List of basic religious topics
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Below is a list of basic topics in religion -- topics which will help the beginner become familiar with the subject of religion. For a comprehensive list, see List of religious topics.
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Ayyavazhi Religion - Bible stories - Biblical names - Born-again Christian laypeople - Buddhist terms and concepts - Cathedrals - Christian denominations - Christians - Deities - Demons - Di Indigetes (Roman gods & goddesses) - Dramatic portrayals of Jesus Christ - Founders of major religions - Greek mythological characters - Hinduism - Islamic terms - Jesus-related articles - Major world religions - Monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England - Mormonism - Muslims - Names for the Biblical nameless - Ninety-nine names of Allah - Patriarchs of Antioch - Patriarchs of Constantinople - Patron saints - Popes - Religions of the world - Saints - Six-hundred-thirteen commandments - Spiritually-related topics
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1689 Baptist Confession of Faith -
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Abolitionism - Abortion and Evangelical Christians - Abraham - Abrahamic religion - Accommodation - Acolyte - Acts of Pilate - Adam and Eve - Aeon - Agnosticism - Akhenaton - Akilattirattu Ammanai - All Saints - Alpha course - Altar - Altar boy - Altar rails - Altar server - Amazing Grace - Ambarvalia - Amish - Anabaptist - Anathema - Anatta - Ancestor-worship - Ancient of Days - Angel - angels of the zodiac - Anglican Communion - Anglican continuing churches - Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglicanism - Anglo-Catholicism - Animism - Anointing - Anointing of the Sick - Antediluvian - Anthropology of religion - Anthropomorphism - Anti-Arab - Anti-Defamation League - Anti-Modernist oath - Anti-Semitism - Anti-Zionism - Antichrist - Apocrypha - Apostle - Apostles' Creed - Apostolic Pardon - Apostolic See - Apostolic Succession - Apparition - Ara Pacis - Arab anti-semitism - Arathi - Archbishop - Arguments against the existence of God - Arguments for the existence of God - Arianism - Arminianism - Articles of Faith - Arul Nool - Ásatrú - Ascension - Ascetic - Ash Wednesday - Asherah - Ashkenazi - Asmodeus - Assumption of Mary - Aten - Athanasian Creed - Atheism - Atonement - Augur - Augustinians - Auspice - Autocephaly - Ayyavazhi - Azazel - Aztec mythology
B
B'nai Noach - Baal teshuva - Baal - Báb - Backward message - Bahá'í Faith - Bahá'u'lláh - Bakkah - Balam - Balor - Baptism - Baptism for the dead - Baptism of the Holy Spirit - Bar mitzvah and Bat mitzvah - Beatific vision - Beast - Beelzebub - Robert Bellarmine - Benedictine - Bhakti - Bhakti movement - Bible - The Bible and history - Bible and reincarnation - Bible translations - Biblical canon - Biblical inerrancy - Jesus in the Christian Bible - Biblical poetry - Bioethics - Bishops' Bible - Bishop - Blessed Sacrament - Blessed Virgin Mary - Blood libel - Bodhisattva - Bodhi - Book of Mormon - Books of the Bible - Born again - Brahma - Brahman - Brahmin - Brethren of the Common Life - Breviary - Brit milah - Buddha - Buddha-nature: see Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Buddhism - Business ethics
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Thomas Cajetan - Calendar of saints - Calendar - Calvinism - Cambridge Declaration - Candomblé - Canon (priest) - Canon law - Canons of Dort - Cantor - Cardinal (Catholicism) - Carmelites - Carmen Saliare - Catechism - Catechism of the Catholic Church - Cathedral - Cathedral architecture - Catholic Apostolic Church - Catholic Church against war on Iraq - Catholic Communion - Catholic King - Catholic ministers - Catholic sacraments - Catholicism - Chalcedonian Creed - Charismatic - Cherem - Cherub - Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy - Child sacrifice - Chinese house church -- Chosen people - Chrismation - Christian anti-Semitism - Christian anarchism - Christian eschatology - Christian fundamentalism - Christian-Jewish reconciliation - Christian Identity - Christian mythology - Christian Peacemaker Teams - Christian Science - Christian theological controversy - Christianity - Christmas - Christmas Eve - Christology - Church - Church of England - Church militant and church triumphant - Church planting - Civil religion - Clergy - Clerical celibacy - Closed communion - College of Cardinals - College of Pontiffs - Communion: see Eucharist or full communion or Communion of Saints - Comparative religion - Comparing and contrasting Judaism and Christianity - Comparing Eastern and Western religious traditions - Concordat - Conditional baptism -- Confession - Confirmation (sacrament) - Confucianism - Congregationalism - Congregationalist church - Consecration Talk:Consecration - Conservative Judaism - Continuous revelation - Coptic Christianity - Cosmology - Counter-Reformation - (A) Course in Miracles - Covenant - Covenanter - Covenant theology - Creationism - Creed - Crucifixion - Crusade - Crypto-Judaism - Cult - Cult (religion) - Curse
