Trending Schools of Thought in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
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Ranked
718,625
Total Views (this month)
1
Buddhism
Indian religion
29,689
views
views
2
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
22,616
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views
3
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
22,448
views
views
4
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
18,941
views
views
5
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
18,747
views
views
6
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
18,254
views
views
7
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
18,147
views
views
8
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
16,482
views
views
9
naturism
movement for social nudity
16,178
views
views
10
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
14,929
views
views
11
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
14,031
views
views
12
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
13,637
views
views
13
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
13,436
views
views
14
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
11,454
views
views
15
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substa
11,345
views
views
16
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
10,897
views
views
17
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
10,803
views
views
18
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
9,748
views
views
19
deism
belief in God without revelation
8,993
views
views
20
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
8,986
views
views
21
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
8,595
views
views
22
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
8,551
views
views
23
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
8,414
views
views
24
humanism
philosophical school of thought
7,990
views
views
25
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
7,884
views
views
26
dispensationalism
Christian theology
7,424
views
views
27
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
7,382
views
views
28
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
7,365
views
views
29
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
7,330
views
views
30
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
7,318
views
views
31
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
7,255
views
views
32
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
7,151
views
views
33
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
7,092
views
views
34
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
7,040
views
views
35
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
7,000
views
views
36
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
7,000
views
views
37
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
6,801
views
views
38
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
6,798
views
views
39
Assumption of Mary
the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life, dogma of the Catholic Church
6,653
views
views
40
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
6,540
views
views
41
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
6,418
views
views
42
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
5,879
views
views
43
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
5,874
views
views
44
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
5,853
views
views
45
mutual assured destruction
doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilati
5,799
views
views
46
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
5,777
views
views
47
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
5,670
views
views
48
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
5,639
views
views
49
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
5,597
views
views
50
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
5,464
views
views
51
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
5,354
views
views
52
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
5,331
views
views
53
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
5,236
views
views
54
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
5,195
views
views
55
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
5,150
views
views
56
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
5,093
views
views
57
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
4,997
views
views
58
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
4,935
views
views
59
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
4,874
views
views
60
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
4,820
views
views
61
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
4,757
views
views
62
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
4,732
views
views
63
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
4,559
views
views
64
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
4,452
views
views
65
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
4,436
views
views
66
mercantilism
early economic theory
4,423
views
views
67
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
4,234
views
views
68
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
4,087
views
views
69
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
4,038
views
views
70
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
4,011
views
views
71
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
3,939
views
views
72
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
3,922
views
views
73
filioque clause
word (“and the Son”) found in Latin—but not Greek—versions of the Nicene Creed: “Spiritum Sanctum […] qui ex Patre ⟨Filioque⟩ procedit” (Hol
3,897
views
views
74
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
3,887
views
views
75
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
3,870
views
views
76
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
3,866
views
views
77
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
3,860
views
views
78
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
3,818
views
views
79
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
3,795
views
views
80
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
3,784
views
views
81
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
3,772
views
views
82
trickle-down economics
economic theory
3,734
views
views
83
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
3,685
views
views
84
prospect theory
theory of behavioral economics and behavioral finance that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979
3,682
views
views
85
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
3,605
views
views
86
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
3,578
views
views
87
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
3,568
views
views
88
Arminianism
theological movement
3,563
views
views
89
Pelagianism
Early Christian theological doctrine
3,519
views
views
90
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
3,500
views
views
91
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
3,461
views
views
92
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
3,445
views
views
93
boots theory
economic theory
3,424
views
views
94
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
a political theory attributed to Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
3,415
views
views
95
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
3,414
views
views
96
Romantic chess
style of chess
3,399
views
views
97
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
3,335
views
views
98
Third International Theory
theory of governance proposed by Muammar Gaddafi
3,326
views
views
99
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
3,306
views
views
100
Aeon
emanation of God; class of beings in Gnosticism
3,228
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