Trending Religious Movements in China — May 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, May 2026 (Chinese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Yiguandao. Data as of 30 June 2026.
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Ranked
4,772
Total Views (May 2026)
1
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
842
views
views
2
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
815
views
views
3
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
338
views
views
4
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
201
views
views
5
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
134
views
views
6
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
129
views
views
7
Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
124
views
views
8
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
124
views
views
9
charismatic christianity
form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and modern-day miracles
80
views
views
10
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
78
views
views
11
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
66
views
views
12
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
64
views
views
13
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
60
views
views
14
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
56
views
views
15
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
49
views
views
16
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
45
views
views
17
Malaysian Islamic Party
Islamist political party in Malaysia
45
views
views
18
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
42
views
views
19
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
40
views
views
20
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
39
views
views
21
Cheondoism
20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son Byong-hi
38
views
views
22
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
38
views
views
23
True Buddha School
Buddhist organization
36
views
views
24
Guanyin Famen
new religious school of Mahayana Buddhism founded in 1988 by Ching Hai
33
views
views
25
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
32
views
views
26
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
30
views
views
27
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
29
views
views
28
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
29
views
views
29
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
27
views
views
30
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
27
views
views
31
Xiantiandao
current of Chinese folk religion
26
views
views
32
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
26
views
views
33
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
26
views
views
34
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
25
views
views
35
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic supremacist organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups, classified as a terrorist organization
25
views
views
36
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
25
views
views
37
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
24
views
views
38
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
24
views
views
39
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
23
views
views
40
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
22
views
views
41
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
22
views
views
42
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
22
views
views
43
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
22
views
views
44
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
21
views
views
45
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
21
views
views
46
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
21
views
views
47
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
20
views
views
48
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
20
views
views
49
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
20
views
views
50
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
19
views
views
51
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
19
views
views
52
Bhakti movement
religious movement during the Medieval period of the Indian Subcontinent
19
views
views
53
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
19
views
views
54
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
18
views
views
55
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
18
views
views
56
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
18
views
views
57
Legion of Mary
Catholic lay movement
17
views
views
58
Mahāsāṃghika
early school of Buddhism
17
views
views
59
Dami Mission
South Korean new religious movement
16
views
views
60
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
16
views
views
61
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
15
views
views
62
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
15
views
views
63
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
15
views
views
64
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
14
views
views
65
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
14
views
views
66
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
14
views
views
67
Maitreya Great Tao
religion established by Wang Hao-te in Taiwan, which relates to Yiguandao
14
views
views
68
Spirit Church
New religious movement from China
13
views
views
69
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
12
views
views
70
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
12
views
views
71
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
12
views
views
72
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
12
views
views
73
Bábism
religious movement
12
views
views
74
Scottish Reformation
religious and political movement that established the Church of Scotland
12
views
views
75
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
12
views
views
76
Jediism
philosophy mainly based on the Jedi characters in Star Wars media
12
views
views
77
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
12
views
views
78
Buddhist socialism
type of Socialism that is in accord with the five basic precepts of Buddhism
12
views
views
79
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
largest Rosicrucian organization in the world
11
views
views
80
Pietism
movement christian
11
views
views
81
Third Great Awakening
period of religious activism in American history
11
views
views
82
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
11
views
views
83
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
11
views
views
84
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
11
views
views
85
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
11
views
views
86
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
11
views
views
87
Adventism
Christian denominational family
11
views
views
88
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
11
views
views
89
Christian naturism
movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies
10
views
views
90
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
10
views
views
91
Daesun Jinrihoe
South Korean new religious movement, founded in April 1969
10
views
views
92
Fourth Great Awakening
Christian awakening in the United States
10
views
views
93
Homoiousian
believer in the Christian doctrine of homoiousianism
9
views
views
94
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
9
views
views
95
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
9
views
views
96
Pure Land worship
8
views
views
97
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
8
views
views
98
Christian reconstructionism
Christian fundamentalist Reformed theonomic movement, founded by Rousas Rushdoony, Greg Bahnsen and Gary North and influential in the U.S., that advocates theonomy and the restoration of certain biblical laws said to have continuing applicability
8
views
views
99
Welsh Methodist revival
religious movement in the 18th century
8
views
views
100
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
8
views
views