Trending Religious Movements in Japan — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ruri Kyōkai. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
156,027
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
1
Ruri Kyōkai
103,367
views
views
2
Tensokōkyō
Japanese new religion based in Nagoya
3,981
views
views
3
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
3,549
views
views
4
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
2,938
views
views
5
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
2,729
views
views
6
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
2,110
views
views
7
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
2,107
views
views
8
Pana Wave
Japanese new religious group
1,626
views
views
9
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
1,593
views
views
10
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
1,588
views
views
11
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
1,466
views
views
12
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
1,271
views
views
13
Konkokyo
religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs
1,261
views
views
14
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
1,187
views
views
15
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
1,166
views
views
16
Reiha no Hikari
Japanese new religion
1,140
views
views
17
Honmichi
Japanese new religion
1,069
views
views
18
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
1,015
views
views
19
Yōkōshi Tomonokai
Japanese new religion
1,012
views
views
20
Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan
Japanese religious organization
877
views
views
21
Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Temple
819
views
views
22
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
743
views
views
23
Ōyamanezunomikoto Shinji Kyōkai
Japanese new religion
716
views
views
24
GLA
Japanese religious organization
615
views
views
25
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
607
views
views
26
誠成公倫
604
views
views
27
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
600
views
views
28
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
552
views
views
29
Kurozumikyō
Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots
536
views
views
30
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
522
views
views
31
Jōdo Shinshū Shinrankai
Buddhist religious corporation in Toyama, Japan.
515
views
views
32
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
440
views
views
33
mappō thought
eschatological movement in Buddhism which holds that the Mappō age has already begun and that existing Buddhist teachings are ineffective
434
views
views
34
New Apostolic Reformation
Christian movement advocating the restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
429
views
views
35
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
413
views
views
36
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
405
views
views
37
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
398
views
views
38
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
396
views
views
39
皇祖皇太神宮天津教
390
views
views
40
Mahikari
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1959
351
views
views
41
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
344
views
views
42
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
322
views
views
43
Chino Shōhō
Japanese new religious group
282
views
views
44
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
281
views
views
45
Nenpoushinkyou
Japanese Buddhism-based new religion
270
views
views
46
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
248
views
views
47
Ennokyo
Japanese new religion
225
views
views
48
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
223
views
views
49
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
215
views
views
50
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
212
views
views
51
Ananaikyo
Japanese new religion
209
views
views
52
Honbushin
Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religion
207
views
views
53
Non-church movement
Japanese Christian denomination (1901-)
205
views
views
54
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
199
views
views
55
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
194
views
views
56
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
192
views
views
57
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
179
views
views
58
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
169
views
views
59
Nichirenism
nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
168
views
views
60
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
160
views
views
61
Shingaku
Japanese religious movement
160
views
views
62
Shinreikyo
Japanese new religion founded in 1947
152
views
views
63
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
148
views
views
64
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
133
views
views
65
chengming nianfo
129
views
views
66
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
125
views
views
67
Misogikyō
Shinto sect
116
views
views
68
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
110
views
views
69
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
109
views
views
70
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
109
views
views
71
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
106
views
views
72
Maruyamakyō
Japanese religion derived from Shinto
106
views
views
73
Kodosan Buddhist Fellowship
Japanese new religion
106
views
views
74
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
104
views
views
75
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
103
views
views
76
Jiu
103
views
views
77
Pietism
movement christian
101
views
views
78
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
101
views
views
79
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
101
views
views
80
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
99
views
views
81
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
96
views
views
82
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
96
views
views
83
Shintō Tenkōkyo
Japanese new religion based in Tabuse, Yamaguchi
96
views
views
84
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
95
views
views
85
Kōmyō Kamu Tama Jingū
Japanese new religion
92
views
views
86
chingo kokka
92
views
views
87
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
91
views
views
88
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
89
views
views
89
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
83
views
views
90
Mahikari Seihō no Kai
Japanese new religion
82
views
views
91
Subikari
Japanese new religion
81
views
views
92
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
80
views
views
93
Christian naturism
movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies
78
views
views
94
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
78
views
views
95
Bábism
religious movement
75
views
views
96
Hakko Seidan
Japanese new religion
75
views
views
97
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
74
views
views
98
Shūyōdan Hōseikai
Japanese new religion
71
views
views
99
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
71
views
views
100
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
70
views
views