Religion/Philosophy

Not to be confused with the Church of Satan, The Satanic Temple is both a religion and a sociopolitical movement. The Satanic Temple does not subscribe to the idea of a higher power, does not have religious texts, and can be seen as a reaction to conservative, traditionalist, organized religion. The Satanic Temple does not […]

A system of beliefs, usually spiritual in nature, and often in terms of a formal, organized denomination. Religion often provides people with a sense of morals, purpose, and community. Some religions are referred to as “major” religions — Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. — but there are many belief systems around the world […]

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also called Mormonism, church that traces its origins to a religion founded by Joseph Smith in the United States in 1830. The term Mormon, often used to refer to members of this church, comes from the Book of Mormon, which was published by Smith in 1830; use […]

Monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews’ belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions. Judaism is the complex phenomenon of a total way of life for the Jewish people, comprising theology, law, and innumerable cultural […]

Also called Islamic world or Islamdom, the complex of societies and cultures in which Muslims and their faith have been prevalent and socially dominant. Adherence to Islam is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40 countries, from the Atlantic eastward to the Pacific and along a belt that stretches across northern Africa […]

Refers to a rich cumulative tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium BCE or possibly earlier.

Is an umbrella term for multiple different faiths that all believe in the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1st century CE. Its largest groups are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Protestant churches.

Religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha (Sanskrit: “Awakened One”), a teacher who lived in northern India between the mid-6th and mid-4th centuries BCE (before the Common Era)

Belief that there is no higher power/god/deities and/or , often a rejection of religion and theology in general.

Belief that there may or may not be a higher power/god/deities. People who identify as agnostic may or may not prescribe to a particular religion, and prescribe to the idea that a higher power and the afterlife is unknowable.