Nontheistic religion

A religious tradition or system that does not center on belief in a creator god or supreme deity. It may include ritual, ethics, sacred narratives, or spiritual practice.

Religion: A system of beliefs, practices, institutions, and symbols relating people to sacred or ultimate realities. This broader category includes traditions organized around practice or liberation rather than a creator god.
Theravada Buddhism: A major Buddhist tradition rooted in early Buddhist teachings and widely practiced in South and Southeast Asia. Its path centers on the Buddha’s teaching and liberation, not a creator deity.
Theistic religion: A religious tradition that centers on belief in one or more gods. It contrasts with traditions whose central commitments do not depend on a supreme deity.
Non-theistic Buddhism: Interpretations of Buddhism in which gods are not ultimate creators or necessary objects of worship. This label captures a prominent way Buddhist traditions are understood as nontheistic.
Theism: Belief in the existence of one or more gods. Its absence from the center of a tradition distinguishes nontheistic religion from theistic religion.
Jainism: An Indian religious tradition emphasizing nonviolence, ascetic discipline, and liberation of the soul. Jain cosmology has no creator god, while religious practice remains highly developed.
Deism: The belief that a creator established the universe but does not intervene in it. Deism retains a creator god, unlike nontheistic religious systems.
Religious naturalism: A worldview that treats nature as the focus of religious reverence without requiring supernatural beings. It shows how reverence and religious meaning can be grounded in the natural world.
Atheism: The absence of belief in any deity, or the belief that no deities exist. It clarifies that lacking a central creator god does not by itself settle every adherent’s beliefs.
Confucianism: A Chinese ethical and ritual tradition shaped by the teachings attributed to Confucius. Its rites and moral cultivation can form a religious tradition without centering a creator god.

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