Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Philosophy and religion

Level 5 Sublists

Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of the sub-lists of the fifty thousand article Vital articles/Level 5 and is currently under construction.

Articles in the Vital list have their assessments labelled as:

  • Featured articles
  • Former featured articles
  • A-class articles
  • Good articles
  • Delisted good articles
  • Failed good article nominees
  • B-class articles
  • C-class articles
  • Start-class articles
  • Stub-class articles
  • List-class articles
  • Unassessed articles

The progress bar is auto-updated via category count, and the symbols and article counts are updated daily by User:cewbot. Please read the FAQ before modifying the article list.

Quota 1,400 articles.

Total 1,437 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 16
FL 1
GA 69
B 463
C 627
LIST 3
FFA 22
DGA 40
FFLC 1
Start 257
Stub 2

Philosophy

edit

This section contains 224 articles.

See also: Philosophers

Philosophical branches, approaches and concepts

edit

This section contains 168 articles.

Ethics

edit

This section contains 42 articles.

  1. Ethics (Level 2)
Concepts
edit

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Conscience (Level 4)
  2. Duty
  3. Free will (Level 3)
  4. Golden Rule (Level 4)
  5. Good and evil (Level 3)
    1. Good
    2. Evil
    3. Harm
  6. Is–ought problem (Level 4)
  7. Morality (Level 4)
    1. Secular ethics
    2. Secular morality
  8. Norm (philosophy)
  9. Plagiarism (Level 4)
  10. Principle
  11. Sanctity of life
  12. Value (ethics) (Level 4)
  13. Vice
  14. Virtue (Level 4)
    1. Cardinal virtues
  15. Wisdom (Level 4)
Approaches
edit

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Applied ethics
    1. Bioethics
    2. Environmental ethics
      1. Anthropocentrism
      2. Biocentrism (ethics)
    3. Macroethics and microethics
  2. Normative ethics
    1. Consequentialism (Level 4)
      1. Utilitarianism (Level 4)
        1. Act utilitarianism
        2. Rule utilitarianism
    2. Deontology (Level 4)
      1. Divine command theory
      2. Kantian ethics
    3. Virtue ethics
      1. Aristotelian ethics
  3. Humanism (Level 4)
  4. Metaethics
  5. Nihilism (Level 4)
  6. Moral relativism

Logic

edit

This section contains 22 articles.

  1. Logic (Level 2)
  2. Argument (Level 4)
  3. A priori and a posteriori (Level 4)
  4. Choice
  5. Logical consequence
  6. Contingency (philosophy)
  7. Deductive reasoning (Level 4)
  8. Fallacy (Level 4)
    1. Formal fallacy
  9. Inductive reasoning (Level 4)
    1. Problem of induction
  10. Inference (Level 4)
  11. Dialectic (Level 4)
    1. Socratic method (Level 4)
  12. Paradox (Level 4)
    1. Epimenides paradox
    2. Zeno's paradoxes
  13. Philosophical logic
    1. Informal logic
    2. Bias
  14. Preference
  15. Syllogism

Epistemology

edit

This section contains 31 articles.

  1. Epistemology (Level 3)
Concepts
edit

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Belief (Level 3)
  2. Common sense (Level 4)
  3. Concept (Level 4)
  4. Criticism
  5. Evidence
  6. Experience (Level 4)
  7. Idea
  8. Ineffability
  9. Inquiry
  10. Knowledge (Level 2)
  11. Luck
  12. Opinion (Level 4)
  13. Paradigm (Level 4)
  14. Proposition
    1. Premise
  15. Rationality
  16. Reason (Level 3)
  17. Simulation hypothesis
  18. Thought experiment (Level 4)
  19. Truth (Level 3)
    1. Truth value
  20. Worldview (Level 4)
    1. Life stance
  21. Uncertainty
Approaches
edit

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Empiricism (Level 4)
  2. Holism
  3. Naturalism (philosophy) (Level 4)
  4. Occam's razor (Level 4)
  5. Rationalism (Level 4)
  6. Reductionism (Level 4)

Metaphysics

edit

This section contains 30 articles.

