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- Islam: 1.5 billion
- Christianity:
- Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
- Hinduism: 900 million
- Chinese traditional religion: 394
million
- Buddhism: 376 million
- primal-indigenous: 300 million
- African Traditional & Diasporic:
100 million
- Sikhism: 23 million
- Juche: 19 million
- Spiritism: 15 million
- Judaism: 14 million
- Baha'i: 7 million
- Jainism: 4.2 million
- Shinto: 4 million
- Cao Dai: 4 million
- Zoroastrianism: 2.6
million
- Tenrikyo: 2 million
- Neo-Paganism: 1 million
- Unitarian-Universalism: 800
thousand
- Rastafarianism: 600
thousand
- Scientology: 500 thousand
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The Classical World Religions List
There are twelve classical world religions. This is the
list of religions described most often in surveys of the
subject, and studied in World Religion classes (some of them
more for historical rather than contemporary reasons):
- Islam
- Baha'i
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Confucianism
- Hinduism
- Jainism
- Judaism
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Zoroastrianism
The "World's Major Religions" list published in the New York
Public Library Student's Desk Reference is typical of world
religion lists which are functionally-oriented, yet still
strongly classical (New York: Prentice Hall, 1993; pg. 271):
- Islam
- Baha'i
- Buddhism
- Confucianism
- Hinduism
- Judaism
- Orthodox Eastern Church
- Protestantism
- Catholicism
- Shinto
- Taoism
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