Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion

WikiProject Religion aims primarily to organise, neutrally develop, and improve the series of articles on religion in accord with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. It also seeks to ensure NPOV across articles related to religion. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Scope
The scope of this project is all articles in the Category:Religion. Specifically, this project hopes to deal with all articles relating to the religious observances, rituals, and practices, the histories of such practices, and related biographical articles. (For articles dealing with the stories which often contribute to the development of such practices, please see WikiProject Mythology.) However, given the existence of several projects covering specific areas of the category, we will be placing the majority of our attention in the following areas:
 * (1) We will work to create, improve, and maintain those articles which deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense (God, theology, religion, etc.), as well as articles about specific religions which do not yet have projects which deal with them. This would include, but not be limited to, those listed on the List of religions, which do not clearly fall under the scope of any of the daughter projects below. As a rule-of-thumb guideline, this would include those faiths which have no existing projects and those articles whose content relates to at least three, non-overlapping, extant projects. Also, those articles about specific religions with extant projects which are of significant importance to one or more of the topics in the broad religion field, will be considered within the scope of this project.
 * (2) We will assist in the assessment of articles in the field of religion, particularly those articles which have not yet been assessed.
 * (3) We will try to assist in the maintenance of the Portal:Religion and other religion-related portals.

To do

 * Add all articles within the direct scope of this project to the WikiProject Religion/Articles list by category.
 * Contribute to Supernaturalism : Vote on Handling of Article Cleanup,
 * Check recent changes for recent changes to these articles.
 * Review WikiProject Religion/Encyclopedic articles and related pages for any topics which receive encyclopedic coverage in other sources which may not exist here yet.
 * Answer requests for comments
 * Check Category:Religion articles needing attention for any articles requiring immediate attention.
 * Provide assessments listed under "Requesting an assessment", following the project standards.
 * Improve current GA-class and A-class articles to FA standards so they may pass a featured article review.
 * Improve C-class, B-class or A-class articles to GA standards that have not passed a GA review.
 * Answer requests for experts: Category:Religion articles needing expert attention
 * A list of articles tagged by this project needing some variety of cleanup is available at WikiProject Religion/Cleanup listing.
 * Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of religious subjects and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people associated with religion
 * Sort out the article Priest shortage in the Roman Catholic Church. There's been a tag asking for experts on religion since 2009 and sources contradict each other about whether the numbers of Roman Catholics are increasing, remaining steady or decreasing.  There is also contradiction over the number of priests/seminarians.
 * Expanded the essay Myth versus fiction.

Improve the bird's eye view
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of religion and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):


 * 1) What's missing?
 * 2) Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
 * 3) Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Departments

 * Assessment
 * Our assessment department. We also now have a page at WikiProject Religion/Assessment/Top-importance articles where we may come to some degree of consensus as to which articles should be held as being of top importance to the project, and possibly concentrate some effort on them.


 * Deletions
 * The current list of Afd deletions can be viewed at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Religion.

Recognized content
See WikiProject Religion/Recognized content.

Templates
See WikiProject Religion/Templates

Work groups

 * Falun Gong work group
 * Interfaith work group
 * Left Hand Path work group
 * New religious movements work group
 * Religious Leaders work group
 * Unitarian Universalism work group
 * Philosophy of religion task force (work group of WikiProject Philosophy)

Potential work groups
Any religious group which does not clearly fall within the scope of one of the related religion projects could be considered as being one for which a work group could be created. Currently, the most apparent such groups would include the following.

These are considered "main topics" in the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, one of the most highly regarded reference works in the subject.
 * African traditional religion
 * Afro-American religion
 * Altaic religion
 * Ancient Near Eastern religions
 * Arctic religion
 * Australian Aboriginal religions
 * European religion
 * Germanic religion
 * Greek religion
 * Hellenistic religion
 * Indian religions
 * Proto-Indo-European religion
 * Inner Asian religion
 * Korean religion
 * Mandaeism
 * Mesoamerican religion
 * Mesopotamian religion
 * Native American religion
 * North American Indian religion
 * Prehistoric religion
 * Ancient Roman religion
 * Slavic religion
 * South American Indian religion
 * Southeast Asian religion
 * Thracian religion
 * Tibetan religion
 * Uralic religion
 * Religious phenomena
 * Sacred art
 * Relationship between religion and science
 * Sociology of religion
 * Sociology of religion

