Trending Religious Movements in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Shinnyo-en. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
226,881
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
15,451
views
views
2
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
14,923
views
views
3
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
14,365
views
views
4
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
14,043
views
views
5
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
11,197
views
views
6
Pana Wave
Japanese new religious group
8,048
views
views
7
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
8,032
views
views
8
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
6,969
views
views
9
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
6,629
views
views
10
Yōkōshi Tomonokai
Japanese new religion
5,645
views
views
11
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
5,434
views
views
12
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
5,259
views
views
13
Konkokyo
religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs
5,138
views
views
14
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
5,136
views
views
15
Reiha no Hikari
Japanese new religion
4,718
views
views
16
Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan
Japanese religious organization
4,035
views
views
17
Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Temple
3,654
views
views
18
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
3,592
views
views
19
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
3,490
views
views
20
Honmichi
Japanese new religion
3,469
views
views
21
誠成公倫
3,121
views
views
22
Ōyamanezunomikoto Shinji Kyōkai
Japanese new religion
2,898
views
views
23
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
2,728
views
views
24
GLA
Japanese religious organization
2,587
views
views
25
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
2,467
views
views
26
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
2,418
views
views
27
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
2,326
views
views
28
Jōdo Shinshū Shinrankai
Buddhist religious corporation in Toyama, Japan.
2,166
views
views
29
Kurozumikyō
Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots
2,099
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
2,080
views
views
31
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
2,046
views
views
32
Mahikari
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1959
1,732
views
views
33
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
1,706
views
views
34
皇祖皇太神宮天津教
1,704
views
views
35
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
1,667
views
views
36
Chino Shōhō
Japanese new religious group
1,620
views
views
37
Ruri Kyōkai
1,588
views
views
38
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
1,456
views
views
39
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
1,338
views
views
40
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
1,322
views
views
41
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
1,286
views
views
42
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
1,196
views
views
43
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
1,155
views
views
44
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
1,138
views
views
45
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
1,132
views
views
46
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
1,120
views
views
47
Nenpoushinkyou
Japanese Buddhism-based new religion
1,051
views
views
48
Ananaikyo
Japanese new religion
1,036
views
views
49
Ennokyo
Japanese new religion
1,023
views
views
50
Non-church movement
Japanese Christian denomination (1901-)
1,018
views
views
51
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
991
views
views
52
Honbushin
Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religion
944
views
views
53
Nichirenism
nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
881
views
views
54
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
771
views
views
55
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
764
views
views
56
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
729
views
views
57
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
728
views
views
58
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
713
views
views
59
Misogikyō
Shinto sect
704
views
views
60
chengming nianfo
665
views
views
61
chingo kokka
657
views
views
62
Jiu
645
views
views
63
Shingaku
Japanese religious movement
638
views
views
64
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
627
views
views
65
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
602
views
views
66
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
596
views
views
67
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
588
views
views
68
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
586
views
views
69
Shinreikyo
Japanese new religion founded in 1947
555
views
views
70
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
527
views
views
71
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
522
views
views
72
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
516
views
views
73
Uchūshinkyō Kōmyōjin
Japanese new religion
514
views
views
74
Tensokōkyō
Japanese new religion based in Nagoya
488
views
views
75
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
478
views
views
76
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
453
views
views
77
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
433
views
views
78
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
425
views
views
79
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
408
views
views
80
Maruyamakyō
Japanese religion derived from Shinto
393
views
views
81
Shintō Tenkōkyo
Japanese new religion based in Tabuse, Yamaguchi
391
views
views
82
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
384
views
views
83
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
378
views
views
84
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
374
views
views
85
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
371
views
views
86
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
364
views
views
87
Bábism
religious movement
360
views
views
88
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
355
views
views
89
Kodosan Buddhist Fellowship
Japanese new religion
348
views
views
90
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
345
views
views
91
Mahikari Seihō no Kai
Japanese new religion
345
views
views
92
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
342
views
views
93
Pietism
movement christian
336
views
views
94
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
331
views
views
95
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
329
views
views
96
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
309
views
views
97
Kishinkai
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1953, focused around the Lotus Sutra and ancestor veneration
308
views
views
98
Yamakage Shinto
Shinto religious movement
308
views
views
99
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
307
views
views
100
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
304
views
views