Trending Religious Movements in China — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Chinese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Falun Gong. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
7,555
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
1,309
views
views
2
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
1,172
views
views
3
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
372
views
views
4
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
349
views
views
5
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
222
views
views
6
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
213
views
views
7
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
200
views
views
8
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
182
views
views
9
charismatic christianity
form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and modern-day miracles
138
views
views
10
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
130
views
views
11
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
115
views
views
12
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
114
views
views
13
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
108
views
views
14
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
99
views
views
15
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
95
views
views
16
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
94
views
views
17
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
92
views
views
18
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
90
views
views
19
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
81
views
views
20
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
80
views
views
21
True Buddha School
Buddhist organization
67
views
views
22
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
63
views
views
23
Malaysian Islamic Party
Islamist political party in Malaysia
61
views
views
24
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
61
views
views
25
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
61
views
views
26
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
55
views
views
27
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
53
views
views
28
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
53
views
views
29
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
48
views
views
30
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
48
views
views
31
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
48
views
views
32
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
46
views
views
33
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
45
views
views
34
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
44
views
views
35
Guanyin Famen
new religious school of Mahayana Buddhism founded in 1988 by Ching Hai
44
views
views
36
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
43
views
views
37
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
42
views
views
38
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
41
views
views
39
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
41
views
views
40
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
40
views
views
41
Xiantiandao
current of Chinese folk religion
39
views
views
42
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
39
views
views
43
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
36
views
views
44
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
36
views
views
45
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
35
views
views
46
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
35
views
views
47
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
34
views
views
48
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
33
views
views
49
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
31
views
views
50
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
30
views
views
51
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
30
views
views
52
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
29
views
views
53
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
29
views
views
54
Maitreya Great Tao
religion established by Wang Hao-te in Taiwan, which relates to Yiguandao
29
views
views
55
Legion of Mary
Catholic lay movement
28
views
views
56
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
28
views
views
57
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
27
views
views
58
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
27
views
views
59
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
26
views
views
60
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
26
views
views
61
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
24
views
views
62
Mahāsāṃghika
early school of Buddhism
23
views
views
63
Bhakti movement
religious movement during the Medieval period of the Indian Subcontinent
23
views
views
64
Spirit Church
New religious movement from China
23
views
views
65
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
23
views
views
66
Bábism
religious movement
22
views
views
67
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
22
views
views
68
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
20
views
views
69
1904–1905 Welsh revival
Christian revival in Wales
20
views
views
70
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
20
views
views
71
Dami Mission
South Korean new religious movement
20
views
views
72
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
19
views
views
73
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
19
views
views
74
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
18
views
views
75
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
18
views
views
76
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
17
views
views
77
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
17
views
views
78
Buddhist socialism
type of Socialism that is in accord with the five basic precepts of Buddhism
17
views
views
79
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
16
views
views
80
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
16
views
views
81
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
15
views
views
82
Pure Land worship
15
views
views
83
Fourth Great Awakening
Christian awakening in the United States
15
views
views
84
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
15
views
views
85
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
15
views
views
86
Adventism
Christian denominational family
15
views
views
87
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
14
views
views
88
Third Great Awakening
period of religious activism in American history
14
views
views
89
Ja'fari School
school of jurisprudence (fiqh) in Twelver
14
views
views
90
Romuva
pagan religion
14
views
views
91
Jediism
philosophy mainly based on the Jedi characters in Star Wars media
13
views
views
92
Pietism
movement christian
13
views
views
93
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
13
views
views
94
Scottish Reformation
religious and political movement that established the Church of Scotland
13
views
views
95
Daesun Jinrihoe
South Korean new religious movement, founded in April 1969
13
views
views
96
Shu'ubiyya
Iranian movement against the supremacy of the Arab race
13
views
views
97
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
12
views
views
98
gnosticism in modern times
contemporary religious movements with origins in the Judeo-Christian milieux
12
views
views
99
Islamic modernism
movement to reconcile Islam with modern values
12
views
views
100
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
12
views
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