Groups on the following, more focused, topics, are also open to consideration:
 * Ascended Master Teachings
 * Aum Shinrikyo
 * Bön
 * Cao Dai
 * Chinese folk religion
 * Confucianism
 * Deism
 * Gnosticism
 * Hermeticism
 * History of religion – focusing on the development of religion from an academic perspective
 * Juche
 * New Age
 * Paganism
 * Platonism
 * Sant Mat
 * Sacred Feminine
 * Shamanism
 * Spiritism
 * Subud
 * Tenrikyo
 * Theosophy
 * UFO religion
 * Wicca

[[Image:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|20px]] Members
All interested parties should feel free to add their names below, and if they wish to add the User WPReligion, User WPReligion/Userbox 2 or to their userpages. Also, please indicate any fields of specific knowledge or interest if you see fit. We may in the future be interested in setting up subprojects, and it would be useful to know early if there is any interest in any particular fields.
 * 1) 47thPennVols Current focus on religion and spirituality in the U.S. Civil War with ongoing interest in multiple religions
 * 2) User:AD64 Focus on Buddhism and Hinduism.
 * 3) Bineet Ojha Focus on mainly Hinduism and other Dharmic religions.
 * 4) Bnaur Focus in Native American, NRM's, Cults, UFO Religions (Raelism), Mormonism Preceding signed by: Bnaur Talk 03:59, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) User:CycoMa1 I’m here to make sure articles on religion remain neutral and prevent original research.
 * 6) ChrisHigginson 18:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC +10)
 * 7) cab49ers5 18:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Jgilhousen 17:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Keesiewonder 00:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) --Sir james paul 18:15, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Nightngle - I'm interested in the project, but am having a hard time understanding the focus of this project, especially considering the proposed scope.
 * 12)  Human 3015  16:43, 27 March 2015 (UTC) - I'm interested in adding sincere criticism about religions.
 * 13) Kkrystian
 * 14) NinaEliza (talk • contribs • count • [/wiki/Special:Log?user= logs ] • email ) 01:41, 23 December 2006 (UTC)Whatever I can do to be of service - from copyediting to helping mediate a potential conflict, please let me know.
 * 15) WerewolfSatanist 18:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)- Well I've spent a ridiculous amount of time reading about Satanism in general and will offer my knowledge there if wanted. I've spent my time researching religion in general for awhile now and can offer my services when needed (though writing whole articles is beyond me right now).
 * 16) Devin Murphy 19:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)I’m interested in helping with the articles on Unitarian Universalism.
 * 17) Nina Odell 23:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)However I can be of service to the project and Tucker.
 * 18) Pgg7 Can help with Christianity, Anglicanism and some philosophical aspects of religion.
 * 19)  particular interest in Unitarian Universalism as well as other things.
 * 20)  ~ Kathryn NicDhàna  ♫ ♦ ♫ 00:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I can be useful in the area of ancient Irish and Scottish mythology/religion, and with Modern Celtic traditions.  Have a long background with Polytheistic reconstructionism, Paganism and Neopaganism, plus significant experience with some branches of Hinduism and various Afro-Diasporic traditions.  Have done some work on First Nations articles, and a bit on Unitarian-Universalist affiliates.
 * 21) Itsmejudith 15:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I've been working on Islam-related articles and am also interested in Taoism.Itsmejudith 15:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * , I am from the Zoroastrianism project and portal, following Badbilltucker's call for cooperation. I am happy to help if I can. Please leave a note on my talk page too. Shabdiz 19:03, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Cerevox 05:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Have a knowledge of Eastern Europe and Russian Mythology.  Have a very light knoledge of mythology for a large variety of places all over.  Happy to help out anywhere its needed though.
 * 2) Goldenrowley I am joining at the encouragement of Badbilltucker from a sister project, wikiproject mythology so we are all in the same page in goals. I've been doing a little side work on religious topics while tidying up mythology topics.  Goldenrowley 02:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3)  Captain panda   Mussolini ha sempre tarche   Sign Here  04:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC) I am part of WikiProject Mythology and thus I ended up reading something in the Project saying that we should also join this. So here I am. I am knowledgeable about Church History before 1500. In addition, I am also somewhat knowledgeable about Norse religion, especially the mythology of it.
