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Islam and Hinduisms are the largest religion in Asia with approximately 1.2-1.3 billion adherents each. History. Asia is the birthplace of 11 major religions: Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and the BaháΚΌí Faith.
Asia is the largest continent in the world and the birthplace of numerous religions including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism among others. All these religions are practiced in Asia with multiple forms of religions continually emerging.
Islam dominates as the state religion of most Southwest Asian countries, and a substantial majority of Muslims live in Asia.
Relatively few East Asian adults pray daily or say religion is very important in their lives. And rates of disaffiliation – people leaving religion – are among the highest in the world, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 adults in East Asia and neighboring Vietnam.
From about the 4th century ce, Hinduism had a dominant presence in Southeast Asia, one that would last for more than 1,000 years. In the early 21st century, Hinduism had nearly one billion adherents worldwide and was the religion of about 80 percent of India’s population.
Hindus were the largest religious group in the Asia-Pacific region as of 2010, with about 1 billion adherents. While the number of Hindus is expected to grow to nearly 1.4 billion by 2050, Muslims are projected to grow even faster and become the largest religious group in the region by mid-century.
In most of East Asia, including Japan, Korea, and Chinese societies of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, multiple religions have coexisted for millennia, including both monotheistic and polytheistic religions. Most of traditional religions are temple-based instead of congregation-based.
The place of East Asian religions among major religious groups is comparable to the Abrahamic religions found across the classical world, and Indian religions across the Indian subcontinent, Tibetan plateau and Southeast Asia.
Around a quarter of adults in Singapore identity as Buddhists (26%), according to the survey, while 18% are Muslims and 17% are Christians. Smaller shares are Hindus (8%) or followers of Chinese traditional religions (6%).
Islam in Asia began in the 7th century during the lifetime of Muhammad. In 2020, the total number of Muslims in Asia was about 1.3 billion, it is the largest religion in Asia. Asia constitutes in absolute terms the world's largest Muslim population.