Trending Religious Movements in Germany — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hamas. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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47,089
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
2,642
views
views
2
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
2,386
views
views
3
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
2,345
views
views
4
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
1,938
views
views
5
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
1,718
views
views
6
Pietism
movement christian
1,623
views
views
7
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
1,605
views
views
8
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
1,546
views
views
9
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
1,395
views
views
10
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
1,313
views
views
11
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
1,192
views
views
12
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
1,088
views
views
13
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
1,054
views
views
14
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
1,019
views
views
15
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
903
views
views
16
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
772
views
views
17
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
772
views
views
18
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
767
views
views
19
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
701
views
views
20
Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
Neopagan new religious movement founded in Russia
678
views
views
21
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
675
views
views
22
Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt
Roman Catholic Marian Movement
653
views
views
23
flagellant
practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
651
views
views
24
Rajneesh movement
persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho
650
views
views
25
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
627
views
views
26
Adventism
Christian denominational family
620
views
views
27
Universal Life
New religious movement in Germany
606
views
views
28
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
542
views
views
29
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
482
views
views
30
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
448
views
views
31
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
446
views
views
32
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
445
views
views
33
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
395
views
views
34
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
393
views
views
35
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
388
views
views
36
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
373
views
views
37
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
372
views
views
38
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
346
views
views
39
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
345
views
views
40
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
339
views
views
41
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
336
views
views
42
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
325
views
views
43
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
322
views
views
44
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
320
views
views
45
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
316
views
views
46
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
297
views
views
47
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
292
views
views
48
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
286
views
views
49
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
275
views
views
50
Twelve Tribes communities
Christian intentional community & denomination
257
views
views
51
Millî Görüş
Turkish Islamist and conservative movement
247
views
views
52
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
237
views
views
53
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
232
views
views
54
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
218
views
views
55
Discordianism
religion and subsequent philosophy based on the veneration or worship of Eris
211
views
views
56
Bible Student movement
Christian movement
204
views
views
57
Synodal Path
series of conferences of the Catholic Church in Germany to discuss a range of contemporary theological and organizational questions concerning the Church
199
views
views
58
Focolare Movement
catholic lay movement
198
views
views
59
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
190
views
views
60
Inflationsheiliger
187
views
views
61
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
185
views
views
62
Rāja yoga
one of the four major yogic paths of Hinduism
178
views
views
63
Quietism
17th-century ideas heretical to Catholics
173
views
views
64
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
173
views
views
65
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
156
views
views
66
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
largest Rosicrucian organization in the world
156
views
views
67
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
152
views
views
68
Neo-charismatic movement
Non-denominational religious movement
150
views
views
69
Neocatechumenal Way
Catholic movement
149
views
views
70
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
146
views
views
71
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
144
views
views
72
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
139
views
views
73
Radical Pietism
pietists who broke with Lutheranism
134
views
views
74
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
132
views
views
75
Five-Percent Nation
American religion (1964-)
124
views
views
76
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
123
views
views
77
Ghost Dance
new religious movement
120
views
views
78
Lutheran orthodoxy
era in the history of Lutheranism (1580–1730)
115
views
views
79
Berneuchen Movement
German Protestant Christian movement (1922-)
115
views
views
80
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
111
views
views
81
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
109
views
views
82
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Khlysts
Russian Christian sect
108
views
views
83
Reconstructionist Judaism
denomination of Judaism
103
views
views
84
Federation of Damanhur
religious community
102
views
views
85
Habonim Dror
international socialist-zionist youthmovement
101
views
views
86
Community of Sant'Egidio
lay Catholic association dedicated to social service
101
views
views
87
Laestadianism
conservative Lutheran revival movement
97
views
views
88
Uganda Scheme
plan in the early 1900s to give a portion of British East Africa to the Jewish people as a homeland
97
views
views
89
Loretto Gemeinschaft
Catholic carismatic movement in Austria
94
views
views
90
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
93
views
views
91
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
88
views
views
92
Irenicism
attempts to unify Christian apologetical systems
88
views
views
93
Ebionites
Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early centuries of the Christian Era
86
views
views
94
Huna
New Age religious movement
85
views
views
95
Fraticelli
Medieval radical groups of the Franciscan tradition declared heretical by the Church
85
views
views
96
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
80
views
views
97
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
77
views
views
98
Devotio Moderna
medieval movement for religious reform
76
views
views
99
Bishnoi
Environmental Friendly Hindu Community in India
71
views
views
100
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
71
views
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