 * 4) User:Aminz I have some knowledge of Islam and know a little about Christianity. I hope I can help.
 * 5)  ◄ Zahakiel ►  19:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC) I offer my services to this project; I have knowledge in areas including the Bible, Judeo-Christian religions, Eastern religion and folklore, Angels, Demons, and a number of Paranormal and Occult matters.
 * 6) User:Vassyana I am very familiar with theology and Christianity. I have a strong functional knowledge of Eastern religion in general and Daoism in particular. I possess a good familiarity with the general Occult scene and religions. Vassyana 09:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) --Destructo 087 22:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Misou 19:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Scientology article series.
 * 9) Chimakwa I've got a shiny new BA in Religious Studies and it'd be nice to use it for something more than resume filler.  I mostly focus on Christianity, Church History and unorthodox religious movements, but I have a good base of knowledge in world religions in general.
 * 10) Christophore 22:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC) Fairly extensive knowledge of ancient Roman religion.
 * 11)  Yahel   Guhan  05:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC) Main interest is Islam, but I also wish to focus on a secular view on all religions.
 * 12)  Wikidudeman  I'm interested in religion and its origin. I am not personally religious but am nonetheless interested in religious especially Abrahamic religions and Buddhism.
 * 13) Darkahn 13:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC) I have (light) knowledge on zen Buddhism, Demons, and a number of matters relevant to LaVeyan Satanism.
 * 14) Okelle okelle 18:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC) Interested in creating a paganism portal. I see a Wicca portal already exists. Paganism would encompass both Wicca and other non-Abrahamic traditions. I've set up the portal page already but want to connect with the larger  community, especially those with an interest in this field of study. Have experience with various branches of Wicca, Afro-Caribbean traditions, Unitarian Universalism, women's spirituality, solitary eclectic practice.
 * 15) User:Low Sea 03:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC) Eclectic religious knowledge base ranging from Judeo-Christian thru Neo-Pagan. Special interest in New Thought religions.
 * 16) ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 14:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC) I probably should have joined earlier, since my adding Noah's Ark to the Project "list of articles pertaining to more than three religions" two days ago while still a non-member, has actually been challenged by another non-member! I am interested in a wide variety of topics associated with Comparative Religion.
 * 17) Buddhipriya I mainly work on Hinduism articles and have great interest in promoting interfaith dialog. 18:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Til Eulenspiegel 12:51, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Would like to see much clearer policies with regard to style and formatting of all articles on religious topics, especially with respect to the adherents of these living religions and what they currently believe, and to counterbalance certain editors whose hostile agendas toward certain living religions is all too apparent, and who actively use their strength in numbers to prevent or minimize these articles from correctly stating what is actually believed by the adherents themselves.
 * 19) John Carter 01:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC) - Can assist in content relating to Christianity, and occasionally other subjects, like mythology, as well.
 * 20) George 18:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC) One of Jehovah's Witnesses. Familiar with Christianity, some 'paganism'. I would like to see some clear policies being set regarding all religious articles.
 * 21)  Christianity, Charismatic Christianity
 * 22) Blockinblox 12:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Ric27 16:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC) Sant Nirankari Mission
 * 24) SatuSuro 04:47, 30 June 2007 (UTC) - bits and pieces
 * 25) Neranei I will contribute when I can, hopefully.
 * 26) Shruti14 ( talk • contribs ) 19:31, 14 August 2007 (UTC) am a Hindu, will contribute when I can
 * 27) Phatius McBluff 07:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC) - Can help with articles dealing with Christian theology, Hinduism, comparative mythology, and a bit of non-Christian theology.
