Trending Schools of Thought this year
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
100
Ranked
1,186,717
Total Views (this year)
1
Buddhism
Indian religion
51,053
views
views
2
6-7
2025-2026 Internet meme
42,207
views
views
3
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
35,264
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views
4
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
31,262
views
views
5
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
31,155
views
views
6
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
29,266
views
views
7
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
28,645
views
views
8
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
27,582
views
views
9
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
26,743
views
views
10
naturism
movement for social nudity
25,642
views
views
11
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
24,383
views
views
12
Holy Trinity
Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substa
22,488
views
views
13
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
22,033
views
views
14
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
21,941
views
views
15
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
21,518
views
views
16
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
18,647
views
views
17
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
17,699
views
views
18
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
17,560
views
views
19
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
17,185
views
views
20
deism
belief in God without revelation
15,482
views
views
21
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
14,263
views
views
22
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
14,121
views
views
23
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
14,113
views
views
24
humanism
philosophical school of thought
13,753
views
views
25
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
13,320
views
views
26
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
12,453
views
views
27
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
12,217
views
views
28
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
12,193
views
views
29
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
11,878
views
views
30
dispensationalism
Christian theology
11,700
views
views
31
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
11,544
views
views
32
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
11,194
views
views
33
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
11,187
views
views
34
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
11,101
views
views
35
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
11,007
views
views
36
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
10,893
views
views
37
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
10,871
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views
38
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
10,628
views
views
39
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
10,384
views
views
40
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
10,369
views
views
41
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
10,367
views
views
42
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
10,315
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views
43
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
10,045
views
views
44
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
9,746
views
views
45
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
9,431
views
views
46
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
9,377
views
views
47
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
9,206
views
views
48
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
9,044
views
views
49
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
8,942
views
views
50
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
8,875
views
views
51
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
8,845
views
views
52
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
8,648
views
views
53
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
8,617
views
views
54
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
8,605
views
views
55
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
8,499
views
views
56
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
8,262
views
views
57
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
8,197
views
views
58
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
7,798
views
views
59
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
7,596
views
views
60
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
7,465
views
views
61
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
7,371
views
views
62
mercantilism
early economic theory
7,322
views
views
63
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
7,275
views
views
64
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
7,163
views
views
65
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
7,146
views
views
66
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
7,014
views
views
67
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
6,929
views
views
68
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
6,923
views
views
69
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
6,915
views
views
70
just war theory
doctrine about when a war is ethically just
6,692
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
6,533
views
views
72
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
6,330
views
views
73
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
6,309
views
views
74
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
6,251
views
views
75
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
6,247
views
views
76
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
6,219
views
views
77
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
6,095
views
views
78
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
6,000
views
views
79
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
5,995
views
views
80
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
5,967
views
views
81
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
5,865
views
views
82
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
5,813
views
views
83
Christ myth theory
opinion that biblical Jesus was purely fictional
5,667
views
views
84
White Rose
non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy profes
5,665
views
views
85
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
5,618
views
views
86
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
5,570
views
views
87
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
5,513
views
views
88
Arminianism
theological movement
5,501
views
views
89
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
5,494
views
views
90
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
5,467
views
views
91
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
5,394
views
views
92
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
5,389
views
views
93
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
5,363
views
views
94
Truman Doctrine
United States Cold War policy to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere
5,348
views
views
95
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
5,332
views
views
96
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
5,329
views
views
97
Lie-flat doctrine
Chinese neologism
5,319
views
views
98
Post-structuralism
heterogeneous works of a series of mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and critical theorists
5,225
views
views
99
Pelagianism
Early Christian theological doctrine
5,198
views
views
100
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
5,127
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