Belief in ideas and concepts presently not considered, or not accepted by science, particularly religious beliefs, have a strong influence in the present human world.

Beliefs of a religious or supernatural nature are not held as strongly or as widely as in the past, but they have been/are an important part of what makes humans what they are.

Of course this part of school education, whose purpose is to provide information about this aspect of humanity (beliefs) is not the place to make universal claims that any particular set of beliefs is superior to any other set of beliefs, or that absence of belief is inferior or superior to having beliefs of a religious or supernatural kind. Likewise, this is not the place to examine or question to what extent there is any truth at the basis of human belief in religion or the supernatural. The purpose here is to supply information about human belief.

The range of human belief is quite extensive, so it is likely impractical to attempt to cover this entire range in elementary- and post-elementary school, so perhaps the best that can be done is to give a sampling of some of the following.

Core Religious Beliefs:
- Ancestor Worship,
- Apocalypticism,
- Atonement,
- Confession,
- Damnation,
- Dharma,
- The Dreaming,
- Enlightenment,
- Existence of an Afterlife,
- Existence of an Eternal Soul,
- Existence of a Supreme Being,
- Evil and the Existence of a Principal Evil Being,
- The Fall,
- Karma,
- Lesser Gods and Devils,
- Manitou,
- Maya,
- Meditation,
- Miracles,
- Mysteries,
- Mysticism,
- Nirvana,
- The Occult,
- Other Realms,
- Penance,
- Pilgrimage,
- The Power of Prayer and Ritual,
- Prophecy,
- Reincarnation,
- Revelation,
- Rituals,
- Sacred Places,
- Salvation,
- Sin,
- Superhuman Beings,
- Taboos,
- Totemism,
- Transmigration of Souls.

The Main Systems of Religious Belief:
- Atheism,
- Baha'i,
- Buddhism,
- Candomble,
- Christianity,
- Confucianism,
- Ethnic Belief Systems,
- Gnosticism,
- Hinduism,
- Islam,
- Jainism,
- Jehovah's Witnesses,
- Judaism,
- Mormonism,
- Neo-paganism,
- Rastafari,
- Santeria,
- Satanism,
- Shinto,
- Sikhism,
- Taoism,
- Traditional African,
- Unitarianism,
- Yazdanism,
- Zoroastrianism.

Systems of Magical Belief and Practice:
- Alchemy,
- Astrology,
- Black Magic,
- Cosmogony,
- Cosmology,
- Divination,
- Feng Shui,
- Geomancy,
- I Ching,
- Kabbalah,
- Necromancy,
- Numerology,
- Palmistry,
- Parapsychology,
- Psychic Abilities,
- Psychometry,
- Sorcery,
- Spiritualism,
- Theosophy,
- Theurgy,
- White Magic.

Supernatural Beliefs and Practices:
- Amulets,
- Astral Body,
- Astral Projection,
- Auras,
- Automatic Writing,
- Bilocation,
- Chakras,
- Chanting,
- Charms,
- Clairaudience,
- Clairsentience,
- Clairvoyance,
- Curses,
- Demonic Possession,
- Dowsing,
- Earth Lights,
- Ectoplasm,
- Evil Eye,
- Extrasensory Perception,
- Exorcism,
- Faith Healing,
- Fetish,
- Firewalking,
- Ghosts,
- Hauntings,
- Healing Rituals,
- Human Sacrifice,
- Immortality,
- Incantations,
- Kundalini,
- Lost Civilisations,
- Mantras,
- Medicine Bundles,
- Mediumship,
- Omens,
- Oracles,
- Orgone,
- Out-of-body Experiences,
- Poltergeists,
- Powwows,
- Prayerwheel,
- Precognition,
- Prediction,
- Premonition,
- Psychokenesis,
- Psychic Surgery,
- Rain Dance,
- Relics,
- Ritual Cannibalism,
- Runes,
- Scrying,
- Seances,
- Siddhis,
- Spirit Possession,
- Sun Dances,
- Synchronicity,
- Talisman,
- Tarot,
- Telekinesis,
- Telepathy,
- Teleportation,
- Trances,
- UFOs,
- Visions.