 * 28) Runehelmet (talk) 15:44, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 29) Angelo De La Paz: I am a Mahayana Buddhist but also a Taoist but I haven't taken Refuge of Three Jewels. I am making new articles of religious populations as List of religious populations, Christianity by country, Buddhism by country, Islam by country, etc... with some people!Angelo De La Paz 14:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) blahblah5555: I have an interest in the Latter Day Saint movement as well as other movements arising out of the Second Great Awakening.  I have also studied Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
 * 31) Saffron White Green 12:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) WDavis1911 10:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC) : Student of religious history, especially that of religions originating in the Middle-East.
 * 33) Konamaiki: Undergraduate in history, taking as many courses on religion as possible. Hoping to do graduate work in comparative religions. Specialty is Christian Theology, but with Korean Language and Japanese Language background I can help with Eastern Religion sources and translation.
 * 34) quasimodo2: I am a Wiccan pastor with a BS in Philosophy and MAIS in Religious Studies. I hope to add additional scholarly input to Religion articles throughout Wikipedia.
 * 35) Basilides/ούκ ών θεός 04:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC) : I've just begun to skim the surface of Sufism and am always interested in early Christianity, particularly Christian Gnosticism. I'm especially interested in the similarities that crop up between Sufism and Gnosticism. I own one (1) book by Henry Corbin on Ibn 'Arabī, because books pertaining to 'Arabī or written by Corbin are expensive and I am poor.
 * 36) -- Kevin Browning 07:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 37) Seenitall: I am interested in Religion in general. Druidism, Mithraism, Christianity, modern church history 1800's to present, cults, theology, Pentecostal, gnosticism, charismatic, Methodist, presbyterian, Calvinism, etc.  I am new to Wikipedia but not new to religion. I have a Phd in Theology.  3:14, 6 November 2007
 * 38) User:Lordjeff06: I'm mostly interested in religious history (primarily Christianity and Islam) as well as the role of religion in politics and ethics.
 * 39) User:Canutethegreat: I'm interested in religious history as well as religious mythology.
 * 40) UVXR (talk) 09:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC) Studied Cultural Anthropology. I am interested in Religious Humanism, Unitarianism, Unprogrammed Quakerism and Latin American Liberation Theologies
 * 41) User:IronCrow: Christianity and relations with other religions, such as Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism, Impact of religion on society or advancements of society.
 * 42) Peter Deer (talk) 11:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC): I have some knowledge of Abrahamic religions and a keen interest in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Daoism. I am particularly interested in Sufism and while my understanding of it is limited I'd love to have the chance to do some real investigative research into it. As a Baha'i I also of course hold an interest in pages on that subject. I'm also hoping to gain an expertise on the origins of the aforementioned religions.
 * 43) Writtenonsand 27 Jan 2008. - I'm interested in all religions and have a fair knowledge of most of them, however in honesty I must say that I'm unable to accept any supernatural metaphysics. But fear not: I do try pretty hard to adhere to Civility guidelines on Wikipedia and in real life as well.
 * 44) Mocu (talk) 19:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 45) Gr8opinionater
 * 46) Saimdusan - I do not believe in any religion (nor do I even hold any supernatural) beliefs, but I find religion and the history of religion fascinating. Talk|Contribs 23:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 47) Jesse James Shoot 01:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 48) World (talk) 00:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 49) Theories of religion and religious studies. Andries (talk) 22:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 50) Tyciol (talk) 01:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC) No specific field of specialty.
 * 51) AlexNebraska (talk) 22:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 52) Alexander Gieg (talk · contribs) April 30, 2008 - I'm a perennialist interested in all traditional religions. Enough said. :-)
 * 53) The Quill - A Christian who is interested in all of the Abrahamic religions. Has joined a number of the more specific wikiprojects such as Christianity and is currently trying to start WikiProject Abrahamic Religions.
