Thanks for all the suggestions! I've now incorporated all of the last minute changes, which you can see here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bMyAjaRl0suukZs.html You can also get the poster here: usefulcharts.com/products/world-religions-family-tree

Sikhism was not influenced by islam but fought against them. They were considered hard core enemies.

My only suggestion would be to try to squeeze in Sikhism in the "number of adherents" section in the upper left, just given its size. Other than that, looks like a great product that'll hopefully grace my wall soon!

As a Brazilian, I always feel "World Religions" maps and charts seem to neglect Candomblé and Umbanda, which are HUGE here in Brazil, with literally millions of followers, mostly African Brazilian, but many mixed race, white and indigenous people too. I'd put it, close to Voodoo, under "West African folk religions," because both Candomblé and Umbanda are mostly modeled after Yoruba religion (which as far as I am aware has also influenced African American spirituality in some ways), but some other big influences are obviously Brazilian Christianity (a mix of Catholic and Evangelical), and Alan Kardec's version of Spiritualism, which is also one of Brazil's maior religions (edit: I just got to the part of the video where you talked about Spiritism! Brazil mentioned 🇧🇷). The chart is looking great! Love it so much ❤

I'd love to see more content covering folk religions in Africa, the Americas and Australia. They're obviously very diverse but even just learning about one example from each would shed a lot of light on whole worlds of culture we don't normally see.

I have a suggestion to perhaps try to squeeze "Baltic Paganism" among the various branches of "European Paganism" derived from the Indo-European Polytheism, seen at 6:13 (that would make six main ones of them). Let's not forget that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was one of the largest realms of the late-Medieval period, in which a significant portion of the population *and the ruling elite and dynasty* openly practiced Paganism until 1386! Centuries after most of Europe was baptized.

URGENT CORRECTION**** you forgot to add “Wokeism” to western esoteric religions!

As an Indian and an Jain, I would like to give a few suggestions and point out a few mistakes in the chart: •1) The word "shraman" श्रमण doesn't mean "seeker". I refers to those who believe in working [for emancipation]. •2) Don't use the word "nastik" नास्तिक for shramans. Jainism considers the word derogatory and in appropriate for describing shramans. Just because the Jain lords who are believed by us to attained emancipation and to be only omniscient & not omnipotent doesn't mean that Jains do not consider them gods. The motive of worship in Jainism is just to show gratitude. •3) If the chart is chronological then it would be much more accurate to show Jainism as contemporary to Vedic religion as the first Jain lord with historical evidence was Lord Parshvanath who lived from 872BCE to 772BCE. Similarly, Buddhism shall be shown as a contemporary to Bhramanism as he lived around the same time. •4) The Shraman movement should not be depicted as seperating from Vedic religion but rather as a contemporary. The shraman movement had numerous philosophies in common with Vedic religion but neither came from the other.

Don't know how "glaring" an omission it is, but I didn't hear Pastafarianism or the Great Spaghetti Monster, Bless His Noodly Appendages, mentioned. And, frankly, I wanted to see where you'd put them on the chart. My guess is under the various esoteric and NewAge traditions.

So happy to see another incredibly USEFUL chart! Thanks for this.

I Feel like Austronesian religions are connected enough and cover enough of the globe to get a mention

Hey Matt, your work has been absolutely helpful in getting to know my community and other communities. This has been massively educational love the entire religion playlist and I'm looking forward to re-watching them and re-learning them as it is key important in my coaching business thank you so much for your effort. Looking forward to buying few charts to hang on my room soon.

This is an incredible achievement, Matt Thanks for all your work 🙏🔥

I agree it does seem a shame to leave out Sikhism from the following ranking on the left as it might imply that Sikhism is a smaller religion than Judaism or subset of of one of the other large religions. Im not sure how many other religions in your "other religion" category are also distict and bigger than Judaism but it seem reasonable to keep the resolution of that ranking part on the left consistent if possible and show the size of religions with 10 million or more followers?

