World Religions
There are 22 major world religions, and within these religions are smaller divisions of the religion. The 22 major world religions are (information courtesy of <http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html>):
Along with the diversity of religion comes extreme dislike or hate towards other religions for "believing the wrong thing". Some of these disagreements have gone as far as to start wars, such as the Crusades, which will also be covered here.
- Christianity, with 2.1 billion followers.
- Islam, with 1.5 billion followers.
- Secular/Nonreligious/Naturalist, with 1.1 billion followers.
- Hinduism, with 900 million followers.
- Chinese Traditional Religion, with 394 million followers.
- Buddhism, with 376 million followers.
- Primal-indigenous, with 300 million followers.
- African Traditional and Diasporic, with 100 million followers.
- Sikhism, with 23 million followers.
- Juche, with 19 million followers.
- Spiritism, with 15 million followers.
- Judaism, with 14 million followers.
- Baha'i, with 7 million followers.
- Jainism, with 4.2 million followers.
- Shinto, with 4 million followers.
- Cao Dai, with 4 million followers.
- Zoroastrianism, with 2.6 million followers.
- Tenrikyo, with 2 million followers.
- Neo-Paganism, with 1 million followers.
- Unitarian-Universalism, with 800 thousand followers.
- Rastafarianism, with 600 thousand followers.
- Scientology with 500 thousand followers.
Along with the diversity of religion comes extreme dislike or hate towards other religions for "believing the wrong thing". Some of these disagreements have gone as far as to start wars, such as the Crusades, which will also be covered here.