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Indian religions, also called Dharmic religions are the oldest religions of Asia. All Indian religions originated in the Indian subcontinent.These religions all have the similar concepts like dharma, karma, and reincarnation, but the interpretation of these concepts varies with each religion.
The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western, African and Iranian religions. [1] Eastern religions include: [2] [3] Taoic religions or East Asian religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, and Shinto
Asian religious biography stubs (7 C, 118 P) Pages in category "Religion in Asia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Indian religions (also known as Dharmic religions) are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. [4] The Indian religions are distinct yet share terminology, concepts, goals and ideas, and from South Asia spread into East Asia and Southeast Asia. [4]
Religious traditions fall into super-groups in comparative religion, arranged by historical origin and mutual influence. Abrahamic religions originate in the Middle East, [39] [40] Indian religions in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia) [41] and East Asian religions in East Asia. [42]
While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations ...
In the study of comparative religion, the East Asian religions or Taoic religions, form a subset of the Eastern religions, who originated in East Asia. Main hall of the City of the Eight Symbols in Qi County, Hebi, the headquarters of the Weixinist Church in Henan. Weixinism is a Chinese salvationist religion.
The largest religions in Asia are Islam and Hinduism, both with approximately 1.1 billion adherents. In 2010, the Pew Research Center found five of the ten most religiously diverse regions in the world to be in Asia. [91] Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated in India, a country of South Asia.