When you said Falun Gong, it clicked in my head "Oh those are the Shen Yun Chinese." I've seen their fliers when they passed them out around Christmas time and asked to leave some for customers when I worked at a autopart store. Also, when you were talking about Voodoo dolls not being used in Voodoo, I looked it up and found a quote from a/the Louisiana Voodoo high priest in 2020: "It blows my mind that people still believe Voodoo dolls are relevant to Voodoo religion. Hollywood really did us a number. We do not stab pins in dolls to hurt people; we don't take your hair and make a doll, and worship the devil with it, and ask the devil to give us black magic to get our revenge on you. It is not done, it won't be done, and it never will exist for us." It's kinda funny, because it leaves open possibility that it could be done, they just don't or won't.

Thank You~~! I really appreciate ALL of your work. All best to you and yours! 🕊️

Baha’i checking in! No issues here. Happy to be included. “…religious truth is not absolute but relative, that Divine Revelation is a continuous and progressive process, that all the great religions of the world are divine in origin, that their basic principles are in complete harmony, that their aims and purposes are one and the same, that their teachings are but facets of one truth, that their functions are complementary, that they differ only in the nonessential aspects of their doctrines, and that their missions represent successive stages in the spiritual evolution of human society.” - Baha’i Writings

I think Rastafarianism should at least get a mention. There are nearly 1 million adherents and has been quite influential. If Anton Lavey's "church" gets a slot, I believe rasta should as well.

Thank you for yet another fascinating chart and video! I don‘t know if I‘ve missed it, but I didn‘t see any mentioning of folk religions from Australia and Oceania. These would also make for interesting video topics on their own IMHO

even if it was brief, i appreciate so much how you mentioned thelema without sensationalising it! i love this channel, a very exciting and easy-to-follow source of knowledge ❤

I’m really excited for the evolution and classification of life chart! I bought the old a long time ago and will probably be buying the new one once you make it

As a former Mormon, I'd point out that you could draw a dotted line from Freemasonry to Mormonism - the Mormon temple ritual is copied pretty directly from Masonic initiation rituals (and this influence is very well documented historically). There's also an argument to be made for influence from swedenborgianism, based on a lot of theological similarities, but there's not as much evidence/documentation for that connection. Also, you could potentially add some Japanese new religious movements stemming from Japanese syncretism, like Tenrikyo, but I understand they might be too obscure to warrant inclusion.

Excelent poster and video as always! I'd only suggest maybe adding Umbanda and Candomblé, which are perhaps the biggest Afro-Brazilian religions that had a lot of history and are sometimes connected to Cristianism and Kardec's Spiritism.

Congrats! And thanks! Amazing, as always!

Dear Matt, thank you for your great work. I love the chart but was surprised that you didn't add Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy. That movement has its own schools, medicine, and way of doing agriculture and influences a great many people. There are even 123 Waldorf schools in the US.

Very excited to watch this!

Couple things I think would be interesting: A bit more detail on Zoroastrianism/Mazdayasna, including the two modern schools of thought (Traditionalists/Parsis and Reformists) Asatru as a specific example of Neopaganism in addition to Wicca, descended from Old Norse specifically Manichaeism, Jainism, and Mandaeism (Don't know if you already included them but I didn't see them when you panned over)

Nice video & I’ll like to order this chart soon for my Religious Studies classroom. Whilst it’s still being edited, I would like to point out & suggest that because you mention ✡️Judaism in this summary graph at 1:38 , you might as well also mention 🪯Sikhism above it - as the 6 Religions that we officially study in our core UK curriculum here includes Sikhism.

I find your descriptions of the charts so relaxing.

In hindsight it's obvious, but still interesting to think just how far those ancient Indo-European ideas spread. If they influenced Judaism then in turn Christianity, Islam and all the smaller groups. They obviously influenced Vedic religion which means Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and in turn Chinese Syncretism and Japanese Syncretism. That means some small part of the same idea "dna" ended up thousands of years later as stories about Thor and Odin in Norway, as well as some Buddhist teaching all the way in Japan or Thailand. That's an impressive span of both time and space!

i have called my self daoist or buddhist to so many people because i dont live in china but i am xuexue dao which is a form of what you labeled chinese syncratism, and this actually helps so much in explaining my beliefs to people, excellent work and thank you for the resource

A big advantage of this type of charts is that in addition to the textual information and its relationship to other information, its location is also information in itself. I understand and remember historical events much better if I can see them described visually. That's why I keep subscribing to your channel. As an improvement, I suggest a schematic rough vertical time axis along one side. In this way, you get a significantly better historical overview of when different religions arose. I see you have had this ambition but it can be better. Unfortunately, it won't be aesthetically more beautiful, but it will be more educational, which I think is more important. Perhaps new knowledge also emerges in the form of patterns and clusters when the text is moved around, for example that certain similar events happen at the same time or not in different religions, etc.

