TIME CODES:

A 2000, B 1750, C 1500, D 1250,
E 1000, F 750, G 500, H 250, I 1,
J – 250, K – 500, L – 750, M – 1000,
N – 1250, O – 1500, P – 1750,
Q – 2000, R – 2250, S – 2500,
T -3000, U - 8,000, V - 10,000,
W - 20,000, X - 50,000,
Y - 100,000, Z - 200,000

 
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FAITH TYPES:

Primal religions

Buddhism

Christianity

Hinduism

Islam

Humanism

Philosophy

Chinese faiths

New religious movements NRM

Sikhism

Hebrew faiths

Shintoism

Jainism

Persian faiths

Esoteric

Primal Shamanism

1 - Z

350 million
4 billion

Primal Generic Pagans

2 - Z

500 million
8 billion

Primal African

3 - Z

150 million
3 billion

Primal Egyptian

4 - V

100,000
1 billion

Primal Bantu

5 - U

60 million
500 million

Primal Ashanti and Yoruba

6 - V

5 million
60 million

Primal Korean Shamanism, Muism, Cheondogyo

7 - V

Cheondogyo 1.3 million (S. Korea) 2.8 million (N.
200 million

Primal American Indian

8 - Y

100 million
1 billion

Caucases Paganism

9 - V

10,000
50 million

Primal Romany

10 - T

3 million
50 million

Primal Basque

11 - X

10,000
50 million

Primal Finno Ugric-Magyar-Siberian Shamanism

12 - Y

100,000
500 million

Primal Greek

13 - P

100,000
1 billion

Primal Roman

14 - M

100,000
1 billion

Primal Aboriginal

15 - Y

517,000
1 billion

Primal Maori

16 - F

500,000
5 million

Primal Slavic

17 - V

10 million
Half a billion

Primal Kahuna

18 - G

200,000
2 million

Primal Bon

19 - V

200,000
5 million

Primal Phoenician and Canaanite

20 - U

5000
50 million

Primal Babylonian and Assyrian

21 - T

5000
60 million

Primal Norse, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon

22 - V

250,000 approx.
500 million

Primal Witchcraft,Wicca,Dewinaeth

23 - Y

1 million
200 million

Buddhism Theravadin

24 - L

200 million
1 billion

Buddhism Mahayana

25 - K

300 million
1.8 billion

Buddhism Tantra, Vajrayana

26 - J

80 million
450 million

Buddhism Zen, Chan

27 - H

18 million
300 million

Neo-Buddhism Meta-Mahayana

28 - B

5 million
20 million

Primal Druidry

29 - V

10,000
100 million

Primal Sumerian

30 - V

5,000
10 million

Primal Etruscan

31 - U

10,000
10 million

Primal Yezidis

32 - T

800,000
5 million

Christian Orthodox

33 - I

300 million
3 billion

Christian Mandaeans

34 - I

70,000
500,000

Primal Central Asian, Siberian, Turkic and Mongolian

35 - Y

50 million
1 billion

Chinese Taoism: Tao-Chia (Philosophical)

