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I’m interested in these, older, yet still active lesser known religions. Aside from this I’m aware of the Ahmadiyya and Baha’is (offshoots of Islam, but with d
by xevb3k 8y ago
I’m interested in these, older, yet still active lesser known religions.
Aside from this I’m aware of the Ahmadiyya and Baha’is (offshoots of Islam, but with distinct founders claiming to bring a revelation). They’re in the 5 to 10 million range. And Jainism of course, but that seems to be a little better known.
Then there’s Zoroastrianism and Yazdânism with under 1 million.
Does anyone have a complete list of these smaller religions?
- akkartik 8y agoHeh, I just went looking and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritua...
- schoen 8y agoFor the Near Eastern landscape, you might also be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alawites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alawites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism I first found out about the Karaites when I asked a theologian why there was no Jewish equivalent to the Protestant notion of "sola scriptura". It turns out that there is. :-) There are also some parts of Eastern Christianity that aren't very familiar to many westerners, like Syriac Christians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy
- acjohnson55 8y agoDon't forget the Yazidis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis
- schoen 8y agoThe other commenter already mentioned "Yazdânism", which Wikipedia considers to include Yazidism. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd%C3%A2nism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd%C3%A2nism