Trending Religious Movements — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hamas. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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4,512,929
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
284,450
views
views
2
Baháʼí Faith
monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
241,474
views
views
3
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
236,364
views
views
4
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
154,576
views
views
5
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
131,835
views
views
6
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
131,668
views
views
7
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
121,706
views
views
8
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
102,454
views
views
9
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
101,143
views
views
10
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
100,510
views
views
11
Muslim Brotherhood
global Islamic supremacist organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups, classified as a terrorist organization
91,879
views
views
12
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
86,652
views
views
13
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
86,571
views
views
14
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
81,381
views
views
15
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
78,417
views
views
16
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
76,250
views
views
17
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
76,045
views
views
18
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
66,648
views
views
19
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
58,779
views
views
20
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
58,061
views
views
21
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
55,974
views
views
22
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
54,744
views
views
23
Twelve Tribes communities
Christian intentional community & denomination
54,602
views
views
24
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
53,482
views
views
25
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
51,706
views
views
26
AllatRa
religious sect
49,442
views
views
27
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
48,821
views
views
28
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
47,705
views
views
29
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
46,890
views
views
30
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
45,698
views
views
31
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
42,771
views
views
32
Five-Percent Nation
American religion (1964-)
42,548
views
views
33
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light
Shia Islam-derived religious movement
39,970
views
views
34
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
38,950
views
views
35
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
38,177
views
views
36
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
37,612
views
views
37
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
35,279
views
views
38
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
34,972
views
views
39
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
34,704
views
views
40
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
34,331
views
views
41
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
32,680
views
views
42
New Apostolic Reformation
Christian movement advocating the restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
32,457
views
views
43
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
32,266
views
views
44
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England initially led by John Wycliffe
31,947
views
views
45
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
31,854
views
views
46
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
31,113
views
views
47
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
28,679
views
views
48
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
28,405
views
views
49
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
28,355
views
views
50
Rajneesh movement
persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho
27,803
views
views
51
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
27,689
views
views
52
Second Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival in the early 19th-century United States
26,592
views
views
53
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
26,450
views
views
54
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
25,372
views
views
55
Ghost Dance
new religious movement
25,238
views
views
56
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
24,215
views
views
57
Pietism
movement christian
23,118
views
views
58
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
22,448
views
views
59
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
22,375
views
views
60
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
22,062
views
views
61
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
21,828
views
views
62
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
21,695
views
views
63
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
21,513
views
views
64
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.
21,176
views
views
65
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
20,630
views
views
66
Love Has Won
new religious movement
20,170
views
views
67
First Great Awakening
Christian revivals in Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s–1740s
20,121
views
views
68
Brahma Kumaris
Spiritual organization
20,106
views
views
69
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
20,077
views
views
70
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
19,622
views
views
71
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
19,392
views
views
72
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
19,198
views
views
73
Adventism
Christian denominational family
18,896
views
views
74
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
18,662
views
views
75
Seven Mountain Mandate
Conservative Protestant Christian movement
18,573
views
views
76
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
18,502
views
views
77
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
18,357
views
views
78
British Israelism
Christian movement, according to which the people of England are the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
18,034
views
views
79
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
17,719
views
views
80
Azusa Street Revival
historic Pentecostal revival meeting
17,633
views
views
81
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
17,370
views
views
82
Reconstructionist Judaism
denomination of Judaism
17,137
views
views
83
Twin Flames Universe
American religious cult
17,031
views
views
84
charismatic christianity
form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and modern-day miracles
16,789
views
views
85
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
16,669
views
views
86
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
16,573
views
views
87
Covenanters
Scottish religious movement
16,469
views
views
88
Neocatechumenal Way
Catholic movement
16,281
views
views
89
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
15,976
views
views
90
Sanātana Dharma
denomination of hinduism
15,768
views
views
91
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
15,614
views
views
92
Stone–Campbell Movement
Christian movement seeking church reformation and unification
15,331
views
views
93
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
15,302
views
views
94
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Khlysts
Russian Christian sect
15,153
views
views
95
Bábism
religious movement
14,981
views
views
96
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
14,923
views
views
97
Radha Soami
religion related to Sikhism and Hinduism (1861-)
14,465
views
views
98
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
14,444
views
views
99
flagellant
practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
14,269
views
views
100
Vipassana movement
Buddhist meditation movement (1754-)
14,121
views
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