Inquisition, the name given to a number of historical movements in the Roman Catholic Church
Protestant Inquisition, the persecution of alleged heretics by Protestants in the years immediately following the Reformation.
Spanish Inquisition, the name given to an ecclesiastical tribunal established in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms.
Inquisition (album), a 1992 single by Skinny Puppy
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The Inquisition was in response to the growing Catharist heresy in southern France.
The Papal Inquisition in the 1230s was in response to the failures of the Episcopal Inquisition and was staffed by professionals, trained specifically for the job as decreed by the Pope.
The Portuguese Inquisition expanded its scope of operations from Portugal to Portugal's colonial possessions, including Brazil, Cape Verde and Goa, continued as a religious court, investigating and trying cases of breaches of the tenets of orthodox Roman Catholicism until it was abolished in 1821.