Trending Schools of Thought this month
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
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Ranked
565,316
Total Views (this month)
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Buddhism
Indian religion
23,449
views
views
2
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
21,014
views
views
3
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
17,513
views
views
4
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
14,966
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views
5
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
14,679
views
views
6
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
14,246
views
views
7
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
14,012
views
views
8
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
12,807
views
views
9
naturism
movement for social nudity
12,723
views
views
10
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
11,668
views
views
11
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
10,711
views
views
12
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
10,545
views
views
13
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
10,522
views
views
14
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
8,984
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
8,773
views
views
16
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
8,586
views
views
17
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
8,504
views
views
18
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
8,219
views
views
19
deism
belief in God without revelation
7,144
views
views
20
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
7,049
views
views
21
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
6,860
views
views
22
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
6,812
views
views
23
humanism
philosophical school of thought
6,345
views
views
24
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
6,220
views
views
25
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
6,175
views
views
26
dispensationalism
Christian theology
5,889
views
views
27
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
5,876
views
views
28
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
5,864
views
views
29
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
5,817
views
views
30
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
5,751
views
views
31
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
5,659
views
views
32
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
5,573
views
views
33
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
5,537
views
views
34
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
5,526
views
views
35
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
5,501
views
views
36
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
5,421
views
views
37
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
5,388
views
views
38
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
5,346
views
views
39
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
5,329
views
views
40
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
5,046
views
views
41
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
4,986
views
views
42
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
4,903
views
views
43
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
4,566
views
views
44
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
4,535
views
views
45
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
4,492
views
views
46
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
4,447
views
views
47
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
4,355
views
views
48
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
4,242
views
views
49
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
4,178
views
views
50
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
4,121
views
views
51
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
4,096
views
views
52
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
4,091
views
views
53
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
4,074
views
views
54
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
4,055
views
views
55
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
4,004
views
views
56
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
3,964
views
views
57
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
3,957
views
views
58
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
3,856
views
views
59
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
3,774
views
views
60
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
3,698
views
views
61
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
3,676
views
views
62
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
3,622
views
views
63
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
3,553
views
views
64
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
3,484
views
views
65
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
3,472
views
views
66
mercantilism
early economic theory
3,428
views
views
67
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
3,255
views
views
68
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
3,182
views
views
69
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
3,120
views
views
70
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
3,113
views
views
71
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
3,102
views
views
72
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
3,081
views
views
73
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
3,073
views
views
74
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
3,052
views
views
75
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
3,051
views
views
76
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
3,041
views
views
77
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
3,000
views
views
78
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
2,992
views
views
79
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
2,960
views
views
80
prospect theory
theory of behavioral economics and behavioral finance that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979
2,950
views
views
81
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
2,940
views
views
82
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
2,936
views
views
83
Pelagianism
Early Christian theological doctrine
2,920
views
views
84
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
2,881
views
views
85
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
2,852
views
views
86
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
2,790
views
views
87
Arminianism
theological movement
2,781
views
views
88
boots theory
economic theory
2,776
views
views
89
trickle-down economics
economic theory
2,761
views
views
90
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
2,741
views
views
91
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
2,719
views
views
92
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
2,701
views
views
93
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
2,680
views
views
94
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
2,670
views
views
95
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
2,670
views
views
96
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
2,659
views
views
97
Third International Theory
theory of governance proposed by Muammar Gaddafi
2,617
views
views
98
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
2,563
views
views
99
Aeon
emanation of God; class of beings in Gnosticism
2,533
views
views
100
Three Principles of the People
political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen
2,476
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