Trending Religious Movements in Russia — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hasidic Judaism. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
179,378
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
21,476
views
views
2
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
12,093
views
views
3
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
6,949
views
views
4
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
6,831
views
views
5
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
5,934
views
views
6
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
4,611
views
views
7
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
4,554
views
views
8
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
4,424
views
views
9
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
3,974
views
views
10
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Khlysts
Russian Christian sect
3,967
views
views
11
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
3,852
views
views
12
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
3,662
views
views
13
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
3,471
views
views
14
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
3,164
views
views
15
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
2,983
views
views
16
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
2,909
views
views
17
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
2,551
views
views
18
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
2,540
views
views
19
Tolstoyan movement
social movement based on the views of Leo Tolstoy
2,392
views
views
20
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
2,378
views
views
21
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
2,354
views
views
22
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
2,348
views
views
23
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
2,282
views
views
24
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
2,136
views
views
25
Sect of Skhariya the Jew
15th-16th–century religious sect in Russia
2,010
views
views
26
AllatRa
religious sect
1,901
views
views
27
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
1,890
views
views
28
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
1,887
views
views
29
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
1,880
views
views
30
Church of the Last Testament
Russian new religious movement
1,859
views
views
31
Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
Neopagan new religious movement founded in Russia
1,577
views
views
32
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
1,564
views
views
33
Modern Orthodox Judaism
a movement within Orthodox Judaism to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world; mainy prevalent in the U.S.
1,561
views
views
34
Albigenses
branch of Catharism
1,558
views
views
35
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
1,526
views
views
36
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
1,484
views
views
37
Русское мессианство
1,453
views
views
38
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
1,312
views
views
39
Pietism
movement christian
1,303
views
views
40
Subbotniks
common name for Russian religious movements of Judeo-Christian origin
1,277
views
views
41
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
1,249
views
views
42
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
1,183
views
views
43
flagellant
practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
1,168
views
views
44
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
1,149
views
views
45
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
1,148
views
views
46
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
1,107
views
views
47
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
1,096
views
views
48
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
1,082
views
views
49
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
1,039
views
views
50
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
1,021
views
views
51
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
993
views
views
52
indifferentism
belief held by some in the Catholic faith
972
views
views
53
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
926
views
views
54
Malikism
one of four major schools of madhhab of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam
840
views
views
55
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
814
views
views
56
Strigolniki
14th-15th–century Russian heretical sect
780
views
views
57
Shtundists
Protestant evangelicals in the Russian Empire
736
views
views
58
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
734
views
views
59
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
705
views
views
60
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
699
views
views
61
Bábism
religious movement
679
views
views
62
Spiritual Christianity
Russian religious movement, non-Orthodox
675
views
views
63
Discordianism
religion and subsequent philosophy based on the veneration or worship of Eris
670
views
views
64
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
665
views
views
65
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
627
views
views
66
Burkhanism
indigenous religious movement of the Altai people
626
views
views
67
Rāja yoga
one of the four major yogic paths of Hinduism
617
views
views
68
Cheondoism
20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son Byong-hi
614
views
views
69
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
611
views
views
70
Adventism
Christian denominational family
601
views
views
71
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
588
views
views
72
Quietism
17th-century ideas heretical to Catholics
576
views
views
73
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
560
views
views
74
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
559
views
views
75
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
549
views
views
76
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
515
views
views
77
Evangelical Christians (Prokhanovs)
Protestant movement in Russia
510
views
views
78
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
495
views
views
79
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
494
views
views
80
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
493
views
views
81
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
493
views
views
82
Ja'fari School
school of jurisprudence (fiqh) in Twelver
481
views
views
83
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
477
views
views
84
Богородичный центр
476
views
views
85
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
447
views
views
86
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
445
views
views
87
Roerichism
spiritual, cultural and social movement based on the teachings of Nicholas and Helena Roerich
441
views
views
88
Jediism
philosophy mainly based on the Jedi characters in Star Wars media
439
views
views
89
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
432
views
views
90
Laestadianism
conservative Lutheran revival movement
430
views
views
91
Zionism in the Soviet Union
aspect in a geographic region
420
views
views
92
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
420
views
views
93
Judaizers
Christians who insist that their co-religionists should follow the Law of Moses
420
views
views
94
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
413
views
views
95
Ebionites
Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early centuries of the Christian Era
388
views
views
96
Josephites
20th-century movement in the Russian Orthodox Church, followers of Metropolitan Joseph
379
views
views
97
Ata Zholy
religious movement in Kazakhstan
343
views
views
98
Brahma Kumaris
Spiritual organization
335
views
views
99
Gemeinschaft von christlichen Abstinenten in Russland
religious movement
330
views
views
100
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
327
views
views