  1. Metaphysics (Level 3)
Concepts
edit

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Abstraction (Level 4)
  2. Allegory of the cave
  3. Atomism
  4. Causality
  5. Cosmos
  6. Damage
  7. Existence (Level 4)
    1. Meaning of life
  8. Liminality
  9. Mental representation (Level 4)
  10. Nondualism
  11. Nothing
    1. The Void (philosophy)
  12. Ontology (Level 3)
  13. Other (philosophy)
  14. Problem of universals
  15. Quality (philosophy)
  16. Reality (Level 4)
  17. Self
  18. Theory of mind
Approaches
edit

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Determinism (Level 4)
  2. Idealism (Level 4)
  3. Materialism (Level 4)
  4. Dialectical materialism
    1. Physicalism
  5. Metaphysical naturalism
  6. Monism (Level 4)
  7. Mind–body dualism (Level 4)
  8. Relativism (Level 4)

Aesthetics

edit

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Aesthetics (Level 3)
  2. Beauty (Level 4)
  3. Essentially contested concept
  4. Mimesis
  5. Perfection
  6. Picturesque
  7. Sublime (philosophy)
  8. Uncanny valley

Philosophy of language

edit

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Philosophy of language (Level 4)
  2. Language game (philosophy)
  3. Meaning (philosophy) (Level 4)

Philosophy of science

edit

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Deductive-nomological model
  2. Demarcation problem
  3. Fact (Level 4)
  4. Fallibilism
  5. Falsifiability
  6. Hypothesis (Level 4)
  7. Inductivism
  8. Natural philosophy (Level 4)
  9. Prediction
  10. Pseudoscience (Level 4)
    1. Cryptozoology
    2. Parapsychology (Level 4)
      1. Telepathy
  11. Scientific skepticism
  12. Theory (Level 4)

Post-modern theory

edit

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Deconstruction

Philosophy of religion

edit

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Philosophy of religion (Level 4)
  2. Existence of God
    1. Cosmological argument
    2. Ontological argument
    3. Teleological argument
  3. Theodicy
    1. Problem of evil

Other branches of philosophy

edit

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Environmental philosophy
  2. Philosophy of history
    1. Modernization theory
  3. Philosophy of mathematics (Level 4)
  4. Philosophy of mind (Level 4)
    1. Qualia
  5. Philosophy of science (Level 3)
  6. Political philosophy (Level 4)
  7. Social philosophy

Religion and spirituality

edit

This section contains 168 articles.

See also: Philosophers and Religious figures

Basics

edit

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Religion (Level 2)
  2. Comparative religion (Level 4)
  3. Ethnic religion
  4. Evolutionary origin of religion
  5. Faith and rationality
  6. Folk religion (Level 4)
  7. Morality and religion
  8. Mysticism (Level 4)
  9. Occult
  10. Relationship between religion and science
  11. Religious studies
  12. Religious violence
    1. Religious violence in India
  13. Secularization
  14. Theology (Level 4)
    1. Ecotheology
    2. Exegesis
    3. Feminist theology
  15. Theories about religion

Deity

edit

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Deity (Level 2)
    1. God (Level 3)
    2. Conceptions of God
    3. Goddess (Level 4)
      1. Mother goddess
    4. Creator deity
    5. Demigod
    6. Sky deity
    7. Solar deity
    8. Vegetation deity
  2. Divinity

Practices

edit

This section contains 41 articles.