D
Dabru Emet - Dajjal - Deacon - Dead Sea scrolls - Death worship - Deism - Demigod - Demonology - Demon - Deuterocanonical books - Deuteronomy - Devil - Devil's Advocate - Dharma - Dhimmi - Dies Irae - Diocese - Dispensationalism - Divination - Divine grace -- Divine healing - Divine Liturgy - Divine providence - Divine simplicity - Djinn - Doctor of the Church - Doctrine - Doctrine and Covenants - Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses - Documentary hypothesis - Dogmatic definition - Dogma - Dominican Order - Dominus Iesus - Douai Bible - Druidry
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Early Muslim philosophy - Earth religion - Easter - Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Eastern Orthodoxy - Eastern Rites - Ecclesia (sociology of religion) - Ecclesial communities contrasted - Ecclesiology - Eckankar - Economy (Eastern Orthodoxy) - Ecstasy - Ecumenical - Ecumenical council - Ecumenism - Mary Baker Eddy - Jonathan Edwards (theology) - Egyptian mythology - Emanationism - Emerging Church - The Enlightenment - End of the world - End times - Epiclesis - Epiphany - Episcopacy - Episcopalian - Episcopal Church in the United States of America - Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East - Episcopal Church of Scotland - Episcopal see - Eritrean Orthodox Church - Eschatology - Esoteric cosmology - Eternal Marriage - Eternity - Ethics - Eucharist - Evangelicalism - Evolution - Ex cathedra - Excommunication - Exodus - Exorcism - Expository preaching - Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
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Faith - Fall of man (see also Original sin) - Fallen angel - Feast of the Lemures - Fellowship of Reason - Fetishism - Fideism - Filioque clause - First Vatican Council - Five Pillars of Islam - Five solas - Flirty Fishing - Folk religion - Forgiveness - Fratres Arvales - Free Church of Scotland - Free will - Full communion - Full Gospel - Fundamentalism - Funeral
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Gautama Buddha - Genesis - Geneva Bible - Gersonides - Glossolalia - Gnosticism - God - God and gender - Goddess worship - Goddess - Godhead (Christianity) - Gog - The Golden Bough - Gospel of John - Gospel of Luke - Gospel of Mark - Gospel of Matthew - Grace - Great Apostasy - Great Bible - Great Schism - Greek mythology - Greek Orthodox Church - Greek religion - Gregorian Calendar - Gregorian chant - Guru
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Hagiography - Hail Mary - Halakha - Haredi Judaism - Harran - Harrowing of Hell - Haruspex - Hasidim - Hasidism - Hayyoth - Heaven - Hebrew Bible - Hebrew Calendar - Hebrew - Hell - Hellenic polytheism - Henotheism - Heresy - Hermoea - Heterodoxy - Higher criticism - Hinduism - Hiram Abiff - Historic episcopate - History of ancient Israel and Judah - History of Christianity - History of the English Bible - History of Islam - History of Unfulfilled Prophecy by Christians - Holidays - Holocaust denial - Holocaust revisionism - Holocaust theology - Holocaust - Holy card - Holy Day of Obligation - Holy Inquisition -- Holy Living and Holy Dying - Holy Orders - Holy Prepuce - Holy See - Holy Spirit - Holy Synod - Holy water - Homeric hymns - Homosexuality and morality - Homosexuality - House church -- Human sacrifice - Humanism - Hymn Hyper-Calvinism -
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Icon - Iconoclasm - Iconography - Iconostasis - Idolatry - Ifá - Iguvine Tables - Imam - Impiety - Imperial cult - Important verses from the Bible -- Incarnation - Indulgence -- Infidel - Inquisition - Intelligent design - Intercommunion - Irreligion - - Irresistible grace - - Isaac - Isaiah - Isa - Ishta-Deva - Ishmael - Islam and anti-Semitism - Islam and Judaism - Islamic calendar - Islamism - Islam - Israel
