how many different religions are there?
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Christianity: 2.1 billion\n\nIslam: 1.3 billion\n\nSecular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n\nHinduism: 900 million\n\nChinese traditional religion: 394 million\n\nBuddhism: 376 million\n\nprimal-indigenous: 300 million\n\nAfrican Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n\nSikhism: 23 million\n\nJuche: 19 million\n\nSpiritism: 15 million\n\nJudaism: 14 million\n\nBaha'i: 7 million\n\nJainism: 4.2 million\n\nShinto: 4 million\n\nCao Dai: 4 million\n\nZoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n\nTenrikyo: 2 million\n\nNeo-Paganism: 1 million\n\nUnitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n\nRastafarianism: 600 thousand\n\nScientology: 500 thousand
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Unknown. We don't even know for certain how many there are now. There's at least three, but some scientific research indicates there may be as many as 11.
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Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are the only three religions that only a a singular "god" that is male. All other religions have multiple "gods" and/or female "gods".
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Christianity is a religion.  What you listed are denominations within "Christianity".
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you will not find a correct answer, because there are so many denominations and tribes that are undescovered with their religions
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Mostly there are Hindus. Muslims come next. Buddishts are next, and Christians are last. Look up each of these religions to understand what they believe.
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Hinduism, Islam, Budhism, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism are main
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Not in particular Order: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. \n\nSome minor religions( in terms of followers) would be : Jainism, Sikhism (2 offshoots of Hinduism along with Buddhism), Shintoism.\n\nMy knowledge here isn't vast, so if somebody has more ideas, do add them!
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I have no idea what you mean.\nIf you mean that there are many religions, yes.\nIf you mean there is more of one religion in one area and more of another in another area, yes.
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The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance try to explain each religion without predjudice. They have about 50 religions listed, with sub-essays on the major Christian denominations.
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christianity (including all its various varieties)
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1) Christianity 2.1 billion (Began: ca. 27 AD/CE) \nRoman Catholicism: 1.085 billion \nProtestantism: 590 million \nEastern Orthodoxy: 200 million \nAnglican: 84 million \nOriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, and other Christians: 350 million \n\nIslam 1.3 billion (Began: ca. 622 AD/CE) \nSunnism: 940 million \nShi'ism: 170 million \nSufi, Ibadiyyah, Druze and other Muslims : 80 million \nSecular/Irreligious/Agnostic/Atheist 1.1 billion \nCategory includes a wide range of beliefs, without specifically adhering to a religion. The category also includes humanism, deism, pantheism, and freethought. For more information, see the Adherents.com discussion of this category. \n\nHinduism 900 million (Began: 15th century BC/BCE) \nVaishnavism: 580 million \nShaivism: 220 million \nShaktism/Smartism/Arya Samaj/Other sects: 150 million \n\nBuddhism 708 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE) \nMahayana: 185 million \nTheravada: 124 million \nChinese/Japanese Buddhism: 394 million \nPrimal indigenous 300 million \nNot a single organized religion, includes a wide range of primarily Asian traditional or tribal religions, including Shamanism and Paganism. \n\nAfrican traditional and diasporic 100 million \nNot a single organized religion, this includes traditional African beliefs such as Yoruba as well as diasporic beliefs such as Santeria (which itself draws from Catholicism) and Vodoun. \n\nShintoism 69 million (Began: 300 BC/BCE) \nThis number states the number of practicing followers of Shintoism; for if partial or ethnic followers of Shintoism were included, the number would fall around 100–115 million. \n\nSikhism 23 million (Began: 1500s) \nJuche 19 million \nNot considered a religion by adherents, who view it as secular and anti-revisionist. Juche is the political ideology of the Workers Party of Korea, the ruling party of the DPRK; some have argued it constitutes a religion due to its Great Leader Worship characteristics. The number is approximately the entire population of the country. \nSpiritism 15 million (Began: mid-19th century) \nNot a single organized religion, includes a variety of beliefs including some forms of Umbanda. \n\nJudaism 15 million (Began: 13th century BC/BCE) \n\nFalun Gong 10-100 million* (Began: 1992) \nNot necessarily considered a religion by adherents or outside observers. No membership or rosters, thus the actual figure of practitioners is impossible to confirm. \nBahá'í Faith 7 million (Began: 19th century) \n\nJainism 4.2 million (Began: 6th century BC/BCE)
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Depends on which religion you are talking about, my dear. There are only some 20 or 30 different religious practices in the world, with over 1,000 sects. You'll have to be more specific.\n\nHowever, the basic goal of almost every religion is an effort to become closer to the divine.
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Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Zoroastrian, and I think Buddhism.\n\n*Shinto and Confusism as well if they count as religions as apposed to phillosphys.
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100 different churches
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I didn't realize that we had multiple races outside of "HUMAN". Besides, not all those who disagree with organized religion are atheists. I'm a Non-Denominational Happy Pagan Person.
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Why do you think there are so many different types of churches.