36 - T

2 Million
200 million

Chinese Taoism (Tao-Chiao) Religious

37 - V

75 Million
3 billion

Chinese Confucianism

38 - K

5 Million
3 billion

Chinese Legalism

39 - K

50,000
1 million

Chinese Neo-Confucianism

40 - E

50 Million
500 million

Chinese Mohism

41 - K

500
25,000

Judaism Samaritans, and Karaite

42 - Q

654 Samaritans 30,000 Kariates
1 million

Christian Roman Catholic

43 - I

2000 million (2 billion)
8 billion

Christian Anglican

44 - I

77 million
700 million

Christian Evangelical

45 - I

300 million
One billion

Christian Quaker

46 - C

360,000
5 million

Christian Unitarian Universalism

47 - B

800,000
50 million

Christian Methodist

48 - B

75 million
250 million

Christian Gnostic

49 - I

1 million
9 million

Christian Rosicrucian

50 - C

400,000
2 million

Christian Lutheran

51 - C

66 million
500 million

Christian Coptic and Ethiopian

52 - I

5 million copts; 10 million Ethiopians;
3 billion

Christian Ecumenical

53 - I

1 billion in member churches of the World Council
5,881 million

Christian Philosophical

54 - I

750,000
5 million

Christian Humanist

55 - I

50 million
500 million

Christian Protestant

56 - C

650 million
2000 million

Christian Baptists, Mennonites, Anabaptists

57 - C

40 million
400 million

Christian Presbyterian

58 - C

48 million
500 million

Philosophy Pre-Socratics

59 - M

100 million
1000 million

Judaism Orthodox, Modern Orthodoxy, Religious Zionism

60 - Q

2 million
1 thousand million

Hinduism Sanatan Dharma, Vedic

61 - V

50 million
500 million

Hinduism Yoga

62 - Q

100 million
500 million

Hinduism Brahma, Vedanta

63 - P

90 million
1 billion

Hinduism Vishnu

64 - K

200 million
3 billion

Hinduism Shiva

65 - V

200 million
3 billion

Hinduism Tantric

66 - V

25 million
100 million

Hinduism Gandhian

67 - B

28 million
50 million

Humanism Atheism

68 - K

10 million
100 million

Humanism Classical

69 - K

100,000
100 million

Humanism Renaissance and Early Modern

70 - D

100,000
100 million

Humanism Evolutionism

71 - B

1.5 billion
3 billion

Humanism Marxism and Dialectical materialism

72 - B

90 million
900 million

Humanism Psychological theorists and practitioners

73 - L

80 million
500 million

Humanism Modern

74 - C

150 million
500 million

Humanism Scepticism

75 - K

10 million
500 million

Humanism Agnosticism

76 - K

400 million
1 billion

Philosophy Socratic

77 - K

10 million
100 million

Judaism Reformed, Reconstructionist, Conservative

78 - B

8.5 million
500 million

Hinduism Modern

79 - B

270 million
900 million

Islam Sunnism

80 - G

800 million
4 billion

Islam Shiiism

81 - G

400 million
3 billion

Islam Ismaeli

82 - G

30 million
500 million

Islam Sufism

83 - G

300 million
1 billion

Islam Philosophical

84 - G

300 million
1 billion

Islam Druze

85 - E

500,000
50 million

Islam Wahhabism

86 - B

75 million
300 million

Islam Gnostic

87 - G

100,000
5 million

Jainism Digambara

88 - K

10,000
1 million

Jainism Shvetambara

89 - K

4 million
500 million

Shintoism Philosophical

90 - V

20 million
200 million

Shintoism Religious

91 - V

40 million
I billion

NRM Guirdjieff and Ouspensky

92 - B

50,000
500,000

NRM Rajneesh

93 - B

10,000
100,000

NRM Reiki

94 - B

80,000
200,000

Philosophy Platonism

95 - K

200,000
50 million

Hebraism Kabbalah, Essene, Philosophical and Secular Judaism

96 - V

5 million
50 million

NRM Spiritualism

97 - B

5 million
150 million

NRM Scientology

98 - B

5.6 million
80 million

NRM Japanese, Chinese and East Asian

99 - B

20 million
150 million

NRM New Thought

100 - B

7 million
100 million

NRM Baha'I Faith

101 - B

10 million
100 million

NRM Santo Daime

102 - B

75,000
5 million

NRM Santeria (Lucumi) and CandomblΓ©

103 - B

100,000 Santerias (approx); 500,000 (approx) Cand
10 million

NRM Voodoo, Voudun

104 - B

500,000
25 million

NRM Cosmism and Ufology

105 - B

500,000-2 million plus
15 million

NRM Satanism

106 - I

10,000
200,000

NRM Thelema

107 - B

25,000
100,000

NRM Radhasoami (Sant Mat), Eck and Neo- Sikh

108 - B

520,000
2 million

NRM Eclectic Goddess worship, hippies and neo-pagan

109 - B

1 million
3 million

NRM New Age

110 - C

1 million
10 million

Sikhism Religious

111 - D

15 million
100 million

Sikhism Philosophical

112 - D

8 million
30 million

Philosophy Aristotelianism

113 - K

500,000
40 million

Philosophy Pythagoreanism

114 - L

100,000
8 million

Sikhism Namdhari

115 - D

500,000
5 million

Esoteric Freemasonry Grand Orient, Carbonari

116 - B

1 million
5 million

Esoteric Freemasonry Deist

117 - C

2 million
10 million

Esoteric Freemasonry Co-Masonry and women

118 - B

500,000
2 million

NRM Miscellan., A Course in Miracles, Channelling, Spiritual Healing, Geomancy and Earth Energies, Psychic Archaeology, Angels, Parapsychology, Crop Circles, etc.

119 - B

2 million
10 million

Mithraism, Mazaznan, Ilm-e Khshnoom

120 - M

50,000
5 million

Manicheanism and Mazdakism

121 - I

100
2 million

Zoroastrianism

122 - P

150,000
100 million

Esoteric Theosophy

123 - I

1 million
10 million

Esoteric Alchemy

124 - K

2,000
500,000

Esoteric: Miscellaneous: Alice Bailey, Astrology, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Tarot, Hermeticism, etc.