Hey, I love this poster! So glad that you put in so much effort for a really interesting and thoroughly researched tool that we can use. I for one, really wish that you would subdivide Native American religions, at least make a division for Mayan religions, since it has had an influence on the syncretism of some Carribean religions, such as santeria, vodou, and many Christian practices in Mexico and throughout the Latin American world. Also, very glad to see a mention to vodou, especially considering the impact traditional West African religions as well as Islam have played in Black culture in slavery and diaspora especially in the Carribean and the American South.

Perfect timing. Today is Eid and you have posted "world religion family tree". Eid Mubarak everybody❤

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Wake up babe new useful chart just dropped

This is eye candy. Your charts always amaze me.

After giving it some thought, what metric are you using for Shintoism? Around 70% of the Japanese population visit Shinto shrines and participate in forms of Shinto rituals, so there should be around 90 million followers of Shintoism appearing on the chart. This also often involves participating in both Shinto and Buddhist practices, "Born Shinto, Die Buddhist". However, I know some religion surveys only count people who are members of organized Shinto sects which is around 3% of the population, 4 million people. This leads to the rest of the population being listed mostly under No Religion and some as just Buddhist. It's a similar situation with Chinese Folk Religion, where they're often underrepresented in surveys due to different definitions of what constitutes "religion", with some estimates putting it as actually having over 1 billion followers. That being said, it would be interesting to see some detailed charts covering East Asian religions; some about Shinto sects, Chinese gods, Mu-ism, etc.

I love the video, even before watching it completely. 😊 Your videos are so clearly structured. It helps tremendously to understand. Thank you soo much! Would you maybe interested in making a chart/video about Eastern Christian religions? It is very interesting how Christianity progressed in Asia. For example, there was the Olive Tree Movement in Korea, and as far as I was able to research, the Unification Church, JMS, Shincheonji, World Mission Society Church of God and others developed from it. These Asian religions meanwhile spread throughout the world. I left Shincheonji after a decade being a member. And I wished I knew how this Church had developed. I love the way you neutrally speak about religions. I would be very grateful if you wanted to make a video or chart about these Korean denominations. I enjoy all your videos! You do great work!

Very nice chart! My suggestion is related to African Tribal Religions and the African Diaspora in Americas. Louisiana Voodoo is one kind of a class of synchretisms that is fairly common. Here in Brazil we have Candomblé and Ubanda, but I now that Cuba also has its own. It would be nice to aggregate these religions that share this common theme (synchretism + veneration of ancestors) Also, this is a very interesting topic: why synchretism happens? In this case, synchretism was used by slaves and ex-slaves to protect themselves from Christian majorities prejudice. But other synchretism may have other patterns. I would be happy to hear your thoughts about it. Keep up the good work!

Another great chart, Matt. If you make more tribal indigenous charts as mentioned, can you make one for Hawaiian tribes? There were many differing influences on the islands over the years, many from Polynesia, but depends on what time frame and reign. It would be interesting to have sorted and displayed in chart form. You might be able to reach out to Funder Hui to connect with organizational leaders and guest educators for original research sources.

Very nice work, as always! I was especially appreciative that modern esoteric movements such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Thelema found their way onto one of your charts. Slight correction on Aleister Crowley for future reference: Crowley is pronounced with a long 'o' as in "crow", or "holy", not like "ow" as in "cow". If you really want to dive down a rabbit hole sometime, do a chart focused on the various splinter groups from the Golden Dawn and Thelema specifically, some of which have become almost like religious denominations in their own right. I can help. ;)

Perhaps there should be some lines leading from Pre-Historic Religions to Chinese Polytheism and Folk Religions?