 * 54) User:a pyrate's life for me...  I don't know much about religion, but I figured this would be a good place to learn and help wiki at the same time.  I'm willing to work on just about anything, but with summer coming, I'm not going to have much time to work on it. :(  But I'm going to do my best to contribute as much as I can anyway.
 * 55) Erik the Red 2 Anything, really.
 * 56) Bastet13 - I do not claim any one religion... I like to say I am all religions.  But the "theology" that resonates most with me and that I have 17 years of experience with is Paganism, specifically Wicca.  I've studied various pagan and/or "goddess" cultures, Egyptian, Sumerian, Celtic, Yoruba, etc.  I'm Jewish (by birth) and have read most of the Torah, as well as the King James Bible, and am pretty familiar with large chunks of it.  I love learning about religion, studying all the different amazing ways that people in this world worship their varying concepts of divinity.
 * 57) Sticky Parkin Interested in a lot of aspects of religion/spirituality.
 * 58) Ian Cheesman Interested in and knowledgeable in variety of topics including Kemetic religions, Native American religions, inter-religious cooperation, tolerance, etc.
 * 59) Totnesmartin (talk) interested in religion as a general topic. I used to be a Buddhist, now I'm a Neopagan. Other interests: creationism, religion and politics, interfaith, mythology, tea.
 * 60) Midnightblueowl (talk), I have an interest in all religions, though I am specifically a Wiccan, and my particular interest lies in the Neopagan, east Asian, and Indian faiths.
 * 61) Pastor Theo (talk) 01:51, 18 January 2009 (UTC) If I can be of help, please call on me. Pastor Theo (talk) 01:51, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 62) Scochran  The Creativity Alliance--scochran4 (talk) 14:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 63) - Voidz  (t·c) - Not religious but interested in Abrahamic religions.
 * 64) --Luigifan (talk) 23:43, 28 February 2009 (UTC) I'm a Roman Catholic and proud of it, but I'm very open-minded and tolerant of others' religious beliefs.  (After all, religious intolerance doesn't get anybody anywhere.  If you ask me, the Crusades were about 9  of the Catholic Church's biggest mistakes.)
 * 65) Enigmaticjew - I am mostly interested in Judaism but I do have experience and knowledge of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Bah'ai, and Hinduism
 * 66)  Religion  Authority  23:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 67)  Around The Globe  सत्यमेव जयते 10:23, 26 May 2009 (UTC) : My main concentration is WP Hinduism and WP Swaminarayan.
 * 68) Kerim Fahme 04:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC) - I am a man of reason not faith. And to my big surprise, only Jesus hints, found in the New Testament, help me answer logically ALL the important questions about my personal nature and existence. So I may call myself 'a Christian by reason' (not by faith).
 * 69) Kebeta 13 June 2009 (UTC) - A believer who is interested in all religions, primarily because of arhitecture and history of holy places, especially on Balkans.
 * 70) AlphaLobo: I have studied women's history at the college level, on my own, and with friends who enjoy the subject. I can see why Wikipedia is having trouble with this and can DEFINITELY help to clear things up; for example there needs to be a differentiation between paganism, women's history, and gylanic studies.  They're all VERY different from each other and I can outline the differences and provide references to professors who can provide more detail and help.  I may be contacted through my blog at www.downtheslide.blogspot.com
 * 71)  Warrior  4321  20:59, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 72) TheoloJ (talk) 20:18, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 73) Sean (talk || contribs) 17:24, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 74) Weaponbb7 (talk) 03:00, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 75) Torquemama007 (talk) 18:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC) I like philosophy in particular. Torquemama007 (talk) 18:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 76) Wondering Wiccan (talk) 12:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC) I have plenty of knowledge about Wicca and our ways, and I have some knowledge of other religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Thelema. I hope that I can be of help.
 * 77) --Theophil (talk) 16:25, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 78) L. Weaxzezz (talk) 20:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC) LaVeyan Satanism, Catholicism
