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The most-read traditions examined across shared concerns. A neutral table where each sits as an equal — described, never ranked.
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An American Black nationalist religious movement teaching that God is a corporeal black man, that Black people are the original chosen people, and that liberation from white supremacy is a divine mandate.
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A covenantal monotheism centred on the person and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
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A path diagnosing suffering and its cessation through insight, ethics, and meditation.
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A 19th-century American movement founded by Mary Baker Eddy teaching that God is divine Mind, matter and evil are illusions, and spiritual understanding is the means of healing.
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A 3,500-year polytheism organised around Ma'at (cosmic order), the solar journey of Ra, the resurrection myth of Osiris, and an elaborate afterlife framework in which the soul's moral record determined eternal fate.
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An identity movement holding that African Americans and other peoples of African descent are the true Israelites of the Bible, called to return to Torah observance.
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A 19th-century Iranian-born universal religion proclaiming the oneness of God, the unity of all world religions, and the oneness of humanity under Bahá'u'lláh's revelation.
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A civic polytheism centred on the Olympian gods and their Roman equivalents, in which piety meant honouring the gods through cult and sacrifice, fate governed all, and the afterlife was a dim shadow of earthly life.
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The state religion of the Inca Empire, centred on the creator god Viracocha, the sun god Inti, ancestor veneration through mummified royalty, and a morally differentiated afterlife tied to the cosmic cycle of the Andes.
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Mesoamerican polytheistic traditions centred on cosmic instability, cyclical creation and destruction, human participation in sustaining the sun through sacrifice, and complex underworld journeys for the dead.
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Submission to the one God (Allah), whose final revelation is given through the Prophet Muhammad.
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A 19th-century American restorationist tradition founded by Joseph Smith, teaching that God is an exalted being, humanity is of divine origin, and exaltation to godhood is humanity's ultimate destiny.
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A Jamaican-rooted movement venerating Haile Selassie I as the returned Messiah and Jah incarnate, seeking repatriation to Zion (Africa) through righteous livity.
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A plural family of traditions oriented to dharma, karma, and release (moksha) from rebirth.
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A polytheistic animist tradition of the Celtic peoples, venerating a diverse pantheon through sacred landscape, Druidic ritual, and the belief in an Otherworld of eternal youth that the soul may enter through death or transmigration.
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The earliest recorded polytheism, in which humans were created from divine blood and clay to labour for the gods, the cosmos was sustained against chaos by divine will, and all souls descended to a bleak, undifferentiated underworld.
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