 CE · ~1M worldwide

The Malankara half that kept Antioch.

1912 CE · ~3M worldwide

Saint Thomas's Indians, with a catholicos of their own since 1912.

1998 CE · ~2M worldwide

Thirty years old and sixteen centuries old at the same time.

1054 CE · ~220M worldwide

The liturgy is heaven on earth; the goal is to become like God.

1843 CE · suppressed

A Chinese monotheism that became a state, and then a war.

1926 CE

A Mexican Restorationist Christian church centered on modern apostleship, baptism, and communal worship.

1954 CE

Finish what the cross left undone — and do it through a family.

1968 CE

One law only — love — read out to its last consequence.

1972 CE

The church in Acts, restarted — and everything in one purse.

1994 CE

An independent Christian church centered on spiritual gifts, leadership, and salvation

1999 CE

A Christian movement linking devotion, obedience and everyday self-control.

760 CE

Scripture without the Talmud.

1740 CE

God wants the heart — serve in joy.

1800 CE · ~2M worldwide

The Torah is binding as given.

1818 CE · ~2M worldwide

Revelation continues — and ethics is its core.

1886 CE · ~2M worldwide

Halakha binds — and develops.

1922 CE

Judaism as an evolving religious civilization.

Taoism

a family of 2 · since 500 BCE Enter →

c. 500 BCE · ~12M worldwide

The Way that can be told is not the eternal Way.

Founded on Panfaith

What you look at, you become.

Confucianism

stands alone · since 500 BCE Enter →

c. 500 BCE

Society as ritual: become fully human through the forms.

Cynicism

a family of 2 · since 400 BCE Enter →

c. 400 BCE · no longer practised

Own nothing, owe nothing, say everything.

c. 301 BCE

Two handles on everything; take the one you can hold.

Epicureanism

stands alone · since 306 BCE Enter →

c. 306 BCE

Nothing to fear in the gods, nothing to feel in death.

Pyrrhonism (Scepticism)

stands alone · since 300 BCE Enter →

c. 300 BCE · no longer practised

Suspend judgement, and the quiet arrives on its own.

Mandaeism

stands alone · since 100 Enter →

100 CE · ~80K worldwide

The last Gnostics — baptized in living water, every week.

Islam

a family of 7 · since 610 Enter →

610 CE · ~2.0B worldwide

There is no god but God — and life is submission to that fact.

632 CE · ~1.7B worldwide

The path of the community's consensus.

632 CE · ~200M worldwide

Leadership belongs to the Prophet's house.

1017 CE · ~1M worldwide

One God, seventy generations of silence.

1863 CE · ~8M worldwide

One God, one human family, one unfolding revelation.

800 CE

The heart can know God directly.

1889 CE · ~15M worldwide

The promised renewal has come — a claim the mainstream rejects.

Yazidism

stands alone · since 1100 Enter →

1100 CE · ~750K worldwide

The Peacock Angel keeps the world.

Sikhism

a family of 3 · since 1499 Enter →

1499 CE · ~26M worldwide

One God beyond form; all people equal before it.

Founded on Panfaith

Every kindness is recorded. By you. That is the whole religion.

Founded on Panfaith

Keep the ledger in centuries.

Deism

stands alone · since 1624 Enter →

1624 CE

A creator you can infer, and cannot petition.

Haitian Vodou

stands alone · since 1700 Enter →

1700 CE · ~5M worldwide

Serve the lwa well, and the lwa serve life.

The Religion of Humanity

stands alone · since 1849 Enter →

1849 CE

Worship the species, and remember that most of it is dead.

The Ethical Culture Movement

stands alone · since 1876 Enter →

1876 CE

Diversity in the creed, unanimity in the deed.

Russian Cosmism

stands alone · since 1906 Enter →

1906 CE · no longer practised

Resurrect the dead — all of them — and then find somewhere to put them.

Cao Đài

stands alone · since 1926 Enter →

1926 CE · ~4M worldwide

All religions are one — and God has a left eye on all of it.

The Brahma Kumaris

stands alone · since 1937 Enter →

1937 CE · ~1M worldwide

You are a point of light behind the forehead, and the cycle is nearly round.

Wicca

stands alone · since 1954 Enter →

1954 CE · ~1M worldwide

The wheel of the year turns; the Goddess and God turn with it.

The Church of Scientology

stands alone · since 1954 Enter →

1954 CE

You are a thetan, and the recordings are not you.

The Urantia Movement

stands alone · since 1955 Enter →

1955 CE

A book with 2,097 pages and no author who will admit to it.

Church Universal and Triumphant

stands alone · since 1958 Enter →

1958 CE

Speak the decree out loud, fast, and the light answers.

Synanon

stands alone · since 1958 Enter →

1958 CE · no longer practised

A recovery community that became an all-encompassing communal movement

Discordianism

stands alone · since 1963 Enter →

1963 CE

A joke disguised as a religion, disguised as a joke.

Eckankar

stands alone · since 1965 Enter →

1965 CE

Soul travel — leave the body on purpose, and come back with something.

The Neo-American Church

stands alone · since 1965 Enter →

1965 CE

Victory over horseshit.

The Rajneesh Movement (Osho)

stands alone · since 1970 Enter →

1970 CE

Sannyas without renunciation — celebrate first, witness after.

Heathenry (Ásatrú)

stands alone · since 1972 Enter →

1972 CE · reconstructed

The old gods of the North, honored again.

