Trending Religious Movements this year
The 100 most-viewed religious movements this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Baháʼí Faith.
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Ranked
899,907
Total Views (this year)
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Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
53,151
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2
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
47,390
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3
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
38,793
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4
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light
Shia Islam-derived religious movement
30,725
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views
5
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
30,339
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views
6
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
29,792
views
views
7
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
22,033
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views
8
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
21,957
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9
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
21,350
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views
10
Twelve Tribes communities
Christian intentional community & denomination
20,730
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views
11
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
20,547
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views
12
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
18,024
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views
13
Hasidism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
17,125
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14
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
16,667
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15
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
15,453
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views
16
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups
15,221
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views
17
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
14,917
views
views
18
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
13,387
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views
19
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
13,320
views
views
20
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
13,040
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views
21
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
12,193
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views
22
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
11,128
views
views
23
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
10,628
views
views
24
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
10,384
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views
25
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
10,312
views
views
26
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
9,751
views
views
27
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
9,431
views
views
28
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
9,357
views
views
29
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
9,194
views
views
30
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
9,138
views
views
31
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
9,090
views
views
32
Five-Percent Nation
American religion (1964-)
9,048
views
views
33
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
8,617
views
views
34
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
7,987
views
views
35
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
7,110
views
views
36
Rajneesh movement
persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho
6,983
views
views
37
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
6,814
views
views
38
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
6,669
views
views
39
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
6,439
views
views
40
Ghost Dance
new religious movement
6,430
views
views
41
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
6,365
views
views
42
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
6,251
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views
43
New Apostolic Reformation
Christian movement advocating the restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
6,220
views
views
44
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
6,196
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views
45
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and t
6,096
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views
46
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
6,093
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views
47
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
5,494
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views
48
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
5,341
views
views
49
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
5,156
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views
50
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
5,013
views
views
51
Cheondoism
20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son B
4,941
views
views
52
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
4,940
views
views
53
Sanātana Dharma
denomination of hinduism
4,816
views
views
54
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
4,722
views
views
55
Brahma Kumaris
Spiritual organization
4,640
views
views
56
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
4,493
views
views
57
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
4,453
views
views
58
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
4,449
views
views
59
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
4,448
views
views
60
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
4,441
views
views
61
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
4,362
views
views
62
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
4,360
views
views
63
Love Has Won
new religious movement
4,325
views
views
64
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
4,302
views
views
65
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
4,250
views
views
66
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
4,216
views
views
67
charismatic christianity
form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and modern-day miracles
4,161
views
views
68
British Israelism
Christian movement, according to which the people of England are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
4,142
views
views
69
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
4,119
views
views
70
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
4,098
views
views
71
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
4,090
views
views
72
Sanamahism
religious or philosophical tradition of Meetei origin
3,977
views
views
73
Twin Flames Universe
American religious cult
3,943
views
views
74
Azusa Street Revival
historic Pentecostal revival meeting
3,833
views
views
75
Pietism
movement christian
3,808
views
views
76
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
3,736
views
views
77
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
3,724
views
views
78
Vipassana movement
Buddhist meditation movement (1754-)
3,636
views
views
79
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
3,599
views
views
80
Bábism
religious movement
3,562
views
views
81
Stone–Campbell Movement
Christian movement seeking church reformation and unification
3,532
views
views
82
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
3,449
views
views
83
Adventism
Christian denominational family
3,439
views
views
84
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
3,379
views
views
85
Contemporary Sant Mat movements
new Sikh and Hindu-derived religious movement
3,359
views
views
86
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
3,323
views
views
87
Malaysian Islamic Party
Islamist political party in Malaysia
3,305
views
views
88
Radha Soami
religion related to Sikhism and Hinduism (1861-)
3,274
views
views
89
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
3,268
views
views
90
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
3,257
views
views
91
Modern Orthodox Judaism
a movement within Orthodox Judaism to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world; mainy preval
3,251
views
views
92
Seven Mountain Mandate
Conservative Protestant Christian movement
3,161
views
views
93
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
3,160
views
views
94
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
3,153
views
views
95
Jesus movement
Evangelical Christian movement
3,140
views
views
96
Reconstructionist Judaism
denomination of Judaism
3,136
views
views
97
Moorish Science Temple of America
US religious movement founded in the early 20th century Noble Drew Ali
3,075
views
views
98
Bhakti movement
religious movement during the Medieval period of the Indian Subcontinent
3,049
views
views
99
Quiverfull
evangelical Christian movement
2,870
views
views
100
Holiness movement
set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
2,852
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