Timeline of Religions

We're all familiar with the big ones- Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. But what about the others? Turns out there are a lot more religions than I realized. Here's a timeline of some of them, with minimal explanation. If I had to summarize the theology of every religion, I'd be writing for days.

• 5th millennium BC. Chinese folk religion. 225 million.
• 1600 BC-AD 500. Greco-Roman religion. Extinct.
• 1300 BC. Judaism. Mesopotamia. 14 million.
• Before 1200 BC. Hinduism. India. 900 million.
• 550 BC. Jainism. E India. 4 million.
• 550 BC. Taoism. China. 20 million.
• 6th century BC. Zoroastrianism. Persia. 150-200,000.
• 6th century BC. Confucianism. China. 5-6 million.  
• 5th century BC. Buddhism. India. 360 million.
• 4th century BC. Epicureanism. Greece. Extinct. 
• 3rd century BC. Shinto. Japan. 3-4 million.
• 33. Christianity. Palestine. 2 billion.
• 1st century. Mahayana Buddhism. N Asia. Unknown.
• 150. Pure Land Buddhism. Japan.
• 2nd-3rd century. Mithraism. Roman. Extinct.
• 250. Mayan religion. Mesoamerica. Several million practice a Catholicized form.
• 4th century. Catholicism. Based in Rome. +1 billion. 
• Before 7th century. Yungdrung Bon. Tibet. Extinct.
• 6th century. Zen. China. Unknown.
• 622. Islam. Saudi Arabia. 1.3 billion.
• 7th century. Tibetan Buddhism. 6 million. 
• 11th century. Eastern Orthodox. E Europe. 300 million. 
• 12th century. Hasidic Judaism. Germany. Unknown.
• 14th century. New Bon. Tibet. 100,000.
• 1457. Moravian. Czech. 825,000.
• 1457. Unity of the Brethren. Czech (now solely Texan). 3500.
• 1500. Sikhism. India. 23 million.
• 1517. Lutheranism. Germany. 66 million.
• 1525. Mennonites. Germany. 1.5 million.
• 1534. Anglicanism. England. 102 million.
• 1534. Calvinism. Switzerland. 75 million.
• 1536. Hutterites. Germany. 42,000.
• 1541. Presbyterian. Scotland. 2.2 million.
• 1609. Baptist. England. 43 million.
• 1693. Amish. Switzerland. 200,000.
• 1708. Schwarzenau Brethren. Germany. 600,000.
• 1770. River Brethren. Pennsylvania. 11,000.
• 1830. Mormons. New York. 12.2 million.
• 1840s. Conservative Judaism. Germany. 1.5 million.
• 1859. New Thought. Maine. 50-70,000.
• 1860s. Azali. Persia. <10,000.
• 1863. Baha'i. Persia. 5-6 million.
• 1863. Seventh-Day Adventists. Michigan. 10.6 million.
• 1867. Social Brethren. Illinois. 1000.
• 1879. Christian Science. Massachusetts. 150-400,000.
• 1879. Jehovah's Witnesses. Pittsburgh, PA. 6.4 million.
• 1918. Aladura. W Nigeria. 1 million.
• 1926. Cao Dai. Vietnam. 2-6 million.
• 1930. Rastafari. Jamaica. 1 million.
• 1930s. Wiccan. England. 800,000.
• 1954. Scientology. California. 77,000.
• 1954. Unification. Korea. 3 million.
• 1961. Unitarian. Boston. 800,000.
• 1965. Hare Krishna. New York/San Francisco. 260,000.
• 1965. Eckankar. Las Vegas. 50,000.
• 1970s. Asatru. Iceland. (Modern revival of ancient Nordic faith) <10,000.
• Late 1980s. Kemetic. (Modern revival of Ancient Egyptian religion) Egypt. Unknown.
• 1991. Chopra Center. California. (Medical/well-being/spiritual center) Unknown.
• 1992. Falun Gong. China. 3 million.
• 1997. Hellenic Polytheism. 2,500.