- a possible grouping of religious traditions based on the common beliefs and assumptions listed,
Vitalism: some forms of animism, shamanism, and indigenous religions
- Realism: Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), some forms of Hinduism and Sikhism
- Reductionism: some forms of Protestant Christianity, Jehovah’s Witnesses, some sects of Buddhism
- Unity: some forms of Hinduism, Sufism (a mystical branch of Islam), some sects of Buddhism
- Existentialism: Existential Christianity, Kierkegaardian Christianity, some strands of Buddhism and Taoism
- Posthumanism: none
- Postmodernism: none