This has everything I wanted to know about religions of the world..! Great work 👍

A suggestion for a couple minor additions. If you're going to include Native American religions then I think you must also include "australian Aboriginal religions" and "Maori spirituality" as well. In the case of Aboriginal spirituality, it is the religions of the oldest living cultures in the world (60,000 years and counting) and has stories and myths that reliably date back at least 10,000 years. While I understand not wanting to go in-depth into more localised folk religions like the Native American religions and Aboriginal spirituality, not including the oldest living cultures' religions would be a misstep in my opinion.

I appreciate the massive research here immensely

Beautifully done! 🙌🏼

thank you for doing this.

Glad to see the origins of the Bhakti movement (the "four main denominations" of Hinduism) are corrected here, I made a comment about it on the Hindu denominations videos, but it was lost among comments, and I saw only one other comment making the same point and it also didnt get many likes.

Hi, I think it's incorrect to use the Pew research centers statistics for number of adherents of different religions, as it simultaneously overcounts Christians and undercounts Buddhism. Specifically it makes two mistakes, largely drawn from being christian-centric in it's methodology: 1. it only allows one person to be a member of one religion at a time. This is a clear problem as many of the worlds religions (especially Buddhism) are not mutually exclusive. Instead, it would be better if people could be double counted for multiple religions. 2. It bases Religious membership on "confession" and not actual practice. This inflates the number of christians (as many people on paper are Christian but do not practice it) and deflates the number of Buddhists, as very few people in the Buddhist countries would only describe themselves as Buddhists if they were monastics or actively practicing some kind of Buddhist discipline, and the vast majority of the population still take part in Buddhist rituals, for example in Japan almost everyone has a Buddhist funeral (the joke in Japan is that you're born Shinto, married a Christian and die a Buddhist). Nonetheless, in terms of spiritual beliefs the vast majority of people in Asia have religious beliefs shaped by Buddhism. The typical Chinese person believes more in the principles of Buddhism then the typical European in Christianity, and the popular culture of these countries is profoundly shaped by Buddhism (for example, a popular classic like Journey to the west in China is essentially a Buddhist parable, and every child reads it). I believe if you corrected for the above, much of Europe would shift from being described as "Christian" to being "non-religious", for example in France and Czechia a majority does not believe in the existence of a god. Likewise, I also believe the number of Buddhists might be closer to 1.5-2 billion, and Buddhism may in fact be the largest religion on earth, or number 2 to Islam. Importantly I'd have all practitioners of Chinese folk religion, Shintoism and steppe shamanism be double counted as Buddhists, and possibly some Hindus(eg in Nepal or South East Asia) as well.

I feel like neo-paganism should be split but I guess it's grouped due to space restrictions. Also fun fact, in Iceland, Ásatrúarfélagið is already the 5th largest religious organization, largest non-abrahamic religion, and ~1.5% of the population. While in other Nordic countries, denominations like Forn Siðr are also growing in popularity

Wow thankyou. I needed this but didn't know I needed this

Really interesting and good video! However here's some corrections about Shintō: Shinbutsu-shūgō is spelt and pronounced wrong in the video, and does not mean "God and Buddha School", it actually means "The Syncretism of Kami and Buddhas" Calling the Kami, "Gods" is an extremely bad translation and gives people ideas that simply aren't true. Additionally, Shintō also has a few very distinct forms: 1. 神社神道 (Jinja Shintō)/Shrine Shintō, Shintō based around Shrines, the most common form of Shintō 2. 教派神道 (Kyōha Shintō)/Sect Shintō, Based around different sects and much more formalized compared to Shrine Shintō, they're are currently 12 widely accepted sects. Some stem from just Shintō, others Shinbutsu-shūgō, and a few a syncretism of Confucianism and Shintō 3. 国家神道 (Kokka Shintō)/State Shintō, the state mandated form of Shintō that existed from the Meiji until US Occupation, where the Japanese Government took control of Shintō and presented it as a moral ideology that was patriotic, not a religion which is why most of the country doesn't acknowledge Shintō as a religion now. The religion of Shugendō could also be argued to have stemmed from Shinbutsu-shūgō

I would like to see more dates. One example would be the date of the establishment of theosophy, which is not on the chart but you mentioned. Another would be Hinduism and Judaism, which are listed side-by-side; in my mind this would indicate simultaneous beginnings. Therefore I would just suggest indicating the dates for things were there are currently no dates. I appreciate your work. I do wonder where your charts come laminated. I confess I have not looked to find out but I am considering getting some to use in my classroom.