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Jacob - Jainism - James the Just - Jehovah's Witnesses - Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust - Jerusalem - Jesus as Christ and Messiah - Jesus - Jewish eschatology - Jewish fundamentalism - Jewish history timeline - Jewish holidays - Jewish principles of faith - Jewish services - Jewish Theological Seminary of America - Jewish view of marriage - Jewish views of religious pluralism - Jewish - Jews for Jesus - Jew - Jihad - Jubilee (Biblical) - Jubilee (Christian) - Judaism - Justification (theology) -
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Kabbalah - Kairos - Karaites - Karma - Kashrut - Kenosis - King James Version of the Bible - King-James-Only Movement - Kingdom Now theology - Kingdom of Israel - Kohen - Kollel - Korban - Krishna
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Laity - Last Judgment - Latin Rite - Latria - Latrocinium - Latter Rain Movement - Lay presidency - Lay Reader - Lector - Legalism (theology) - Leviathan - Leviticus - Liberal Judaism - Light Upon Light - Lilith - Limited atonement - Liturgical colours - Liturgical hymn - Liturgical Year - Liturgy - Loving Jesus - Luciferians - Lucifer - Lupercalia - Lutheran Church
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Magic (paranormal) - Magic (religion) - Magnificat - Magus - Mahayana - Maimonides - Major orders - Mandaeanism - Manichaeism - Marcionism - Marian apparitions - Maronite - Marriage - Mary, the mother of Jesus - Masoretic text - Masorti - Mass (liturgy) - Mass (music) - Massacre of the Innocents - Mather, Cotton - Mather, Increase - Meditation - Meforshim - Megachurch - Mephistopheles - Merkabah - Messiah - Messianic Judaism - Methodism - Metrical psalter - Metropolitan bishop - Mikvah - Midrash - Millennialism - Millerites - Minor orders - Minority religion - Miracle - Mishnah - Mithraism - Mitzvah - Modern Orthodox Judaism - Moloch - Monastery - Monasticism - Monk - Monophysitism - Monotheism - Moral community - Moravian - Moriah - Mormonism - Edgardo Mortara - Moses - Mosque - Mount Sinai - Mourning - Muhammad - Multisensory worship - Mussar Movement - Mysticism - Myths and legends surrounding the Papacy
N
Nasheed - Natural theology - The nature of God in Western theology - Near sacrifice of Isaac - Neo-druidism - Neo-evangelicalism -- Neopaganism - Nestorianism - New Age - New Testament - Nicene Creed - Nirvana - Nontrinitarianism - Norse mythology - Number of the Beast (numerology)
O
Oahspe - Occult - Old English Bible translations - Old Testament - Omen - Omnipotence - Omniscience - One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church - Opus Dei - Order of the Solar Temple - Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses - Oriental Orthodoxy - Original sin - Orthodoxy (not about Eastern Orthodox Christianity) - Orthodox Bahá'í Faith - Orthodox Christian Mission Center - Orthodox Judaism
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Paganism - Pali canon - Pali - Panentheism - Pange Lingua - Pantheism - Papal abdication - Papal bull - Papal Coronation - Papal election - Papal Infallibility - Papal States - Papal Tiara - Paradise - Parentalia - Parousia - Particular church - Passover - Patriarch - Paul of Tarsus - Pauline Christianity - Peace - Pearl of Great Price - Pelagianism - Pentateuch - Pentecostalism - People of the Book - Permanent deacon - Perpetual virginity of Mary - Persecution of Christians - Persian religions - Peter - Pharisee - Philistine - Philosophical theism - Philosophy of religion - Phronema - Pietism - Pilgrim's Progress - Pilgrimage - Plural Marriage (Mormonism) - Political religion - Polytheism - Pontiff - Pontifex Maximus - Pope - Port-Royal - Posek - Pow-wow (folk magic) - Practices of Jehovah's Witnesses Prakrit - Praxis (Orthodox) - Prayer - Prayer for the dead - Predestination - Pre-existence - Presbyterian - Presbyterian Church - Presbytery (sacred architecture) - Prevenient grace - Priesthood (Mormonism) - Priesthood of all believers - Priest - Primacy of the Roman Pontiff - Primate (religion) - Probabilism - The problem of evil - The problem of Hell - Process theology - Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs - Prophet - Prophets of Islam -- Protestantism - Protestant Reformation - Psalm - Pseudo-science - Psilanthropism Purgatory - Purim - Puritan - Pythagoreanism
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R
