The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, religion and religious beliefs:

This is a structured index of religion-related articles, Wikipedia articles on the general topic of religion.

Religious studies[link]

• Evolutionary origin of religions
• Evolutionary psychology of religion
• Anthropology of religion
• Cognitive science of religion
• History of religion
• Philosophy of religion
• Psychology of religion
• Sociology of religion

Religious concepts[link]

Religious belief[link]

• Theology
  • God
  • Agnosticism
  • Antitheism
  • Atheism
  • Deism
  • Deity
    • List of deities
  • Dualism
  • Henotheism
  • Immanence
  • Monism
  • Monolatrism
  • Nondualism
  • Monotheism
  • Nontheistic religions
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Pantheism
  • Polytheism
  • Post-theism
  • Theism
• Acosmism
• Angel
  • Demon
    • List of theological demons
    • Demonology
• Animism
• Doctrine
• Eschatology
• Esotericism
• Faith
• Free will
• Goodness and evil
• Gnosticism
• Holy Land
• Humanism
• Karma
• Mysticism
• Life after death
• Mythology
• Prophet
• Reincarnation
• Religious cosmology
  • Creation myth
• Religious Naturalism
• Sin
• Soul
• Spirituality
  • List of spirituality-related topics
• Shamanism
• Supernaturalism
• Tao
• Transcendence

Approaches to the beliefs of others[link]

• Exclusivism
• Inclusivism

Religious behaviour and experience[link]

• Meditation
• Nonviolence
• Pilgrimage
• Prayer
• Places of worship
• Religious war
• Ritual

Religion-specific topics[link]

African traditional and diasporic topics[link]

Ayyavazhi topics[link]

• List of Ayyavazhi-related topics
• History of Ayyavazhi
• Ayyavazhi scriptures

Bahá'í Faith topics[link]

• Bahá'í history
• Bahá'u'lláh
• The Báb
• `Abdu'l-Bahá
• Bahá'í teachings

Buddhism topics[link]

• Index of Buddhism-related articles
• Glossary of Buddhism
• History of Buddhism
• Gautama Buddha
• Buddhist texts
  • Pāli Canon
  • Mahayana sutras
• Branches of Buddhism
  • Theravada
  • Mahayana
  • Vajrayana
• Three Jewels
  • Buddha (the Teacher)
  • Dhamma (the Teaching)
  • Sangha (the Community)
• Basic concepts
  • Four Noble Truths
  • Five Aggregates
  • Three marks of existence
  • Dependent Origination
  • Karma
  • Rebirth
  • Saṃsāra
  • Nirvana
  • Noble Eightfold Path
• Practice
  • Morality
  • Meditation
  • Wisdom
• Attainment
  • Buddha
  • Bodhisattva
  • Arahant
• Buddhist monasticism
  • Monk
  • Nun
• Buddhist philosophy
• Cultural elements of Buddhism
• List of Buddhists
• Buddhism by country

Cao Dai topics[link]

Christianity topics[link]

• History of Christianity
• List of Jesus-related articles
• Religious texts
  • Bible
    • Old Testament
    • Deuterocanonical books
    • New Testament
    • Gospels • Epistles * Antilegomena
  • Book of Mormon
• List of Christian denominations
• Roman Catholicism
  • List of popes
  • List of saints
  • Roman Catholicism by country
• Eastern Christianity
• Protestantism
  • Protestantism by country
• List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
• Christianity by country
• Timeline of Christian missions

Hinduism topics[link]

• List of Hinduism-related articles
• History of Hinduism
• Hindu denominations

Islam topics[link]

• Index of Islamic and Muslim related articles
• History of Islam
• Muhammad
• Religious texts
  • List of Islamic texts
  • Quran - Sura - Ayat
    • Tafsir Qudsi - tafsir
    • Quranic literalism
    • Naskh
    • Asbab al-nuzul
  • Hadith
    • isnad - Ilm ar-rijal - Narrators of hadith
    • Matn
    • Hadith Qudsi
    • Hadith collections
      • Sahih Bukhari
      • Nahj al-Balagha
• Islamic schools and branches
  • Sunni
  • Shia
  • Sufi
  • Ahmadiyya
• Glossary of Islam
• Allah
  • Ninety-nine names of Allah
• Islam by country
• zakat
• salah
• Hajj

