Trending Religious Movements in Japan — the 7 days to 26 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 26 October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ruri Kyōkai. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
85,424
Total Views (the 7 days to 26 October 2026)
1
Ruri Kyōkai
33,745
views
views
2
Happy Science
global new religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
3,661
views
views
3
Tensokōkyō
Japanese new religion based in Nagoya
3,017
views
views
4
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
2,954
views
views
5
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
2,634
views
views
6
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
2,095
views
views
7
Shinnyo-en
Buddhist religion founded in Japan in 1936
2,064
views
views
8
Pana Wave
Japanese new religious group
1,642
views
views
9
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
1,606
views
views
10
Sukyo Mahikari
Japanese organization
1,579
views
views
11
haibutsu kishaku
anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan
1,449
views
views
12
Konkokyo
religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs
1,306
views
views
13
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
1,274
views
views
14
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
1,225
views
views
15
Shinji Shumeikai
Japanese new religion
1,194
views
views
16
Reiha no Hikari
Japanese new religion
1,188
views
views
17
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
1,087
views
views
18
Honmichi
Japanese new religion
1,067
views
views
19
Yōkōshi Tomonokai
Japanese new religion
1,030
views
views
20
Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan
Japanese religious organization
851
views
views
21
Nenbutsushu Sampozan Muryojuji Temple
831
views
views
22
Ōyamanezunomikoto Shinji Kyōkai
Japanese new religion
711
views
views
23
誠成公倫
632
views
views
24
Agon Shu
Japanese new religion
614
views
views
25
GLA
Japanese religious organization
607
views
views
26
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
594
views
views
27
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
590
views
views
28
Kurozumikyō
Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots
550
views
views
29
Heaven's Gate
American UFO religion, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997
538
views
views
30
New Apostolic Reformation
Christian movement advocating the restoration of the offices of prophet and apostle
518
views
views
31
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
515
views
views
32
Jōdo Shinshū Shinrankai
Buddhist religious corporation in Toyama, Japan.
509
views
views
33
Providence
Christian religious movement founded by Jung Myung Seok
495
views
views
34
mappō thought
eschatological movement in Buddhism which holds that the Mappō age has already begun and that existing Buddhist teachings are ineffective
433
views
views
35
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
401
views
views
36
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
400
views
views
37
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
397
views
views
38
皇祖皇太神宮天津教
392
views
views
39
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
388
views
views
40
Mahikari
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1959
357
views
views
41
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
341
views
views
42
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
323
views
views
43
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
283
views
views
44
Chino Shōhō
Japanese new religious group
277
views
views
45
Nenpoushinkyou
Japanese Buddhism-based new religion
253
views
views
46
Raelism
UFO religion founded in 1974
243
views
views
47
Ennokyo
Japanese new religion
226
views
views
48
Ananaikyo
Japanese new religion
213
views
views
49
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
212
views
views
50
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
207
views
views
51
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
206
views
views
52
Honbushin
Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religion
206
views
views
53
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
205
views
views
54
Non-church movement
Japanese Christian denomination (1901-)
194
views
views
55
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
183
views
views
56
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
181
views
views
57
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
181
views
views
58
Nichirenism
nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
168
views
views
59
Shingaku
Japanese religious movement
152
views
views
60
The Church of Almighty God
Chinese new religious movement
152
views
views
61
chengming nianfo
150
views
views
62
Shinreikyo
Japanese new religion founded in 1947
149
views
views
63
liberal Christianity
school of Christian theology that emphasizes the importance of reason and experience over doctrinal authority
141
views
views
64
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
119
views
views
65
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
113
views
views
66
Misogikyō
Shinto sect
112
views
views
67
Maruyamakyō
Japanese religion derived from Shinto
111
views
views
68
Christian fundamentalism
British and American protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
109
views
views
69
Jiu
109
views
views
70
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
108
views
views
71
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
107
views
views
72
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
107
views
views
73
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
107
views
views
74
chingo kokka
104
views
views
75
Kodosan Buddhist Fellowship
Japanese new religion
104
views
views
76
Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
South Korean new religious movement
103
views
views
77
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
102
views
views
78
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
100
views
views
79
Mango worship
veneration of mangoes in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution period
100
views
views
80
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
99
views
views
81
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
95
views
views
82
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
93
views
views
83
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
93
views
views
84
Kōmyō Kamu Tama Jingū
Japanese new religion
90
views
views
85
Shintō Tenkōkyo
Japanese new religion based in Tabuse, Yamaguchi
90
views
views
86
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
88
views
views
87
Subikari
Japanese new religion
85
views
views
88
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
83
views
views
89
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
81
views
views
90
Hòa Hảo
religion based on Buddhism, founded in Hòa Hảo village, Vietnam in 1939 by Huỳnh Phú Sổ
81
views
views
91
Pietism
movement christian
81
views
views
92
Neotantra
Western religious movements incorporating elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantra; often includes sexual elements
80
views
views
93
God Worshipping Society
religious and political movement founded by Hong Xiuquan
77
views
views
94
Christian naturism
movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies
76
views
views
95
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
74
views
views
96
Yiguandao
Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged from the Xiantiandao
73
views
views
97
Mahikari Seihō no Kai
Japanese new religion
72
views
views
98
Kishinkai
Japanese new religious movement founded in 1953, focused around the Lotus Sutra and ancestor veneration
71
views
views
99
World Mission Society Church of God
new religious movement
71
views
views
100
Discordianism
religion and subsequent philosophy based on the veneration or worship of Eris
70
views
views