Rabbinic literature - Rabbinical Assembly - Rabbi - Raelism - Ramadan - Rama - Rastafari movement - Rationalism - Rebbe - Rebirth - Reconstructionist Judaism - Red Sea - Reform Judaism - Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess - Reincarnation - Religion and abortion - Religion and homosexuality - Religion in Canada - Religion in Germany - Religion in the United States - Religions of the world, list of - Religion - Religion in India - Religious aspects of marriage - Religious conversion - Religious cosmology - Religious denomination - Religious ecstasy - Religious heritage - Religious Humanism - Religious intolerance - Religious persecution - Religious pluralism - Religious studies - Repentance - Requiem - Responsa - Restoration (Mormonism) - Restorationism - Resurrection - Resurrection of Jesus - Revelation - Reverence - Rhema - Righteousness - Role of women in Judaism - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases - Roman mythology - Roman religion - Romanian Orthodox Church - Romans road - Rosh Hashanah
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Sabbat (neopaganism) - Sabbath - Sabellianism - Sabians - Sacrament - Sacramental character - Sacramental index - Sacred Heart - Sacred king - Sacred language - Sacred text - Sacrifice - Sadducee - Sai Baba - Sadducee - Saint - Saints, calendar of - Salvation - Samael - Sanctification - Sanskrit - Sarah - Satanism - Satan - Sathya Sai Baba - Saturnalia - Scapegoat - Scofield Reference Bible - Seal of the Prophets -- Second Coming - Second Great Awakening - Second Vatican Council - Secondary conversion - Sect - Secular Humanism - Seder - Sede vacante - Sedevacantism - Seir - Sephardic Judaism - Sephardi - Septuagint - Seraph - Sermon on the Mount - Sermon - Shabbat - Shamanism - Sharia - Shavuot - Shiite - Shinto - Shirk (idolatry) - Shiva - Shofar - Shrine - Shrines to the Virgin Mary - Shunning - Siddur - Sikhism - Sign of the cross - Signs and Wonders - Simony - Sin - Sira - Skepticism - Sky Father - Slain in the Spirit - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Socianism (not to be confused with Socinianism) -- see Psilanthropism - Socinianism - Sodom and Gomorrah - Javier Solana Antichrist allegations - Solar Deity - Soul sleep - Alleged textual evidence for Jesus - Spirit - Spiritism - Spiritual (music) - Spiritual possession - Spiritualism - Spirituality - State religion - Stations of the Cross - Suburbicarian diocese - Succubus - Sufi - Suitheism - Sukkot - Sumerian mythology - Sunnah - Sunni - Supernatural - Superstition - Supreme Pontiff (the title of the leader of either of two religions of Rome) - Surat Shabd Yoga - Sutra - Sydney Anglicans - Syllabus of Errors - Synagogue - Syncretism
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Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Tallit - Talmud - Tanakh - Taoism - Tawhid - Tefillin - Temple in Jerusalem - Temple (Mormonism) - Temple - Ten Commandments - The Ten Gurus of Sikhism - Territorial Spirits - Tetragrammaton - Thealogy - Theism - Theodicy - Theology - Theoria - Theosis - Theosophy - Theravada - Third Wave of the Holy Spirit - Thirty-Nine Articles - Three-Chapter Controversy - Three Wise Men - Tibetan Buddhism - Tipitaka - Torah study - Torah - Tosefta - Total depravity - Totemism - Toward the Light - Tract - Transcendentalism - Transfiguration - Transitional deacon - Transubstantiation - Translation (religion) - Trimurti - Trinitarian formula - Trinitarianism - Trinity - Tripitaka - Tutelary
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Umbanda - Unitarianism - Unitarian Universalism - United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism - Universalism - Universi Dominici Gregis - Upanishads - The Urantia Book - Utopianism
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Vajrayana - The Varieties of Religious Experience Vatican City - Vatican Hill - Vatican II - Veneration - Vespers - Vetus Latina - Vibhuti - Vineyard Movement - Vishnu - Vodun - Vow of celibacy - Vulgate
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Wahhabi - Charles Wesley - John Wesley - Western Orthodoxy - Western Wall - Westminster Confession of Faith - Westminster Larger Catechism - Westminster Shorter Catechism - Wheel of the Year - Ellen G. White - The White Goddess - Whore of Babylon - Wicca - Roger Williams - John Wimber - Witch of Endor - Women - Word of Knowledge - Worship - Worhip dance
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Y
Yahweh - Yeshiva University - Yeshiva - Yom Kippur - Yoruba mythology - Brigham Young
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Zen - Zionism - Zohar - Zoroaster - Zoroastrianism