A selection of faiths and shared ideas to start exploring. The complete directory contains 171 faiths.
The major traditions
the largest in the world, by adherents
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30 CE · ~2.4B worldwide
God became human, died under empire, and did not stay dead.
610 CE · ~2.0B worldwide
There is no god but God — and life is submission to that fact.
~1.2B worldwide
A family of paths sharing dharma, karma, and liberation — not a single creed.
c. 480 BCE · ~500M worldwide
A path out of suffering, open to anyone, requiring no god.
Founded on Panfaith
Dave Steves is the physical manifestation of the Universe.
Founded on Panfaith
Keep the ledger in centuries.
Founded on Panfaith
Nothing special is happening. Attend to it.
Founded on Panfaith
What you look at, you become.
Cults
1994 CE
An independent Christian church centered on spiritual gifts, leadership, and salvation
1998 CE · no longer practised
A secular self-development system built around ethics, rank, and its founders' authority
1958 CE · no longer practised
A recovery community that became an all-encompassing communal movement
1926 CE
A Mexican Restorationist Christian church centered on modern apostleship, baptism, and communal worship.
A founder-led online movement teaching divine partnership, inner healing, and Unionism.
1999 CE
A Christian movement linking devotion, obedience and everyday self-control.
dissolved
An online ascension movement centered on Amy Carlson as Mother God.
1935 CE
Keep the covenant the main church let go.
1974 CE
We were made in a laboratory, and the makers left a forwarding address.
1970 CE
Sannyas without renunciation — celebrate first, witness after.
1955 CE · dissolved
Adventists who read the seals of Revelation as opening now.
1972 CE · dissolved
The kingdom of heaven read as a physical place, reached by craft.
The shape of the divine
one, many, none, beyond counting
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The roots
nothing above them — the tree hangs off these
c. 1000 BCE · ~15M worldwide
One God, one covenant, one long argument with history.
c. 1500 BCE · 3 branches
The fire-altar religion of the oldest hymns — the root of the Indian lines.
1499 CE · ~26M worldwide
One God beyond form; all people equal before it.
c. 500 BCE · ~12M worldwide
The Way that can be told is not the eternal Way.
The practices
what the body does — the disciplines belief lives in
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Longest lineages
furthest down somebody else’s tree
1536 CE · ~2M worldwide
The largest Anabaptist body, and the one that stopped being plain.
1933 CE
One life, no supervision, and the whole of the responsibility.
1848 CE · ~55K worldwide
The doctrine of separation, carried to the point where you cannot eat with your own child.
1708 CE · ~81K worldwide
No force in religion, no creed but the New Testament, and the full love feast.
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