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Philosophy and religion

This section contains 434 articles.

For philosophers, see People: Philosophers. For religious figures, see People: Religious figures.

Philosophy

This section contains 98 articles.

Philosophy: General

This section contains 1 article.

1. Philosophy (Level 1)

Philosophy by region and period

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Western philosophy (Level 3)
   1. Ancient Greek philosophy
   2. Medieval philosophy
   3. Renaissance philosophy
   4. Modern philosophy
   5. Contemporary philosophy
2. Eastern philosophy (Level 3)
   1. Chinese philosophy
   2. Indian philosophy
3. Ancient philosophy

Philosophical schools and traditions

This section contains 9 articles.

1. Analytic philosophy
2. Confucianism (Level 3)
3. Legalism (Chinese philosophy)
4. Phenomenology (philosophy)
5. Positivism
6. Pragmatism
7. Sophist
8. Stoicism
9. Thomism

Religious philosophy

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Buddhist philosophy
2. Christian philosophy
3. Islamic philosophy

Philosophical branches, approaches and concepts

This section contains 75 articles.

Ethics

This section contains 17 articles.

1. Ethics (Level 2)

Concepts

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Free will (Level 3)
2. Good and evil (Level 3)
3. Conscience
4. Golden Rule
5. Is–ought problem
6. Morality
7. Plagiarism
8. Value (ethics and social sciences)
9. Virtue
10. Wisdom

Approaches

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Consequentialism
2. Deontology
3. Humanism
4. Nihilism
5. Relativism
6. Utilitarianism

Logic

This section contains 12 articles.

1. Logic (Level 2)
2. Argument
3. A priori and a posteriori
4. Critical thinking
5. Dialectic
   1. Socratic method
6. Inference
   1. Deductive reasoning
   2. Fallacy
   3. Inductive reasoning
7. Paradox
8. Thought experiment

Epistemology

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Epistemology (Level 3)

Concepts

This section contains 11 articles.

1. Knowledge (Level 2)
2. Truth (Level 3)
3. Reason (Level 3)
4. Belief (Level 3)
5. Common sense
6. Concept
7. Experience
8. Occam's razor
9. Opinion
10. Superstition
11. Worldview

Approaches

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Empiricism
2. Naturalism (philosophy)
3. Rationalism
4. Skepticism

Metaphysics

This section contains 13 articles.

1. Metaphysics (Level 3)

Concepts

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Ontology (Level 3)
2. Abstraction
3. Causality (physics)
4. Existence
5. Mental representation
6. Reality

Approaches

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Determinism
2. Idealism
3. Materialism
4. Mind–body dualism
5. Monism
6. Theory of forms

Aesthetics

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Aesthetics (Level 3)
2. Beauty

Philosophy of science

This section contains 9 articles.

1. Philosophy of science (Level 3)
2. Fact
3. Hypothesis
4. Natural philosophy
5. Paradigm
6. Pseudoscience
   1. Parapsychology
7. Reductionism
8. Theory

Other branches of philosophy

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Philosophy of language
   1. Meaning (philosophy)
2. Philosophy of mathematics
3. Philosophy of mind
4. Philosophy of religion
5. Political philosophy

Religion and spirituality

This section contains 81 articles.

Religion and spirituality: General

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Religion (Level 2)
2. Comparative religion
3. Folk religion
4. Mysticism
5. Theology

Deity

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Deity (Level 2)
   1. God (Level 3)
   2. Goddess

Practices

This section contains 21 articles.

1. Ritual (Level 3)
2. Prayer (Level 3)
   1. Lord's Prayer
3. Meditation (Level 3)
4. Apologetics
5. Apostasy
6. Celibacy
7. Fasting
8. Heresy
9. Icon
   1. Iconoclasm
10. Idolatry
11. Liturgy
12. Pilgrimage
13. Prophecy
14. Relic
15. Religious conversion
16. Sacrifice
17. Saint
18. Veneration of the dead
19. Worship

Beliefs

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Spirituality (Level 3)
2. Animism
3. Astrology
4. Creation myth
5. Curse
6. Divination
7. Eschatology
8. Faith
9. Magic (supernatural)
   1. Witchcraft
10. Mandate of Heaven
11. Origin myth
12. Religious experience
13. Sacredness
14. Supernatural
15. Totem

Death

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Burial
2. Cemetery
3. Cremation
4. Funeral
5. Mummy

Afterlife

This section contains 7 articles.

