what's up guys Me and my friends recently have a discussion about number of religion in the world and didn't come up with a conclusion... Did someone know how religion are there in the world?
There is no correct answer because nobody can define exactly what a religion is. It is all open to debate. Within Hinduism itself, many of us feel like there are several religions.
According to beliefs system on earth there exists around 4,000+ religions or belief systems in the world. But majorly there are 5 main relgions on planet earth they are: Hinduism Buddhism Islam Christianity and New Age I wouldn't really count hinduism as religion but since people see it as religion i have mentioned it here. Atheism again is a belief system where gods existence is a question mark. rest others can guide you for more If you want to know the details about each one of them then this could be done if u need to know about them as well Others which i know are as follows: Amish ancestor worship animism Asatrú atheism Aum Shinrikyo Bahá'í Faith Branch Davidians Celtic Paganism Chen Tao Chinese religion Christadelphians Christian Apostolic Church in Zion Concerned Christians Confucianism Dami Xuanjiao deism Divine Lightmission Druidism Druze dualism Ebionites Eckankar Gnosticism Heathenism Heaven's Gate Hookers for Jesus / The Family of God Humanism Jain Jedi Knights Jehovah's Witnesses Judaism Mennonite Mithraism monotheism Mysticism Native American Church New Age no religion occultism Order of the Solar Temple Paganism pantheism People's Temple polytheism Raja Yoga Rastafarian Salvation Army Santería Satanism Scientology Shamanism Shinto Sikhism Spiritualism Taoism theism Thelema Theosophy Traditional African Church Unification Church Unitarianism Unitarian-Universalism Unitas Fratrum Universalism Vodun/Voodoo Wicca Witchcraft Yezidism Zhu Shen Jiao Zoroastrianism Many out of even them are directly or indirectly part of sanatana dharma akka hinduism ... There is one dharma on earth i.e. sanatana dharma and there are many religions on earth.
I would agree with senthil as there is no proper defination about religions. but if you are talking about the thought process based on followings than here is list of top 20 belief systems followed by people 1. Christianity - 2,039 million 2. Islam - 1,570 million 3. Hinduism - 950 million 4. No religion - 775 million 5. Chinese folk religion - 390 million 6. Buddhism - 350 - 1,600 million (2) 7. Tribal Religions, Shamanism, Animism - 232 million 8. Atheists - 150 million 9. New religions. - 103 million 10. Sikhism - 23.8 million 11. Judaism - 14.5 million 12. Spiritism - 12.6 million 13. Baha'i Faith - 7.4 million 14. Confucianism - 6.3 million 15. Jainism - 4.3 million 16. Zoroastrianism - 2.7 million 17. Shinto - 2.7 million 18. Taoism Note 4 - 2.7 million 19. Other - 1.1 million 20. Wicca Note 5 - 0.5 million? There are population of people whose belief system has very very less number of followers
