Trending Schools of Thought this year
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
100
Ranked
1,338,717
Total Views (this year)
1
Buddhism
Indian religion
57,293
views
views
2
6-7
2025-2026 Internet meme
42,563
views
views
3
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
40,367
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views
4
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
35,330
views
views
5
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
35,130
views
views
6
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
33,167
views
views
7
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
32,887
views
views
8
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
30,418
views
views
9
naturism
movement for social nudity
29,097
views
views
10
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
29,016
views
views
11
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
27,644
views
views
12
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
25,353
views
views
13
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substa
25,060
views
views
14
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
24,832
views
views
15
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
24,633
views
views
16
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
20,030
views
views
17
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
20,010
views
views
18
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
19,870
views
views
19
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
19,484
views
views
20
deism
belief in God without revelation
17,331
views
views
21
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
16,058
views
views
22
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
16,002
views
views
23
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
15,642
views
views
24
humanism
philosophical school of thought
15,398
views
views
25
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
15,055
views
views
26
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
14,387
views
views
27
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
13,954
views
views
28
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
13,940
views
views
29
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
13,288
views
views
30
dispensationalism
Christian theology
13,235
views
views
31
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
13,111
views
views
32
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
12,941
views
views
33
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
12,903
views
views
34
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
12,715
views
views
35
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
12,439
views
views
36
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
12,347
views
views
37
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
12,345
views
views
38
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
12,122
views
views
39
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
11,946
views
views
40
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
11,903
views
views
41
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
11,787
views
views
42
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
11,708
views
views
43
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
11,358
views
views
44
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
11,053
views
views
45
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
10,610
views
views
46
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
10,428
views
views
47
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
10,381
views
views
48
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
10,329
views
views
49
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
10,159
views
views
50
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
10,037
views
views
51
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
9,932
views
views
52
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
9,793
views
views
53
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
9,767
views
views
54
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
9,758
views
views
55
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
9,517
views
views
56
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
9,453
views
views
57
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
9,326
views
views
58
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
8,838
views
views
59
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
8,654
views
views
60
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
8,652
views
views
61
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
8,569
views
views
62
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
8,524
views
views
63
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
8,489
views
views
64
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
8,436
views
views
65
mercantilism
early economic theory
8,317
views
views
66
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
8,019
views
views
67
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
7,992
views
views
68
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
7,822
views
views
69
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
7,770
views
views
70
just war theory
doctrine about when a war is ethically just
7,444
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
7,317
views
views
72
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
7,261
views
views
73
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
7,134
views
views
74
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
7,085
views
views
75
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
7,030
views
views
76
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
7,003
views
views
77
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
6,967
views
views
78
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
6,913
views
views
79
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
6,758
views
views
80
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
6,719
views
views
81
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
6,710
views
views
82
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
6,654
views
views
83
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
6,454
views
views
84
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
6,351
views
views
85
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
6,344
views
views
86
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
6,328
views
views
87
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
6,297
views
views
88
White Rose
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy profes
6,293
views
views
89
Arminianism
theological movement
6,283
views
views
90
Christ myth theory
opinion that biblical Jesus was purely fictional
6,233
views
views
91
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
6,200
views
views
92
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
6,176
views
views
93
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
6,144
views
views
94
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
6,133
views
views
95
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
6,059
views
views
96
Lie-flat doctrine
Chinese neologism
6,059
views
views
97
trickle-down economics
economic theory
6,044
views
views
98
Truman Doctrine
United States Cold War policy to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere
5,919
views
views
99
Post-structuralism
heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists
5,845
views
views
100
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
5,836
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