Reference index
Sects and schools
325 entries across ten traditions. Each one records what the sources say, where they disagree, and how much of it has been read at first hand. Where a group has been declared heretical or proscribed, the declaration is recorded with its date and its author, and the group's own answer stands beside it.
These are research pages, not essays. John's writing is at Articles.
Islam
29 entries- Ahl-i Hadith
- Ahmadiyya
- Akhbari school
- Alevism
- Athari (traditionalist theology)
- Batriyya
- Dönme
- Ghulat
- Ibadi Islam
- Isma'ilism
- Jarudiyya
- Kharijism
- Maturidism
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- Mu'tazila
- Mubarakiyya
- Muslim Mission (W. D. Mohammed community)
- Nasiriyya (Zaydi)
- Nation of Islam
- Nation of Islam (Farrakhan reconstitution)
- Nukkar (Nukkariyya)
- Qasimiyya (Zaydi)
- Quranism
- Shafi'i school
- Shia Islam
- Twelver Shia Islam
- Usuli school
- Zahiri school
- Zaydi Shia Islam
Christianity
13 entriesJudaism
14 entriesHinduism
13 entriesBuddhism
14 entriesSikhism
3 entriesJainism
2 entriesZoroastrianism
4 entriesTaoism
13 entries- Daojia ("philosophical Daoism") as a distinct branch
- Huang-Lao
- Lingbao (Numinous Treasure)
- Nanzong (Southern Lineage of internal alchemy)
- Quanzhen dao (Complete Perfection)
- Shangqing (Highest Clarity)
- Shenxiao (Divine Empyrean)
- Taiping dao (Way of Great Peace)
- Tianshi dao (Way of the Celestial Masters)
- Tianxin zhengfa (Correct Rites of the Celestial Heart)
- Tongchu (Rites of Youthful Incipience)
- Yutang dafa (Great Rites of the Jade Hall)
- Zhong-Lü lineage
Confucianism
15 entries- Cheng-Zhu school (Learning of Pattern, lixue)
- Daoxue / Neo-Confucianism (Song-Ming lixue)
- Han Learning / kaozheng evidential scholarship
- Han state Confucianism and New Text (jinwen) learning
- Japanese Confucianism
- Kogaku (Ancient Learning)
- Lu-Wang school (Learning of Heart-mind, xinxue)
- Mencian current (Mengzi)
- New Confucianism (xin ruxue)
- Old Text (guwen) learning
- Qi-based current
- Shushigaku (Japanese Zhu Xi school)
- Xunzian current (Xunzi)
- Yōmeigaku (Japanese Wang Yangming school)
- Yongjia school (utilitarian statecraft)
Other traditions
205 entries- Abhayagiri
- Acintya-bhedābheda
- Advaita Vedānta
- Adventism
- Ahl al-Qur'an (Chakralawi movement)
- Aladura churches
- Amarapura Nikāya
- Amish
- Añcala-gaccha
- Anglicanism
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Assemblies of God
- Assyrian Church of the East
- Āṭh-koṭī
- Azariqa
- Bábism
- Baháʼí Faith
- Bahuśrutīya
- Bāīstolā
- BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
- Baptist tradition
- Barelvi movement
- Beizong (Northern Lineage of internal alchemy)
- Bektashiyya
- Bhāmatī school
- Bhedābheda
- Bīsapanth
- Bön
- Brahma Sampradāya (Mādhva)
- Caitika
- Caodong house
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Chan
- Charismatic movement
- Chinese exegetical lineages (Chengshi lun, Di lun, Pitan, She lun, Nirvāṇa tradition)
- Chishtiyya
- Christadelphians
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Christian fundamentalism
- Church of God in Christ
- Church of the Nazarene
- Churches of Christ
- Community of Christ
- Congregationalism
- DAV ('College') faction (Ārya Samāj)
- Dawoodi Bohra
- Deobandi movement
- Dhammayuttika Nikāya