I was waiting so long for this, Thanks. Thank you so much!

Bravo!! 👏👏👏 This series was... a masterpiece, to say the least. Perfectly unbiased, like all scholarly works should be.

How about making some smaller posters, to go with your shorter trees (e.g. Mesopotamian Gods Family Tree) - or maybe combine a other charts into one, similar to what you've done here... (e.g. Mesopotamain>Egyptian>Greek>Roman Gods). Love your work btw. PS - Do you have any charts on Philosophy/Philosophers...?

❓ PHILOSOPHY-MORALS-VALUES chart? Eastern social/community values vs western individualism? Perspectives on human existence, morality, and the relationship between individuals and their respective cultural contexts… EAST: Collectivism, interdependence, authority/elders, harmony/balance. WEST: Individual rights, freedom/rights, expression, meritocracy, critical thinking/judgement, equality, justice. SCHOOLS: dualism, existentialism, utilitarianism, rationalism/empiricism, pragmatism, liberalism, hedonism, natural law theory, egoism/altruism, libertarianism, social contract theory, Marxism, postmodernism, etc.

I'd suggest to add Legalism and Mohism (some of the earlier shools) influencing later Confucianism, then moving on to Neo-Confucianism and lastly New Confucianism

This was awesome, thank you

I don't disrespect other religions but why hinduism ia different because These 27 points will describe what is special about being a Hindu:- 1) Believe in God ! - Aastik - Accepted 2) Don't believe in God ! - You're accepted as Nastik 3) You want to worship idols - please go ahead. You are a murti pujak(idol worship) 4) You dont want to worship idols- no problem u can focus on Nirguna Brahman. 5) You want to criticise something in our religion. Come forward. We are logical. Nyaya, Tarka etc are core Hindu schools 6) You want to accept beliefs as it is. Most welcome. Please go ahead with it. 7) You want to start your journey by reading "Bhagvad Gita"- Sure ! 8) You want to start your journey by reading "Upanishads" - Go ahead 9) You want to start your journey by reading "Purana"- Be my guest. 10) You just don't like reading Puranas or other books. No problem my dear. Go by Bhakti(devotion) tradition. 11) You don't like idea of Bhakti(devotion) ! No problem. Do your Karma(moral duty) Be a karmayogi. 12) You want to enjoy life. Very good. No problem at all. This is Charvaka Philosophy. 13) You want to abstain from all the enjoyment of life & find God - let's go ! Be a Sadhu, an ascetic ! 14) You don't like the concept of God. You believe in Nature only - Welcome. (Trees are our friends and Prakriti or nature is worthy of worship). 15) You believe in one God or Supreme Energy. Superb! Follow Advaita philosophy 16) You want a Guru. Go ahead. Receive gyaan(knowledge). 17) You don't want a Guru.. Help yourself ! Meditate, Study ! 18) You believe in Female energy ! Shakti is worshipped. 19) You believe that every human being is equal. Yeah! You're awesome, come on let's celebrate Hinduism! "Vasudhaiva kutumbakam" (the world is a family) 20) You don't have time to celebrate the festival. Don't worry. One more festival is coming! There are multiple festivals every single day of the year. 21) You are a working person. Don't have time for religion. Its okay. You will still be a Hindu. 22) You like to go to temples. Devotion is loved. 23) You don't like to go to temples - no problem. You are still a Hindu! 24) You know that Hinduism is a way of life, with considerable freedom. 25) You believe that everything has God in it. So you worship your mother, father, guru, tree, River, Prani-matra, Earth, Universe! 26) And If you don't believe that everything has GOD in it - No problems. Respect your viewpoint. 27) "Sarve jana sukhino bhavantu " (May you all live happily) This is exactly the essence of Hinduism, all inclusive .. That is why it has withstood the test of time inspite of repeated onslaught both from within and outside, and assimilated every good aspects from everything . That is why it is eternal !!!. "Ano bhadrah Krathavo Yanthu Vishwathah" Let the knowledge come to us from every direction. Anyone who wanted to copy this message they can use "universal copy" app available on playstore for free.

