Browse Creeds
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Anabaptism
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Anabaptism is a family of Christian movements arising in the sixteenth-century Radical Reformation that emphasized voluntary adult baptism, a discipled church separated from worldly powers, and lives of peace and mutual aid.
Anglicanism
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Anglicanism formed in the crucible of Tudor politics and Reformation theology, defining itself as a mediated path between inherited Catholic forms and Protestant reforms.
Anthroposophy
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A twentiethâcentury European
Baptist Tradition
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A family of Protestant Christians distinguished by believer's baptism by immersion and the autonomy of the local congregation, Baptists form a diverse global movement shaped by debates over liberty, mission, and scripture.
Conservative (Masorti) Judaism
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A movement of Jewish law and communal life that seeks to hold the weight of tradition while engaging the methods of modern historical inquiryâConservative (Masorti) Judaism presents continuity and change as an ongoing conversation.
Eastern Orthodoxy
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A living Christian communion shaped by the Byzantine liturgical imagination and a conciliar sense of authority, Eastern Orthodoxy preserves a ritual, theological, and monastic world in which the Great Schism of 1054 stands as a defining historical rupture and interpretive hinge.
Hasidic Judaism
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A popular-mystical renewal within Judaism that emerged in eighteenthâcentury Eastern Europe around the figure of the Baal Shem Tov and now survives through dynastic rebbes, distinctive devotional practices, and diverse communal institutions across Israel, North America, and beyond.
Heathenry (ĂsatrĂș)
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A contemporary reconstruction of pre-Christian North Germanic religious practice, Heathenry (often called ĂsatrĂș) is a plural, contested movement that seeks to enact ancestral gods, rites, and ethics in the modern world while negotiating scholarship, local custom, and contemporary politics.
Lutheranism
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A tradition born in the disputations of early-sixteenth-century Wittenberg that placed the Ninety-Five Theses at the center of a wider program of reform, Lutheranism remains a liturgical, scripturally grounded branch of Protestant Christianity with a long history of theological reflection, social engagement and institutional diversity.
Methodism
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A Protestant revival movement that began in 18thâcentury England, Methodism combines impassioned evangelical preaching with an enduring emphasis on personal and social holiness, producing global denominations, hymnody, and reformist institutions rooted in Wesleyan theology.
Modern Druidry
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A Romantic-era revival reimagined for the modern world: Modern Druidry is a contemporary nature-centered religious movement that draws on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiquarianism, creative literary inheritance, and late twentieth-century Pagan reconstruction to form a living path of ritual, ethics, and communal practice.
Modern Hellenism
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A contemporary revival of Greek polytheistic worship that seeks to reconstruct and reinhabit the rites, temples, and moral vocabulary of ancient Hellenic religion within modern life.
Quakerism
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A Christian movement that placed the experience of a present, inward divine presence â the 'Inner Light' â and communal silence at the center of worship, Quakerism has combined a distinctive devotional practice with outsized influence on abolition, prison reform, and other social causes.
Raëlism
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A movement that fuses UFO cosmology with a programmatic embrace of science and sensual liberation, Raëlism presents itself as a religion of extraterrestrial creators and human self-directed evolution.
Reformed / Calvinism
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A family of Protestant churches and theology that emphasized God's sovereignty, disciplined congregational life, and a presbyterial model of church order â shaped in sixteenthâcentury Geneva and carried into national churches and global missions.
Roman Catholicism
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A global branch of Christianity shaped by a claim to apostolic continuity, a centralized papal office, sacramental life, and an institutional history spanning two millennia.
Theosophy
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A lateâ19thâcentury synthesis of Eastern and Western esotericism that anchored claims of hidden teachers, karmic law, and an underlying perennial wisdom in a new, global society.
Wicca
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A mid-twentiethâcentury revival of ritual witchcraft that centers a Goddess and a God, Wicca weaves occult lore, folkloric motifs, and modern ethical emphases into a lived, plural movement found across the Anglophone world and beyond.