125 - B

30,000
1 million

Esoteric Transpersonal and Integral and Noetic Sciences, Transpersonal History

126 - B

7 million
14 million

Esoteric Anthroposophy

127 - B

50,000
4 million

Philosophy Miscellaneous

128 - K

500,000
10 million

Philosophy Comparative

129 - K

50,000
5 million

Philosophy Deism and Theism

130 - Q

500 million
3 billion

Philosophy Idealism and Process Philosophy

131 - K

100 million
2 billion

Philosophy Kantianism

132 - B

25,000
1 million

Christian Mormon Church

133 - B

11 million
50 million

Christian Jehovah’s Witnesses

134 - B

16 million
50 million

Christian Rastafarianism

135 - B

5 million
15 million

Christian Unification Church

136 - B

3 million
9 million

Christian Mystical, Esoteric and Kabbalistic

137 - I

20 million
200 million

Christian liberation theory

138 - B

2 million
20 million

Christian Shamanic, and miscellaneous.

139 - I

200,000
50 million

Christian Contemplative and Teaching Orders

140 - I

1 million
60 million

Christians Pacifists and Irenicists

141 - I

25 million
100 million

Philosophy Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Structuralism and Post- modernism

142 - B

3 million
4 million

Philosophy Hegelianism

143 - B

75,000
2 million

Philosophy Aestheticism and Romanticism

144 - Y

500 million
2 billion

Philosophy Personalism and Spiritualism

145 - B

500,000
2 million

Philosophy Pragmatism

146 - B

500,000
1 million

Philosophy Logicism, Analytical, Linguistic, Logical realism & positivism

147 - K

2 million
10 million

Philosophy Feminism / Masculinism, Gender Studies

148 - Z

50 million
1 billion

Philosophy Existentialism

149 - K

5 million
50 million

Philosophy Eco-philosophy

150 - K

5 million
50 million

Philosophy Epicureanism

151 - K

1 million
50 million

Philosophy Stoicism

152 - J

5 million
150 million

Philosophy Secularism

153 - K

500 million
1 billion

Philosophy Materialism

154 - K

50 million
500 million

Philosophy, physics, electronics, computers and information theory

155 - K

2 million
20 million

Philosophy, chemistry, biochemistry, cuisine

156 - K

2 million
20 million

Philosophy, philosophy of science, general systems theory

157 - K

2 million
50 million

Philosophy and mathematical theory

158 - T

2 million
20 million

Philosophy, biology, medicine, healing, sport and sexology

159 - Q

500 million
2 billion

Philosophy and cosmology

160 - J

15 million
100 million

Philosophy romanticism

161 - I

25 million
1 billion

Philosophy and social sciences

162 - K

30 million
150 million

Philosophy and economics

163 - K

30 million
200 million

Philosophy, anthropology, archaeology

164 - C

200,000
2 million

Philosophy, and political theory and practice

165 - K

30 million
400 million

Philosophy and peace theory and philosophy of law

166 - T

20 million
1 billion

Philosophy, education, academia and scholarship

167 - T

50 million
1 billion

Philosophy and humanities

168 - M

20 million
300 million

PERIODIC TABLE OF THE WORLD’S RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS - by Dr. Thomas C. Daffern, Director, IIPSGP – www.educationaid.net  www.lulu.com/iipsgp (Copyright 2009)

 

TIME CODES:

A 2000, B 1750, C 1500, D 1250, E 1000, F 750, G 500, H 250, I 1

J – 250, K – 500, L – 750, M – 1000, N – 1250, O – 1500, P – 1750, Q – 2000, R – 2250, S – 2500, T -3000, U - 8,000, V - 10,000, W - 20,000, X - 50,000, Y - 100,000, Z - 200,000

KEY:

NRM = New Religious Movement

Esoteric = concerned with innermost teachings

Primal = religions dating from oldest period of human history

Humanist  = emphasis on human capabilities and reserved about God/Deities

COLOURS:

Light Green – Primal religions, Red – Buddhism, Light blue – Christianity, Bright yellow – Hinduism, Jade Green – Islam, Orange – Humanism, Light Yellow – Philosophy,

Purple – New religious movements NRM, Pink – Chinese faiths, Yellow Brown – Sikhism, Peach – Hebrew faiths, Green – Shintoism, White – Jainism, Light Purple – Persian faiths, Yellow Ivory – Esoteric

 

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