  1. Adoration
  2. Asceticism
  3. Cult (religious practice)
  4. Fasting (Level 4)
  5. Celibacy (Level 4)
  6. Speaking in tongues
  7. Heresy (Level 4)
  8. Hermit
  9. Icon (Level 4)
  10. Iconoclasm (Level 4)
  11. Idolatry (Level 4)
  12. Liturgy (Level 4)
  13. Martyr
  14. Meditation (Level 3)
  15. Monk
  16. Pilgrimage (Level 4)
  17. Prayer (Level 3)
  18. Prophecy (Level 4)
    1. Oracle
    2. Prophet
    3. False prophet
  19. Proselytism
  20. Relic (Level 4)
  21. Religious conversion (Level 4)
  22. Religious ecstasy
  23. Revelation
  24. Ritual (Level 3)
    1. Fertility rite
    2. Rite of passage
    3. Sacrifice (Level 4)
      1. Human sacrifice
  25. Saint (Level 4)
  26. Faith healing
  27. Spiritual practice
  28. Tithe
  29. Trance
  30. Veneration
    1. Veneration of the dead (Level 4)
  31. Vision (spirituality)
  32. Worship (Level 4)
  33. Retreat (spiritual)

Beliefs

edit

This section contains 31 articles.

  1. Animism (Level 4)
  2. Apologetics (Level 4)
  3. Apostasy (Level 4)
  4. Astrology (Level 4)
    1. Astrological sign
    2. Chinese zodiac
    3. Chaos (cosmogony)
  5. Blessing
  6. Creationism
    1. Intelligent design
  7. Creation myth (Level 4)
  8. Doctrine
  9. Curse (Level 4)
  10. Divination (Level 4)
  11. Eschatology (Level 4)
  12. Faith (Level 4)
  13. Magic (supernatural) (Level 4)
    1. Black magic
    2. Energy (esotericism)
    3. Necromancy
    4. Thaumaturgy
    5. Theurgy
    6. Witchcraft (Level 4)
  14. Origin myth (Level 4)
  15. Religious experience (Level 4)
  16. Sacredness (Level 4)
  17. Spirituality (Level 3)
  18. Supernatural (Level 4)
  19. Superstition (Level 4)
  20. Theophany
  21. Totem (Level 4)

Death

edit

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Burial (Level 4)
  2. Cemetery (Level 4)
  3. Columbarium
  4. Cremation (Level 4)
  5. Crypt
  6. Funeral (Level 4)
  7. Funeral home
  8. Mausoleum
  9. Morgue
  10. Mummy (Level 4)

Afterlife

edit

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Afterlife (Level 3)
  2. Heaven (Level 4)
  3. Hell (Level 4)
  4. Reincarnation (Level 4)
  5. Resurrection (Level 4)
  6. Soul (Level 3)
  7. Spirit (animating force)
  8. Underworld

Institutions

edit

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Altar (Level 4)
  2. Anti-clericalism (Level 4)
  3. Bishop
    1. Diocese
  4. Blasphemy
  5. Creed (Level 4)
  6. Cult (Level 4)
  7. Missionary
  8. Monastery (Level 4)
  9. Priest (Level 4)
  10. Religious denomination
  11. Schism (Level 4)
  12. Sect (Level 4)
  13. Shrine
  14. State religion (Level 4)
  15. Temple (Level 4)

Theistic philosophies

edit

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Theism (Level 4)
  2. Deism (Level 4)
    1. Christian deism
    2. Pandeism
  3. Fundamentalism (Level 4)
  4. Monotheism (Level 4)
  5. Orthodoxy (Level 4)
  6. Paganism (Level 4)
  7. Panentheism (Level 4)
  8. Polytheism (Level 4)
  9. Syncretism (Level 4)

Pantheism and nontheistic religions

edit

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Pantheism (Level 4)
  2. Nontheistic religion

Non-theistic philosophies

edit

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Atheism (Level 3)
    1. Demographics of atheism
    2. Negative and positive atheism
    3. New Atheism
  2. Agnosticism (Level 4)
  3. Antitheism
  4. Criticism of religion
    1. Parody religion
    2. Russell's teapot
  5. Freethought (Level 4)
  6. Irreligion
  7. Nontheism
  8. Secularism (Level 3)
    1. Secularism in France
    2. Secular education
    3. Secularity
    4. Separation of church and state
      1. Separation of church and state in the United States
  9. Secular humanism

Abrahamic religions

edit

This section contains 375 articles.

Basics

edit

This section contains 20 articles.

Books of the Bible

edit

This section contains 69 articles.

