Trending Schools of Thought in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed schools of thought this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Buddhism.
100
Ranked
1,040,137
Total Views (this year)
1
Buddhism
Indian religion
44,012
views
views
2
stoicism
school of Hellenistic philosophy who held that the practice of virtue suffices to attain eudaimonia
30,398
views
views
3
nihilism
philosophy of negation towards concepts, meaning, or life
27,643
views
views
4
Taoism
religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin
27,569
views
views
5
Rapture
in some forms of Protestantism, an eschatological event when all alive true believers will rise along with the resurrected dead believers in
27,031
views
views
6
Sunni Islam
most populous Islamic denomination
26,592
views
views
7
Shia Islam
second-most populous Islamic denomination
25,956
views
views
8
Marxism
economic and sociopolitical worldview
23,392
views
views
9
naturism
movement for social nudity
22,645
views
views
10
existentialism
philosophical and literary current
21,361
views
views
11
Falun Gong
religious movement originating in China
19,448
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
19,260
views
views
13
eugenics
a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of a human population
19,082
views
views
14
anarchism
a philosophy, movement, and political ideology that holds that any government, like the state, is undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful
18,436
views
views
15
Xenu
religious figure in the Church of Scientology
18,258
views
views
16
6-7
2025-2026 Internet meme
16,514
views
views
17
hermeticism
philosophical and religious tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus
16,403
views
views
18
Confucianism
Chinese ethical and philosophical system
15,851
views
views
19
atheism
absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
15,156
views
views
20
deism
belief in God without revelation
13,477
views
views
21
accelerationism
political philosophy that the prevailing system of capitalism should be expanded in order to generate radical social change
13,132
views
views
22
2012 phenomenon
eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012
12,846
views
views
23
Samsara
world or realm of existence related to rebirth concept in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bön, and Sikhism
12,471
views
views
24
Theosophy
religion founded by Helena Blavatsky
12,286
views
views
25
humanism
philosophical school of thought
11,848
views
views
26
dispensationalism
Christian theology
11,184
views
views
27
egalitarianism
trend of thought that favors equality for all people
10,725
views
views
28
Noble Eightfold Path
one of the principal teachings of the Buddha
10,716
views
views
29
Wahhabism
Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement
10,687
views
views
30
transcendentalism
1820–1830s US philosophical movement, holding that society corrupts humans’ inherent goodness, favoring intuition over empiricism
10,514
views
views
31
Trotskyism
variety of Marxism developed by Leon Trotsky
10,510
views
views
32
Advaita Vedanta
school of Hindu philosophy; a classic path to spiritual realization
10,484
views
views
33
phenomenology
early 20th century philosophical movement that seeks to describe the universal features of consciousness without assumptions about the exter
10,468
views
views
34
dialectic
method of argument for resolving disagreement
10,415
views
views
35
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
10,283
views
views
36
Keynesian economics
group of macroeconomic theories
10,170
views
views
37
sedevacantism
belief that the Roman-Catholic Church currently has no legitimate pope
9,789
views
views
38
New Age
spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s
9,562
views
views
39
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
9,466
views
views
40
Neoplatonism
strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD
9,447
views
views
41
utilitarianism
ethical theory which holds that the right action is the one that maximizes aggregate well-being
9,374
views
views
42
Epicureanism
philosophical movement developed by Epicurus
9,254
views
views
43
Lebensraum
German "living space" ideas of settler colonialism (1890s–1940s)
9,087
views
views
44
turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
8,863
views
views
45
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
8,650
views
views
46
Monroe Doctrine
US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823
8,074
views
views
47
critical race theory
conceptual framework regarding society, race, and culture
8,007
views
views
48
anthroposophy
esoteric philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner postulating the existence of an objective spiritual world accessible to human experience
7,972
views
views
49
homophobia
negative attitudes, prejudice and discrimination towards homosexuality
7,913
views
views
50
Cynicism
Ancient school of philosophy
7,813
views
views
51
Salafism
Sunni Islamic reformist movement
7,664
views
views
52
Nestorianism
Christological doctrine arguing that human and divine persons of Jesus Christ are separate
7,457
views
views
53
Immaculate Conception of Mary
teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin
7,344
views
views
54
pragmatism
philosophical tradition
7,292
views
views
55
globalization
process of international integration arising from world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
7,233
views
views
56
original sin
Christian belief in the state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man
7,210
views
views
57
Frankfurt School
school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
7,194
views
views
58
antinatalism
philosophical position that assigns a negative value to procreation
6,841
views
views
59
empiricism
theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
6,798
views
views
60
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
6,664
views
views
61
Mandate of Heaven
political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China
6,571
views
views
62
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
6,502
views
views
63
materialism
form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature
6,372
views
views
64
Nizari Isma'ilism
branch of Isma'ili Shia Islam
6,352
views
views
65
just war theory
doctrine about when a war is ethically just
6,211
views
views
66
meritocracy
political system in which capital is assigned on the basis of competence
6,206
views
views
67
Alevism
Ethno-religious group
6,141
views
views
68
mercantilism
early economic theory
6,138
views
views
69
Christian apologetics
branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
6,073
views
views
70
Miaphysitism
Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, saying that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, in one compound nature
5,994
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
5,908
views
views
72
positivism
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative kn
5,829
views
views
73
nontrinitarianism
form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity
5,811
views
views
74
panentheism
belief that the divine pervades all of space and time and extends beyond it
5,763
views
views
75
ubuntu
Southern African philosophy
5,695
views
views
76
Lysenkoism
pseudoscientific biological theory in the U.S.S.R.
5,463
views
views
77
rationalism
philosophical view that reason should be the chief source of knowledge
5,451
views
views
78
Situationist International
international organization of social revolutionaries
5,439
views
views
79
distributism
doctrine in opposition to both socialism and capitalism
5,432
views
views
80
Christ myth theory
opinion that biblical Jesus was purely fictional
5,395
views
views
81
Counter-Reformation
Catholic political and religious response to the Protestant Reformation and earlier reformism
5,333
views
views
82
New Thought
religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
5,208
views
views
83
New Atheism
contemporary atheistic movement of thinkers and writers
5,202
views
views
84
analytic philosophy
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
5,197
views
views
85
Ibadi Islam
It is considered the third Islamic school of thought after the Sunni and Shia schools.
5,175
views
views
86
Arminianism
theological movement
5,169
views
views
87
Malthusianism
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
5,094
views
views
88
Platonism
philosophical theory that includes affirming the existence of abstract objects
5,040
views
views
89
anarcho-communism
political philosophy and school of thought
4,964
views
views
90
Kharijites
Early Islamic rebellious sect
4,912
views
views
91
anarcho-syndicalism
branch of anarchism
4,875
views
views
92
Lie-flat doctrine
Chinese neologism
4,859
views
views
93
Vedanta
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
4,810
views
views
94
Pelagianism
Early Christian theological doctrine
4,803
views
views
95
Pythagoreanism
system of esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers
4,796
views
views
96
Aeon
emanation of God; class of beings in Gnosticism
4,786
views
views
97
trickle-down economics
economic theory
4,766
views
views
98
Truman Doctrine
United States Cold War policy to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere
4,764
views
views
99
Austrian school
school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism rather than focusing on aggregate variables, equi
4,746
views
views
100
Lollardy
pre-Protestant Christian religious reform movement in England
4,701
views
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