1. Afterlife (Level 3)
   1. Heaven
   2. Hell
   3. Incarnation
   4. Reincarnation
   5. Resurrection
2. Soul (Level 3)

Institutions

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Altar
2. Anti-clericalism
3. Creed
4. Cult
5. Monastery
6. Priest
7. Schism
8. Sect
9. State religion
10. Temple

Theistic philosophies

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Theism
2. Deism
3. Fundamentalism
4. Monotheism
5. Orthodoxy
6. Paganism
7. Panentheism
8. Pantheism
9. Polytheism
10. Syncretism

Non-theistic philosophies

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Atheism (Level 3)
2. Agnosticism
3. Freethought
4. Secularism (Level 3)

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 76 articles.

Main branches

This section contains 7 articles.

1. Christianity (Level 3)
2. Islam (Level 3)
3. Judaism (Level 3)
4. Baháʼí Faith
5. Druze
6. Gnosticism
7. Rastafari

Common concepts

This section contains 9 articles.

1. Bible (Level 3)
   1. Old Testament
   2. New Testament
2. Holy Spirit
3. Messiah
4. Predestination
5. Salvation
6. Sin
7. Ten Commandments

Judaism

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Talmud (Level 3)
2. Torah
3. Halakha
   1. Kashrut
4. Hebrew Bible
5. Rabbi
6. Synagogue
7. Conservative Judaism
8. Orthodox Judaism
9. Reform Judaism

Christianity

This section contains 35 articles.

Branches

This section contains 24 articles.

1. Catholic Church (Level 3)
   1. Eastern Catholic Churches
2. Eastern Christianity
   1. Eastern Orthodox Church (Level 3)
      1. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
      2. Russian Orthodox Church
   2. Oriental Orthodox Churches
      1. Coptic Orthodox Church
      2. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
3. Nontrinitarianism
   1. Jehovah's Witnesses
   2. Mormonism
   3. Unitarianism
4. Protestantism (Level 3)
   1. Anglicanism
   2. Arminianism
   3. Baptists
   4. Reformed Christianity
   5. Evangelicalism
   6. Lutheranism
   7. Methodism
   8. Pentecostalism
   9. Quakers
   10. Seventh-day Adventist Church

Concepts

This section contains 11 articles.

1. Catholicity
   1. Pope
   2. Purgatory
2. Baptism
3. Church (congregation)
4. Church (building)
5. Ecumenism
6. Eucharist
7. Grace
8. Second Coming
9. Trinity

Islam

This section contains 15 articles.

1. Islamic schools and branches
   1. Sunni Islam (Level 3)
   2. Shia Islam (Level 3)
   3. Sufism
2. Quran (Level 3)
3. Allah
4. Five Pillars of Islam
   1. Hajj
5. Fiqh
6. Hadith
7. Halal
8. Haram
9. Imam
10. Mosque
11. Sharia

Eastern religions

This section contains 41 articles.

Major religions

This section contains 7 articles.

1. Hinduism (Level 3)
2. Buddhism (Level 3)
3. Jainism (Level 3)
4. Sikhism (Level 3)
5. Taoism (Level 3)
6. Shinto (Level 3)
7. Manichaeism

Common concepts

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Dhammapada
2. Dharma
3. Karma
4. Mantra
5. Om
6. Qi
7. Swastika
8. Tantra
9. Yin and yang
10. Yoga

Buddhism

This section contains 9 articles.

1. Mahayana (Level 3)
   1. Avalokiteśvara
   2. Diamond Sutra
2. Theravada (Level 3)
   1. Pali Canon
3. Vajrayana
4. Four Noble Truths
5. Nirvana
6. Zen

Hinduism

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Bhagavad Gita (Level 3)
2. Vedas (Level 3)
3. Brahman
4. Kumbh Mela
5. Ramayana
6. Shaivism
7. Shaktism
8. Upanishads
9. Vaishnavism
10. Vedanta

Sikhism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Guru Granth Sahib
2. Golden Temple

Taoism

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Tao Te Ching
2. Zhuangzi (book)

Shinto

This section contains 1 article.

