Trending Schools of Thought in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
100
Ranked
1,192,746
Total Views (this year)
1
Buddhism
Indian religion
50,252
views
views
2
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
35,501
views
views
3
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
31,711
views
views
4
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
31,544
views
views
5
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
30,493
views
views
6
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
30,198
views
views
7
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
28,465
views
views
8
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
27,067
views
views
9
naturism
movement for social nudity
26,100
views
views
10
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
24,622
views
views
11
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
22,768
views
views
12
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
21,973
views
views
13
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substa
21,832
views
views
14
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
21,551
views
views
15
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
19,481
views
views
16
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
18,873
views
views
17
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
18,150
views
views
18
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
17,467
views
views
19
6-7
2025-2026 Internet meme
16,870
views
views
20
deism
belief in God without revelation
15,326
views
views
21
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
14,871
views
views
22
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
14,408
views
views
23
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
14,375
views
views
24
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
14,021
views
views
25
humanism
philosophical school of thought
13,493
views
views
26
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
12,881
views
views
27
dispensationalism
Christian theology
12,719
views
views
28
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
12,434
views
views
29
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
12,283
views
views
30
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
12,233
views
views
31
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
11,988
views
views
32
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
11,938
views
views
33
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
11,924
views
views
34
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
11,916
views
views
35
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
11,897
views
views
36
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
11,878
views
views
37
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
11,308
views
views
38
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
11,056
views
views
39
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
10,919
views
views
40
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
10,833
views
views
41
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
10,806
views
views
42
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
10,779
views
views
43
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
10,426
views
views
44
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
10,147
views
views
45
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
9,957
views
views
46
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
9,307
views
views
47
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
9,136
views
views
48
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
9,135
views
views
49
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
9,098
views
views
50
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
8,922
views
views
51
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
8,814
views
views
52
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
8,602
views
views
53
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
8,445
views
views
54
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
8,439
views
views
55
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
8,401
views
views
56
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
8,320
views
views
57
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
8,227
views
views
58
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
8,212
views
views
59
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
7,926
views
views
60
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
7,897
views
views
61
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
7,838
views
views
62
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
7,825
views
views
63
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
7,470
views
views
64
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
7,431
views
views
65
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
7,404
views
views
66
mercantilism
early economic theory
7,133
views
views
67
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
7,025
views
views
68
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
6,997
views
views
69
just war theory
doctrine about when a war is ethically just
6,963
views
views
70
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
6,750
views
views
71
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
6,692
views
views
72
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
6,677
views
views
73
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
6,675
views
views
74
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
6,521
views
views
75
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
6,513
views
views
76
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
6,498
views
views
77
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
6,268
views
views
78
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
6,255
views
views
79
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
6,228
views
views
80
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
6,103
views
views
81
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
6,073
views
views
82
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
6,049
views
views
83
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
6,011
views
views
84
Christ myth theory
opinion that biblical Jesus was purely fictional
5,961
views
views
85
Arminianism
theological movement
5,951
views
views
86
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
5,918
views
views
87
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
5,884
views
views
88
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
5,875
views
views
89
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
5,815
views
views
90
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
5,779
views
views
91
trickle-down economics
economic theory
5,739
views
views
92
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
5,656
views
views
93
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
5,623
views
views
94
Lie-flat doctrine
Chinese neologism
5,599
views
views
95
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
5,577
views
views
96
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
5,540
views
views
97
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
5,514
views
views
98
Aeon
emanation of God; class of beings in Gnosticism
5,481
views
views
99
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
5,418
views
views
100
Pelagianism
Early Christian theological doctrine
5,402
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