Trending Religious Movements in Russia — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hasidic Judaism. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
192,619
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
21,933
views
views
2
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
12,934
views
views
3
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
7,526
views
views
4
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
7,401
views
views
5
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
6,469
views
views
6
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
5,024
views
views
7
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
4,927
views
views
8
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
4,863
views
views
9
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Khlysts
Russian Christian sect
4,350
views
views
10
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
4,205
views
views
11
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
4,117
views
views
12
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
3,985
views
views
13
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
3,787
views
views
14
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
3,398
views
views
15
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
3,300
views
views
16
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
3,147
views
views
17
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
2,811
views
views
18
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
2,797
views
views
19
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
2,780
views
views
20
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
2,720
views
views
21
Tolstoyan movement
social movement based on the views of Leo Tolstoy
2,604
views
views
22
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
2,578
views
views
23
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
2,485
views
views
24
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
2,255
views
views
25
Sect of Skhariya the Jew
15th-16th–century religious sect in Russia
2,211
views
views
26
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
2,059
views
views
27
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
2,043
views
views
28
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
2,030
views
views
29
AllatRa
religious sect
2,002
views
views
30
Church of the Last Testament
Russian new religious movement
1,977
views
views
31
Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
Neopagan new religious movement founded in Russia
1,724
views
views
32
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
1,708
views
views
33
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
1,693
views
views
34
Albigenses
branch of Catharism
1,661
views
views
35
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.
1,597
views
views
36
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
1,580
views
views
37
Русское мессианство
1,511
views
views
38
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
1,429
views
views
39
Pietism
movement christian
1,420
views
views
40
Subbotniks
common name for Russian religious movements of Judeo-Christian origin
1,395
views
views
41
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
1,354
views
views
42
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
1,322
views
views
43
flagellant
practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
1,276
views
views
44
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
1,231
views
views
45
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
1,230
views
views
46
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
1,202
views
views
47
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
1,177
views
views
48
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
1,165
views
views
49
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
1,150
views
views
50
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
1,114
views
views
51
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
1,060
views
views
52
indifferentism
belief held by some in the Catholic faith
1,038
views
views
53
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
983
views
views
54
Malikism
one of four major schools of madhhab of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam
903
views
views
55
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
874
views
views
56
Strigolniki
14th-15th–century Russian heretical sect
833
views
views
57
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
802
views
views
58
Shtundists
Protestant evangelicals in the Russian Empire
795
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
775
views
views
60
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
772
views
views
61
Bábism
religious movement
744
views
views
62
Spiritual Christianity
Russian religious movement, non-Orthodox
732
views
views
63
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
685
views
views
64
Burkhanism
indigenous religious movement of the Altai people
680
views
views
65
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
673
views
views
66
Rāja yoga
one of the four major yogic paths of Hinduism
669
views
views
67
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
657
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
657
views
views
69
Adventism
Christian denominational family
650
views
views
70
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
643
views
views
71
Quietism
17th-century ideas heretical to Catholics
614
views
views
72
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
600
views
views
73
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
591
views
views
74
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
589
views
views
75
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
561
views
views
76
Evangelical Christians (Prokhanovs)
Protestant movement in Russia
555
views
views
77
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
547
views
views
78
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
545
views
views
79
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
526
views
views
80
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
523
views
views
81
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
520
views
views
82
Ja'fari School
school of jurisprudence (fiqh) in Twelver
512
views
views
83
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
490
views
views
84
Roerichism
spiritual, cultural and social movement based on the teachings of Nicholas and Helena Roerich
483
views
views
85
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
480
views
views
86
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
477
views
views
87
Jediism
philosophy mainly based on the Jedi characters in Star Wars media
477
views
views
88
Laestadianism
conservative Lutheran revival movement
456
views
views
89
Judaizers
Christians who insist that their co-religionists should follow the Law of Moses
449
views
views
90
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
448
views
views
91
Zionism in the Soviet Union
aspect in a geographic region
440
views
views
92
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
438
views
views
93
Ebionites
Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early centuries of the Christian Era
427
views
views
94
Josephites
20th-century movement in the Russian Orthodox Church, followers of Metropolitan Joseph
407
views
views
95
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
402
views
views
96
Ata Zholy
religious movement in Kazakhstan
373
views
views
97
Gemeinschaft von christlichen Abstinenten in Russland
religious movement
369
views
views
98
Brahma Kumaris
Spiritual organization
351
views
views
99
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
344
views
views
100
liberalism and progressivism within Islam
overview of the history of liberalism and progressivism within Islam and amongst Muslims
343
views
views