Trending Religious Movements in Japan — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Shinnyo-en. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
213,314
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
14,941
views
views
2
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
14,092
views
views
3
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
13,427
views
views
4
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
12,849
views
views
5
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
10,377
views
views
6
Pana Wave
Japanese new religious group
7,584
views
views
7
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
7,544
views
views
8
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
6,421
views
views
9
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
6,200
views
views
10
Yōkōshi Tomonokai
Japanese new religion
5,258
views
views
11
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
5,161
views
views
12
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
5,030
views
views
13
Konkokyo
religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs
4,749
views
views
14
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
4,742
views
views
15
Reiha no Hikari
Japanese new religion
4,332
views
views
16
Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan
Japanese religious organization
3,785
views
views
17
Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Temple
3,433
views
views
18
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
3,359
views
views
19
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
3,268
views
views
20
Honmichi
Japanese new religion
3,247
views
views
21
誠成公倫
2,895
views
views
22
Ōyamanezunomikoto Shinji Kyōkai
Japanese new religion
2,711
views
views
23
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
2,570
views
views
24
GLA
Japanese religious organization
2,420
views
views
25
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
2,294
views
views
26
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
2,269
views
views
27
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
2,204
views
views
28
Jōdo Shinshū Shinrankai
Buddhist religious corporation in Toyama, Japan.
1,994
views
views
29
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
1,984
views
views
30
mappō thought
eschatological movement in Buddhism which holds that the Mappō age has already begun and that existing Buddhist teachings are ineffective
1,975
views
views
31
Kurozumikyō
Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots
1,953
views
views
32
Mahikari
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1959
1,655
views
views
33
Chino Shōhō
Japanese new religious group
1,538
views
views
34
皇祖皇太神宮天津教
1,512
views
views
35
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
1,507
views
views
36
Ruri Kyōkai
1,448
views
views
37
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
1,407
views
views
38
Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
1,386
views
views
39
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
1,368
views
views
40
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
1,276
views
views
41
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
1,204
views
views
42
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
1,168
views
views
43
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
1,124
views
views
44
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
1,106
views
views
45
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic supremacist organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups, classified as a terrorist organization
1,080
views
views
46
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
1,079
views
views
47
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
1,047
views
views
48
Nenpoushinkyou
Japanese Buddhism-based new religion
996
views
views
49
Ennokyo
Japanese new religion
957
views
views
50
Non-church movement
Japanese Christian denomination (1901-)
948
views
views
51
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
929
views
views
52
Ananaikyo
Japanese new religion
887
views
views
53
Honbushin
Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religion
885
views
views
54
Nichirenism
nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
850
views
views
55
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
746
views
views
56
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
719
views
views
57
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
707
views
views
58
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
676
views
views
59
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
650
views
views
60
Misogikyō
Shinto sect
637
views
views
61
chengming nianfo
635
views
views
62
chingo kokka
616
views
views
63
Shingaku
Japanese religious movement
597
views
views
64
Jiu
594
views
views
65
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
579
views
views
66
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
566
views
views
67
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
553
views
views
68
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
551
views
views
69
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
547
views
views
70
Shinreikyo
Japanese new religion founded in 1947
524
views
views
71
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
498
views
views
72
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
489
views
views
73
Uchūshinkyō Kōmyōjin
Japanese new religion
484
views
views
74
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
481
views
views
75
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
460
views
views
76
Tensokōkyō
Japanese new religion based in Nagoya
454
views
views
77
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
407
views
views
78
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
406
views
views
79
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
395
views
views
80
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
393
views
views
81
Maruyamakyō
Japanese religion derived from Shinto
367
views
views
82
Shintō Tenkōkyo
Japanese new religion based in Tabuse, Yamaguchi
365
views
views
83
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
348
views
views
84
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
344
views
views
85
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
344
views
views
86
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
341
views
views
87
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
340
views
views
88
Bábism
religious movement
338
views
views
89
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
330
views
views
90
Kodosan Buddhist Fellowship
Japanese new religion
330
views
views
91
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
328
views
views
92
Pietism
movement christian
323
views
views
93
Mahikari Seihō no Kai
Japanese new religion
322
views
views
94
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
320
views
views
95
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
310
views
views
96
Yamakage Shinto
Shinto religious movement
302
views
views
97
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
298
views
views
98
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
295
views
views
99
Sekai Shindokyo
Japanese new religion
294
views
views
100
Kishinkai
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1953, focused around the Lotus Sutra and ancestor veneration
286
views
views