This is an awesome chart. You might want to add Santeria, a concoction of Catholicism and W. African Vodun that arose in Latin America.

I think you should add Tantra as well and how it reformed/influenced Hinduism (and its various sects), and Vajrayana Buddhism along with some minor influence on Jainism. I mean, it's influence on Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism is more than enough to justify placing it here. Also, if possible, please include Baki Hinduism as well.

Love your work and definitely will buy this chart! I do have a few suggestions, if not too late for this edition: You might expand Confucianism to mention the Ru scholars of whom Confucius is the premier example, and also might mention neo-confcianism as a syncretism of Buddism and Taoism (Daoism?) within Confucianism (also, perhaps include the Analects on the chart somewhere?). Likewise, Taoism can be divided into a few main schools, e.g.: Orthodox Unity Taoism and Complete Perfection Taoism.

It would be cool if there was also some acknowledgment of Australian Aboriginals. They too have ancient religions and, I think their inclusion is important for chart like this when taking into account the world as a whole.

With regards to Sikhism, the more accurate connection to Islam would be through Sufism, as opposed to the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam. In particular the Chishti order of Sufism had a large influence on Sikhism via the teachings of Bhagat Farid, who is considered to be a founding father of the Chishti order. You can see this influence with the practice of langar, which was started by Bhagat Farid and was later adopted by Guru Nanak Dev Ji, as well as the 134 hymns written by Bhagat Farid that are included in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

Great video! This might just be an issue of not overcrowding the chart, but it might be nice to have more lines connecting smaller religions all the way to the larger ones that influenced them, like Shinbutsuhugo to Buddhism, Haitian Vodou to Catholicism, and Swedenborg to Christianity, etc. Also I noticed you don't have ancient Arabian religion influencing Islam like in previous charts.

The Yoruba religion of West Africa and the Orishas known as Iṣẹṣe is pretty popular, has more than 10 million adherents, and is not race restricted. Although like every other religion it has its ethnic origins.

About every gods were mortal in this chart except Hinduism of which indus valley civilization represents pashupatinath or lord shiva as main god . No origin of shiva is mentioned anywhere as he is considered swayambhu means self originated . He generated dance , hymn/sound or better say language which is sanskrit mother of all languages originated by sounds of his damru . He originated yoga . He was war lord , greatest of all gods and saved universe multiple times by drinking even poison which considered to end whole universe . Mahabharata and ramayana are greatest texts ever written followed by smritis , puranas , vedas and lot more . It dominates any another in every way , every other religion originates by any person who walked on earth and died and their followers carried out tht religion and start worshipping tht person . But Hinduism is centred and much more detailed . I'm really intrested in reading all major religion books and ancient texts . Every religion teaches good and we should follow all instead of being atheist or fighting over religions . I love each and every religion.

Hey! As always: I love this channel. On the subject of Freemasonry: I think it is more accurate to say that certain men joining the Freemasons and discovering that they were merely entering a fraternity and not getting lots of fancy spiritual learning and power (including Alastair Crowley) left Freemasonry disappointed and found a home in Theosophy. Freemasonry's influence on Theosophy is minimal. The influence of former Freemasons on Theosophy is significant. There's a difference. Plus, again as a Mason, I think it improper to list Freemasonry as a religion: it is a fraternity one of whose prerequisites for membership is a belief in God or (in some jurisdictions) a higher power. Freemasonry welcomes all men of faiths, without regard to their particular faith.