Christianity

edit

This section contains 159 articles.

Basics

edit

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Christendom
  2. Christians
  3. Church (congregation) (Level 4)
    1. National church
  4. Criticism of Christianity

Theology

edit

This section contains 53 articles.

  1. Biblical hermeneutics
  2. Born again
    1. Sinner's prayer
  3. Catholicity (Level 4)
    1. Catholic social teaching
    2. Purgatory (Level 4)
  4. Christian eschatology
    1. Apocalyptic literature
    2. Rapture
    3. Great Tribulation
    4. Second Coming (Level 4)
    5. Armageddon
    6. Millennialism
    7. Last Judgment
    8. New Earth (Christianity)
  5. Christian mission
    1. Great Commission
  6. Fall of man
    1. Original sin
    2. Seven deadly sins
    3. Mortal sin
    4. Venial sin
    5. Indulgence
    6. Contrition
  7. Christian ethics
    1. Good works
    2. Modesty
    3. Christian pacifism
    4. Unconditional love
    5. Charity (Christian virtue)
    6. Agape
    7. Great Commandment
  8. Evangelism
    1. Televangelism
  9. Five solae
  10. The gospel
  11. Grace in Christianity (Level 4)
  12. Justification (theology)
  13. Kingdom of God (Christianity)
  14. Life of Jesus
    1. Chronology of Jesus
    2. Nativity of Jesus
    3. Ministry of Jesus
    4. Last Supper
    5. Crucifixion of Jesus
    6. Resurrection of Jesus
  15. Restorationism
  16. Sacred tradition
  17. Spiritual gift
  18. Trinity (Level 4)
    1. God the Father
    2. God the Son
    3. Holy Spirit in Christianity

Denominations

edit

This section contains 57 articles.

  1. Christian denomination
  2. Catholic Church (Level 3)
    1. Celtic Christianity
    2. Eastern Catholic Churches (Level 4)
    3. Pope (Level 4)
    4. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
    5. Roman Curia
    6. College of Cardinals
  3. Eastern Christianity (Level 4)
    1. Eastern Orthodox Church (Level 3)
      1. Eastern Orthodoxy
      2. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
      3. Greek Orthodox Church
      4. Russian Orthodox Church (Level 4)
    2. Oriental Orthodox Churches (Level 4)
      1. Armenian Apostolic Church
      2. Coptic Orthodox Church (Level 4)
      3. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Level 4)
  4. Protestantism (Level 3)
    1. Anabaptism
      1. Amish
      2. Schwarzenau Brethren
      3. Hutterites
      4. Mennonites
    2. Anglicanism (Level 4)
      1. Church of England
        1. Archbishop of Canterbury
    3. Arminianism (Level 4)
    4. Baptists (Level 4)
      1. Free Will Baptist
      2. Southern Baptist Convention
    5. Black church
    6. Charismatic Christianity
      1. Pentecostalism (Level 4)
    7. Evangelicalism (Level 4)
    8. Lutheranism (Level 4)
    9. Mainline Protestant
    10. Methodism (Level 4)
      1. United Methodist Church
      2. African Methodist Episcopal Church
    11. Moravian Church
    12. Reformed Christianity (Level 4)
      1. Congregationalism
      2. Continental Reformed Protestantism
      3. Presbyterianism
    13. Quakers (Level 4)
      1. Shakers
    14. Seventh-day Adventist Church (Level 4)
  5. Nontrinitarianism (Level 4)
    1. Arianism
    2. Jehovah's Witnesses (Level 4)
    3. Mormonism (Level 4)
      1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      2. Book of Mormon
    4. Socinianism
    5. Unitarianism (Level 4)
      1. Unitarian Universalism

Practices

edit

This section contains 44 articles.

