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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 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
The place of East Asian religions among major religious groups is comparable to the Abrahamic religions found in Europe and the Western World as well as across the Middle East and the Muslim World and Indian religions in South Asia. East Asian religions, more or less, share core Chinese concepts of spirituality, divinity and world order ...
Islam is the second largest religion in Asia with about 1.2 billion adherents. [53] [54] Asia constitute in absolute terms the world's Muslim population. [55] South and Southeast Asia are home of the most populous Muslim countries, with Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia having more than 100 million
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 ...
Taoic religions (a.k.a. East Asian religions) Chinese folk religion – a general term covering a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese , including the Chinese diaspora . Confucianism – a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China that developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools of Thought from ...
Religious plurality. Indonesia is a symbolically strong choice for the kind of inter-faith approach Francis has embraced. In the 13th century, traders from Arabia, Gujarat and China reached what ...
East Asian Buddhism or East Asian Mahayana is a collective term for the schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed across East Asia and which rely on the Chinese Buddhist canon. These include the various forms of Chinese , Japanese , Korean , and Vietnamese Buddhism in East Asia .