Jainism topics[link]

• History of Jainism

Judaism topics[link]

• Origins of Judaism
• List of Jewish history topics
• Jewish religious movements
• Israel
• Jew
• Jewish
• Judaism by country

Neopaganism topics[link]

• List of Neopagan movements
• Asatru
• Neoshamanism
• Wicca
• Witchcraft

New Age topics[link]

New religious movement topics[link]

• List of new religious movements

Open source religion topics[link]

Rasta topics[link]

• Mansions of Rastafari

Satanism topics[link]

• LaVeyan Satanism
• Theistic Satanism
  • Black mass
  • Conjuration
  • Deal with the Devil
  • Demonolatry

Shintō topics[link]

• Shinto sects and schools

Sikhism topics[link]

• History of Sikhism
• Sikh Gurus
• Sikh scriptures
  • Guru Granth Sahib
  • Dasam Granth
  • Bani - Gurbani
  • Chaupai (Sikhism)
  • Jaap Sahib
  • Japji Sahib
  • Mul Mantra
  • Sukhmani

Spiritism topics[link]

• History of Spiritism

Tenrikyo topics[link]

• Joyous Life
• Ofudesaki
• Osashizu
• Oyasama
• Tenri-O-no-Mikoto

Unitarian Universalism topics[link]

Zoroastrianism topics[link]

• Zoroaster
• Avesta

Irreligion topics[link]

• Agnosticism
• Antireligion
• Atheism
• Freethought
• Ignosticism
• Nontheism
• Religious skepticism
• Secular humanism

See also[link]

Religion portal

References[link]

External links[link]

• Studying Religion - Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion
• Full-text search engine - Searchable sacred texts of the major World Religions
• Patheos.com - Offers a comprehensive library with essays written by prominent religious scholars
• Guide to World Religions
• A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people.
• Religious tolerance
• The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College(2003)
• Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents.com (August 28, 2005) Retrieved December 22, 2005

Jordan B. Peterson is a tenured research and clinical PhD psychologist who currently teaches at the University of Toronto. He frequently appears on TVO on various topics. His research interests include self-deception, mythology, religion, narrative, neuroscience, personality, deception, creativity, intelligence and motivation.^[1] He is one of the two professors listed in the Arts & Science Students Union's Anti-Calendar rated as life-changing by students^[2].

Personal life[link]

Jordan Peterson has a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Alberta. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University. He taught at Harvard University as an Assistant and an Associate Professor before returning to Canada and taking a position at the University of Toronto. Peterson currently resides in Toronto.^[3] He grew up in Fairview, Alberta, Canada, a small town of 3000 people 360 miles northwest of Edmonton, Alberta. He resided in Montreal from 1985–1993, where he studied under the supervision of Dr. Robert O. Pihl and Dr. Maurice Dongier. From 1993–1998 he lived in Arlington, Massachusetts, while teaching and conducting research at Harvard. He has resided in Toronto since 1998.

Media appearances[link]

Dr. Peterson has appeared frequently on TVO on shows such as Big Ideas^[4][5][6][7] and The Agenda with Steve Paikin^[8][9], where he currently serves as a monthly essayist.^[10][11][12].

Works[link]

• Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (Routledge, 1999)

Online Projects[link]

Dr. Peterson has produced a series of online writing exercises, available at www.selfauthoring.com. These include the Past Authoring Program, a guided autobiography; two Present Authoring Programs, which allow the user to analyze his or her personality faults and virtues in accordance with the Big Five personality model; and the Future Authoring program, which steps users through the process of envisioning and then planning their desired futures, three to five years down the road. The latter program was used with McGill University undergraduates on academic probation to improve their grades.

The Self Authoring programs were developed in partial consequence of research conducted by James Pennebaker at the University of Texas and Gary Latham at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Pennebaker demonstrated that writing about traumatic or uncertain events and situations improved mental and physical health, while Latham has demonstrated that planning exercises that are personal help make people more productive.

See also[link]

• Eureka effect
• John Vervaeke
• Evan Thompson

External links[link]

• Jordan Peterson's homepage
• webpage for Peterson's book, Maps of Meaning
• webpage for Peterson's online therapeutic writing project

References[link]