Eid Mubarak for all Muslim Brothers and Sisters on the day of this post

I notice one thing in Judaism. There's notes of the diaspora fleeing Europe to the US both west and east pre-holocaust, but no note of the diaspora fleeing the middle east/north africa/the mediterranean from 1920ish-1970ish (even still with the intifadas around year 2000, but in much smaller numbers). These sephardic and mizrahi groups did flee to the US and Europe in large numbers (well, large given the small % of survivors of the pogroms) and the numbers you'll find in census databases are less than what they should be because many of us (my family was one of those fleeing Egypt just before the muslim brotherhood took over who then "converted" to christianity) became Cryptojews. Cryptojews aren't documented because whichever family member was fleeing was forced to convert to Islam or Christianity but still practiced privately. All are sephardic or mizrahi (names for areas of the Jewish diaspora formerly spread across the SWANA area and spain), and many ended up in the US. It's also hard to see in the video since the movement is fast and the type is small in the poster link, but it seems you have Sephardic Jews listed essentially as a different sect or branch of Judaism along with a smaller branch for Mizrahim, as if these are separate religious sects and extinct. This is very incorrect. Neither refer to a type of practiced judaism (reform, conservative, haredi, orthodox, modern orthodox) but alongside Ashkenazim are just names to denote where in the diaspora the person/group are from. Jews are an ethnoreligious group, so an ethnicity and a religion, and outside of reform Jews and special cases....it's mostly a closed religion. For the ethnic side all Jews are one ethnicity, regardless of where their ancestors ended up scattered in the diaspora, and most will still be mostly Jewish either way if you were to gene test (the related gene markers are of course clustered next to other Levant groups). Sephardim, Mizrahim, and Ashkenazim (-im ending = plural) are all 1 ethnic group (Jewish) and 1 religion if religious, but Sephardim are those who fled/ended up in Spain and North Africa, Mizrahim are those who stayed put in the Levant and Persia or Yemen/the further middle east, and Ashkenazim are those who ended up in Europe.

Excellent video as always! I have a couple of suggestions for additions to this chart, but would probably work better as their own separate charts in the future. 1. An Expansion of the European Polytheism Denominations Chart that includes the old versions and their neopagan counterparts. With Non-Indo-European Polytheistic Religions included as well. 2. A Tengrist Denomination Chart. 3. A Gnostic Denomination Chart. 4. A Japanese New Religions Denomination Chart. 5. A Zoroastrian/Manichaeist/Yazidi Denomination Chart. 6. A Folk Religion Denomination Chart. 7. A Denomination Chart of Western Esotericism. 8. A Denomination Chart for Secret Societies. There are probably other ideas for denomination charts that I can't think of off the top of my head. But anything that could be conceived as a denominational chart would be a great video to see in my opinion.

I wish you would have created a poster just for the esoteric religions, and included more than just the few here. But other than that, good job with the Esoteric section! Had no idea L Ron Hubbard drew inspiration from Thelema as well.

Suggestions: Add a barcode you can scan on a phone for each religion that takes you to a web page with further information. Just an idea..

I would include the Yoruba religion from west Africa because of it's spread through Santería in Cuba, Florida and South America. It is international enough to be considered a world religion.

I’m dying to see this video. Thanks so much.❤❤❤❤

Chinese religion video series Sounds interesting. I’m all for it.

Tbh I do wonder about the term “tribal” in the context of African religions. Regardless of your intentions, that term is often perceived as implying a kind of primitivism. This may not be what you want to imply. Especially because lots of other societies and cultures, including several represented on this chart, could be described as tribal, it raises questions about why this term is only used to describe African religions other than Islam and Christianity.

Matt, while on the subject of World Religions, have you thought of making a comparison chart of religious Flood Myths (stories) and their relative timelines to each other?

I would add a line connecting Ancient Egyptian Polytheism to Greek Paganism and/or Ancient Philosophy given its massive impact and the degree to which it's actively referenced as an authoritative source within Greek Philosophy specifically (and since it's pretty easy to do given where they are in the chart).

Free masonry had a lot of influence on Mormonism, love the proximity your chart gives them

Matt's wife here. Fun fact: Matt struggles to say "pagan" correctly. He grew up in Nova Scotia and always says "peg-an" instead of "pay-gan." I can't help but laugh (just as he laughs at the remnants of Massachusetts/New York accent). If you listen, you can hear Matt slowing down on the word "paganism" to make sure he says "payg" and not "peg."

Finally someone acknowledging DR BR Ambedkar as Martin Luthier King Jr of India. I’m trying to explain this to American which is hard. They are soo similar to each others, there views, thoughts and ideas are soo similar even how they are remembered in history is similar and how they and their ideas have been shrunk down just to fight for minority is exactly same.

Matt Bakerrrrrrrrrrrrrr is back baby! :)

I love your content and charts! I recommend adding Australian Aboriginal Folk Religion, otherwise it feels like a continent is missing.