 * 79) Health Researcher (talk) - I have interest and knowledge in various relevant topics, including Religious pluralism. --   23:10, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * 80) Griffyn Elvyncraft  08:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC) - I have extensive knowledge and experience in the following subjects: Spiritual Satanism; Ancient Sumerian Culture, Religion and Archeology; Ancient Egyptian Religion and Culture; Left Hand Path; Luciferianism; Wicca; Paganism; Druidism; Wizardry; Shamanism; Hindu and Siddah Yoga; The Christian Bible; The Torah; The Qaballah; Secret and Hermetic Societies; Ufology; Parapsychology; Psychology; The Occult; Evolutionary Biology; Exo Biology; Quantum Theory and Mechanics
 * 81) — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 03:57, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 82) - CharlesHenryLeaFan (talk) 22:33, 12 July 2010 (UTC) Mostly, just a country doc at a medical school. Became interested in the history of the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation, for some reason, as a hobby.
 * 83) - Eclectic Angel (talk) I have knowledge in many, many religions. So I will be here to help. I know pretty much a good few things of any religion.
 * 84) Jibsal (talk) I find religion and the history of religion fascinating
 * 85) User:JEMead(talk) Metaphysics, Esotericism, Theology, Physics, Theosophy
 * 86) -  ☯.Zen  Swashbuckler  .☠  Grew up in Unitarian Universalist church in which generalized world religious education was considered very important. Have studied some religion as an adult, and I am a Discordian Pope.
 * 87) - User:Rainbowofpeace (talk) I have knowledge in comparative religion in Abrahamic, Dharmic, Taoist, and Pagan faiths but my speciality is religious discrimination.
 * 88) - User:ICXCNIKA (talk) I am an Eastern Orthodox deacon who wishes to contribute. I have knowledge of Eastern and Western Christianity, and other religions - particularly Buddhism (mostly Zen), Asatru, Baha'i, Wicca, and Hinduism. I study comparative religions as a hobby.
 * 89) - User:Kklines (talk) I specialize in African Traditional Religions, NRMs and divination.
 * 90) - Smart30 - Interest in all religions, active in the study of Judaic, Christo-Islamic religion.
 * 91) - Geofferybard (talk) 22:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC) Christian Buddhist dialogue, Contemplative traditions
 * 92) - Cermus (talk) 06:55 02 July 2011 (UTC) My specific areas of interest are Buddhism, Christianity, Buddhism in the United States, and religion in the United States. Besides Buddhism and Christianity, I can help with most other religions, especially if they are currently widely practiced.
 * 93) Rev. Stephan Bradley (talk) 22:50, 24 August 2011 (UTC) I have extensive knowledge of Southern Baptist Protestant Christianity, good knowledge of Methodist Protestant Christianity, familiarity with Wicca, and am currently studying Shamanism. I am a non-denominational minister, ordained by the Universal Life Church Monastery and a Mason.
 * 94) Mijelliott (talk) 00:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 95) dchmelik is an interreligious esoterist, pagan/heathen, Yogi, Mahayana Buddhist, etc., non-practicing Nazarene Essene minister with knowledge of quite a few religions--interested in non-Abrahamism.--Dchmelik (talk) 07:38, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 96) mpolat is interested in mainly Islam and also interrelligious dialogue in Abrahamic religions. rinduzahid (talk) 19:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 97) Evanh2008 is well read on the Abrahamics but also has an interest in eastern religions, particularly Hinduism. Most of my edits to articles falling under this WP will relate to either Judaism or Christianity, in that order (of frequency).
 * 98) St John Chrysostom ΔόξατωΘεώ Latin rite Catholic seminarian. Biblical studies, theology, and philosophy of religion. Extremely well-versed in most areas of Christian theology (including Catholic, Orthodox, and traditional Protestant views; extremely applies to Catholic and Reformed alone). Have many, many sources (including a personal copy of the 170-volume Migne Patrologiae cursus completus), and access to many more through seminary. Wikipedia focus: the Bible. Real life focus: Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy and theology. Also knowledgeable in Judaism and Islam. Also interested in countering systemic bias in a reverse way, as traditional perspectives are oft left out completely or militated against, and WP:RNPOV is not applied evenly. I dabble in most fields - feel free to ask for any help needed. My knowledge of Eastern religions is limited to undergraduate study/BA in comparative religions.
 * 99) Sowlos (talk) Ancient religion, with a focus on Indo-European belief & tradition; Modern [Western] Paganism; Buddhism; and experience with Christian (multi-denomination) theology.


