Largest World Religions Quiz

Can you name the largest world religions?

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Enter a religion in the box below
Correctly named religions will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Adherent counts are estimates, as defined and organized here: Adherents.com (check it out for a lot more info about each grouping)
Updated July 2011
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Adherents	Religion
2.1 billion
1.5 billion
900 million
394 million
376 million
300 million
100 million
23 million
19 million
15 million
14 million

Adherents	Religion
7 milllion
4.2 million
4 million
4 million
2.6 million
2 million
1 million
800 thousand
600 thousand
500 thousand
1.1 billion

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	tony:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:20 GMT		207 points
	500,000 follow Scientology? That's a lot of crazy.

	chrispaz:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:20 GMT		64 points
	Ha ha, I love the fact that Neo-Paganism has double the membership of Scientology!

	Kicking222:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT		55 points
	"Secular" should not be in there. This isn't like "hosts of the Oscars", where "none" is a necessary answer. Here, you don't need a "none". It's titled "Most Popular Religions", not "Most Popular Religions or Lack Thereof". And, for the record, I say this as an atheist.

	Tim_Allen:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:23 GMT		15 points
	I'd have to agree with kicking222 about the "Secular" answer. And I'd also have to agree with Tony. That is definitely a lot of crazy.

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	Kevin:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:30 GMT		11 points
	Yes, ElDavo, it's inclusion does depend very much on the definition one uses. That said, I was a little surprised when it didn't take atheism.

	treblat:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:31 GMT		16 points
	It doesn't take "African traditional" for African Traditional & Diasporic (which is what I tried after getting Chinese Traditional for Taoism). On that note, maybe "voodoo"/"voodou" should count under that category too.

	davidr:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:33 GMT		8 points
	@ElDavo: `Secular (non-religious)' is not a religion. By definition.

	PresidentJSC:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT		27 points
	no Jedism? lol

	SporcleAdmin:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:42 GMT		77 points
	Non-religious has been rightly moved to a hidden answer. Also, did you know? Sporclism: the fervent quest for the right answers to everything, everywhere.

	Jaspers:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:50 GMT		117 points
	Apparently, The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster needs more missionaries.

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	RavenEleni:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT		11 points
	and also, yes more people for church of the flying spaghetti monster! lol.

	ckbryant:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 18:01 GMT		39 points
	I'm not sure what the basis is for identifying "African Traditional and Diasporic" as separate from "Primal-Indigenous." What quality makes African traditions so distinct from American, Asian or Oceanic ones? Also, speaking as a Unitarian Universalist, I strongly suspect that high number of "Unitarians" comes from rolling up a bunch of religious organizations that don't really have too much to do with each other. Unitarians in Hungary, for instance, are Christians who deny the doctrine of the trinity. American Untarians are much more likely to be somewhere in the humanist/agnostic/atheist region of the spectum, and our church doesn't teach anything at all about the nature of Jesus.

	emilkr:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 18:07 GMT		31 points
	I agree with ckbryant. African Traditional and Diasporic should be counted with Primal-Indigenous. Also, if Unitarianism is listed as a separate religion (to which I agree), so should Jehova's Witnesses. Spirtism is hardly a religion and Juche is definately a political ideology and not a religion.

	bsd987:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 18:17 GMT		28 points
	Daoism should be accepted. It's a different transliteration but still correct.

	Swings12:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 18:40 GMT		15 points
	Karl Hungus is a Nihlist. He believes in nothing.

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	Jesse:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT		11 points
	According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche, Juche is not a religion but rather a political system and ideology. So I don't understand why it's on this list. Otherwise a very enlightening quiz!! Would like to show it to some born-again Christians I know who think their path is the Only One.

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	PresidentJSC:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT		9 points
	Chas, i think they count Mormonism as part of christianity, and anyway the population for Mormons is equal to the population of Utah.

	sdh:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT		2 points
	@Chas: See that first one on the list? Next to where it says "2.1 billion?"

	dakaraja:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 20:32 GMT		48 points
	I get Christianity by typing Catholic, but I don't get Sikhism by typing Sikh? Same thing with a lot of the others.

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	Spazzme:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT		7 points
	i havent even heard of half of them :\|

	titaniferous:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 20:51 GMT		28 points
	If this quiz accepts secularism then the continents quiz needs to accept the Pacific Ocean and the periodic table quiz should allow for empty space. The vast majority of atheists have no faith in godlessness itself; we reject the entire notion of faith as a means to knowledge. Atheism is only a religion inasmuch as "not collecting stamps" is a hobby. :)

	Tim_Allen:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT		3 points
	Well put "J".

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	retsyn:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 21:36 GMT		27 points
	i haven't read the comments but christian works for christianity but hindu doesn't work for hinduism?

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	Edge:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT		4 points
	I only got 11/21, but the only one I really kicked myself for missing was Baha'i. Some of those other religions are a little obscure (to my knowledge and life experience). Fun quiz.

	Tim Allen:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 22:23 GMT		21 points
	@trotsky: Atheism says no such thing and has no established belief structure. As 'J' said, atheism is simply a lack of a belief in God. Beyond that, there is no definition.

	Blackcrowned:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 22:42 GMT		6 points
	Ben: Juche is the main ideology in North Korea that pretty much everything there revolves around. Jesse: It's a so-called political religion. It holds political and cultural power similar to that of a religion and has many similarities with a religion's social and ideological properties.

	Antithesys:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 22:48 GMT		48 points
	Scientology is only a religion because they sued for the right to be called one...it's really more of a business. It's too bad Roddenberry didn't go the religion route instead of Hubbard. Trekkieism would be a lot more fun: you only need to go to church about twice a year when the conventions are in town, and even though you have to pay 30 bucks you get your gods' autographs. And the only message is "be nice to each other and someday the world will be like this."

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	trotsky:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 23:13 GMT		3 points
	@Tim Allen: Fair enough, then, but I'd propose that "humanism" makes better sense for what i'm suggesting. there is no shortage of adherants, and they tend to be more zealous than a lot of others. lack of organization does not equate to non-existence (see animism)

	magister:	Jan 6th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT		7 points
	I've enjoyed the quiz all day. I think that it would be fun to see the major religions exploded into the different denominations, i.e. Christianity into all of its facets, Buddhism into Mahayana, Ayurvedic, Zen, etc.