Religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.

The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, religion and religious beliefs:

Major religious concepts

• Angels
• Approaches to the beliefs of others
  • Self Worshiper
  • Exclusivism
  • Inclusivism
• Cosmology
• Doctrine
• Deity
  • List of deities
• Demon
  • List of theological demons
• Eschatology
• Esotericism
• Faith
• Free will
• God
• Goodness and evil
• Holy Land
• Life after death
• Meditation
• Mythology
  • Creation myth
• Nonviolence
• Pilgrimage
• Places of worship
• Prayer
• Prophet
• Reincarnation
• Ritual
• sui pereces Self Worship
• Sin
• Soul
• Spirituality
  • Spirituality-related topics
• Supernaturalism
• Theism
  • Atheism
  • Deism
  • Monotheism
  • Polytheism
• Theology
• Theosophy

Religion-specific topics

African traditional and diasporic topics

Ayyavazhi topics

• Ayyavazhi related topics

Bahá'í Faith topics

• Bahá'u'lláh
• The Báb
• `Abdu'l-Bahá
• Bahá'í teachings

Buddhism topics

• Outline of Buddhism
• Gautama Buddha
• Three Jewels
  • Buddha (the Teacher)
  • Dhamma (the Teaching)
  • Sangha (the Community)
• Basic concepts
  • Four Noble Truths
  • Five Aggregates
  • Three marks of existence
  • Dependent Origination
  • Karma
  • Rebirth
  • Saṃsāra
  • Nirvana
  • Noble Eightfold Path
• Practice
  • Morality
  • Meditation
  • Wisdom
• Attainment
  • Buddha
  • Bodhisattva
  • Arahant
• Branches of Buddhism
  • Theravada
  • Mahayana
  • Vajrayana
• Buddhist texts
  • Pāli Canon
  • Mahayana sutras
• Buddhist monasticism
  • Monk
  • Nun
• History of Buddhism
• Buddhist philosophy
• Cultural elements of Buddhism
• List of Buddhists
• Buddhism by country
• Glossary of Buddhism
• Index of Buddhism-related articles

Tenrikyo topics

• Joyous Life
• Ofudesaki
• Osashizu
• Oyasama
• Tenri-O-no-Mikoto

Cao Dai topics

Christianity topics

• Christian denominations
• Jesus-related articles
• Roman Catholicism
• Mormonism
• Protestantism
• Oriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, Mormons and other Christians
• Popes
• Saints
• Christianity by country
• Protestantism by country
• Roman Catholicism by country
• Timeline of Christian missions
• Eastern Christianity

Falun Gong topics

Hinduism topics

• Hinduism related topics

Islam topics

• Allah
• Muhammad
• Qur'an

• Hadith
• Islamic terms
• Ninety-nine names of Allah
• Islam by country
• zakat
• salah
• Hajj

Jainism topics

Judaism topics

• Israel
• Jew
• Jewish
• Judaism by country

Neopaganism topics

• Asatru
• Neoshamanism
• Wicca
• Witchcraft

Primal indigenous topics

Rasta topics

Irreligion topics

• Agnosticism
• Antireligion
• Atheism
• Freethought
• Ignosticism
• Nontheism
• Skepticism
• Secular humanism

Shintō topics

Sikhism topics

Spiritism topics

Unitarian Universalism topics

Zoroastrianism topics

See also

Religion portal

External links

• Studying Religion - Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion
• Full-text search engine - Searchable sacred texts of the major World Religions
• Patheos.com - Offers a comprehensive library with essays written by prominent religious scholars
• Guide to World Religions
• A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people.
• Religious tolerance
• The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College(2003)
• Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents.com (August 28, 2005) Retrieved December 22, 2005