Trending Religious Movements in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed religious movements this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Happy Science.
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Ranked
14,029
Total Views (this year)
1
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
1,194
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2
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
938
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views
3
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
831
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views
4
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
548
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5
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
510
views
views
6
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
488
views
views
7
Pana Wave
Japanese new religious group
464
views
views
8
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
429
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views
9
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
394
views
views
10
Konkokyo
religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs
389
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views
11
Yōkōshi Tomonokai
Japanese new religion
387
views
views
12
Reiha no Hikari
Japanese new religion
386
views
views
13
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
324
views
views
14
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
273
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views
15
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
260
views
views
16
Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan
Japanese religious organization
250
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views
17
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
229
views
views
18
誠成公倫
226
views
views
19
Honmichi
Japanese new religion
222
views
views
20
Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Temple
221
views
views
21
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
199
views
views
22
皇祖皇太神宮天津教
192
views
views
23
Ōyamanezunomikoto Shinji Kyōkai
Japanese new religion
187
views
views
24
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
173
views
views
25
Jōdo Shinshū Shinrankai
Buddhist religious corporation in Toyama, Japan.
172
views
views
26
GLA
Japanese religious organization
167
views
views
27
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
158
views
views
28
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
154
views
views
29
Ananaikyo
Japanese new religion
149
views
views
30
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
149
views
views
31
Kurozumikyō
Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots
146
views
views
32
Ruri Kyōkai
140
views
views
33
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
131
views
views
34
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
122
views
views
35
mappō thought
eschatological movement in Buddhism which holds that the Mappō age has already begun and that existing Buddhist teachings are ineffective
105
views
views
36
Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
103
views
views
37
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
88
views
views
38
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
82
views
views
39
Chino Shōhō
Japanese new religious group
82
views
views
40
Mahikari
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1959
77
views
views
41
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
73
views
views
42
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
72
views
views
43
Non-church movement
Japanese Christian denomination (1901-)
70
views
views
44
Misogikyō
Shinto sect
67
views
views
45
Ennokyo
Japanese new religion
66
views
views
46
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
63
views
views
47
Hasidism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
62
views
views
48
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
62
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views
49
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
62
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views
50
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
59
views
views
51
Honbushin
Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religion
59
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views
52
Nenpoushinkyou
Japanese Buddhism-based new religion
55
views
views
53
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
53
views
views
54
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups
52
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views
55
Jiu
51
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views
56
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
49
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views
57
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
48
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views
58
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
46
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views
59
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
45
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views
60
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
43
views
views
61
chingo kokka
41
views
views
62
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
41
views
views
63
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
41
views
views
64
Shingaku
Japanese religious movement
41
views
views
65
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
40
views
views
66
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
38
views
views
67
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
36
views
views
68
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
35
views
views
69
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
35
views
views
70
Tensokōkyō
Japanese new religion based in Nagoya
34
views
views
71
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
33
views
views
72
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
33
views
views
73
Shinreikyo
Japanese new religion founded in 1947
31
views
views
74
Nichirenism
nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
31
views
views
75
Uchūshinkyō Kōmyōjin
Japanese new religion
30
views
views
76
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
30
views
views
77
chengming nianfo
30
views
views
78
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
30
views
views
79
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
27
views
views
80
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
27
views
views
81
Shintō Tenkōkyo
Japanese new religion based in Tabuse, Yamaguchi
26
views
views
82
Maruyamakyō
Japanese religion derived from Shinto
26
views
views
83
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
25
views
views
84
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
25
views
views
85
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
25
views
views
86
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
24
views
views
87
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
24
views
views
88
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
23
views
views
89
Mahikari Seihō no Kai
Japanese new religion
23
views
views
90
Kishinkai
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1953, focused around the Lotus Sutra and ancestor veneration
22
views
views
91
Bábism
religious movement
22
views
views
92
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
22
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views
93
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
21
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views
94
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
21
views
views
95
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
21
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views
96
Christian naturism
movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies
20
views
views
97
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
20
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views
98
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
20
views
views
99
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
20
views
views
100
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
19
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