Trending Religious Movements — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hamas. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
2,933,228
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
212,132
views
views
2
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
156,562
views
views
3
Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
144,780
views
views
4
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
96,172
views
views
5
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
93,356
views
views
6
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
83,613
views
views
7
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
78,381
views
views
8
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
67,959
views
views
9
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
67,450
views
views
10
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
66,146
views
views
11
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic supremacist organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups, classified as a terrorist organization
62,076
views
views
12
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
56,557
views
views
13
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
56,336
views
views
14
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
56,303
views
views
15
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
49,303
views
views
16
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
45,919
views
views
17
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
43,920
views
views
18
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
43,387
views
views
19
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
41,796
views
views
20
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
36,767
views
views
21
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
36,020
views
views
22
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
35,950
views
views
23
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
35,903
views
views
24
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
35,462
views
views
25
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
33,260
views
views
26
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
31,445
views
views
27
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
30,876
views
views
28
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
30,512
views
views
29
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
29,248
views
views
30
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
27,871
views
views
31
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
27,222
views
views
32
Twelve Tribes communities
Christian intentional community & denomination
25,351
views
views
33
Five-Percent Nation
American religion (1964-)
24,935
views
views
34
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
24,831
views
views
35
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
24,589
views
views
36
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
24,464
views
views
37
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
23,268
views
views
38
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
22,747
views
views
39
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
22,745
views
views
40
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
22,597
views
views
41
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
22,012
views
views
42
New Apostolic Reformation
Christian movement advocating the restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
21,908
views
views
43
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
21,608
views
views
44
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
21,554
views
views
45
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England initially led by John Wycliffe
20,575
views
views
46
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
19,623
views
views
47
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
18,256
views
views
48
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
17,206
views
views
49
AllatRa
religious sect
17,092
views
views
50
Pietism
movement christian
16,764
views
views
51
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
16,309
views
views
52
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
15,832
views
views
53
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
15,791
views
views
54
Rajneesh movement
persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho
15,679
views
views
55
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
15,559
views
views
56
Modern Orthodox Judaism
a movement within Orthodox Judaism to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world; mainy prevalent in the U.S.
15,500
views
views
57
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
15,317
views
views
58
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
14,946
views
views
59
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
14,933
views
views
60
Ghost Dance
new religious movement
14,432
views
views
61
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
14,223
views
views
62
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
13,733
views
views
63
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
13,613
views
views
64
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
13,487
views
views
65
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
13,382
views
views
66
Adventism
Christian denominational family
13,265
views
views
67
Neocatechumenal Way
Catholic movement
13,122
views
views
68
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
13,115
views
views
69
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
12,925
views
views
70
Seven Mountain Mandate
Conservative Protestant Christian movement
12,821
views
views
71
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
12,792
views
views
72
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
12,525
views
views
73
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
12,381
views
views
74
Brahma Kumaris
Spiritual organization
12,133
views
views
75
Love Has Won
new religious movement
11,996
views
views
76
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
11,994
views
views
77
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
11,817
views
views
78
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
11,739
views
views
79
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
11,568
views
views
80
British Israelism
Christian movement, according to which the people of England are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
11,502
views
views
81
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
11,476
views
views
82
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
11,470
views
views
83
Reconstructionist Judaism
denomination of Judaism
11,226
views
views
84
Azusa Street Revival
historic Pentecostal revival meeting
11,046
views
views
85
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Khlysts
Russian Christian sect
11,043
views
views
86
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
10,665
views
views
87
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
10,610
views
views
88
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
10,516
views
views
89
Twin Flames Universe
American religious cult
9,954
views
views
90
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
9,859
views
views
91
charismatic christianity
form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and modern-day miracles
9,652
views
views
92
flagellant
practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
9,529
views
views
93
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
9,515
views
views
94
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
9,375
views
views
95
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
9,346
views
views
96
Bábism
religious movement
9,156
views
views
97
Bishnoi
Environmental Friendly Hindu Community in India
8,994
views
views
98
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
8,945
views
views
99
Stone–Campbell Movement
Christian movement seeking church reformation and unification
8,887
views
views
100
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
8,724
views
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