Trending Religious Movements this year
The 100 most-viewed religious movements this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Baháʼí Faith.
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Ranked
1,024,681
Total Views (this year)
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Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
60,989
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2
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
54,866
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3
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
46,442
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4
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
34,178
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views
5
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
32,023
views
views
6
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light
Shia Islam-derived religious movement
31,013
views
views
7
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
25,353
views
views
8
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
24,921
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9
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
23,991
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views
10
Twelve Tribes communities
Christian intentional community & denomination
23,222
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views
11
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
23,102
views
views
12
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
20,711
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views
13
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
19,247
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14
Hasidism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
19,231
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views
15
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
17,978
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views
16
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups
17,545
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views
17
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
16,782
views
views
18
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
15,967
views
views
19
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
15,055
views
views
20
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
14,920
views
views
21
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
14,387
views
views
22
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
12,496
views
views
23
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
12,122
views
views
24
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
11,903
views
views
25
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
11,785
views
views
26
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
10,909
views
views
27
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
10,450
views
views
28
Five-Percent Nation
American religion (1964-)
10,420
views
views
29
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
10,381
views
views
30
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
10,327
views
views
31
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
10,291
views
views
32
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
10,226
views
views
33
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
9,767
views
views
34
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
9,351
views
views
35
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
7,975
views
views
36
Rajneesh movement
persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho
7,869
views
views
37
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
7,674
views
views
38
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
7,601
views
views
39
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
7,476
views
views
40
Ghost Dance
new religious movement
7,393
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 t
7,360
views
views
42
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
7,201
views
views
43
New Apostolic Reformation
Christian movement advocating the restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
7,144
views
views
44
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
7,112
views
views
45
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
6,967
views
views
46
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
6,959
views
views
47
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
6,297
views
views
48
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
6,229
views
views
49
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
5,997
views
views
50
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
5,890
views
views
51
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
5,836
views
views
52
Cheondoism
20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son B
5,654
views
views
53
Sanātana Dharma
denomination of hinduism
5,621
views
views
54
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
5,536
views
views
55
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
5,525
views
views
56
Brahma Kumaris
Spiritual organization
5,239
views
views
57
Love Has Won
new religious movement
5,203
views
views
58
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
5,111
views
views
59
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
5,030
views
views
60
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
5,024
views
views
61
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
5,021
views
views
62
British Israelism
Christian movement, according to which the people of England are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
4,986
views
views
63
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
4,949
views
views
64
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
4,866
views
views
65
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
4,854
views
views
66
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
4,824
views
views
67
charismatic christianity
form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and modern-day miracles
4,776
views
views
68
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
4,773
views
views
69
Contemporary Sant Mat movements
new Sikh and Hindu-derived religious movement
4,741
views
views
70
Twin Flames Universe
American religious cult
4,625
views
views
71
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
4,618
views
views
72
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
4,585
views
views
73
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
4,524
views
views
74
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
4,407
views
views
75
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
4,349
views
views
76
Azusa Street Revival
historic Pentecostal revival meeting
4,287
views
views
77
Pietism
movement christian
4,258
views
views
78
Sanamahism
religious or philosophical tradition of Meetei origin
4,228
views
views
79
Bábism
religious movement
4,084
views
views
80
Vipassana movement
Buddhist meditation movement (1754-)
4,058
views
views
81
Stone–Campbell Movement
Christian movement seeking church reformation and unification
4,058
views
views
82
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
3,987
views
views
83
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
3,969
views
views
84
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
3,901
views
views
85
Adventism
Christian denominational family
3,900
views
views
86
Malaysian Islamic Party
Islamist political party in Malaysia
3,881
views
views
87
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
3,779
views
views
88
Seven Mountain Mandate
Conservative Protestant Christian movement
3,747
views
views
89
Radha Soami
religion related to Sikhism and Hinduism (1861-)
3,701
views
views
90
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
3,645
views
views
91
Modern Orthodox Judaism
a movement within Orthodox Judaism to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world; mainy preval
3,636
views
views
92
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
3,619
views
views
93
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
3,591
views
views
94
Reconstructionist Judaism
denomination of Judaism
3,561
views
views
95
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
3,552
views
views
96
Jesus movement
Evangelical Christian movement
3,550
views
views
97
Moorish Science Temple of America
US religious movement founded in the early 20th century Noble Drew Ali
3,498
views
views
98
Bhakti movement
religious movement during the Medieval period of the Indian Subcontinent
3,472
views
views
99
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
3,300
views
views
100
Two by Twos
international Christian primitivism movement, from 19th-century Ireland, whose itinerant lay ministers preach in pairs, living in voluntary
3,247
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