Trending Religious Movements in Russia — the 7 days to 28 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed religious movements on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 28 October 2026 (Russian-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Hamas. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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42,764
Total Views (the 7 days to 28 October 2026)
1
Hamas
Palestinian Islamist political and military organization
2,840
views
views
2
Sufism
body of mystical practice within Islam
1,783
views
views
3
Muslim Brotherhood
transnational Sunni Islamist organization
1,679
views
views
4
Mormonism
religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith and centered on the Book of Mormon
1,522
views
views
5
Hasidic Judaism
religious subgroup of modern Judaism
1,497
views
views
6
Wahhabism
Religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in Najd in the mid-18th century
1,460
views
views
7
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Khlysts
Russian Christian sect
1,240
views
views
8
esotericism
wide range of loosely related ideas and movements associated with the occult or secrets
1,196
views
views
9
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
1,151
views
views
10
Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
1,098
views
views
11
Catharism
Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
1,091
views
views
12
Salafism
Ultraconservative fundamentalist movement within Islam
889
views
views
13
Rodnovery
modern religious movement based on Slavic native beliefs
879
views
views
14
Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christian movement
854
views
views
15
Orthodox Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movement, and the formal one in Israel
816
views
views
16
Haredi Judaism
strictest stream of the Orthodox Judaism faith
761
views
views
17
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
709
views
views
18
Hanafism
one of the four major schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence
678
views
views
19
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
677
views
views
20
Pharisees
ancient Jewish sect
673
views
views
21
modern paganism
group of contemporary religious movements based on ancient European and Middle Eastern religions
662
views
views
22
Tolstoyan movement
social movement based on the views of Leo Tolstoy
651
views
views
23
Nation of Islam
Black nationalist African-American new religious movement
650
views
views
24
Peoples Temple
defunct new religious movement founded in 1955
645
views
views
25
Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
Neopagan new religious movement founded in Russia
588
views
views
26
Sect of Skhariya the Jew
15th-16th–century religious sect in Russia
584
views
views
27
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
521
views
views
28
Monophysitism
Christological doctrine which emphasizes the one holy, divine aspect and nature of Christ
434
views
views
29
Subbotniks
common name for Russian religious movements of Judeo-Christian origin
432
views
views
30
Pietism
movement christian
407
views
views
31
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
397
views
views
32
AllatRa
religious sect
385
views
views
33
Karaite Judaism
Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
384
views
views
34
Church of the Last Testament
Russian new religious movement
383
views
views
35
Albigenses
branch of Catharism
378
views
views
36
nondenominational Christianity
churches which distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities
366
views
views
37
flagellant
practitioners of an extreme form of self-mortification
363
views
views
38
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
358
views
views
39
Waldensians
mediaval Christian movement
356
views
views
40
Order of the Solar Temple
French cult and secret society
326
views
views
41
Shafi'i
school of Islamic jurisprudence
326
views
views
42
Reform Judaism
denomination of Judaism
314
views
views
43
indifferentism
belief held by some in the Catholic faith
294
views
views
44
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.
282
views
views
45
Русское мессианство
275
views
views
46
Zealotry
religious-political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
270
views
views
47
spiritualism
19th century religious movement based on the belief that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead
269
views
views
48
Unification Church
South Korean new religious movement
264
views
views
49
Charismatic Movement
trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism.
259
views
views
50
Sadducees
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
253
views
views
51
Rabbinic Judaism
mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE
237
views
views
52
Messianic Judaism
religious movement
237
views
views
53
Bábism
religious movement
234
views
views
54
Hanbalism
one of the schools or madhabs of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam
217
views
views
55
Noahidism
Jewish new religious movement
211
views
views
56
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
208
views
views
57
Adventism
Christian denominational family
193
views
views
58
Discordianism
religion and subsequent philosophy based on the veneration or worship of Eris
193
views
views
59
liberation theology
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
192
views
views
60
Shtundists
Protestant evangelicals in the Russian Empire
190
views
views
61
The Family International
Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States
190
views
views
62
Black Hebrew Israelites
a group of Black Americans holding the antisemitic pseudoscientific belief that they are the only descendants of ancient Israelites
182
views
views
63
Good News International Ministries
Kenyan religious organization (2003-)
176
views
views
64
Christian Science
American religious movement (1866-)
168
views
views
65
Malikism
one of four major schools of madhhab of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam
167
views
views
66
Strigolniki
14th-15th–century Russian heretical sect
166
views
views
67
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
160
views
views
68
Quietism
17th-century ideas heretical to Catholics
159
views
views
69
Montanism
2nd century Christian movement
155
views
views
70
Jewish Christian
members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
151
views
views
71
Conservative Judaism
one of the three major Judaism movements
148
views
views
72
Burkhanism
indigenous religious movement of the Altai people
145
views
views
73
Gülen movement
transnational Islamist movement
143
views
views
74
Assemblies of God
autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches
134
views
views
75
Restorationism
belief that the beliefs and practices of early Christianity were lost or adulterated and required restoration
134
views
views
76
Spiritual Christianity
Russian religious movement, non-Orthodox
132
views
views
77
Богородичный центр
132
views
views
78
Rāja yoga
one of the four major yogic paths of Hinduism
131
views
views
79
Evangelical Christians (Prokhanovs)
Protestant movement in Russia
129
views
views
80
Gemeinschaft von christlichen Abstinenten in Russland
religious movement
129
views
views
81
Latter Day Saint movement
religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
128
views
views
82
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
126
views
views
83
Roerichism
spiritual, cultural and social movement based on the teachings of Nicholas and Helena Roerich
122
views
views
84
Judaizers
Christians who insist that their co-religionists should follow the Law of Moses
119
views
views
85
traditionalist Catholicism
set of traditionalist tendencies and movements within and outside the Catholic Church
118
views
views
86
Sabbateans
followers of Sabbatai Zevi
116
views
views
87
Jediism
philosophy mainly based on the Jedi characters in Star Wars media
115
views
views
88
Laestadianism
conservative Lutheran revival movement
109
views
views
89
Ebionites
Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early centuries of the Christian Era
107
views
views
90
Tenrikyo
Japanese new religion of Shinto origin
101
views
views
91
Josephites
20th-century movement in the Russian Orthodox Church, followers of Metropolitan Joseph
100
views
views
92
Zionism in the Soviet Union
aspect in a geographic region
95
views
views
93
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
fundamentalist Mormon denomination
92
views
views
94
liberalism and progressivism within Islam
overview of the history of liberalism and progressivism within Islam and amongst Muslims
91
views
views
95
Hellenism
Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism
90
views
views
96
Ja'fari School
school of jurisprudence (fiqh) in Twelver
89
views
views
97
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
86
views
views
98
Christian Identity
Christian white supremacist movement which holds the view that only people of Northern European ancestry descend from the ancient Israelites
85
views
views
99
Christian Zionism
political and religious ideology
84
views
views
100
Oomoto
religion founded in 1892 in Japan
79
views
views