 * 1) - -Qxukhgiels56 (talk)-Both ancient and modern religions - I'd especially like to focus of Christianity, Islam (I exclusively prefer Islamic denominations), and Hinduism. I especially would like to focus on political, economic, etc. impacts of these religions.
 * 2) Agkathi (talk) 00:07, 22 November 2012 (UTC) Focus:  Ancient religion and Western Neopaganism, particularly reconstructions of ancient polytheistic faiths.
 * 3) Andrewaskew (talk) Former student of comparative religion, current student of life. Primary interests: Buddhism, Discordianism, Occultism, New religious movements, Perennialism.
 * 4) StevenJ81 (talk)  Principally Judaism, including how it relates to Christianity and Islam.  Added 15:34, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) ~Adjwilley (talk) Main area of focus is Mormonism; other work/interest has been in broader Christianity, Islam, Bahá'í, and other NRMs.
 * 6)  ★Leo★ Λεωνίδας  I focus on Hellenismos.
 * 7) Zolotoi kryzhovnik Interested in Ableism and Religion. Zolotoi kryzhovnik (talk) 16:10, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 8) Casswenze (talk) - Religion in the American context, with specific focus on Christianity and its response to scientific change from the Second Great Awakening to the present; other areas of interest/knowledge are Roman Catholic and Jewish history, with specific focus on the Second Temple Period.
 * 9)  Latin Wolf   (talk)  - I have significant knowledge of Religio Romana. I will also work on articles related to Roman Catholicism.
 * 10) Junjunone (talk) 16:37, 4 September 2012 (UTC)American religion, new religious movements, and folklore.
 * 11)  Blurpeace
 * 12)  Aniyunwiya  Founder of a federally recognized Oklevueha Native American Church branch church. Currently resisting religious bias amongst Wikipedia contributors (one is Rhodium level who arbitrarily (and illegally?) deleted our Cherokee Nation of Mexico organization's listed native Stomp Dance and Four Mothers Society and Original Keetoowah Society religions... resisting those Native Americans (who have been mostly Christianized and assimilated into dominant society) who are biased against Smithsonian 19th century ethnographer James Mooney's reports to the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology as being labeled as "unreliable" as bona fide references and also resisting the bias amongst some Wikipedia contributors against Native Religious Practitioners of Cherokee "Mythology" which is still practiced as a faith.
 * 13) FelisRead
 * 14) jkshields
 * 15)  Kunalrks  (talk), 10 November, 2014; Indian religions (mainly Hinduism and Buddhism), Abrahamic religions, origins of the religions, religious scriptures and texts, religious practices, religious places and monuments, etc.
 * 16) Amaruca History of world religions.
 * 17)  - Interested in improving, adding, and cleaning up articles on Hinduism, Vaishnavism, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
 * 18) Phoenix0316 - Fairly knowledgeable about Abrahamic religions. Interested in contributing to articles on New Religious Movements and others.
 * 19) Peacebigline world religion related with conflict, war, and peace movement
 * 20)  Focus mainly on Jainism and Hinduism
 * 21)  Focus on Jainism and bigraphies of Indian religious characters / persons.
 * 22) User:Quinto Simmaco Student and instructor in the field of religious studies and cultural anthropology; my primary anthropological focus is on religion (both historical and current). I copy-edit, do content editing, and take part in article content discussions related to a variety of religions, and articles tangentially related to religious traditions.
 * 23) Graham (talk) 03:37, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 24) ch ch (talk) Mostly religion in China
 * 25)  Primary focus on Abrahamic religions
 * 26) Avataron (talk) 20:12, 10 March 2017 (UTC) Studied at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, with a focus on Abrahamic religions and new religious movements across the world.
 * 27) Focus mainly on Jainism and Hinduism
 * 28) Katolophyromai (talk) 20:35, 31 May 2017 (UTC), knowledgeable about religion and mythology in the ancient world, particularly Indo-European religions and Near Eastern religions, including Graeco-Roman religion, Proto-Indo-European religion, Sumerian religion, and early Judaism and Christianity
 * 29) --Farang Rak Tham (talk) 21:40, 1 June 2017 (UTC), Buddhism.
 * 30) Maxim Stoyalov
 * 31) Holbach Girl With a focus on the three major monotheistic religions.