- Ḍhuṇḍiyā (Lavjī branch)
- Drāviḍa-saṅgha
- Druze
- Dvaita
- Eastern Catholic Churches
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
- Ekavyāvahārika (incl. Lokottaravāda)
- Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
- Evangelicalism
- Exclusive Brethren
- Fasli calendar community
- Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism (Caitanya movement)
- Gelug
- General Baptists
- Global Methodist Church
- Gurukula faction (Ārya Samāj)
- Hafizi Isma'ilism
- Holiness movement
- Huayan
- Hutterites
- Ilm-e-Khshnoom
- ISKCON
- Jetavana
- Ji-shū
- Jōdo-shū
- Kadam
- Kadmi calendar community
- Kagyu
- Kālāmukha
- Kānjī Svāmī Panth
- Kāpālika
- Kapancı
- Karakaş
- Kāśyapīya
- Kaukkuṭika
- Kegon
- Kermani Shaykhism
- Kharatara-gaccha
- Latin Church
- Liṅgāyat (Vīraśaiva)
- Linji house
- Longmen (Dragon Gate)
- Loṅkā-gaccha
- Lutheranism
- Madhyamaka
- Mahā Nikāya
- Mahāvihāra
- Mahīśāsaka
- Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
- Mar Thoma Syrian Church
- Maronite Church
- Mennonites
- Methodism
- Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum)
- Muhammad-shahi Nizaris
- Mūla-saṅgha
- Muni Ādi Sāgar 'Aṅkalīkar' lineage
- Muridiyya
- Mūrti-pūjaka
- Musta'li Isma'ilism
- Naqshbandiyya
- Nara six schools (Kusha, Jōjitsu, Sanron, Hossō, Kegon, Ritsu)
- Nāth Sampradāya
- National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
- New Apostolic Reformation
- Nichiren school
- Nichiren Shōshū
- Nichiren-shū
- Nizari Isma'ilism
- Northern Celestial Masters
- Nyingma
- Ōbaku
- Oneness Pentecostalism
- Open Brethren
- Orthodox Baháʼí Faith (Remey line)
- Orthodox Church of Ukraine
- Pārśvacandra-gaccha
- Particular Baptists
- Pāśupata
- Pentecostalism
- Pietism
- Plymouth Brethren
- Prajñaptivāda
- Pratyabhijñā
- Presbyterianism
- Pudgalavāda
- Pure Land
- Puṣṭimārga (Vallabha Sampradāya)
- Qadiriyya
- Qasim-shahi Nizaris
- Qumran community (the Yaḥad)
- Radha Soami Satsang Beas
- Rāmānandī Sampradāya
- Rāmañña Nikāya
- Reformed (Calvinist) tradition
- Religious Society of Friends
- Restorationism (Stone-Campbell movement)
- Rifa'iyya
- Rinzai
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Sādhāraṇ Brāhmo Samāj
- Safawiyya
- Śaiva Siddhānta
- Sakya
- Salvation Army
- Sāmmatīya
- Santi Asoke
- Śānti Sāgar 'Chāṇī' lineage
- Śānti Sāgar 'Dakṣiṇ' lineage
- Sanusiyya
- Sarvāstivāda
- Sautrāntika
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Shadhiliyya
- Shahenshahi calendar community
- Shwegyin
- Singh Sabha movement
- Siyam Nikāya
- Sōka Gakkai
- Sŏn (Korean Chan)
- Sōtō
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Spanda
- Śrī Vaiṣṇavism (Śrī Sampradāya)
- Sthānakavāsī
- Śuddhādvaita
- Sulaymani Bohra
- Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
- Taizhou school
- Tapā-gaccha
- Taraṇ Svāmī Panth
- Tayyibi Isma'ilism
- Tendai
- Teṉkalai (Southern school)
- Terāpanth (Digambara)
- Terāpanth (Śvetāmbara)
- Thiền (Vietnamese Chan)
- Thudhamma
- Tiantai
- Tijaniyya
- Trika (Kashmir Śaivism)
- Tristuti-gaccha
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- Vaḍagalai (Northern school)
- Vātsīputrīya
- Vibhajyavāda
- Vimala-gaccha
- Vinaya school (Lü / Ritsu)
- Viśiṣṭādvaita
- Vivaraṇa school
- Wahhabism
- Word of Faith movement
- Yakubi
- Yogācāra / Cittamātra
- Yunmen house
- Zhengyi dao (Way of Orthodox Unity)