Browse Creeds
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Bwiti
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Bwiti is a living spiritual tradition of Gabon and neighbouring regions centered on communion with ancestors and the ritual use of the iboga plant, practiced through music, initiation, and healing ceremonies that bind individual transformation to social memory.
Candomblé
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CandomblĂ© is an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition that registers the presence of West and Central African deities â the orixĂĄs, voduns, and nkisis â in Brazil's social and political life, a religion shaped as much by ritual possession and song as by the struggle to survive under slavery, repression, and modern secularizing pressures.
Christian Science
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A American-born movement that reinterprets Christianity around the conviction that spiritual understanding â as articulated by Mary Baker Eddy â is the means to heal and to restore human wellâbeing.
Eckankar
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A twentieth-century American new religious movement that locates divine reality in an experienced âLight and Sound,â Eckankar centers practices of soul travel and inner listening as the route to spiritual self-realization.
Haitian Vodou
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A living system of spirit-centered practice and social memory in which lwa (spirits), collective ritual, and histories of resistance meet â a faith fused with revolution and ongoing social life.
Inuit Spirituality
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A living northern cosmology in which angakkuq (shamans), the sea-mother Sedna, and close observation of ice and animals bind human communities to a sentient Arctic world.
Jehovah's Witnesses
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An identifiable Christian restorationist movement defined by organized, doorâtoâdoor public witnessing and a distinctive, nonâtrinitarian reading of scripture that centers on an imminent divine Kingdom and expectations about the end of the present world order.
Lakota Spirituality
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Centered on the Sun Dance, the sacred pipe, and quests for vision, Lakota spirituality is a living, oral religion of relations and reciprocity that has adapted to centuries of upheaval while remaining rooted in place, song, and ceremony.
Nation of Islam
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A movement that fused an American-born form of Islam with black nationalist programing, the Nation of Islam has shaped debates about race, religion, and self-determination in 20th- and 21st-century United States.
Native American Church
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A panâtribal, sacramental faith organized around the ceremonial use of peyote, the Native American Church combines Indigenous cosmologies and Christian language in an account of healing, community, and legal survival.
Navajo (Diné) Religion
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Rooted in the concept of hĂłzhĂł (beauty, balance, and harmony) and carried by the songs of the hataaĆii (healers or singers), Navajo (DinĂ©) religion is a living, adaptive tradition whose holy narratives, ceremonials, and healing arts continue to shape community life across the American Southwest.
New Thought (Unity / Religious Science)
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A cluster of American metaphysical movements that place mind, affirmative belief, and spiritual healing at the center of religious life, New Thought is best known through institutional branches such as Unity and Religious Science and through a wider cultural influence on self-help and spiritual healing practices.
Pentecostalism
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A global Christian movement born of early twentiethâcentury revivals that centers the experiential work of the Holy Spirit â especially speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy â and that has reshaped Christianity across continents.
Rastafari
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A 20th-century Jamaican movement that reimagined an Ethiopian emperor, African return, and everyday holiness into a global, lived faith of liberation, identity, and sacrament.
Reconstructionist Judaism
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A twentiethâcentury American movement that treats Judaism as an evolving religious civilization, Reconstructionist Judaism reframes authority, practice, and theology around communal creativity and historical change.
Reform Judaism
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A modern, historically minded stream of Judaism that sought to harmonize Jewish life with Enlightenment values and changing societies, reshaping liturgy, law, and communal institutions across Europe and the Americas.
SanterĂa (LukumĂ)
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A living Yoruba-derived religion reshaped on Cuban soil, SanterĂa (LukumĂ) sustains a lineage of divination, song, and sacrificial practice beneath the cover of Catholic saints and within the rhythms of batĂĄ drums.
Scientology
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A modern American-born movement built around L. Ron Hubbardâs self-help and spiritual technologies, organized as a church with a tiered path to spiritual freedom and the often-contested institutional structures that protect and transmit those teachings.
Seventh-day Adventism
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A Protestant movement born from 19th-century apocalyptic expectation that fused Saturday Sabbath observance, a distinctive reading of biblical prophecy, and a medicalized ethic of health into a global Christian church.
Spiritualism
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A modern movement that centers communication with departed persons through séances, mediumship, and spirit-led teaching, Spiritualism emerged in the mid-19th century and continues as a diverse set of communities and practices worldwide.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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A 19thâcentury American restoration movement that produced new scripture, distinctive rites, and a global institutional church rooted in claims of continuing revelation.
The Satanic Temple / LaVeyan Satanism
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A family of modern, predominantly nonâtheistic movements that invoke the figure of Satan as a symbol of individual liberty, skepticism, and political dissent, practiced through ritual, literature, and public advocacy.
Umbanda
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A 20thâcentury Brazilian synthesis in which Spiritist mediumship, Catholic imagery, and African-derived spirit personages meet in neighborhood terreiros and public rites.
Unitarian Universalism
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A creedless, pluralist religious movement born in the twentieth century from two liberal Christian streams, Unitarian Universalism gathers people who affirm a wide range of theological commitments while organizing common life around shared values and congregational polity.