1. Kojiki

Other religions

This section contains 28 articles.

Other religions: General

This section contains 7 articles.

1. Shamanism (Level 3)
2. Zoroastrianism
   1. Avesta
3. Chinese folk religion (Level 3)
4. Haitian Vodou
5. Traditional African religions (Level 3)
   1. Yoruba religion

Ancient religions

This section contains 12 articles.

1. Prehistoric religion
2. Ancient Celtic religion
3. Ancient Egyptian religion
4. Ancient Greek religion
5. Ancient Mesopotamian religion
6. Aztec religion
7. Germanic paganism
8. Maya religion
9. Old Norse religion
10. Religion in ancient Rome
11. Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
12. Slavic paganism

Western esotericism

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Western esotericism
   1. Freemasonry
   2. New Age

New religious movements

This section contains 6 articles.

1. New religious movement (Level 3)
   1. Falun Gong
   2. Modern paganism
      1. Wicca
   3. Satanism
   4. Spiritualism (movement)

Mythology

This section contains 110 articles.

For fictional characters from literature and folklore, see Arts: Fictional and legendary characters.

Mythology: General

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Folklore (Level 2)
2. Myth (Level 3)
   1. Comparative mythology

By culture

This section contains 10 articles.

1. Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology
2. Chinese mythology
3. Egyptian mythology
4. Greek mythology (Level 3)
5. Japanese mythology
6. Korean mythology
7. Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
8. Norse mythology
9. Persian mythology
10. Roman mythology

Abrahamic mythology

This section contains 18 articles.

1. Abraham (Level 3)
2. Adam and Eve
   1. Cain and Abel
   2. Lilith
3. Daniel (biblical figure)
4. David
5. Elijah
6. Ezra
7. Isaac
8. Isaiah
9. Ishmael
10. Jacob
11. Joseph (Genesis)
12. Moses (Level 3)
13. Noah
14. Satan
15. Solomon
16. Yahweh

Egyptian mythology

This section contains 8 articles.

1. Amun
2. Anubis
3. Hathor
4. Horus
5. Isis
6. Osiris
7. Ra
8. Thoth

Hindu mythology

This section contains 7 articles.

1. Brahma
2. Ganesha
3. Kali
4. Krishna
5. Rama
6. Shiva
7. Vishnu

Greco-Roman mythology

This section contains 22 articles.

Greek mythological heroes

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Achilles
2. Aeneas
3. Amazons
4. Heracles
5. Odysseus
6. Perseus

Greek deities

This section contains 12 articles.

1. Aphrodite
2. Apollo
3. Artemis
4. Athena
5. Demeter
6. Hades
7. Hera
8. Hermes
9. Hephaestus
10. Poseidon
11. Titans
12. Zeus

Roman deities

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Jupiter (god)
2. Mars (mythology)
3. Minerva
4. Venus (mythology)

Chinese mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Jade Emperor
2. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
   1. Yellow Emperor

Mesopotamian mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Enki
2. Enlil
3. Inanna

Native American mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Coyote (mythology)
2. Great Spirit
3. Quetzalcoatl

Norse mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Odin
2. Freyja
3. Thor

Other mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

African mythology

This section contains 1 article.

1. Anansi

Central Asia mythology

This section contains 1 article.

1. Tengri

Shinto mythology

This section contains 1 article.

1. Amaterasu

Mythological creatures

This section contains 22 articles.

1. Legendary creature
2. Angel
3. Centaur
4. Death (personification)
5. Demon
6. Devil
7. Dragon
8. Fairy
9. Ghost
10. Giant
11. Jinn
12. Leprechaun
13. Mermaid
14. Minotaur
15. Pegasus
16. Phoenix (mythology)
17. Siren (mythology)
18. Sphinx
19. Unicorn
20. Vampire
21. Werewolf
22. Zombie

Mythological places

This section contains 4 articles.

1. Atlantis
2. El Dorado
3. Paradise
4. Utopia

Mythological items

This section contains 1 article.

1. Holy Grail