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Schumann, Hans Wolfgang (2003), The Historical Buddha: The Times, Life, and Teachings of the Founder of Buddhism, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120818170; Smith, Christian; Joshua Prokopy (1999). Latin American Religion in Motion. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92106-0.
599 BCE – 527 BCE: The life of Mahavira, 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism. [36] c. 570 BC E: Pythagoras, founder of Pythagoreanism, was born. 563 BCE – 400 BCE: Siddharta Gautama, founder of Buddhism, was born. [37] [38] [39] 515 BCE – 70 CE: Second Temple period. The synagogue and Jewish eschatology can all be traced back to the ...
Historically, Judaism has incorporated the wisdom of alien religions that do not contradict the Torah, while rejecting polytheism and the worship of graven images. [2] One Buddhist writer has speculated that Jesus and his early followers were converts to Buddhism who combined elements of their Jewish upbringing, such as monotheism, with ...
The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions (1999) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.
Religion portal The main article for this category is List of founders of religious traditions . This category is for the founders (or the spiritual inspiration) of religious movements or spiritual belief systems.
Jesus [d] (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, [e] Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. [10] He is the central figure of Christianity , the world's largest religion .
The death of Jesus and its attendant symbolism are examined, including the various constructions others, most notably Paul, have placed upon these events. The book explores the rise of trinitarianism, leading to the Nicene Creed , and traces the evolution of the Christian conception of God and the Trinity in the respective Eastern and Western ...
Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is also venerated as a manifestation of God in Hinduism and the BaháΚΌí Faith. [1] Some Hindu texts regard Buddha as an avatar of the god Vishnu, who came to Earth to delude beings away from the Vedic religion. [2] Some Non-denominational and Quranist Muslims believe he was a prophet.