Eid Mubarak for all Muslim Brothers and Sisters on the day of this post!

Fantastic job again. A few suggestions to add, Georgian pagan religion which seems to see some revival, Tengrism since is an Eurasian steppe religion and Manichaeism the silk road religion which encompassed a large area of Asia and parts of Europe.

Great poster, well done.

Very very minor but maybe throw Baltic paganism in the European paganisms branch? Technically different and I feel like it deserves a mention since it lasted longer than the others

Sikh here. Thank you for not lumping Sikhism as “just another philosophy under the umbrella of Hinduism“ as Hindu Nationalists try to do today!

Absolutely love these videos

The only change I can recommend is for the neopagan section. There are now dozens of individual religions that fall under this general umbrella, but they can generally be lumped into one of three categories-wicca, druidry, or reconstructionist. I’ve already seen one suggestion for Ásatru/Heathenry and I’m sure there will be more, but it is just the largest of the recon faiths. Even though recons all practice extremely differently depending on culture of interest, we have a largely common framework we work from.

one more sufi order - Mevlevi, they are the ones everyone thinks of, the whirling dervishes. you also may want to add Santeria and Obeah near Vodou

In Cuba they practice Santeria very popular later, also Mexico something new is growing very popular but I forgot the name .

Still you need to do lot of research on Hinduism to understand its roots as it existed from 1000's of years.

Awesome video, awesome work, I love all the stuff you do. Just some things about the chart. I would argue the biggest influence on Israelite religion was the pre-existing Canaanite religion (stuff like Elohim as a name of God, the whole Leviathan thing, Asherah poles, and Hebrew as a language descending from Canaanite), and though it seems likely there were some Egyptians among the early Israelites, the extent to which they affected Israelite religion seems to be mostly unprovable, though I could be wrong about that. There was also a typo in Rosicrucianism. Other than that I don't really see any problems with the chart. Keep up the good work king.

Great chart! Have been looking forward to it and I'm very glad to see the additions & changes. One thing I'll point out for additional context is the Chinese religions sections. So, what we call Taoism is two things: Dàojiā & Dàojiào. The former is the philosophy expounded by Laozi & later Zhuangzi. The latter is a religious system synthesized from various earlier folk beliefs, Dàojiā, and importantly Yīnyángjiā (The Naturalist School). Much of what is modernly considered Taoist religious practice comes from Yīnyángjiā. This is interesting because these highly codified formulaic systems are in many ways directly in opposition to central Dàojiā concepts like, "going with the flow" (to oversimplify). At the same time, attempts to codify nature (influenced of course by other schools as well) led to Chinese alchemy, medicine, and other early sciences. (Similarly, there's no endemic term for the various things we group together as Confucian in the West. Rújiā would be the philosophical foundation upon which the other parts rely; Confucian philosophy," if you will. This is considered distinct to Confucian religious thought: Rújiào/Kǒngjiào.) It's also interesting to me that primers on the topic will always point out the big three, Taoism, Confucianism, & Buddhism, while skimming over Fǎjiā's (the Legalist School) significant influence on governance & culture. Fǎjiā in turn was influenced by Mòjiā (Mohism), Dàojiā, & Míngjiā (the School of Names). It was a period with a lot of thesis, antithesis, synthesis writings spreading around and all of the ones remembered by history were heavily influenced by who knows how many forgotten to time. The whole era is a fascinating topic. Mòjiā in particular had influence on everything else that it's definitely worth a dive into for anyone curious about philosophy. I also noticed that your map labels Japan as "other." It's a society in which people have adopted Shinto, Buddhist, and Western (and thus some pseudo-Christian) practices, without actually thinking/caring much about these as coming from "different religions." In my experience very few people cared about the actual concepts of the religions, or those who did were past midlife and/or part of a "clergy" as their profession. It's difficult to explain properly because religion is a very Western concept, honestly, that doesn't well fit either East Asia or South Asia (and I'm sure other places I'm not so familiar with as well). Also, it seems like you are disregarding the normal distinction made between polytheism and animism-which is fine, but should be mentioned if so.

Aboriginal australian tribal religions are definitely missing from the folk religion section.

I've been waiting for this one whoopieeeeeee 😎