I tried to be as impartial as possible (it is not always possible to be totally impartial), but if there is clearly a side of the opinion I’ve tried to note it there. I’ve also tried to restrict this only to living religions.
Note: I call here Sect those religions, whose belonging to the specific (larger / older) religion is contradicted by the mainstream of that older religion. E g. mainstream Christians don’t consider Mormons Christians, yet they them selves do.
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Comparison of Religions:
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The Big Religion Comparison by Religion Facts
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Understanding Middle-Eastern Religions:
- Comparison of Islam, Judaism and Christianity
- Understanding Christianity
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Basic Beliefs (1/3)
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Why did Jesus die? (by BBC)
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Why Did Jesus Die?(by Alan Scholes) – longer article
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Apostles’, Nicene & Athanasian Creeds (Classical Creeds accepted by both eastern and western churches).
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Traditional sects:
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Nestorians (5th century AD)
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Monophysitism (6th century AD), e.g. Coptic Christians
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Modern sects:
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Who are Mormons? (Latter-day Saints)
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Restorationism (belief in returning to “the original Christianity”, also JW)
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Five Pillars of Islam (Sunni)
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Six Articles of Faith (both)
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Ibadi Muslims
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Sufism (mystical movement)
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Quranist-movement
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Sect: Ahmadi
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Minor Middle-Eastern (originating) Religions:
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What is Zoroastrianism? (Parsi)
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Mandaeism (Iraqi minority religion)
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Understanding Indian Religions
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- Hinduism – three paths of liberation & the death ritual
- Comparison of Four Main Denominations (by Hinduism today)
- Sacred Texts of Hinduism
- The Historical Context of The Bhagavad Gita and Its Relation to Indian Religious Doctrines
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- Basic Concepts, e. g. Four Noble Truths & Eightfold Path
- Buddhist Traditions or Denominations
- Hinayana or Theravada
- Mahayana
- Comparison of Theravada & Mahayana
- Tantric Buddhism
- What is Zen?
- What is Pure Land Buddhism?
- Sacred Texts e. g. Tripitaka
- Lotus Sutra
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Who are Sikhs? (syncretistic religion between Islam & Hinduism)
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- Understanding Far-Eastern Religions
- What is the Tao?
- What is Confucianism?
- China Daily: Confucianism will never be Religion
- What is Shinto?
- What Was and Is Burkhanism? (new, Altai religion)
- Traditional Ethnic Religions (some excamples):
- Russia:
- Mari-religion
- Traditional Shamanism
- Shamanism Among the Peoples of Western and Eastern Siberia
- Mysteries of the Golden Woman of Ugra by Paul Stonehill
- Khanty Bear-feast Songs, Collected by Wolfgang Steinitz
- African Traditional Religions
- San Religion (Bushmen)
- Yoruba Religion
- Maasai Religion
- Religion of Ewe & Fon
- Bambuti mythology (Pygmies)
- Native American Religions
- Oceanic
- Australian Aboriginal Religion
- Polynesian Religions
- Traditional Religion in Melanesia
- Korowai Religious Life (Papua-New Guinea)
- Asmat: Religion and Expressive Culture (P-NG Cannibals)
- Russia:
- About Other Religions
- What is Rastafarism?
- What is Santeria?
- Candomble: Brazil’s African religion
- What is Scientology? (very critical source, neutral not available)
- Is Scientology a Religion? By Irving Hexham, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary
- What is Satanism?
- Neo-Paganism
- Wicca
- Alienation, Neo-shamanism and Recovered Animism (2002) by Bruce Charlton
- Not Quite Religions – minor belief systems:
[Under construction.]