  1. Christian culture
  2. Christian mysticism
    1. Hesychasm
  3. Christian prayer
    1. Apostles' Creed
    2. Jesus Prayer
    3. Lectio Divina
    4. Lord's Prayer (Level 4)
    5. Rosary
  4. Church (building) (Level 4)
    1. Basilica
    2. Cathedral
    3. Chapel
  5. Christian monasticism
    1. Benedictines
    2. Dominican Order
    3. Franciscans
    4. Order of Saint Augustine
    5. Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)
    6. Jesuits
      1. Ignatian spirituality
    7. Rule of Saint Benedict
      1. Ora et labora
  6. Church service
    1. Christian liturgy
    2. Church music
    3. Mass in the Catholic Church
    4. Nicene Creed
    5. Sermon
  7. Ecumenism (Level 4)
  8. Liturgical year
  9. Sacrament
    1. Anointing of the sick
    2. Baptism (Level 4)
    3. Confirmation
    4. Eucharist (Level 4)
    5. Holy orders
    6. Sacrament of Penance
  10. Christian symbolism
    1. Alpha and Omega
    2. Chi Rho
    3. Christian cross
      1. Crucifix
    4. Ichthys

Judaism

edit

This section contains 37 articles.

Islam

edit

This section contains 90 articles.

Eastern religions

edit

This section contains 183 articles.

Basics

edit

This section contains 29 articles.

Hinduism

edit

This section contains 32 articles.

Buddhism

edit

This section contains 98 articles.

Jainism

edit

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Pravachanasara
  2. Tattvartha Sutra
  3. Digambara
  4. Śvetāmbara
  5. Tirthankara

Other

edit

This section contains 19 articles.

Sikhism

edit

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Guru Granth Sahib (Level 4)
  2. Golden Temple (Level 4)
  3. Gurdwara
  4. Sikh gurus

Taoism

edit

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Tao
    1. De (Chinese)
  2. Taoist diet
  3. Three Treasures (Taoism)
Books
edit

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Daozang
  2. Tao Te Ching (Level 4)
  3. Zhuangzi (book) (Level 4)

Shinto

edit

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Association of Shinto Shrines
  2. Ema (Shinto)
  3. Harae
  4. Kagura
  5. Kojiki (Level 4)
  6. Misogi
  7. Shinto shrine

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bon

Other religions

edit

This section contains 79 articles.

Other religions: General

edit

This section contains 24 articles.

Ancient religions

edit

This section contains 24 articles.

Western esotericism

edit

This section contains 13 articles.

New religious movements

edit

This section contains 18 articles.

Mythology

edit

This section contains 408 articles.

Mythology: General

edit

This section contains 15 articles.

By culture and religion

edit

This section contains 18 articles.

Mythological figures

edit

This section contains 241 articles.

Abrahamic and Judaic mythology

edit

This section contains 49 articles.

African mythology

edit

This section contains 5 articles.

Australian aborigine mythology

edit

This section contains 1 article.

Buddhist mythology

edit

This section contains 6 articles.

Canaanite mythology

edit

This section contains 3 articles.

Carthaginian mythology

edit

This section contains 1 article.

Celtic mythology

edit

This section contains 6 articles.

Central Asian mythology

edit

This section contains 3 articles.

Chinese mythology

edit

This section contains 10 articles.

Egyptian mythology

edit

This section contains 22 articles.

Germanic mythology

edit

This section contains 2 articles.

Greek and Roman mythology

edit

This section contains 51 articles.

Hindu mythology

edit

This section contains 25 articles.

Islamic mythology

edit

This section contains 1 article.

Jainist mythology

edit

This section contains 2 articles.

Indo-Iranian mythology

edit

This section contains 1 article.

Korean mythology

edit

This section contains 1 article.

Mesopotamian mythology

edit

This section contains 11 articles.

Native American mythology

edit

This section contains 15 articles.

Norse mythology

edit

This section contains 16 articles.

Polynesian mythology

edit

This section contains 2 articles.

Shinto mythology

edit

This section contains 6 articles.

Zoroastrian mythology

edit

This section contains 2 articles.

Mythological creatures

edit

This section contains 100 articles.

Legendary creatures

edit

This section contains 93 articles.

Mythological places

edit

This section contains 23 articles.

Mythological objects

edit

This section contains 11 articles.