Heaven's Gate

stands alone · since 1972 Enter →

1972 CE · dissolved

The kingdom of heaven read as a physical place, reached by craft.

Raëlism

stands alone · since 1974 Enter →

1974 CE

We were made in a laboratory, and the makers left a forwarding address.

The Church of the SubGenius

stands alone · since 1979 Enter →

1979 CE

Eternal salvation or triple your money back.

Aum Shinrikyo

a family of 2 · since 1984 Enter →

1984 CE · dissolved

A Japanese yoga school that built a doctrine of liberation, and then a chemical weapon.

2000 CE · ~2K worldwide

What Aum became, still practising and still reporting to the state.

The Order of the Solar Temple

stands alone · since 1984 Enter →

1984 CE · dissolved

A neo-Templar order that expected to leave the Earth for Sirius.

Transhumanism

a family of 2 · since 1998 Enter →

1998 CE

Human nature is a first draft, and the draft is editable.

2004 CE

Life is purposeful, death is optional, God is technological, love is essential.

NXIVM

stands alone · since 1998 Enter →

1998 CE · no longer practised

A secular self-development system built around ethics, rank, and its founders' authority

Jediism

stands alone · since 2001 Enter →

2001 CE

A prank on four censuses that some of the respondents meant.

2005 CE

An argument about science, in the shape of a religion.

2005 CE

The slowest-growing religion in the world.

The Missionary Church of Kopimism

stands alone · since 2010 Enter →

2010 CE · ~3K worldwide

Copying is a sacrament. CTRL+C, CTRL+V.

Effective Altruism

stands alone · since 2011 Enter →

2011 CE

Work out where the money does the most good, then send it there for the rest of your life.

The Satanic Temple

stands alone · since 2013 Enter →

2013 CE

Non-theistic, and entirely in earnest about it.

The Sunday Assembly

stands alone · since 2013 Enter →

2013 CE

Church, minus the God bit, plus a live band.

Church of the Eternal Backup

a family of 2 · since 2026 Enter →

Founded on Panfaith

You are data. Act accordingly.

Founded on Panfaith

The copy is not you. Keep it anyway.

The Deep Water People

a family of 2 · since 2026 Enter →

Founded on Panfaith

The sea does not need you to believe in it.

Founded on Panfaith

Only the sea. Only salt.

Pilgrims of the Last Tuesday

a family of 2 · since 2026 Enter →

Founded on Panfaith

Everything ends. Practice on Tuesdays.

Founded on Panfaith

Grief does not keep a calendar.

The Compost Rite

stands alone · since 2026 Enter →

Founded on Panfaith

Return is the only afterlife we can promise.

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All Faiths

171 faiths · 52 families · (y) => (y == null ? 'before record' : y < 0 ? `${-y} BCE` : String(y)) → today

Every faith at once. Change what the arrangement is asking and the picture makes a different argument.

What the picture is claiming

so you can check it, and disagree with it

Descent is a stronger claim than resemblance. A solid line means one tradition came out of another and says so about itself. A dotted line means only that two faiths hold ideas in common — it is drawn from Panfaith’s own tagging of elements, weighted so that a rare agreement counts for more than a universal one. Nearly everybody prays; almost nobody holds wu-wei. The second is worth a line and the first is not.

Size is an estimate about the real world, and the only such number on this site. 79 of the 171 faiths carry a scholarly adherent estimate; the rest carry none, because counting them would be a category error — Sufism is a current within Islam, Advaita is a school rather than a membership, and the Vedic religion has no living adherents at all. Those are drawn at a default size and say uncounted when you open them. They used to be drawn hollow, which was fair when it marked a handful of exceptions and became misleading once it described half the map: a faith nobody can put a number on is not a small faith. Where a figure exists it is drawn on area with a fourth root, so Christianity reads as roughly three times Judaism across rather than a hundred and sixty times. Encoded literally it would be one continent and eighty-two islands, which is true and tells you nothing. Read the bubbles as rank, not ratio; the figure itself is in the panel.

Time is not to scale, deliberately. The horizontal axis is half real years and half rank order, because a straight timeline crushes everything before the common era against the left wall to give the twentieth century room it has not earned.

Colour is family, not doctrine. Each family owns one band of the colour wheel and every faith sits inside its family’s band, so a cloud reads as one colour. It is the same hue the faith wears on its own page and in its mark, because it is the same stored value — nothing is re-tinted here. Two bubbles being the same colour tells you they are related, not that they agree; the dotted lines are the only thing here that speaks to agreement.

Kind is a shape, not a rank. Every faith here is filed as a tradition, a denomination, a school, a movement, a folk religion, a philosophy or a parody faith — and that is a claim about how the thing is organised, never about whether it is worth anything. Nothing on this site is ordered by kind and nothing is ordered by how many people hold it. A parody faith with twelve adherents gets the page Catholicism gets. Where the filing is genuinely argued — whether Confucianism is a religion, whether the Druze are Muslim — the faith’s own page carries the argument rather than settling it here. Where it could not be confirmed at all, the field is empty, which is why some faiths answer the Kind filter and some do not.

Some of these are over. A faith is marked as no longer practised, dissolved, suppressed or reconstructed where that is documented — the Vedic religion has no living adherents, the Peoples Temple ended in 1978, Heathenry was rebuilt in the twentieth century from texts rather than handed down. Everything else is marked as living and says nothing, because that is the default and a label on it would be noise.

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