 * 32) Artemeesia (talk | contribs) 20:10, 11 August 2017 (UTC): broad interest. Most knowledgeable about Biblical studies, ancient Mediterranean, modern Conservative/Reform Judaism, American Catholicism, American religious history, yogic traditions.
 * 33) HouseGecko Focusing on Islam, prehistoric-ancient-classical religions and indigenous religions --HouseGecko (talk) 15:56, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 34) FULBERT (talk) 20:26, 29 September 2017 (UTC) - Focus on (Modern) Paganism, New Religious Movements, Medieval Christian Europe, and Catholicism.
 * 35) Mramoeba (talk) 09:22, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * 36) Rupert Loup
 * 37) RP2006 Interested in maintaining encyclopedic tone and enforcing Wikipedia standards in articles about religious topics.
 * 38) VextheSmol (talk) I am interested in Wicca and Paganism in general as well as the theory/study of religion in general. I also know quite a bit about both Catholism and some other Protestant sects specifically Lutheranism.
 * 39) Mangokeylime (talk) I am really interested in African especially Afro-American religions but I generally am interested in all religions. You'll see me around editing and making new pages.
 * 40) Prana1111 (talk) 02:39, 24 February 2020 (UTC) I like to mainly research eastern religions but western ideas (especially esoteric concepts) are still pretty fun to look at.
 * 41) Thegreatcount (talk) Roman Catholic who is really interested in its structure as an organization.
 * 42) Eruditess (talk) 19:43, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 43) Dharmadha2 (talk) Once a Unitarian Universalist, now a Buddhist.
 * 44) bmmanjesh(talk) I intend to be the voice of humanity and commonsense against religio-pheliacs especially Islamists & Islamophelia.
 * 45) PMCH2 (talk) 12:52, 15 June 2020 (UTC) I work on women in religion & African American religious history, and addressing systemic bias
 * 46) Ozonyiawiki (talk) 20:40, 19 July 2020 (UTC) I am interested in AfC on Charismatic Christianity churches and their founding Pastors. I recently discovered that many of these church leaders are under-represented in Wikipedia biography entries.
 * 47) TheRealGrantma (talk) 21:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC) Interested in most major religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.
 * 48) kungfuwizard (talk) 19:12, 13 november 2020 (utc) i am a christian but like to learn about other religions
 * 49) Chii888 (talk) 01:36, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 50) Zrstnr (talk) I'm particularly interested in Daoism, Shinto, Buddhism
 * 51) Sigvid (talk) 08:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC) Happy to help with any religion-related article, including theory/methodology in fields such as religious studies. Mainly interested in Mahayana Buddhism, with special subject-knowledge of Pure Land Buddhism and Jodo Shinshu.
 * 52) PASTOR11 (talk) I'm particularly interested in Christianity and Judaism. Also available to help in issues involving Islam. 15:03,12 November 2021 (UTC)
 * 53) 12Moon ligh12 (User talk:12Moon ligh12) I'm particularly interested in Christianity and Muslim, and also im a christian, im happy to help anything in this project.
 * 54) Bellakine Focus on religion and its intersection with art (primarily in Buddhism), but also Hellenic Polytheism, Catholicism, Shinto, Chinese folk religion, and Muism.
 * 55) Keyboarder1 Focus on Islamic history and Muslim scholars, as well as Buddhism and Judaism
 * 56) Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos 
 * 57) Bufobuff (talk) I'm interested in all sorts of things, but especially non-mainstream Christianity and occultism
 * 58) Aliciared religious studies student, interests in judaism, christianity and new religious movements
 * 59) User:GoldenBootWizard276 interested primarily in Abrahamic religions
 * 60) Fiddlersmouth Development of non-conformity during Renaissance
 * 61) Apostolica (talk) Working on mainly inter-religious, human fraternity, Catholic church in Arabia, and missionary work in Arabia related articles.
 * 62)  Thinker78  (talk) 22:01, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 63) RileyXeon 9:23, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 64) Doughbo (talk) 01:44, 11 May 2023 (UTC) Interested in improving the coverage and accuracy of all articles, with a special focus on the monotheistic. Somewhat fluent in Spanish with a barebones knowledge of miscellaneous other languages.