Trending Schools of Thought this week
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
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Ranked
339,865
Total Views (this week)
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Buddhism
Indian religion
13,977
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2
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
10,955
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views
3
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
10,172
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views
4
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
9,831
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views
5
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
8,979
views
views
6
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
8,728
views
views
7
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
8,582
views
views
8
naturism
movement for social nudity
7,816
views
views
9
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
7,664
views
views
10
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
6,976
views
views
11
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
6,421
views
views
12
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
6,321
views
views
13
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
6,171
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views
14
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
5,446
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views
15
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substa
5,278
views
views
16
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
4,942
views
views
17
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
4,874
views
views
18
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
4,507
views
views
19
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
4,474
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views
20
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
4,395
views
views
21
deism
belief in God without revelation
4,174
views
views
22
humanism
philosophical school of thought
3,917
views
views
23
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
3,872
views
views
24
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
3,787
views
views
25
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
3,771
views
views
26
dispensationalism
Christian theology
3,748
views
views
27
Assumption of Mary
the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life, dogma of the Catholic Church
3,694
views
views
28
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
3,588
views
views
29
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
3,513
views
views
30
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
3,513
views
views
31
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
3,477
views
views
32
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
3,457
views
views
33
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
3,429
views
views
34
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
3,347
views
views
35
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
3,329
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views
36
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
3,308
views
views
37
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
3,251
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views
38
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
3,203
views
views
39
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
3,147
views
views
40
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
3,112
views
views
41
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
3,039
views
views
42
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
2,845
views
views
43
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
2,790
views
views
44
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
2,780
views
views
45
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
2,728
views
views
46
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
2,646
views
views
47
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
2,615
views
views
48
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
2,511
views
views
49
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
2,473
views
views
50
mutual assured destruction
doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilati
2,453
views
views
51
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
2,429
views
views
52
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
2,427
views
views
53
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
2,373
views
views
54
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
2,369
views
views
55
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
2,308
views
views
56
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
2,294
views
views
57
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
2,285
views
views
58
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
2,264
views
views
59
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
2,217
views
views
60
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
2,199
views
views
61
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
2,171
views
views
62
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
2,153
views
views
63
mercantilism
early economic theory
2,122
views
views
64
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
2,108
views
views
65
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
2,062
views
views
66
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
2,004
views
views
67
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
1,959
views
views
68
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
1,956
views
views
69
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
1,945
views
views
70
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
1,943
views
views
71
filioque clause
word (“and the Son”) found in Latin—but not Greek—versions of the Nicene Creed: “Spiritum Sanctum […] qui ex Patre ⟨Filioque⟩ procedit” (Hol
1,942
views
views
72
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
1,938
views
views
73
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
1,932
views
views
74
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
1,904
views
views
75
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
1,864
views
views
76
Third International Theory
theory of governance proposed by Muammar Gaddafi
1,847
views
views
77
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
1,828
views
views
78
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
1,819
views
views
79
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
1,812
views
views
80
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
1,802
views
views
81
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
1,784
views
views
82
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
1,782
views
views
83
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
1,773
views
views
84
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
1,765
views
views
85
Pelagianism
Early Christian theological doctrine
1,757
views
views
86
Mu'tazilism
rationalist school of Islamic theology
1,756
views
views
87
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
1,753
views
views
88
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
1,732
views
views
89
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
1,726
views
views
90
trickle-down economics
economic theory
1,682
views
views
91
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
1,681
views
views
92
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
1,659
views
views
93
Bogomilism
Christian neo-Gnostic sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century
1,645
views
views
94
Arminianism
theological movement
1,615
views
views
95
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
1,613
views
views
96
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
1,607
views
views
97
Three Principles of the People
political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen
1,570
views
views
98
big lie
gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth
1,564
views
views
99
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
a political theory attributed to Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
1,553
views
views
100
prospect theory
theory of behavioral economics and behavioral finance that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979
1,546
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